﻿NO. 
  1951. 
  NEW 
  LEPIDOPTERA 
  FROM 
  MEXICO— 
  DYAR. 
  319 
  

  

  Cotypes. 
  — 
  Three 
  specimens, 
  No. 
  14448, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  selected 
  from 
  a 
  

   series, 
  Tehuacan, 
  Mexico, 
  October, 
  1910, 
  September, 
  1911 
  (R. 
  

   Muller) 
  . 
  

  

  PYRAUSTA 
  XANTHOCRYPTA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Vertex 
  and 
  upper 
  aspect 
  of 
  palpi 
  dull 
  ocherous 
  partly 
  hidden 
  by 
  

   gray; 
  fore 
  wing 
  dark 
  gray, 
  the 
  lines 
  faintly 
  relieved, 
  dark, 
  with 
  

   whitish 
  edges; 
  inner 
  slightly 
  curved, 
  its 
  inner 
  whitish 
  border 
  faint; 
  

   a 
  dark 
  dot 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  end, 
  a 
  whitish 
  streak 
  between 
  

   them; 
  outer 
  line 
  straight, 
  then 
  strongly 
  incurved 
  on 
  its 
  lower 
  third, 
  

   upward 
  a 
  little, 
  then 
  straight 
  to 
  inner 
  margin, 
  its 
  outer 
  whitish 
  edging 
  

   distinct. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  fuscous 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  outer 
  flexuous 
  

   dark 
  line. 
  Expanse, 
  17-18 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes.— 
  Four 
  specimens, 
  No. 
  14692, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Mexico 
  City, 
  

   Mexico, 
  July, 
  1909 
  (R. 
  Muller) 
  ; 
  San 
  Diego, 
  California, 
  May 
  7 
  and 
  20, 
  

   June 
  22, 
  1911 
  (G. 
  H. 
  Field). 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  cotypes 
  is 
  in 
  Mr. 
  Field's 
  collection. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CROCIDOLOMIA 
  Zeller. 
  

   CROCIDOLOMIA 
  PALINDIALIS 
  Guenee. 
  

  

  Spilodes 
  palindialis 
  Guenee, 
  Spec. 
  Gen., 
  Lep., 
  vol. 
  8, 
  1854, 
  p. 
  380. 
  

   Botys 
  pyrenealis 
  Walker, 
  Cat. 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  pt. 
  18, 
  1859, 
  p. 
  580. 
  

   Botys 
  medonalis 
  Walker, 
  Cat. 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  pt. 
  18, 
  1859, 
  p. 
  599. 
  

   Crocidolomia 
  palindialis 
  Hampson, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  1898, 
  p. 
  758. 
  

   Evergestis 
  dyaralis 
  Fernald, 
  Journ. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  9, 
  1901, 
  p. 
  49. 
  

   Evergestis 
  dyaralis 
  Dyar, 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Wash., 
  vol. 
  4, 
  1901, 
  p. 
  460. 
  

   Evergestis 
  dyaralis 
  Fernald, 
  Bull. 
  52, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  1903, 
  p. 
  380, 
  No. 
  4333. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  of 
  wide 
  tropical 
  distribution. 
  I 
  have 
  several 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  before 
  me 
  from 
  Mexico, 
  and 
  have 
  collected 
  it 
  in 
  southern 
  

   Florida. 
  

  

  CROCIDOLOMIA 
  OCHRITACTA. 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  shining 
  olive 
  brown; 
  inner 
  line 
  fine, 
  blackish, 
  obsolescent, 
  

   angled 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  forming 
  a 
  blotch 
  on 
  inner 
  margin; 
  discal 
  margin 
  

   lunate, 
  outlined 
  finely 
  in 
  blackish, 
  indistinct; 
  outer 
  line 
  punctiform, 
  

   angled 
  subcostally, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  faint 
  lighter 
  shade; 
  a 
  terminal 
  row 
  

   of 
  black 
  dashes, 
  emphasized 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  tornus, 
  the 
  former 
  outwardly 
  

   oblique 
  minutely, 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  a 
  light 
  spot 
  in 
  the 
  otherwise 
  dark 
  

   fringe. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  brownish 
  semitranslucent; 
  a 
  broad 
  even 
  outer 
  

   black 
  band; 
  fringe 
  dark 
  ocher, 
  except 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  tornus 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  

   black. 
  Expanse, 
  27 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Male, 
  No. 
  15233, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Orizaba, 
  Mexico, 
  June, 
  1912 
  

   (R. 
  Muller). 
  

  

  Genus 
  POLYGRAMMODES 
  Guenee. 
  

  

  POLYGRAMMODES 
  B.ffi;USCALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Ijight 
  brown 
  with 
  a 
  reddish 
  tinge, 
  the 
  margins 
  grayish 
  shaded 
  ; 
  fore 
  

   wing 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  line 
  grayish 
  black, 
  oblique 
  to 
  submedian, 
  then 
  in- 
  

  

  