380 Mr. W. Scliaus on 



medial, mecli;il, and subterminal line ; a dark discal point ; 

 the terminal line black. 



Expanse 19 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas. 



Eupithecia vilis, sp. n. 



$ . Body dark grey ; segmental black lines on abdomen. 

 Fore wings greyish brown, irrorated with fuscous brown ; 

 lines mostly very indistinct and not traceable; anteraedial 

 apparently outcurved ; a dark spot medially on costa and 

 dark shade on discocellular ; the median shaded with buff 

 between veins 3 and 4 ; postmedial wavily outcurved, puncti- 

 form on veins, followed by a fine whitish-grey line, and 

 another series o£ dark points ; subterminal distinct, whitish, 

 lunular dentate ; terminal dark grey triangular shadings, but 

 no line ; cilia mottled with whitish. Hind wings similar ; 

 veins 2 and 3 more darkly irrorated ; the lines somewhat 

 punctiform. "Wings, below paler, without irrorations, the 

 lines faintly marked ; a terminal darker shade on hind wings. 



Expanse 19 mm. 



Hab. Poas. 



Nearest E. summissa, Schaus, but with a brown tinge ; the 

 discocellular more vertical. 



Eupithecia viperea, sp. n. 



? . Body greyish, with darker irrorations ; a transverse 

 black line on second segment of abdomen. Fore wings 

 greyish, more darkly irrorated, base of costa fuscous ; traces 

 of fine darker lines ; a broad, outcurved, wavy black fascia 

 just before middle edged with W'hitish grey ; a dark streak on 

 discocellular; postmedial line whitish, inwardly shaded with 

 dark brown, outwardly edged by a fine dark line and then 

 with light brown and anotlier fine dark line ; the subcostal 

 and all the veins terminally light brown ; subterminal white, 

 interrupted by veins and partly shaded with dark browu ; 

 a terminal dark line. Hind uings : a dark streak on disco- 

 cellular; traces of lines, well marked on inner margin ; the 

 subterminal better defined, fuscous grey, dentate ; a terminal 

 dark shade interrupted by line.- Wings below brownish 

 white ; dark streaks on discocellular. Fore wungs : the post- 

 medial and subterminal outcurved, browaiish. Hind wings : 

 an antemedial, medial, and two postmedial lines ; a sub- 

 terminal lunular line. Easily distinguished from E. confexta, 

 Schs., by the veins on fore wings being all light brown 



