INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 135 



Apatelodes sadisma, new species. 



Brown, the fore wing with a slight mottled appearance, 

 showing especially in a wavy whitish subterminal shade; two 

 outer parallel lines, the inner wavy and crenulate, the outer 

 resolved into dots ; traces of an oblique line from base of costa 

 to vein 2 ; mark at basal third of inner margin an erect whitish 

 line, preceded by a brown patch and followed by a dark dupli- 

 cation ; subapical dots two, white, the lower the larger, preceded 

 by brown. Hind wing warm reddish brown with inner brown 

 shaded line and outer narrow crenulate blackish one. Expanse, 

 37 mm. 



The female is strongly mottled with whitish, forming an 

 ovate discal patch, beyond which a brown shade-line crosses 

 the wing. Expanse, 44 mm. 



Type, male, allotype, female. No. 21736, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Misantla, Mexico, June, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Family GEOMETRID^ 

 Subfamily GEOMETRIN^ 



Apicia remorta, new species. 



Brownish straw-color ; lines slender, brown ; inner line of 

 fore wing bent at right angles on median vein, a little wavy ; 

 outer line straight to vein 7, faintly reflexed, brown within, 

 yellowish without ; wing surface smooth, not conspicuously 

 irrorate. Hind wing with a single line from inner margin to 

 vein 6. A round dark discal dot on each wing. Expanse, 

 31 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21737, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 June, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Ira medullata, new species. 



Brownish ocherous ; fore wing with a large costo-subapical 

 patch of lilaceous, edged with black and dentate on the outer 

 side ; inner line red-brown, faint, marked with purple on costa ; 

 discal dot small, round, purple ; outer line red-brown, straight 

 to the costal patch. Hind wing of the same color, a single 

 straight outer line to vein 6, marked with purple below vein 2 ; 



