Heterocera from Costa Rica. 407 



Calidota quadripunctata, sp. n. 



Palpi and body below brown. Legs brown; the coxaj 

 yellow. Irons dark brown. Vertex and collar buff, the 

 former with a single black spot, the latter with two black 

 spots lhorax light brown. Abdomen above yellow, with 

 a subdorsal row of black spots and a brownish tuft near base 

 in manes light brown ; a small black spot at end of cell and 

 three spots beyond cell, the two spots between veins 4 and 6 

 much larger than the spot between 3 and 4. Secondaries 

 pale greyish brown, the discal area thinly scaled. 



Expanse 49 mm. 



Hab. Avangarez ; July. 



Allied to G. rema, Dogn., but quite distinct. 



Euchcetes mitis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax grey ; a roseate line behind head. Leo- s 

 greyish brown ; tore coxa streaked with roseate. Abdomen 

 roseate above, with subdorsal and lateral row of black spots 

 the ventral surface grey. Fore wings grey. Hind wings 

 whitish in the male, dark grey in the female. 



Expanse, <$ 33, ? 41 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas, El Sitio. 



This is subsp. 2 of Euchcetes expressa, Edw., in the 

 Catalogue of Lepidoptera PhalEeme.' 



Lymantriadae. 

 Eloria torrida, sp. n. 

 Body and legs creamy white. Wings white, thinly scaled. 

 Primaries : the costa finely dark brown ; the apex and outer 

 margin above vein 4 narrowly brown. Underneath similar, 

 with the costa more broadly brown. 

 Expanse 32 mm. 

 Hab. JSixoIa River, Esperanza, La Florida. 



Eloria sixola, sp. n. 



Head and collar yellow. Legs streaked with dark brown 

 and grey. Body whitish, thinly scaled; some yellow hairs 

 on patagia Wings white, thinly scaled, the veins more 

 heavily scaled. Primaries : the costa finely brown. Under 

 neath the costa of primaries narrowly, the outer margin and 

 apex broadly brown, narrowing at tornus. 



Expanse, <J , 44-46 mm. 



Bab. Sixola River; April. 



