1988.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 215 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF HESPEROCHARIS. 



By W. Schaus. 



Hesperocharis jaliscana sp. nov. — Wings white in the 71 , pale lemon 

 color in the 2 ; the primaries with the apex and outer margin above vein 

 3, suffused with black. Secondaries below bright yellow ; a crimson spot 

 at the base ; a black spot below the cell ; a costal and subterminal row of 

 angular smoky spots. Ex. 50 mm. 



Hab. — Guadalajara, Mexico. 



This species is allied to H. Crocea, Bates, though very distinct. 



Hesperocharis paranensis sp. nov. — Wings white, tinged faintly with 

 green ; the outer half of costal margin finely black. Minute triangular 

 black spots at the apex and along the extreme outer margin between the 

 veins on the primaries. Underneath primaries whitish ; the apex and 

 costal margin yellowish ; some minute black marginal marks. Second- 

 aries below yellowish ; a black point at the base, an antemedial, medial 

 and postmedial irregular and angular black line broken by the veins ; 

 minute black spots in the extreme margin, between the veins. Ex. 35 mm. 



Hab. — Castro, Parana. 



This species is readily distinguished by its small size and 

 broken lines on the secondaries below. 



ANOTHER YELLOW PERDITA. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell, N. M. Agr. Exp. Sta. 



Perdita wootonae n. sp. 9 • — Length about or nearly 6 mm. Resembles 

 the $ of P. luteola, but a paler shade of yellow (to correspond with the 

 Mentzelia flowers). A little black pigment behind the middle ocellus; 

 and a short black stripe proceeding from each lateral ocellus, pointing in 

 the direction of the centre of the eye. Hind margins of first two abdomi- 

 nal segments more or less (sometimes hardly) infuscated. Hind tarsi 

 black, middle and hind tibiae with a black stripe. Second submarginal 

 cell broader at top than in luteola. 



Hab. — Five or six miles beyond Tularosa, New Mexico, on 

 the road to the mountains, at flowers of Mentzelia multiflora or 

 wrightii, end of August, 1897 (E. O. Wooton). * 



*Mr. S. N. Dunning has sent me four samples of Perdita wootonce, which he took at 

 flowers of Mentzelia at Denver, Colo , July 20, 1897. The % , which is among them, 

 differs from the 9 in the orange flagellum (without any black). The dot (instead of stripe) 

 before the eyes, and the absence of the black stripes extending toward the eye from the 

 lateral ocellus. The abdomen is more convex, and deeper yellow.— T. D. A. C. 



