42S ^^^'- ^^^' Scliaus on 



medial darker, and soraewliat interrupted by ground-colonr 

 and stripe. 



Expanse 43 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas. 



Can be easily distinguished from other Costa Rican species 

 of Nipteria by whiter colour and longer pectinations of 

 antennje. 



Nelo tamfana, sp. n, 



^ . Body above black ; some white irrorations on frons ; 

 a small orange-red spot medially on collar, and a large spot 

 on shouklers ; abdomen below white with segmental black 

 lines; white streaks on legs. Wings black. Fore wings : 

 a large reddish-orange space from near base to beyond 

 middle, leaving costal and inner margins narrowly black. 

 Hind wings: a large reddish-orange spot, slightly more 

 remote from base, leaving the costa more broadly black, ajui 

 with a black streak on median and vein 2 ; a small orange 

 spot on costa before apex. Fore wings below with the 

 orange space paler ; a wiiite streak at base of costa ; outer 

 margin with interspaces at apex grey-black ; a white streak 

 between veins 3 and 4. Hind wings below black-brown, the 

 veins darker, the markings creamy white ; a costal and 

 subcostal streak at base ; a streak at end of cell above 

 median ; a streak from cell to termen between 3 and 4 ; a 

 spot beyond cell from 4-6 ; a round spot on costa befoie 

 apex; a long streak above inner margin. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Ilab. Juan Vinas, El SItio. 



Near A', chrysomehiy Btl., the underside quite different. 



Oospiln emiuens, sp. n. 



^ . Pal})i and head lilacine brown, the former fringed with 

 white ; vertex behind, and collar in front, white ; collar 

 behind and patagia green ; thorax and base of abdomen 

 brownish buff; abdomen otherwise lilacine buff, thinly 

 irrorated with black and with fine darker dorsal tut'ts ; 

 termin;,l segment, body laterally, and underneath white ; 

 legs streaked with roseate brown. Fore wings green ; a 

 black point on discocellular just within a buff space which 

 extends to inner margin before middle, and to outer margin 

 at vein 2, crossed by darker strife, and edged with purple 

 along green portion ; a similar space terminally from vein 4 

 to apex, inwardly edged by a curved purplish line ; a terminal 

 purplish line from vein 2-4, and terminal brown shades from 



