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THE ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 64. APRIL 1913. 



XLI. — Xew Species of Ileterocera from Costa Rica. — XXI. 



By W. ScHAUs; F.Z.S. 



[Concluded from p. 357.] 



Erateina delecta, sp. n. 



? . Botly black; longitudinal yellow-white lines on frons 

 and thorax ; transverse lines on collar and abdomen. Fore 

 wings fuscous brown ; basal third shaded with slate-grey ; 

 inner margin white ; a red streak along costa, not reaching 

 apex; a semihyaline white oval spot close beyond cell, 

 suffusing with a similar outbent and downcurved spot from 

 veins 4 to 2 ; cilia at apex tij>ped with white. Hind wings 

 black, almost entirely tilled with a semihyaline white spot^ 

 not touching margins, the veins crossing this spot more 

 heavily scaled ; a terminal small white S|)ot above vein 6, 

 and a larger spot including cilia between veins 6 and 5 ; 

 whitish mottlings on cilia otherwise. Fore wings below dark 

 red J inner margin greyish ; a yellow-white streak on basal 

 half of extreme costa, one below it and on median vein; a 

 white streak in cell ; a yellowish spot on costa to semiliyaline 

 spot. Hind wings: the margin dark red; whitish streaks 

 at base ; the costa narrowly yellow-wiiite ; the white space 

 shaded in front with purple-red, reaching and angled at 

 vein 6, behind edged with black; large terminal white spots 

 edged with fuscous brown, the largest spot between veins 5 

 and 6, only inwardly so edged, the winte extending through 

 cilia. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Ilab. Poas. 

 Ann. ct Mag. iV. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol xi. 25 



