Proceedings of the United States National Museum (V 3125 1968)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...wing pinkish brown over the disk, shading to red in the cell, the margins broadly gray; lines obsolete; discal mark elliptical, blackish, surrounded by gray; outer margin smooth, produced between veins 2 and 4, the apex sharp. Hind wing gray, irrorated with a few coarse dark specks, the discal mark smaller than on fore wing, but similar. Expanse, 27 mm. Type--Mule, No. 15232, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, July, 1912 (R. Muller). Closely allied to L. otalla Schaus and L. rosea Dognin. Family THYREOIDS. Genus MESKEA Grote. MESKEA HORROR, new species. Fore wing fawn color, shaded with blackish in the cell and with gray terminally; several series of small blackish dots subcostally and in the cell, becoming dense and bordering the veins terminally. Hind wing with a white submarginal band, bent toward the base above tornus, the basal area shaded with black, the termen gray, with dark dots. Expanse, male 30 mm.; female 43 mm. Type.--One male, No. 13370, U.S.N.M., Jalapa, Mexico, May, 1908 (R. Muller); one male, Cordoba, Mexico (W. Schaus); three females, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June and July, 1906 (W. Schaus). Similar to M. dyspteraria Grote, but the hind wing drawn out with a sharp point, the outer margin distinctly emarginate. MESKEA SUBAPICCLA, new species. Cinereous yellowish, coarsely irrorate with gray, the irrorations indistinctly arranged in curved transverse bands on outer part of wing; a broad longitudinal black streak below the outer part of the cell. Hind wing with long apical point, strigose and shaded with gray, forming broad bands through the middle and along outer margin. Abdomen blackish gray. Expanse, 19-21 mm. Cotypes.--Two specimens, No. 14687, U.S.N.M., Oaxaca, Mexico, August, 1911 (W. D. Hunter), labeled as injuring cotton....