Heterocera from Costa Rica. 571 



costa and veins black, and some black basally below cell ; 

 the inner margin at base clearer lilacine brown, limited by a 

 wavy black line, closely followed by a white spot at end of 

 cell ; the outer portion of wing lilacine grey thickly irrorated 

 with light brown ; the postmedial line very faint, dark, in- 

 curved beyond cell and with white points on veins; the sub- 

 terminal line broken, very faint and indistinct. Hind wings : 

 the costal margin brown shaded with black, limited by a paler 

 line ; the basal area below cell to near tornus brown ; the 

 outer margin broadly similar to fore wings. Underneath 

 light brown ; a blackish medial line on costal margin of hind 

 wings. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. Sixola ; Sept. Guapiles. 



Claphe sonia, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax brown irrorated with buff scales. 

 Abdomen brown, with a darker subdorsal tuft at base. Fore 

 wings brown irrorated with buff, and darkest on medial space 

 and outer margin; small whitish basal spots; dark subbasal 

 spots on costa and inner margin ; the antemedial wavy, dark 

 brown, inwardly edged with whitish ; an irregular black spot 

 at end of cell ; the postmedial finely dentate, curved around 

 cell, partly edged outwardly with white, and followed by a 

 lunular buff outer line ; a buff streak between veins 4 and 5 ; 

 subterminal dark brown spots, outwardly edged by curved 

 buff lines, and preceded between veins 5 and 7 by lilacine 

 white patches, and above vein 7 by a dark streak; fringe 

 brown and buff. Hind wings brown, the costal margin 

 mottled with grey and spotted with darker brown ; a short 

 whitish subterminal line at apex. The costal margin of 

 hind wings short, slightly excavated, then oblique to vein 6 ; 

 beyond which it is rounded. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Sixola ; Sept. Juan Vinas, La Florida. 



Claphe dormia, sp. n. 



<$ . Body reddish brown, with some darker mottlings on 

 collar and thorax. Fore wings : the base, cell, and costa to 

 postmedial, a shade from cell to outer margin, and a broad 

 streak on costa before apex olivaceous brown, otherwise 

 whitish grey, irrorated with darker scales ; an antemedial 

 and a postmedial row of whitish spots on veins, connected by 

 a fine dark line ; a subterminal irregular row of small dark 



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