DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, CHIEFLY FROM MEXICO. By Harrison G. Dyar, Custodian of Lepidoptera, United States National Museum. The following descriptions are in continuation of those already published on the Mexican fauna.^ A few species are included from nearby regions, or which are especially allied to Mexican species here mentioned: Family NYMPHALID^. Genus PHYCIODES Hubner. PHYCIODES NATALCES, new species. Fore wing with an emargination below the middle of the outer margin; black, the base variegated with rufous; spots buff; a small one in the cell, followed by a vertical rufous streak; a curved row of three beyond the cell, with an obscure one above near costa; a square spot between veins 2 and 3 with a little spot above and below, fol-lowed by a little rufous spot; two spots below vein 2, one near its origin, the other outwardly placed; another similarly placed spot above vein 4; a faint submarginal row of crescents, of which only the two central ones are distinct. Hind wing with the base varie-gated with rufous streaks, two curved ones on the cell being promi-nent; an outer mesial buff band, narrowly cut by the veins, not reaching costa or mar^n; beyond it a narrow rufous line, cut by the veins; a submarginal row of narrow crescents; fringe crenulate, whitish tipped. Beneath the basal third of fore wing is whitish, variegated with brown lines, with an irregular curved black line shortly before the termination of the pale arc; outer two-thirds of the ground black; a broad pale bar in end of cell with digitate outer margin ; spots repeated, enlarged, white, scarcely cut by the veins ; a narrow pale line joining the large median spot to costa; termen shaded with whitish and rufous, cut by black shades subapically and 1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 1910, pp. 229-273; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, pp. 39-106. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 44— No. 1951. 279
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