Ileterocera from Costa Rica. 565 



on veins, those on 2, 3, and 5 extending within the sub- 

 terminal ; fringe light brown, with pale buff spots. Hind 

 wings light brown ; the costal margin broadly grey, with 

 wavy dark postmedial lines; a subterminal dark line to anal 

 angle ; terminal dark streaks on veins. Underneath light 

 brown, a subterminal dark line. 



Expanse 42 ram. 



J Jab. Juan Vinas, Tuis. 



Allied to C. teresina, Sens. 



Claphe torrida, sp. n. 



Body brown ; tufts on legs, a streak on head, collar, and 

 a subdorsal spot at base of abdomen dark violaceous brown. 

 Fore wings reddish brown, tinged with paler reddish brown 

 on costa and inner margin ; the outer margin pale buff, in- 

 wardly curved from costa before apex to near end of cell, 

 narrower near tornus, and irrorated with reddish brown below 

 vein 4 ; a subterminal row of dark steel-grey spots, and some 

 reddish brown on extreme margin ; fringe light brown, darkly 

 spotted from apex to vein 5, and below it with a dark 

 line ; some antemedial dark steel-grey spots, partly shaded 

 with whitish scales ; a broad dark steel-grey shade from 

 end of cell to costa ; a postmedial row of whitish spots on 

 veins, faintly connected by a lunular dark shade. Hind 

 wings reddish brown ; the outer margin irregularly buff- 

 brown ; a similar medial line. 



Expanse, <$ 29 mm., ? 38 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas ; June. Tuis. 



Allied to C. pompilus, Dogn. 



Claphe nebula, sp. n. 



<J . Head and thorax mottled dark brown and ochreous. 

 Abdomen ochreous brown ; a tuft of hairs similar to thorax 

 subdorsally at base ; anal liairs brown. Fore wings whitish 

 grey, thinly irrorated with brown ; the veins beyond post- 

 medial dark brown ; some brown at base ; a geminate, 

 irregularly curved antemedial line, olivaceous brown ; a 

 postmedial geminate line of the same colour, slightly curved 

 below costa, and finely wavy to middle of inner margin, the 

 outer portion of the line expanding into a broad shade below 

 vein 6 ; submarginal angled dull greyish spots between 

 veins 2 and 5, and 6 and 8 ; fringe olivaceous brown, with 

 pale spots at tips of veins. Hind wings whitish, the veins 

 terminally brown ; a fine dark medial line ; the inner margin 

 broadly covered with ochreous hairs. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



