460 HETEROCERA. 
In Mexico this appears to be a very common and variable species. Mr. Herbert 
Smith’s specimens were captured in January and September 1888. Our figure is taken 
from a male from Atoyac. 
THEOTINUS, gen. nov. 
Male, Head small; the thorax and abdomen slender, the latter not extending beyond the wings. Palpislender ; 
the second joint rather long; the third joint small. Antenne long, tufted with long hairs about the 
middle. Legs rather long and slender, the front pair clothed with hairs. The primaries long and narrow; 
the costal margin nearly straight from the base almost to the apex, where it is slightly rounded; on the 
costal margin above near the base is a large tuft of thick hairs which projects almost straight out from 
the wing; the outer margin considerably rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin quite straight. 
The secondaries much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the costal margin straight; the inner 
margin thickly clothed with hairs. 
The female differs from the male in the costal margin of the primaries not being tufted and in the simple 
antenne. 
Type Bleptina virbiusalis, Walker. 
1. Theotinus virbiusalis, (Tab. XXXVIII. fig. 1,3.) 
Bleptina virbiusahs, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 126 (¢)’. 
Hab. Guatemata, Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet, Caché (Rogers).—VENEZUELA !. 
Our specimen from Guatemala, a female, is altogether darker in colour than those 
from Costa Rica; it is in very poor condition, and may prove to belong toa + distinct 
species. A male from Costa Rica is figured. 
2. Theotinus lycimnia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 2, 2.) 
' Female. Primaries and secondaries dark brown; the primaries with the central portion pale brown, crossed by 
several indistinct darker brown lines, a small oval brown spot at the end of the cell edged with pale 
yellowish-brown, and a submarginal pale yellowish-brown waved line extending from the costal margin 
close to the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle, the marginal line black ; the secondaries partly 
crossed near the anal angle by two fine yellowish-brown lines ; the fringe of both wings alternately dark 
brown and pale yellowish-brown: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse | 
1} inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus). 
Allied to 7. virbiusalis, Walk. One specimen. 
TORTRICODES. 
Tortricodes, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 71 (1854); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 180’; Warren, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, pp. 217, 254.7, 255. 
“‘Fore wings (of the male) with the costa excavated on each side of a thick crest of 
hairs in the middle; exterior border deeply notched” 1. Female with the costal margin 
almost straight to the apex, without any tuft of hairs, the outer margin not lobed as 
in the male. For Tortricodes and two other genera, Gaberasa, Walk., and Pteroprista, 
Warr., Mr. Warren has proposed ? the family “Pteropristide.” From our region we 
