Heterocera from Costa Rica. 517 



defining a postmedial dark line, and fainter subterminal 

 shade. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Hab. Carillo, Sixola. 



Obroatis gatena, sp. n. 



cJ . Palpi purplish brown, streaked above with red. Head, 

 collar, and thorax brown tinged with lilacine. Abdomen 

 above dull grey shaded with lilacine brown hairs ; under- 

 neath pale red. Legs with pale red hairs ; the tarsi dark 

 brown circled with white. Wings roseate brown with 

 scattered black irrorations. Fore wings : orbicular and 

 renitorm small, greenish grey finely edged with brown and 

 faint lilacine white lines ; postmedial line, fuscous, oblique 

 from costa, inbent from above vein 5 to middle of inner 

 margin ; termen from above vein 3 broadly dark shaded 

 and more thickly irrorated with black; marginal white 

 points connected by a deeply lunular black line. Hind 

 wings : a straight medial line ; faint white marginal points, 

 but without connecting line. Wings below shaded with pale 

 red, especially on veins ; black discal points ; cilia fuscous 

 brown. Fore wings : inner margin greyish white ; a dark 

 medial line on inner mai'gin ; a faint lunular outer line. 

 Hind wings : a dark medial line. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Uab. Sixola. 



Near 0. negata, Wlk. 



Obroatis ? gargilius^ sp. n. 



^ . Palpi fuscous grey. Head dark brown. Collar and 

 thorux greyish brown tinged with reddish. Abdomen 

 brownish grey. Fore wings : base lilacine with a few 

 darker irrorations ; costa reddish brown ; a fine, dark brown 

 antemedial line, outcurved on costa, vertical below cell ; 

 medial space reddish brown, darkest towards postmedial line ; 

 a dark point as orbicular; reniform narrow, outlined in dark 

 brown ; postmedial line outbent on costa, nearly vertical 

 from vein 6 to inner margin, lilacine, edged with fuscous 

 brown which expands outwardly to apex ; outer margin 

 lilacine, irrorated with fuscous brown and crossed by brown 

 veins; a terminal fine lunular line; cilia brownish grey; 

 some subterminal white scales above and below vein 5. 

 Hind wings brownish grey ; a postmedial fuscous line, partly 

 geminate ; a broad terminal fuscous shade ; the veins out- 

 wardly irrorated with brown. Wings below buff, shaded 



