30 INSECUTOR INSCITI^E MENSTRUUS 



NEW MOTHS FROM MEXICO 



(Lepidoptera) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



SATURNIID^ 



Agapema muellerana, new species. 



Antennae light yellow. Fore wing slightly excavated on the 

 outer margin, the apex rounded ; soft gray-brown ; inner line 

 on both wings blackish, diffused, rather thick ; outer line dou- 

 ble, wavy on the veins, the inner segment blackish and con- 

 crete, the outer segment broader and irrorate with white 

 scales ; a carneous shade at apex with a truncated lunule, red 

 without, black within, edged without by pale rosy irrorations. 

 Discal mark rounded, a black center with upright white line, 

 surrounded by a brown annulus and a ring, the latter black 

 without, dark red within with a white arc. Hind wing with 

 the costa broadly pale luteous and no apical mark. Discal 

 mark a little more elongate than on fore wing, with the white 

 arc longer. 



Beneath light fawn-color, the inner line and outer segment 

 of the outer line distinct and blackish. Discal marks browner 

 than above, the white arc obsoletely continued as a ring. Ex- 

 panse, 97 mm. 



Type, male, No. 22749, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, June, 1919 (R. Miiller). 



One hind wing of the type is broken ; but Mr. Miiller has 

 taken only two specimens of the species in twelve years, and 

 both reached him in an injured condition. 



ARCTIID^ 



Hypocrisias velivolans, new species. 



Fore wing straw-yellow, rather thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous, defining indistinctly a basal and discal cluster of spots 

 and more distinctly two outer rows. Hind wing shaded with 

 fuscous, especially along inner margin, the veins outlined in 

 pale. The wings are square and broad as in the fninima group ; 



