518 Mr. W. Schaus on 



with fuscous and irrorated with grey-brown ; fuscous discal 

 spots and postmedial line ; termen and inner margin of fore 

 wing narrowly pale, inner margin of hind wings broadly so; 

 a fine dark terminal line. 



Expanse 44 ram. 



Hab. Poas. 



Argidia aujidia, sp. n. 



^ . Palpi deep olive-yellow. Head, collar, and thorax 

 dark greyish brown, mottled with fine lilacine hairs ; abdomen 

 above brighter, underneath reddish orange. Fore legs brown 

 irrorated with lilacine; hind tibia with long tufts of yellow- 

 brown hairs. Wings pale olive-brown. Fore wings : base 

 to medial line shaded with lilacine grey; antemedial fine, 

 dark brown, shaded with lilacine, outbent on costa, inset on 

 subcostal, outwardly curved to submedian, and deeply out- 

 curved on inner margin ; orbicular dull lilacine, finely circled 

 with dark brown ; medial line broad on costa, dark brown, 

 suffusing with reniform, finer, fuscous, inbent to submedian, 

 and outcurved on inner margin; reniform very large, like a 

 large "8," finely outlined in darker brown; costa above 

 reniform and towards apex tinged with roseate lilacine ; 

 outer line oblique from costa, crossing a dull brown shade, 

 on which it is darker marked, below vein 7 inbent, fine, and 

 nearly black ; postmedial space to outer line brighter brown ; 

 outer line closely followed from vein 6 to inner margin by a 

 fuscous line on a pale ground; subterminal indistinct, 

 dentate lunular, marked by black spots between veins from 

 3-6. Hind wings : a fuscous medial line ; outer line as on 

 fore wings; outer margin broadly irrorated with lilacine; 

 subterminal whitish points ; termen narrowly and cilia very 

 dark brown. Fore wings below olive ; costa to outer line 

 broadly lilacine, then to apex orange-brown ; medial line 

 nearly straight; outer line fine, purple-black; a subterminal 

 fine line ; inner margin yellowish ; orbicular and reniform 

 lilacine. Hind wings below orange, finely irrorated with 

 dull brown ; a medial black line ; a postmedial black and 

 purple-red line ; a fine black subterminal line. 



Expanse 48 mm. 



Female : body and wings yellow-brown tinged with 

 roseate, the lilacine shadings more roseate ; the lines as in 

 male. Underneath brighter than male, especially the fore 

 wings. 



Expanse 49 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas, Sitio. 



