
HOLCOCERA. 151 
Type 4: Blastobasis? iceryaeella Riley (Wlsm. 1907). 
Cynorrs Wlsm. Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 200, 210-11 (1907). 
Type 5: Prosodica nephalia Wlsm. ZN. (Wlsm. 1907). 
Prosopica Wlsm. Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 200 (1907). 
1. Holcocera basiplagata, sp. n. 
Antennae fawn-brown; the basal joint cream-ochreous, with slight pecten, a notch beyond it in the ¢. 
Palpi cream-ochreous, shaded with brown externally on the median joint. Head cream-ochreous. 
Thorax fawn-brown, patagia and tegulae cream-ochreous, the latter fawn-brown at their base. ore- 
wings rather tawny fawn-brown, with ill-defined longitudinal cream-ochreous smearing between the 
veins and below the fold; a short clear cream-ochreous patch lies at the extreme base and three dark 
discal dots are obscurely indicated, one scarcely before the middle of the wing, the other two at the 
upper and lower angles of the cell respectively ; cilia brown at the apex and costa, shading to brownish 
ochreous at the tornus, a few creamy scales lying around the margin at their base. yp. al. 18-20 mm. 
Hindwings shining, brownish grey, with a slight ochreous tinge; cilia dull, pale brownish ochreous. 
Abdomen whitish cinereous. Legs fawn-brownish, with faintly paler tarsal spots and pale cinereous 
hairs above the hind tibiae. 
Type 3 (65532, Panajachel); Q (65533) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT (65534) US. Nat. Mus. ; 
(3277 Drnt. Det. 1898, Costa Rica) Mus. J. de Joannis.] 
Hab. Guaremana: Panajachel, 5000 ft., 30. XII. 1880 (G. C. Champion) ; Balheu, 
3850 ft., 8-5. II. 1880 (G. C. Champion); Las Mercedes, 3000 ft., IX-X. 1880 
(G. C. Champion)—Costa Rica (Mus. J. de Joannis). Four specimens. 
2. Holcocera titanica, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 18.) 
Antennae cinereous, sprinkled with fuscous ; with a strong pecten at the base. Palpi cinereous, thickly 
spread with dark fuscous, except around the apex of the median joint and on its inner side. Head and 
Thorax hoary cinereous, sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings hoary cinereous, much shaded and sprinkled 
with fuscous, which tends to form indistinct longitudinal streaks; of these the darker, therefore some- 
what more conspicuous, are, one running outward from the flexus, but not quite reaching the middle of 
the fold, another along the median portion of the fold itself, and a diffused shade from before the middle 
of the costa, bent outward along the cell ; these and others, consisting of scarcely paler diffused streaky 
shading, are so ill-defined as to be scarcely recognisable in the general hoary and fuscous mixture of the 
coarse wing-clothing ; cilia of a slightly brownish grey tinge, with hoary speckling. vp. al. 26-28 mm. 
Hindwings and cilia pale bronzy brown. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs pale brownish, faintly 
sprinkled with fuscous on their outer side. 
Type Q (5863 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PT (33649) Mus. Wism. BM.] 
Hab. Mexico: oAxaca: Salina Cruz, VIT. 1906 (W. Schaus). Two specimens. 
8. Holcocera nephalia, sp. n. 
Prosodica nephalia Wism. Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 200 (1907) DN. 
Antennae bifasciculate ; basal joint not notched, widely clothed, a pecten beneath. Palpr cinereous, greyish 
brown externally. Head pale brownish cinereous. Thorax brownish cinereous, shading to greyish 
brown in front and on the tegulae. Forewings pale cinereous, speckled and shaded with greyish brown ; 
a band of the pale ground-colour at about one-third is rectangulate outward on the cell, speckled with 
but not shaded as is the basal portion before it; at its outer edge the brown shading is 
ty and is thence diffused and diluted outward, in it are two scarcely 
spots, one in the middle of the fold and one on the cell opposite to 
greyish brown, 
considerably increased in intensi 
perceptible darker, almost fuscous, 
