Heterocerajrom Costa Rica. 599 



inner margin ; a similar medial shade faintly outcurved, 

 crossing the black discal point ; an outer series of white 

 points, the largest on costa connected by a faint darker 

 brown line partly irrorated with white, and outcurved on 

 veins 3 and 4 ; terminal white points on veins. Hind 

 wings : an antemedial purplish-brown line, straight from 

 costa to below cell, then inbent to inner margin ; an outer 

 row of white points also outcurved on 3 and 4, and terminal 

 points as on fore wings. Fore wings below roseate brown ; 

 a dark outer line angled below vein 4; a small discal point. 

 Hind wings below yellowish irrorated with purple on outer 

 margin ; a large discal point ; an outer violaceous line, 

 broader than on fore wings, and angled below vein 4. 



Expanse 31 ram. 



Hab. Poas. 



Allied to G^nothalia anagogaria, Warr. 



Alana jncturata, sp. n. 



(^ . Palpi and frons brown ; antennse and vertex grey ; 

 back of head and collar lilacine brown; thorax grey ; abdo- 

 men grey shaded with brown dorsally. Fore wings grey, 

 thinly striated with fuscous ; a heavy reddish-brown ante- 

 medial line, angled below subcostal; a faint medial brownish 

 shade, followed by a triangular reddish-brown spot, its apex 

 extending on vein 5 ; a buff shade follows this spot towards 

 apex and is crossed by a reddish-brown postmedial line, only 

 faintly visible below vein 5 ; a subterminal black line from 

 vein 5 to costa, preceded by a reddish-brown shade ; a faint 

 terminal dark line. Hind wings light reddish brown tinged 

 with grey at base and with a h\v greyish strise ; a dark 

 brown antemedial line, an ochreous discal point, a reddish- 

 brown medial line, and a faint subterminal line. Under- 

 neath whitish grey ; a broad marginal fuscous shade. The 

 sexes similar. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



HaO. Sixola, Esperanza. 



MelanolopMa conspicua, sp. n. 



(^ . Palpibuff shaded with brown laterally ; vertex whitish 

 buff; thorax, abdomen, and wings buff faintly tinged with 

 green ; abdomen with brownish dorsal spots and transverse 

 shades. Fore wings : the margins with fuscous strise ; 

 a fine dark antemedial line followed by a dark point on 

 median vein ; a broad fuscous medial line, somewhat sinuous 

 and inbent ; the postmedial fuscous, finely luuular, forming 



