NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR 



Family NOCTUIDAE. 

 Subfamily Agrotinae, 



Genus AGROTIS Ochsenheimer. 



AGROTIS ROSIFUNDA, new species. 



Rosy brown; fore wing with terminal space broad, contrastingly 

 plain; basal and median spaces filled with marks; subbasal half hne 

 double, black, dentate on subcostal; a black half ring in cell; inner 

 line of four black cusps, preceded by a straight hne and another seg- 

 ment before that below cell; claviform full, orbicular large, a little 

 obhquo, reniform large, a httle pointed inward on median vein, all 

 three marks black-ringed and concentrically rosy brown within; 

 outer hne black, excurved over cell, denticulate on the veins, with a 

 distant inner rosy brown duphcation and followed outwardly by 

 whitish, then a purple shade; a deep red patch on costa, not reaching 

 apex; a narrow terminal brown band. Hind wing pale grayish straw- 

 color, dull rosy on margin. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type.—Femsle, No. 18837, U.S.N.M.; Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo, 

 Mexico, 9,000 feet (Mann and Skewes, gift of B. Preston Clark). 



Alhed to Agrotis oblata Morrison. 



Genus EUXOA Hubner. 



EUXOA TETRATOPIS, new species. 



Male antennae minutely cihate. Fore wing lilaceous gray, over- 

 spread with black in basal space, beyond inner hne and in cell be- 

 tween the stigmata and in terminal space; costa broadly pale on basal 

 half; stigmata large, full, pale; inner hne pale, toothed on subcostal, 

 outbent below vein 1, followed by the black, nearly filled claviform; 

 orbicular indistinctly open to the pale costa; outer hne angled on 

 subcostal, strongly outbent, then regularly curved, double, the inner 

 segment throwing dentations along the veins across the outer seg- 

 ment; subterminal hne forming a dark triangle on costa, waved, 

 dark; terminal space dark except at apex. Hind wing pale fuscous, 

 veins and discal mark darker. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 18838, U.S.N.M.; Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo Mexico 

 9,000 feet (Mann and Skewes, through B. Preston Clark), 



Genus EPISILIA Hubner. 



EPISILIA PYRSOGRAMMA. new species. 



Eeddish gray with olivaceous cast; collar black on posterior half. 

 Fore wing with the hues broad, pale, defined by faint darker edges, 

 straight, the outer gently excurved above; costa, inner margin, 

 fringe, a streak on submedian fold, dash in base of cell and centers 

 of orbicidar and reniform dull fiery orange; a square black spot 

 between the stigmata is the only conspicuous mark; subterminal 



