NO. 2239. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 349 



This species and chalcophanis differ from territans Hy, Edwards 

 in the absence of any gold in the reniform. The two here described 

 are closely allied but seem distinct in the details of structure cited. 



Genus NOCLOA Smith. 



NOCLOA LAMIOTA, new species. 



Fore wing bright yellow ; a shade of dark brown at base on costal 

 half, running out obliquely below orbicular to touch outer line at 

 submedian fold ; inner line brown, double, strongly dentate on vein 1 

 and median vein; orbicular and reniform large, irregularly circular, 

 outlined in brown; outer line excurved gently above, brown, single, 

 dentate on vein 1 ; wing irrorate with red-brown, densest marginally, 

 defining faintly a subterminal line; a dark brown line in base of 

 fringe. Hind wing whitish, with terminal brown line ; fringe faintly 

 brown. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type.—K2i\Q, Cat. No. 21245, U.S.N.M. ; Cuernavaca, Mexico, No- 

 vember, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



NOCLOA BEATA. new species. 



Fore wing white, irrorate with brown; marldngs in chocolate 

 brown ; base brown on costa and submedian space ; inner line forming 

 three arcs, enclosing two oval white spaces, cut by a fine brown line ; 

 a broad bar for claviform between inner and outer lines; orbicular 

 and reniform large, full, brown outlined, and with duplicating cen- 

 tral rings; median line from reniform to inner margin; outer line 

 crenulate, excurved over cell, defining a white lunule in interspace 

 1-2, followed by a faint duplication; subterminal line fine, dentate; 

 a terminal line; fringe spotted. Hind wing white, with brown ter- 

 minal line. Expanse, 30 mm, 



Type.—M?lQ, Cat. No. 21246, U.S.N.M. ; Zacualpan, Mexico, Octo- 

 ber, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Genus STIRIA Grote. 



STIRIA INTERMIXTA. new species. 



Head and collar yellow ; thorax purple and gray. Fore wing yel- 

 low, with gray-brown markings; an oval patch at base of vein 1; 

 a small square patch on middle of inner margin; a terminal border, 

 wide in the middle and including the fringe; traces of broken out- 

 lines of orbicular and reniform; a narrow outer line, not reaching 

 costa, and superposed spots before tornus below vein 2. Hind wing 

 whitish over the disk, the costa and outer margin with broad gray- 

 brown border; fringe pale, with brown interline. Expanse, 37 mm. 



r^yoe.— Male, Cat. No. 21247, U.S.N.M. ; Zaculapan, Mexico, Aug- 

 ust, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Allied to S. ischune Dyar, but differing in the color of the hind 

 wings and size of the spot on inner margin of fore wnng. 



