130 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS NEW MOTHS FROM MEXICO AND CUBA {Lcpidoptera) By HARRISON G. DYAR Family NOCTUID^ Subfamily HADENIN^ Hyssia umbera, new species. Male antennae minutely fasciculate. Head and thorax black-ish brown ; abdomen light brown, the anal tufts ocher. Fore wing broad, obscure dark brown, the lines faintly shown; base darker shaded, bounded by a black inner line, which forms an outward arc below median vein ; reniform upright, narrow, constricted, outlined in black, followed by a rounded lighter area ; outer line pale, denticulate, excurved over cell ; subter-minal line dark, clouded, showing as spottings opposite cell and in submedian interspace ; fringe with black basal line, a little touched with ocherous at the ends of the veins. Hind wing fuscous shaded, lighter on the disk and touched with ocherous at base on inner margin and at the ends of the veins ; a black terminal line. Expanse, 37 mm. Type, male, No. 23 725, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, Mexico. July, 1917 (R. Miiller). Hydroeciodes mormon, new species. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; anal tuft pale, with a little purple intermixed. Fore wing with ground ocher flecked with orange, but showing only in the stigmata and sub-terminally ; dark brown ; lines slender, blackish ; inner cutting the ocher claviform area straightly, angled on vein 1 ; outer half of claviform with a longitudinal line; orbicular round, ocher, orange-centered ; reniform ocher spotted on upper inner corner and outer center ; an oblique white spot on lower inner corner, its point between the two lower outer spots ; five rounded white outer spots ; outer line dentate on the veins ; space beyond spotted with orange-ocher before and beyond the clouded subterminal line ; terminal space dark. Hind wing ocherous on the disk, veins, discal mark and outer area blackish
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