DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS OF THE 

 FAMILY COCHLIDHD^E. 



By Harrison G. Dtar, 



Assistant Ciirator, Dimsion of Inserts, United States National Museum. 



The following new forms have })een recently discovered by Mr. 

 William Schaus during his travels through Mexico. 



PARASA CUERNAVACA, new variety. 



A form of P. cJtlorls: Herrieh-Schaeti'er, in which the green band on 

 the fore wings is much narrower than in specimens from the Atlantic 

 coast of the United States. The specimens agree with P. minima 

 Schaus in markings, l)ut are distinctly larger and more robust. These 

 are probably all local forms of P. ehloris, but this can not be positively 

 stated until the larvjB have been observed. I have described a form 

 from Arizona in which the green band is broader than usual. These 

 forms may be listed as follows: 



Param chloris Herrich-Schaeifer, eastern United States. 

 var. huachuca Dyar. Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, 

 var. cuernavaca I)\'ar, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 

 var. minima Schaus, Coatepec and Jalapa, Mexico, 

 var. (intermediate between cueimavaca and riiinima) Costa Rica. 

 Type.—{oi var. enernavaca) Cat. No. 10337, U.S.N.M. 

 Five males from Cuernavaca, Mexico, June, July, and August, 1906 

 (W. Schaus). 



EUCLEA RETROVERSA, new species. 



Fore wing blackish brown, with a pinkish tint along the costa and 

 in a curved streak beyond cell to tornus, cut by a heavy black bar that 

 runs out from the base along the submedian fold to margin; discal dot 

 black, much elongated; a slender nearly straight silvery line sub- 

 apically from costa to the pinkish band; a subbasal silvery line below 

 cell, with a single outward arc, within which the ground color is pink- 

 ish. Hind wings pinkish brown, the fringe touched with dark brown 

 at the anal angle. Thorax, tip of abdomen, and legs dark brown. 

 Expanse, 20 mm. 



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