DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO. 



By Harrison G. Dyar, 

 Custodian of Lepidoptera, United States National Museum. 



This is the sixth paper describing new species of Lepidoptera 

 from Mexico.^ Most of the material is from that sent for determina- 

 tion by Mr. Roberto Miiller, of Mexico City, through the Bureau of 

 Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. A few 

 species were left over from the previous donations of Mr. William 

 Schaus and Mr. B. Preston Clark, referred to in my fifth paper. 



The present paper comprises 117 new species, 12 new genera, 1 

 synoptic table, and 1 reference to synonymy. 



Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA. 



Family RIODINIDAE. 



Genus CHARIS Hubner. 



CHARIS CRASPEDIODONTA. new species. 



Fore wing with the margin incised between all the veins; hind 

 wing with the incisions deeper, the veins forming points, with groups 

 of spatulate scales lengthening them. Above, black; base of fringe 

 white on both wings; hind wing wdth a little red at anal angle. 

 Beneath, basal fourth of fore wing with red lines forming rings 

 filled by black spots; then a gray space, irrorate with white scales; 

 a median band of black, edged on both sides with red, touching two 

 black, red-bordered spots at end of cell, with some blue scales be- 

 tween and beyond them; a submarginal gray space, irrorate with 

 white; margin and the veins preceding, red, with two rows of blue 

 spots, the inner surrounded by black. Hind wing with the marbling 

 of red lines separating black spots reaching to two-thirds, some of 

 the black spots with metallic blue ; a gray submarginal space ; margin 

 as on fore wing. The blue spot in interspace 3-4 on both wings is 

 retracted. Expense, 19 mm. 



Type.— Female, Cat. No. 21197, U.S.N.M.; Presidio, Mexico, May, 

 1913 (R. MiUler). 



*The fifth paper Is In Proceedings United States National Museum, No. 2139, vol. 51, 

 1916, pp. 1-37, where reference to earlier papers is given. 



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