SCEPSIS. — PROPrKIA. 521 



1149. Scepsis wrigliti. (Plate XVII. fig. 6.) 



Scepsis wrightii, Stretch, Ent. A)a. i. p. 101 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 175. 

 Scepsis gravis, H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 8 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 175. 



Fuscous black ; tegulse and stripes on shoulders pale yellow ; 

 abdomen with a bluish tinge. Fore wing with the costa narrowly 

 pale. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal area broadly and 

 irregularly black. 



Ab. 1. gravis. Tegulge orange. 



Hub. CalifoPvNIa, 1 J , Grote Coll. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus PROPYRIA, nov. 



Type, P. ftyclioglcne. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi downcurved, short ; antennai of male serrate ; 

 tibifB with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 strongly stalked ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from 8 beyond 9 ; 

 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 5 

 strongly stalked ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 i'rom upper angle, or 7 from before angle. 



A. Tegulte and thorax crimson schausi. 



B. Tegular and thorax black ptgchoglene. 



*1150. Propyria schansi. 



Lycomorpha fidgeiis, Neum. & Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i. p. 103 (1893), 



nee H Edw. 

 Lycomorpha schausi, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 34 (1898). 



Head black ; tegulae, patagia, and thorax crimson ; abdomen 

 black. Fore wing crimson, the terminal area (one-fifth of wing) 

 black. Hind wing black, with crimson costal fascia extending to 

 beyond middle. 



Hah. j^. Mexico, Arizona. Exp. ? 32 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1151. Propyria ptyclioglene, n. sp. 



Pfyehogleae (squalis, Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 129 (nee Wlk.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; patagia scarlet. Fore wing 



scarlet, the terminal area 

 black, extending as a fine 

 fascia on costa to middle 

 and on inner margin to 

 near base. Hind wing 

 black, with the basal two- 

 thirds of costal area 



Fig. 276. — Tropyria ptychoglenc, (^ . }. scarlet. 



Ifah. Mexico, Jalapa 

 {H. Edwards), Durango (Forrer), Coatepec (Brools), Vera Cruz 

 (Riimeli), type; Guatemala {Champion): Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



