24 Mr. W. Scliiius on 



wings: veins 3 and A, and 6 and 7, from angles; 5 from 

 near lower angle. 



Type of genus, Tarista morosa, Schs. 



Tarista morosa, sp. n. 



^ . Palpi dark brown. Head, collar, and thorax dark 

 purplish brown. Abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wings 

 purplish brown ; antemedial fine, lunular, outbent, black ; 

 orbicular yellow-brown circled with black ; a faint fuscous 

 medial line; reniform large, round, yellow-brown, containing 

 a curved black line near inner edge; postmedial dentate, 

 fuscous, indistinct ; a fine greyish subterminal line, sinuous 

 and partly dentate ; terminal fuscous streaks between veins, 

 ending in small points. Hind wings fuscous brown; a post- 

 medial black shade from vein 2 to inner margin where it 

 expands ; a faint subterminal line, edged with whitish scales 

 towards anal angle. Wings below fuscous ; black discal 

 points and postmedial line ; a subterminal line on hind 

 wings. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas. 



Tarista mfipalpis, sp. n. 



? . Palpi reddish, the joints tipped with white. Head, 

 collar, and thorax reddish brown. Abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wings reddish brown, darker shaded on interspaces beyond 

 medial line, and below vein 6 to margin ; antemedial darker 

 tinged, vertical, slightly outset below cell ; orbicular a black 

 point; medial line outcurved in cell; reniform fuscous 

 mottled with whitish-blue scales, similar irrorations scattered 

 over outer half of wing ; postmedial outcurved, sinuous ; a 

 subterminal bluish-white line, incurved opposite cell and on 

 inner margin, otherwise indistinct, followed at tornus and 

 between veins 4 and 7 by pale irrorations, which also form 

 an edging to the terminal fuscous line. Cilia yellow-buf£ 

 mottled with black. Hind wings fuscous ; a faint darker 

 postmedial and subterminal line ; some bluish-white scaling 

 before terminal black line. Hind wings below fuscous 

 brown irrorated with bluish white ; a black discal spot and 

 postmedial line ; a subterminal whitish line on both wings. 



Expanse 37 mm. 



Hab. Poas. 



In this species the palpi are longer than in male type of 

 genus, but the third joint is proportionately short ; on hind 

 wings veins 4 and 5 are stalked, 6 and 7 more shortly so. 



