130 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



NEW MOTHS FROM MEXICO AND CUBA 



{Lcpidoptera) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Family NOCTUID^ 

 Subfamily HADENIN^ 

 Hyssia umbera, new species. 



Male antennae minutely fasciculate. Head and thorax black- 

 ish brown ; abdomen light brown, the anal tufts ocher. Fore 

 wing broad, obscure dark brown, the lines faintly shown; base 

 darker shaded, bounded by a black inner line, which forms an 

 outward arc below median vein ; reniform upright, narrow, 

 constricted, outlined in black, followed by a rounded lighter 

 area ; outer line pale, denticulate, excurved over cell ; subter- 

 minal line dark, clouded, showing as spottings opposite cell 

 and in submedian interspace ; fringe with black basal line, a 

 little touched with ocherous at the ends of the veins. Hind 

 wing fuscous shaded, lighter on the disk and touched with 

 ocherous at base on inner margin and at the ends of the veins ; 

 a black terminal line. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Type, male, No. 23 725, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, Mexico. 

 July, 1917 (R. Miiller). 



Hydroeciodes mormon, new species. 



Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; anal tuft pale, with 

 a little purple intermixed. Fore wing with ground ocher 

 flecked with orange, but showing only in the stigmata and sub- 

 terminally ; dark brown ; lines slender, blackish ; inner cutting 

 the ocher claviform area straightly, angled on vein 1 ; outer 

 half of claviform with a longitudinal line; orbicular round, 

 ocher, orange-centered ; reniform ocher spotted on upper inner 

 corner and outer center ; an oblique white spot on lower inner 

 corner, its point between the two lower outer spots ; five 

 rounded white outer spots ; outer line dentate on the veins ; 

 space beyond spotted with orange-ocher before and beyond 

 the clouded subterminal line ; terminal space dark. Hind wing 

 ocherous on the disk, veins, discal mark and outer area blackish 



