NO. 2239. NEW LEPIDOPTEBA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 359 



Two other females bear data, respectively: Misantla, Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, June, 1909 (R. Miiller) ; Paso San Juan, Vera Cruz, Mexico 

 (Schaus collection). The latter is also labelled: "/S. gramina Schs. 

 9 ;" but the association seems clearly an error. 



Genus DICENTRIA Herrich-Schafifer. 



DICENTRIA OBLIGATA, new species. 



Fore wing gray, blackish-shaded, almost solidly for basal two- 

 thirds, the discal bar in an oval clear space ; veins outwardly black- 

 lined ; a brown line in interspace 4-5 ; outer line pale, shaded, straight, 

 curving toward costa and obsolete above vein 6 ; a gray patch at apex ; 

 lines on veins widened in fringe. Hind wing white, veins dark-lined ; 

 costa and outer margin narrowly gray ; inner area brown ; a blackish 

 patch at anal angle. Expanse, 42 mm. 



Type.— M^\q, Cat. No. 21277, U.S.N.M. ; Zacualpan, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Genus HEMICERAS Guenee. 



HEMICERAS OBLIQUIPLAGA, new species. 



Vertex of head white; thorax purple and brown, touched with 

 white posteriorly. Fore wing with costal edge not white; bright 

 red-brown, the median space more purplish, cut in a line from discal 

 mark to above vein 1, the anal area purplish ; lines dark, faint, picked 

 out in specks of white scales on the veins, forming a line from vein 

 2 to margin, dentate on vein 1, and followed by red-brown; discal 

 mark vague, purple, oblique. Hind wing brown, lighter between 

 the veins. Expanse, 42 mm. 



Type.— Female, Cat. No. 21278, U. S. N. M.; Mexico (E. Miiller). 



A pair, agreeing well, are before me from Juan Vinas, Costa 

 Rica, January and November, 1909 (W. Schaus). The male has no 

 stigma on hind wing and comes close to H. Tnuscosa Schaus, de- 

 scribed from Colombia, but extending to Costa Rica and Mexico. 



Family EUPTEROTIDAE. 

 Genus CARTHARA Walker. 



CARTHARA CRENULOSA, new species. 



Fore wing gray, shaded with dark red about outer margin and 

 in spots on costa ; veins 3 and 4 dark red ; inner line obsolete ; discal 

 black dots oblique, partly confluent; outer line purplish, double, 

 crenulate from margin up to vein 4; inner branch from vein 4 to 

 costa oblique; outer branch white, crenulate, preceded by olive 

 patches in interspaces 4^-5 and 5-6, then a gray shade to costa ; fol- 

 lowed by small rounded olive patches in 4r-5, 5-6, 6-7 and 7-costa. 



