90 Ml-. W. Scliaus on 



base heliind the coxre, but are otherwise like those of rufipes ; 

 the raesosternum has a few microscopic punctures, no stria 

 divides it from the metasternum, but the suture is indicated 

 by 8 or 10 small points. H. rufipes, Payk., has the meso- 

 sternum clearly punctate and a strong creaulate stria at the 

 metasternal suture^ and the prosternal striae almost reach 

 the base. 



Hab. Japan, I found it on the sand-dunes at Enoshima 

 in May 1880. 



XII. — New Species of ILderocera from Costa Rica. — IX. 

 By W. SciiAus, F.Z.S. 



I AM greatly indebted to Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., for 

 the descriptions of new genera appearing in this paper. 



Noctuidae. 

 Euxoa cartagensis, sp. n. 



(^ . Palpi black, irrorated with brown ; head, collar, and 

 thorax brown, tinged with violaceous, the collar with a 

 fuscous transverse line. Abdomen fuscous brown. Fore 

 wings buff-brown ; the lines brown-black ; basal and sub- 

 basal geminate dentate lines to below cell; antemedial gemi- 

 nate, interrupted, outwardly oblique from median to sub- 

 median, outangled below submedian ; a darker annular spot 

 coalesces with line below cell ; cell filled in with dark brown 

 from antemedial to reniform, interrupted by the large round 

 orbicular close to subcostal ; reniform large, outlined in buff 

 and tilled in with dark brown and fuscous-grey scales ; post- 

 medial fine, lunular, the points projecting on veins ; the sub- 

 terminal fine, preceded by a dark brown shade on costa, and 

 dark dashes between veins from 6 to fold, followed by a fine 

 buff line and fuscous-grey terminal shadings except at apex. 

 Hind wings whitish at base; veins and outer half fuscous 

 brown. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



IJah. Cartago, Juan Vinas. 



Episilia cirphioides, sp. n. 



S - Palpi dark brown, tipped with whitish buff. Head and 

 thorax wliitish buff ; collar olive-grey in front, separated 



