Heterocera from Costa Rica. 291 



points ; terminal minute wliite points; cilia white tipped 

 witli pale grejish brown. 



Expanse, ^ 15 mm., ? 19 mm. 



IJab. Sixola, Guapiles, Juan Vinas, Avangarez. 



Belongs to 8ect. II. 



Racheospila interlucens, sp. n. 



(^ . Palpi reddish brown fringed with white. Frons reddish 

 brown crossed by a wiiite horizontal line ; vertex white, 

 edged with reddish brown behind. Collar and thorax green. 

 Abdomen above purple with short white segmental lines 

 dorsally. Wings green ; an outer row of short purple 

 streaks on veins ; a tine terminal roseate brown line ; cilia 

 roseate white, with faint darker shades at veins. Fore 

 wings : antemedial small purple spots on subcostal, median, 

 and submedian ; costa white shaded with brown at base, and 

 edged behind by a faint yellowish line ; a purple discal 

 point. Hind wings : a large semi-oval purple spot on inner 

 margin, edged with a broad yellowish shade on discal side. 

 Underneath greenish white. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas, Tuis. 



Racheospila jyorciiis, sp. n. 



Palpi purplish fringed with white below. Frons purplish. 

 Vertex green edged with white behind. Collar and patagia 

 green. Thorax and abdomen above roseate brown, partly 

 irrorated with black ; two white dorsal spots. Wings green ; 

 discal spots rather large, lilacine brown. Fore wings : costa 

 creamy white ; inner and outer lines paler green, edged on 

 medial side with darker green, the former slightly outbent, 

 the latter faintly outcurved and barely luuular, suffusing at 

 vein 2 with roseate brown blotch on inner margin, which is 

 downcurved to tornus, and upbent as a line on termen ; a 

 similar large spot on outer margin from just above vein 4 to 

 vein 8, its inner edge rounded ; both spots edged with 

 purple-brown and then narrowly with orange-yellow ; termen 

 green from below to above vein 4. Hind wings : termen 

 from apex to near vein 4, and from 2 to inner margin broadly 

 lilacine brown, edged as spots on fore wings, but connected 

 b}' a fine terminal purple line ; a narrow purplish streak 

 from anal blotch along inner margin, not reaching base. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



IJab. Juan Vinas. 



Near R./alUuv, Warr., but spots all larger. 



