Heterocera from Costa Rica. 581 



brown above, with subdorsal green tufts, large on second 

 segment; last two segments paler ; ventrally whitish. Fore 

 wings dark green ; a large brown space from end of cell, not 

 reaching costa, extending to vein 2, and limited by a sub- 

 terminal darker brown irregular and angular shade, crossed 

 by the brown discocellular streak, and a geminate postmedial 

 lunular line ; some fine black basal lines ; at a third from 

 base on costa a deeply dentate, geminate, dark line to middle 

 of inner margin ; a broad dark brown streak on basal half of 

 inner margin ; the subterminal preceded on inner margin by 

 a short white streak ; an interrupted terminal black streak; 

 dark spots on fringe at ends of veins. Hind wings white ; 

 the costa broadly brown, crossed by a dark postmedial shade 

 and a pale subterminal line; the inner margin tinged broadly 

 with dark buff ; a terminal dark line ; fringe buff, green at 

 apex. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



$ . The outer margin of hind wings fuscous. 



Expanse 60 mm. 



llab. Juan Vinas, Tuis, Sixola. 



This fine species is named after Mr. W. E. Mullins, 

 manager of the northern railway of Costa Rica, to whom 1 

 am greatly indebted for innumerable kindnesses. 



Heterocampa editha, sp. n. 



Legs reddish brown and buff, streaked in front with dark 

 brown and green; fore coxas steel-grey. Palpi green, in 

 front, dark reddish brown behind and laterally. Head 

 greenish. Collar and thorax brown, the patagia shaded with 

 green. Abdomen light reddish brown above, a large blackish 

 subdorsal tuft at base. Fore wings pale green ; the basal 

 third dark violaceous brown, mottled with green and black, 

 limited by a reddish-brown line, slightly oblique outwardly 

 from costa, and closely followed by an irregular fine darker 

 line ; a fine, dark, dentate medial shade, interrupted by an 

 irregular pale buff spot at end of cell, containing two dark 

 points on discocellular; a postmedial, reddish-brown, lunular, 

 partly geminate line ; an oblique greyish shade from below 

 end of cell to outer margin just above tornus j a dark shade 

 on costa from postmedial to near apex, with four pale points.; 

 a subterminal fine shade, dark near costa, interrupted below 

 vein 4, consisting of two dark spots above submedian, 

 and followed by a dark grey- black shade above vein 4 ; a 

 marginal brown shade. Hind wings yellowish white, the 

 veins and margins shaded with light reddish brown ; a faint 



