Ileierocera from Custa Rica. 19 



barely reaching thorax, smoothly scaled. Fore farsi partly 

 concealed by long process from base. Fore wings narrow; vein 

 •3 (Voni before lower angle; A and 5 from lower angle; G Ironi 

 near npper angle ; 7 from upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked from 

 end of cell. Hind wings narrow; anal angle truncated from 

 vein 2 ; veins 3 and 4 and G and 7 shortly stalked; vein 5 

 from near lower angle. 



Type of genus, Metacinia Umonalis, Schs. 



Metaclnia Umonalis^ sp. n. 



?. Palpi upcurved, reaching well above head; antennas 

 thiidy ciliated. Head and thorax dark lilacine brown ; abdo- 

 men fuscous brown. Fore wnngs lilacine brown, shading to 

 dull reddish brown before terminal space, which is thickly 

 irrorated with white, inwardly limited by a lunular sub- 

 terminal white line, and outwardly limited by a fuscous 

 dentate lunular line ; a fine reddish-brown antemedial line ; 

 a line vertical medial shade and a fine dentate lunular post- 

 medial line, also vertical ; a black point as orbicular; a white 

 point as reniform ; cilia fuscous grey mottled witii white. 

 Hind wings fuscous brown ; a subterrainal whitish line at 

 anal angle ; a terminal fuscous line. Fore wings below 

 fuscous grey, hind wings paler ; an indistinct darker post- 

 medial line ; a pale subtermiual line inwardly darker shaded. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Ilab. Limon, Sixola, Juan Vinas. 



A male I'rom French Guiana only differs in having the 

 third joint of palpi a trifle longer. Tliis is figured in the 

 'Biulogia' as theroalis, Wlk., but is not that species, which 

 also differs in neuration. 



Drepanopalpia arenacea, sp. n. 



(J . Palpi outwardly pale lilacine brown, with a line of 

 black irrorations along upper edge, the tufts on third joint 

 pale yellowish. Head, collar, and thorax pale lilacine-brown 

 thinly irrorated with black. Abdomen paler, irrorated with 

 dark brown, more thickly on terminal segments. Fore 

 wings pale lilacine brown with some pale orange-brown 

 shadings, and a few scattered dark scales ; traces of a very 

 fine, irregular antemedial line; reniform pale brown with 

 some black irrorations ; a tine dark postmedial lunular line, 

 slightly incurved below vein 3; termen broadly dark lilacine 

 grey, preceded by a faint brownish shade and crosseii by a 

 row ot subtermiual pale points on veins; a terminal lunular 

 black line. Hiud wings whitish, with some brown irrorations 



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