484 rRocEEDiyas or the national museum. vol. xxx. 



oblique; a large brown cell spot; a blackish blotch on costa beyond 

 outer line before apex; fringe worn, fuscous. 



Ulndving. — Without inner line; the rest as in forewino^. 



Under side pale, dusted with brownish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, but the dorsum darker 

 fuscous. 



E.i-jjan.se of wings. — 16 mm. 



Locality. — Jalapa, Mexico; 1 male. 



Type.~-C?i{. No. 9313, U.S.N.M. 



TEPHROCLYSTIA MEDIOBRUNNEA, new species. 



Fomiiing. — Pale pinkish brown, dusted with black; the costa clouded 

 with black, narrowl}' at base, more broadl}" at apex, and tilling up the 

 central fascia al)ove the median vein; the lines very obscurelj^ marked 

 and plain, not on inner margin; submarginal line tine, very indistinct, 

 preceded by a dark shade; marginal line blackish; fringe brownish. 



Hindwing. — With the inner margin half clouded with black, showing 

 the commencement of lines; the costal half pale ))rownish, with a small 

 dark cell spot; marginal line ))lack, interrupted; fringe browni.sh, 

 toward anal angle and along inner margin blackish. 



Under side with m<M*c of an olive tinge; the lines marked, ))ut 

 indistinct. 



Head, collar, and abdomen black; thorax and basal segment of abdo- 

 men pale tiesh- color. 



Krp<(nse of ir In gs. — 10 m m . 



Locality. — Orizaba, Mexico; 1 male, 1 female. 



Hindwing protu])erant at veins 3 and 7, indented l)eyond cell. Allied 

 to T. semi nigra Warren, in which, however, the whole of the hindwing 

 is black. 



Type.—C^t. No. 9314, U.S.N.M. 



TEPHROCLYSTIA MOLLITA, new species. 



Foreuiing. — Brownish ochreous in basal and marginal areas, the 

 central fascia dark gray; its inner edge curved at costa, then straight 

 to one-third of inner margin, its outer edge angled on vein (i, then 

 oblique to middle, then again projecting; cell spot ])lackish, above a 

 streak of brownish ochreous scales along the median vein; in the basal 

 area are a dark gra^' line close to base and a double darker brown line 

 or band, both darker gray on costa; the central fascia is followed by a 

 pale band with darker middle line; submarginal line very obscure, 

 preceded on costa and al)ove iimer margin by a dark gray cloud; a 

 dark gray marginal cloud beyond cell; mai-ginal line l)lack, thick, 

 interrupted at the veins; fringe l)ro\vn, mottled with gray. 



Hind^oing. — Brown, almost wholly sutl'uscd with dark gray; a gray 

 cell spot and l)road postmedian curved t)and; submarginal line waved, 

 brownish, apparenth- double. 



