Ilcterocerafrom Costa Rica. 99 



Fore wings below fuscous ; the cosfca and outer margiu 

 reddisli ; subterniiual white points and a short postniedial 

 white line on costa. Hind wings below : the costal half 

 reddish ; the inner half white ; a fuscous spot on discocellular ; 

 a terminal and two dark streaks above it at anal angle. 



Expanse 21 millim. 



Hab. Avangarez. 



Named aft^T Mr. Carmlol, who kindij gave me the 

 specimen. 



LOPHOMYRA, gen. nov. 



Proboscis rather short and slight ; palpi upturned, second 

 joint to vertex of head, third short ; t'rons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennse of male laminate. Thorax clothed 

 cliieily with scales, the pro- and metathorax with small 

 spreading crest; til)iffi fringed with long hair and scales; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Neuration 

 normal. 



Belongs to the Xylomyges group. 



Lophomyra tacita, sp. n. 



Head, collar, and thorax mottled bufF-brown, grey, and 

 lilacine white. Abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wings : 

 basal third of costa lilacine, with black irrorations at base, 

 medially shaded with light brown ; outer part whitish, irro- 

 rated with yellowish green ; a lilacine shade in middle of 

 cell, and a lilacine shade below it except close to end of cell, 

 where there is some greenish yellow edged with light reddish 

 brown; a fuscous line below median to antemedial, which is 

 deeply outcurved, ending in some fuscous scales above sub- 

 median ; tiie inner margin broadly greenish yellow ; a white 

 streak on median at end of cell ; a median fuscous shade 

 oblique from costa, angled at vein 3, and interrupted on sub- 

 median ; postmedial space from vein 8 to vein 2 lilacine, 

 followed by a deeply dentate tine dark line, punctiform on 

 ou^er angles, the line outwardly shaded witli white, and also 

 inwardly on veins 3 and 4 ; a fuscous line along vein 5; a 

 snbterminal fuscous-grey shade between 5 and 7, and a broad 

 3^ellovvish-green shade from vein 4 to inner margin ; the 

 termen whitish, shaded with grey above vein 2 ; a terminal 

 dark line; cilia light golden brown. Hind wings lilacine 

 brown. Hind wings below whitish, irrorated with butF on 

 costa ; a deeply dentate dark subterrainal Hue from costa to 

 below vein 6 and points on veins 2-4. 



Expanse 31 mm. 



Ilab. Sixola, Juan Vinas, 



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