﻿DESCRIPTIONS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  LEPIDOPTERA, 
  CHIEFLY 
  FROM 
  

   MEXICO. 
  

  

  By 
  Harrison 
  G. 
  Dyar, 
  

  

  Custodian 
  of 
  Lepidoptera, 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  descriptions 
  are 
  in 
  continuation 
  of 
  those 
  already 
  

   published 
  on 
  the 
  Mexican 
  fauna.^ 
  A 
  few 
  species 
  are 
  included 
  from 
  

   nearby 
  regions, 
  or 
  which 
  are 
  especially 
  allied 
  to 
  Mexican 
  species 
  

   here 
  mentioned: 
  

  

  Family 
  NYMPHALID^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  PHYCIODES 
  Hubner. 
  

  

  PHYCIODES 
  NATALCES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  with 
  an 
  emargination 
  below 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margin; 
  black, 
  the 
  base 
  variegated 
  with 
  rufous; 
  spots 
  buff; 
  a 
  small 
  

   one 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  vertical 
  rufous 
  streak; 
  a 
  curved 
  row 
  of 
  

   three 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  with 
  an 
  obscure 
  one 
  above 
  near 
  costa; 
  a 
  square 
  

   spot 
  between 
  veins 
  2 
  and 
  3 
  with 
  a 
  little 
  spot 
  above 
  and 
  below, 
  fol- 
  

   lowed 
  by 
  a 
  little 
  rufous 
  spot; 
  two 
  spots 
  below 
  vein 
  2, 
  one 
  near 
  its 
  

   origin, 
  the 
  other 
  outwardly 
  placed; 
  another 
  similarly 
  placed 
  spot 
  

   above 
  vein 
  4; 
  a 
  faint 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  crescents, 
  of 
  which 
  only 
  

   the 
  two 
  central 
  ones 
  are 
  distinct. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  base 
  varie- 
  

   gated 
  with 
  rufous 
  streaks, 
  two 
  curved 
  ones 
  on 
  the 
  cell 
  being 
  promi- 
  

   nent; 
  an 
  outer 
  mesial 
  buff 
  band, 
  narrowly 
  cut 
  by 
  the 
  veins, 
  not 
  

   reaching 
  costa 
  or 
  margin; 
  beyond 
  it 
  a 
  narrow 
  rufous 
  Une, 
  cut 
  by 
  the 
  

   veins; 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  narrow 
  crescents; 
  fringe 
  crenulate, 
  

   whitish 
  tipped. 
  Beneath 
  the 
  basal 
  third 
  of 
  fore 
  wing 
  is 
  whitish, 
  

   variegated 
  with 
  brown 
  lines, 
  with 
  an 
  irregular 
  curved 
  black 
  line 
  

   shortly 
  before 
  the 
  termination 
  of 
  the 
  pale 
  arc; 
  outer 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  

   the 
  ground 
  black; 
  a 
  broad 
  pale 
  bar 
  in 
  end 
  of 
  cell 
  %vith 
  digitate 
  outer 
  

   margin; 
  spots 
  repeated, 
  enlarged, 
  white, 
  scarcely 
  cut 
  by 
  the 
  veins; 
  

   a 
  narrow 
  pale 
  line 
  joining 
  the 
  large 
  median 
  spot 
  to 
  costa; 
  termen 
  

   shaded 
  with 
  whitish 
  and 
  rufous, 
  cut 
  by 
  black 
  shades 
  subapically 
  and 
  

  

  » 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  38, 
  1910, 
  pp. 
  229-273; 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  42, 
  1912, 
  pp. 
  39-106. 
  

  

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  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Vol. 
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