112 Mr. W. Scliaug on 



Female wings normal. Fore wings : the reniform space 

 whitish buff, surmounted by a white spot on costa ; the 

 postmedial geminate line filled in with white, and followed 

 below vein 3 by a greyish-buff shade. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Sixola, Banana River. 



The female is very much like Lithacodia veternosa^ Schs., 

 but much smaller. 



Parangitia temper ata, sp. n. 



? . Palpi, head, collar, and thorax buff; the patagia out- 

 wardly shaded with dark brown. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Fore wings : the medial area buff shaded with brown, 

 darkest near postmedial line, leaving the base and inner 

 margin fuscous and dark grey, tinged with lilacine, separated 

 by a vague fuscous antemedial line, straight from costa to 

 near submedian, curved and upturned below reniform, then 

 outbent to postmedial ; orbicular a dark brown spot sur- 

 rounded by lilacine buff; the reniform consisting of a brown 

 streak on discocellular edged with lilacine buff ; the post- 

 medial black, geminate, outcurved, followed by a whitish 

 shade from costa to vein 6, and by dark grey shadings 

 below 6 ; a subterminal whitish line, preceded by a dark 

 velvety streak below costa, and interrupted between 3 and 6 

 by a dark grey terminal shade. Hind wings dark brown, 

 shaded with fuscous on outer margin ; cilia reddish buff. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas, Tuis. 



Parangitia guanacaste, sp. n. 



<J . Head lilacine buff. Collar medially and thorax buff ; 

 collar outwardly and patagia dark brown and fuscous. 

 Abdomen above brown with subdorsal buff lines ; a lateral 

 whitish-grey streak. Fore wings : the base brown, limited 

 by an oblique antemedial black line to middle of inner 

 margin, and crossed by basal black shade to submedian ; 

 medial space grey, crossed by a fuscous-grey line oblique 

 from costa between orbicular and reniform, angled below the 

 latter and incurved to inner margin; the orbicular and reni- 

 form outlined with fuscous grey ; the postmedial line black, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, incurved and finely dentate, 

 parallel with medial line, followed by a brown line, from 

 costa to vein 4, and another black line which coalesces with a 

 terminal black shade between 3 and 5 ; some brown siiading 

 above tornus; subterminal black scales forming a dentate 



