﻿NO. 
  1951. 
  NEW 
  LEPIDOPTERA 
  FROM 
  MEXICO— 
  DYAR. 
  317 
  

  

  scalloped 
  between 
  the 
  veins, 
  and 
  roundedly 
  produced, 
  between 
  veins 
  

   2 
  and 
  4; 
  fringe 
  narrowly 
  white. 
  Expanse, 
  35 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  Female, 
  No. 
  15231, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Cuernavaca, 
  Mexico, 
  June, 
  

   1906 
  (W. 
  Schaus). 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  Cicinnus 
  lygia 
  Schaus. 
  

  

  LACOSOMA 
  JULIETTA, 
  new 
  spe-Jes. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  pinkish 
  brown 
  over 
  the 
  disk, 
  shading 
  to 
  red 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   the 
  margiris 
  broadly 
  gray; 
  lines 
  obsolete; 
  discal 
  mark 
  elliptical, 
  

   blackish, 
  surrounded 
  by 
  gray; 
  outer 
  margin 
  smooth, 
  produced 
  

   between 
  veins 
  2 
  and 
  4, 
  the 
  apex 
  sharp. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  gray, 
  irrorated 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  coarse 
  dark 
  specks, 
  the 
  discal 
  mark 
  smaller 
  than 
  on 
  fore 
  

   wing, 
  but 
  similar. 
  Expanse, 
  27 
  mm. 
  

  

  T^ype.— 
  Male, 
  No. 
  15232, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Misantla, 
  Mexico, 
  July, 
  1912 
  

   (R. 
  Mliller). 
  Closely 
  allied 
  to 
  L. 
  otalla 
  Schaus 
  and 
  L, 
  rosea 
  Dognin. 
  

  

  Family 
  THYRIDID^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  MESKEA 
  Grote. 
  

  

  MESKEA 
  HORROR, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  fawn 
  color, 
  shaded 
  with 
  blackish 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  with 
  gray 
  

   terminally; 
  several 
  series 
  of 
  small 
  blackish 
  dots 
  subcostally 
  and 
  in 
  

   the 
  cell, 
  becoming 
  dense 
  and 
  bordering 
  the 
  veins 
  terminally. 
  Hind 
  

   wing 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  submarginal 
  band, 
  bent 
  toward 
  the 
  base 
  above 
  

   tornus, 
  the 
  basal 
  area 
  shaded 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  termen 
  gray, 
  with 
  dark 
  

   dots. 
  Expanse, 
  male 
  30 
  mm.; 
  female 
  43 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  One 
  male. 
  No. 
  13370, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Jalapa, 
  Mexico, 
  May, 
  

   1908 
  (R. 
  Muller); 
  one 
  male, 
  Cordoba, 
  Mexico 
  (W. 
  Schaus); 
  three 
  

   females, 
  Cuernavaca, 
  Mexico, 
  June 
  and 
  July, 
  1906 
  (W. 
  Schaus). 
  

  

  Similar 
  to 
  M. 
  dyspteraria 
  Grote, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  wing 
  drawn 
  out 
  with 
  

   a 
  sharp 
  point, 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  distinctly 
  emarginate. 
  

  

  MESKEA 
  SUBAPICULA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Cinereous 
  yellowish, 
  coarsely 
  irrorate 
  with 
  gra}', 
  the 
  irrorations 
  in- 
  

   distinctly 
  arranged 
  in 
  curved 
  transverse 
  bands 
  on 
  outer 
  part 
  of 
  wing; 
  

   a 
  broad 
  longitudinal 
  black 
  streak 
  below 
  the 
  outer 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  

   Hind 
  wmg 
  with 
  long 
  apical 
  point, 
  strigose 
  and 
  shaded 
  with 
  gray, 
  

   forming 
  broad 
  bands 
  through 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  along 
  outer 
  margin. 
  

   Abdomen 
  blackish 
  gray. 
  Expanse, 
  19-21 
  mm. 
  

  

  Coiypes. 
  — 
  Two 
  specimens. 
  No. 
  14687, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Oaxaca, 
  Mexico, 
  

   August, 
  1911 
  (W. 
  D. 
  Hunter), 
  labeled 
  as 
  ^'injuring 
  cotton." 
  

  

  Genus 
  DYSODIA 
  Clemens. 
  

  

  DYSODEA 
  MONAVA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Olivaceous 
  gray, 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  both 
  wings 
  infiltrated 
  with 
  straw 
  

   yeUow, 
  covered 
  with 
  dark 
  dense 
  striae; 
  fore 
  wing 
  with 
  small 
  trian- 
  

  

  