Ilelerocera from Costa Rica. CG3 



Jocara ohsciiralis, sp. n. 



? . Head, collar, and thorax bufF-brown, the thorax tinged 

 with lilacine. Abdomen butl'-brown, with black segmental 

 shades. Fore wings mostly dark lilacine brown ; basal 

 third of costa mottled dark green and black; basal third of 

 cell, median and submcdian veins irrorated with black ; a 

 vague antemcdial black shade on costa and cell, and an inset 

 whitish point below cell ; costa medially and postmedially 

 greenish yellow, crossed by a duller green shade ; a yellowish 

 streak medially on submedian, partly shaded with grey 

 scales; a broad po.stniedial shade from below costa, oiitangled 

 and extending on veins, consisting of streaks only on veins 3, 

 2, and fold ; a subterminal yelluw-green streak on costa and 

 grey jtoints on veins, preceded by black points connected by 

 an almost imperceptible fuscous line, and followed by black 

 shades, suffusing towards and on costa ; ternien narrowly 

 yellowish green ; an interrupted terminal black line ; cilia 

 roseate, mottled with fuscous. Hind wings shaded with 

 fuscous brown, darkest terminall}- ; cilia whitish, shaded 

 with roseate towards apex, and with some fiiscous spots. 

 Fore wings below fuscous, the costa and teruien broadly 

 roseate brown ; a subterminal white spot on costa. Hind 

 wings below : a black point on discocellular at vein 6 ; outer 

 line and apex roseate brown, the former fine, obliquely curved 

 to vein 5, tlien punctiform. 



Exi)anse 28 mm. 



I fab. Juan Vinas. 



Near J. ferrifusalis, Hmpsn., which also occurs in Costa 

 Rica. 



Jocara suhcurvaliSj sp. n. 



^. Palpi brown. Head and collar buff, with a medial 

 brown line. Patagia and abdomen buff, the latter irrorated 

 with daik brown, and with pale segmental lines. Fore 

 wings buff-brown, shaded with dark brown, chiefly on outer 

 third ; base of costa and inner margin darker shaded ; a 

 broad antemedial fuscous shade, closely followed by the 

 medial fuscous-brown line, which is angled on subcostal ; a 

 fuscous streak on discocellular ; outer line fuscous, lunular 

 dentate, inbent on costa, outcurved below it, the veins before 

 and beyond it shortly streaked with reddish brown ; a sub- 

 terminal darker shade, widest on costa; a terminal black 

 line, interrupted by buff points on veins; some green shading 

 on termen ; cilia with fuscous spots. Hind wings dirty 



