Ihierocera from Costa Rica. 101 



coxa3 with wliite streak. Head oclireoiis spotted with 

 bhick ; the tVoiis bh\cki.sli with a few white scales. CoUar 

 hrowii-ldack, witli some ociiremi.s shading in front and 

 laterally. Thorax brownish blaek; a grey line on patagia. 

 Abdomen blue-black; a ventral row ol' white spots. Primaries 

 dark olive-brown ; tlie veins and a streak in cell and one 

 below it grey ; the apex broadly snowy-white. Secondaries 

 bluish black ; a scmihyaline streak below cell, slightly in it, 

 and also beyond it shortly. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



JIah. Tuis, Costa Rica. 



Bears a strong resemblance to Patreliura capij.<>f Cr. 



Aclt/tia alhistriga, sp. n. 



Head and tiiorax black ; white streaks on frons and 

 patagia ; the first joint of palpi, spots on head behind,, and 

 tegul.'e outwardly ochreous. Abdomen blue above, white 

 underneath. Coxaj white. Legs fuscous streaked with 

 white. Fore wings black ; the base of subcostal and sub- 

 median veins tinged with grey; some light blue scales at 

 base of inner margin ; an oblique white streak across disco- 

 cellular from subcostal vein to near tornus. Hind wings 

 blue-black ; a broad hyaline streak below cell ; a shcfrt streak 

 in end of cell, and a patch between veins 2 and 3 ; a short 

 strejik at base of inner margin. 



Expan>^e 31 mm. 



Hub. Gua})iles. 



Acjijrla vifrea, sp. n. 



Palpi black streaked with white; the first joint and neck 

 crimson. Frons black with lateral wliite streaks; back of 

 head red and black. Thorax and abdomen above dark blue 

 with subdorsal white streak; a lateral black line; venter 

 and coxae white. Legs fuscous streaked with white. Fore 

 wings black shot with dark blue; a light blue basal streak 

 above submedian; a portion of cell, a space between veins 2 

 and 3, and a broad streak below cell anil vein 2 to near outer 

 margin hyaline ; a postmedial band from vein 8 to vein 3 

 near termen, white, scmihyaline. Hind wingj hyaline ; the 

 veins and margins broadly black sliot with blue, brightest on 

 costal margin and at tornus. Fringe white at apox and 

 tornus. 



Expan.se 39 mm. 



Bab. Guapiles. 



