NO. 2239. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 367 



a patch; an outer dark band of intensified reticulations, showing on 

 costa and inner margin; margin darker. Hind wing soiled white, 

 with a row of terminal dots in the fringe. Expanse, 42 mm. 

 7Vpe.— Male, Cat. No. 21315, U.S.N.M.; Mexico (R. Miiller). 



Genus HYPOPTA HUbner. 



HYPOPTA ACTILEUCA. new species. 



Fore wing with the ground white; a broad dark gray-purplish 

 shade, strigose, filled in and under the cell and around to costa, 

 leaving the median vein and cross vein broadly white; costa with 

 dark strigae and three white subapical patches; termen and outer 

 angle of inner margin broadly pale, with purplish strigae; fringe 

 white, mixed with gray. Hind wing whitish with large purplish 

 mottlings, heaviest at end of cell and staining the bases of veins 2-5. 

 Expanse, 25 mm. 



Type. — Male, Cat. No. 21316, U.S.N.M. ; Cuernavaca, Mexico, Jan- 

 uary, 1915 (R. Miiller). 



Family PYRALIDAE. 



Subfamily Pyraustinae. 



PLATYGRAPHIS, new genus. 



Palpi weakly upturned, the first and second joints thickly fringed 

 with scales in front, the third naked and oblong, rather long; max- 

 illary palpi invisible; median vein of hind wing not pectinated 

 above ; second joint of palpi about reaching vertex of head if turned 

 up; fore wing with vein 7 straight and well separated from 8; 

 antennae with the shaft not annulate, in the male unipectinate at 

 base, the basal pectenation long and spatulate. 



Near Entrephia Lederer, but the last joint of palpi is blunt. 



Type of the genus. — Platygraphis isahella^ new species. 



PLATYGRAPHIS ISABELLA, new species. 



Fore wing white; subbasal line brown, oblique; inner line oblique 

 in reverse direction, straight; orbicular of two brown bars, from 

 subcostal to submedian fold, filled with fulvous; reniform of two 

 opposed arcs between subcostal and median veins, filled with fulvous, 

 which color also occupies costa, terminal space and tornal region; 

 a line from inner cusp of reniform obliquely to inner margin; a line 

 from outer cusp of reniform, recurved above tornus and nearly per- 

 pendicular to costa; marginal line submacular. Hind wing white; 

 median line forked on cell, filled with fulvous; outer line from costa 

 to vein 2, forming a short hook; subterminal and marginal lines 

 parallel to margin, filled with fulvous; fringe white, with brown 

 interline. Expanse, 16 mm. 



