56 INSECUTOR INSCITI/t MENSTRUUS 



Habitat, Tehuacan, Mexico, September ; R. Muller, collector. 

 Type, Cat. No. 18266, U S. Nat. Mus. 



Nearest to Ethmia mulleri Busck, but without the dark costal area 

 and with different anangement of the spots. 



Ethmia clarissa, new species. 



Labial palpi white, shaded longitudinally with black, terminal joint with 

 apex black. Face and head white. Antennae blackish with a superior 

 line of white dots ; hasal joint white with a large black dot. Thorax 

 white with a black dot on the base of patagia. Forewing shining white 

 with bluish black markings ; extreme base of costa black, four black spots 

 nearly forming a square on basal third within the margins ; a downwardly 

 curved, black, costal streak at basal third, below the end of which a 

 small, oblique, black spot, edged exteriorly with saffron yellow ; obliquely 

 below and before this a small black spot on the dorsal edge, a larger, 

 inwardly directed, triangular, black dorsal spot at apical third ; two small 

 black spots just below costal edge on outer half; from the latter of these 

 an interrupted, crooked series of black spots across the tip of the wing to 

 a large black spot just above tomus ; three small black spots in a triangle 

 on the outer third of the wing, one of which is on the end of the cell ; 

 a broken, marginal, black line around apex ; just before which is a small, 

 easily overlooked, yellow dash at apex ; cilia white, with two broad, 

 dark brown dashes, one at apex and one outside the black terminal spot. 

 Hindwing whitish, iridescent, semitransparent,on basal half, dusky brown 

 toward apex ; cilia white with brown basal line. Abdomen dark brown 

 above, underside and anal tuft white. Legs white with broad, dark 

 brown annulations on the tarsi. 



Alar expanse, 1 7 mm. 



Habitat, Cuba ; W. Schaus, collector. 



Type, Cat. No. 18269, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Allied to Ethmia notatella Walker, E. xanthonhoa Zeller, and E. 

 hiramella Busck, but much smaller than any of these and distinguished 

 from them by the two golden ochreous dashes on the forewings. 



Ethmia hiramella, new species. 



Labial palpi white, each joint with a broad, median, bluish black annu- 

 lation. Face and head white. Antennae dark brown with white basal 

 joint on upper side of which is a large black spot. Thorax white with 



