DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO. By Harrison G. Dyar, Custodian of Lepidoptera, United States National Museum. This is the sixth paper describing new species of Lepidoptera from Mexico.^ Most of the material is from that sent for determina-tion by Mr. Roberto Miiller, of Mexico City, through the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. A few species were left over from the previous donations of Mr. William Schaus and Mr. B. Preston Clark, referred to in my fifth paper. The present paper comprises 117 new species, 12 new genera, 1 synoptic table, and 1 reference to synonymy. Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA. Family RIODINIDAE. Genus CHARIS Hubner. CHARIS CRASPEDIODONTA. new species. Fore wing with the margin incised between all the veins; hind wing with the incisions deeper, the veins forming points, with groups of spatulate scales lengthening them. Above, black; base of fringe white on both wings; hind wing wdth a little red at anal angle. Beneath, basal fourth of fore wing with red lines forming rings filled by black spots; then a gray space, irrorate with white scales; a median band of black, edged on both sides with red, touching two black, red-bordered spots at end of cell, with some blue scales be-tween and beyond them; a submarginal gray space, irrorate with white; margin and the veins preceding, red, with two rows of blue spots, the inner surrounded by black. Hind wing with the marbling of red lines separating black spots reaching to two-thirds, some of the black spots with metallic blue ; a gray submarginal space ; margin as on fore wing. The blue spot in interspace 3-4 on both wings is retracted. Expense, 19 mm. Type.— Female, Cat. No. 21197, U.S.N.M.; Presidio, Mexico, May, 1913 (R. MiUler). *The fifth paper Is In Proceedings United States National Museum, No. 2139, vol. 51, 1916, pp. 1-37, where reference to earlier papers is given. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 54— No. 2239. 335
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