Heterocera from Costa Rica, 239 



Erupa invulella, sp. n. 



S. Palpi, head, collar, and thorax brown. Abdomen pale 

 buff, with a few darker irrorations. Fore wings whitish, 

 thickly irrorated with brown ; a faint subbasal darker shade ; 

 an inangled white line in cell medially ; an oblique white 

 line on discocellular, interrupted and continuing to inner 

 margin before middle, outwardly shaded with darker brown ; 

 a thick subterminal white line, edged with darker brown and 

 not quite straight ; a terminal darker line. Hind wings 

 thinly scaled, brownish yellow. Wings below thinly scaled 

 brownish yellow ; some terminal dark spots. Fore wings : 

 the subterminal line faintly indicated by darker shadings. 

 Hind wings: a faint discal point; a postmedial finely lunular 

 dark line ; a faint subterminal shade. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



Ilab. Sixola, Carillo, Juan Vinas. 



Erupa pravella, sp. n. 



$ . Palpi, head, and collar dark reddish brown. Thorax 

 dark purple-brown, the patagia tipped with white. Abdomen 

 above brown, partly shaded dorsally with purplish brown. 

 Fore wings purplish brown, opalescent ; a medial wavy 

 black line, somewhat curved on costa and preceded by some 

 lilacine scales ; a brown-black outer coarse line, surmounted 

 by a white spot on costa and with its outer edge somewhat 

 dentate ; an interrupted terminal white line, thickest at apex. 

 Hind wings brown, darker beyond a vague postmedial 

 fuscous shade. The outer margins of wings are slightly 

 incurved below apices, then well rounded. Wings below 

 brown, shaded with fuscous to near termen ; an outer darker 

 shade. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Hab. Sitio. 



Near Erupa ruptiltneella, Hmpsn. 



Flatytes thy nella, sp. n. 



? . Palpi outwardly light brown, inwardly pale buff. 

 Head white, with a medial light brown line. Collar light 

 brown, dorsally whitish. Thorax and abdomen light brown. 

 Fore wings whitish buff ; light brown streaks on costa, in 

 and below cell, and on interspaces; a whitish line above 

 submedian from base to just beyond middle, marked by a 

 brown point medially ; a black point at end of cell; faintly 

 darker shades on intervenal streaks forming a postmedial 



