fleleroccra from Costa Uica. bo 



Megalopygids. 

 .Mt(/ah>j>i/<je cosfa7-icensi's, sp. n. 



Body iloisally wliitisli yellow, laterally on collar, thorax, 

 and abdomen shaded with brownisii butt" ; frons brownish ; 

 throat black. Fore wings brown, darkest at base, paler 

 ])OstinedialIy, lading into the broad whitish-yellow outer 

 margin; l)lack and whitish streaks on cosfa medially and in 

 basal halt ot" cell ; postmedial small, triangular, whitish spots 

 inwardly oblique i'rom vein 5; a brown shade at veins 7 

 and 8. Hind wings whitish yellow, faintly darker shaded 

 below cell. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Ildl). Tuis, Sixola, Juan Vinas. 



Probably only a race of J/, ovnata^ Druce, the wings biiiig 

 rather more pointed and brighter coloured. 



Meyalopuge torva, sp. n. 



cJ. Frons btiff-brown, shaded with fuscous medially. 

 Vertex white. Collar black-brown. Thorax brown, darkest 

 medially, with two large transverse white Sj)Ots in front. 

 Abdomen banded black and whitish buff"; two large dark 

 brown dorsal tufts at base. Fore wings fuscous grey tinged 

 with brown ; a white patch at base between median and 

 submedian containing a fuscous streak ; a white streak in 

 cell ; postmedial space white, outwardly dentate between 

 veins with whitish streaks on veins, and dark streaks between 

 the veins, not reaciiing the angles ; dark expanding shadings 

 to the white streaks on veins, chiefly noticeable towards apex. 

 Hind wings grey-brown, the veins darker. 



Expanse 50 mm. 



IJab. Juan Vinas, Tuis. 



Mesoscia dyari, sp. n. 



cJ . Frons dark brown; vertex grey-brown. Collar 

 yellowish white, shaded with black-brown in front. Thorax 

 white, the patagia dorsally edged with fuscous brown. 

 Abdomen fuscous brown above and ventrally, sublaterally 

 whitish. Fore wings: the costal edge fuscous brown, below 

 it for two-thirds a broad yellowish-white shade, extending at 

 base to inner margin ; medial space fuscous brown, extending 

 to apex and outer margin below submedian, where it is met 

 by a paler grey-brown terminal broad shade, which does not 

 extend above vein 4 ; outer space otherwise yellowish white, 

 its inner edge oblique from apex to vein 5, then incurved, 



