NO. 1414. NEW SOUTH AMERICAN MOTHS— SCHA US. 107 



Genus RHAESENA Walker. 

 RHAESENA JALAPENA, new species. 



Violaceous cla}^ color, overlaid with dark brown .shades; transverse 

 anterior line bent at right ang-les on median, pale brown edged wdthin; 

 transverse posterior oblique, straight from middle of costa to outer 

 third of inner margin, pale, edged within b}^ a wide brown shade that 

 ditfuses nearly to transverse anterior line; reniform mark beyond this 

 lino minute, but with a curved brown line to costa (the true trans- 

 verse posterior line), the curve filled in by a dark shade; terminal area 

 brown shaded, blackish at apex; subterminal line fine, pale, obscure. 

 Secondaries blackish. Below reddish irrorate, disk of primaries 

 l)lackish, a common faint darker line. 



Exjxinae. — 23 mm. 



Ilalntat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type.—Q^X. No. 9544, U.S.N.M. 



RHAESENA NEZEILA, new species. 



Pale violaceous brownish with dark Itrown sliades; basal half of pri- 

 maries brown, shading darker before the lines, a light submetallic 

 reflection in basal space; transverse anterior line narrow, brown, 

 angled on median and submedian veins; transverse posterior straight 

 across wing, limiting the dark basal area; lighter bej^ond, with sub- 

 metallic violaceous reflection; reniform a brown speck beyond the 

 transverse posterior line, around w'hich the true posterior line makes 

 a broad outcurve, slender, brown, flexuous; outer margin prominent 

 below the middle, the upper excavation with a dark brown shade 

 which runs obliquely inward; subterminal line pale, submacular, brown 

 edged within. Hind wing blackish with an elliptical fovea in lower 

 part of cell in the male. Below violaceous tinted, brown speckled, 

 outer margins, especially of hind wings, red; a common mesial line, 

 crenulatc on hind wings, which have also a discal dot and a faint sub- 

 marginal line. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Type.—C^t. No. 9545, U.S.N.M. 



RHAESENA RUBROMARGINATA, new species. 



Dark purplish brown; fore wings with the space to median line 

 shaded in dark bronzy brown, the transverse anterior line relieved by 

 a little pale shading, slender, brown, angled on submedian; orbicular 

 large, circular, paler filled; median line narrow, male, straight across 

 wing, limiting the' dark area; reniform an obscure irregular line; 

 transverse posterior line slender, dark, roundedly excurved over reni- 



