12 Mr. W. Schaus on 



Expanse, cJ 23 mm., ? 25 mm. 



JIab. Tuis, kSixola. Tlie (J type is from Surinam. 



The palpi of i'emale are unusually long. 



Palthis lineata, sp. n. 



(^ . Body and wings greyish brown. Fore wings : ante- 

 medial line angled on costa, medial straighter, both dark 

 brown and suHusing on inner margin ; the antemedial suf- 

 fusing in cell with orbicular ; renifoim dark velvety brown, 

 linear, cut by a whitish shade which extends to subterminal ; 

 postmedial very fine and indistinct, pale-edged and slightly 

 outcurved ; subterminal wavy, whitish ; a daik terminal line; 

 the inner margin is lobed just before middle. Hind wings : 

 costal margin whitish to outer line ; a faint discal spot ; 

 postmedial line not reaching costa; outer line outwardly 

 edged by a pale line. Wings below whitish thickly irrorated 

 with grey-brown, darkest before the subterminal white line; 

 a fuscous streak through cell of fore wing; a discal point and 

 postmedial line on hind wings. 



Female very similar to male : fore wings not lobed, the 

 lines tiner, more distinct ; the antemedial and medial further 

 apart, incurved, and not sufi'using ; the postmedial well 

 marked; the white subterminal preceded by a fuscous shade. 

 Hind wings: the postmedial line reaches costal margin. 



Expanse, ^ 20, ? 25 mm. 



Hab. Poas, Cartago, Laguna. 



Palthis Meronymus, sp. n. 



? . Body and fore Mings buff-white, thinly irrorated witli 

 brown ; abdomen with a black dorsal patch just beyond 

 middle. Fore wings : costa and termen shaded with lilacine 

 brown ; antemedial very tine and indistinct, wavy, outangled 

 in cell, marked by two fuscous spots on costa ; a black point 

 at either end of discocellular, narrowly surrounded by yellow- 

 brown scaling, preceded by a fine black line which expands 

 below cell to inner margin at middle, being heavily shaded 

 with fuscous outwardly ; postmedial very tine, somewhat 

 punctiform, outangled on costa, inbent, sinuous, limiting 

 medial shade below vein 2 ; subterminal sinuous, detined by 

 a broad pale brown shading inwardly and a fine fuscous line 

 outwardly; a terminal black line; a black spot at apex. 

 Hind wings whitish, with a few scattered dark scales; the 

 termen dull lilacine brown ; traces of postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. Fore wings below shaded with fuscous grey. 



