Ilelerocera from Cosla Rica. G71 



wlilto. Abdomen above pale brown. Fore wing-s silvery 

 white; costa browri-<;rey ; medial space fuscous brown, ex- 

 panding outwardly along vtin 5 shortly, and then obliquely 

 curved to toniiis; two fuscous-brown outer lines from costa, 

 sufi'usiug at vein 2; a terminal yellow line from below apex 

 to mar tornus, where it is shortly inbent. Hind wings : 

 base silvery white; a medial fuscous-brown shade, followed 

 by a white spot and dense fuscous-brown irrorations to 

 terminal spots, which are black, edged with metallic roseate 

 and lilaciiie scales ; an orange-brown terminal shade near 

 anal angle. 



Expanse 15 mm. 



JJdb. Juan Yiuas. 



Argyractis auspicataUs^ sp. n. 

 ?. Palpi buff, tipped with white. Body white; collar 

 outwardly shaded with brown; thorax and abdomen irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wings white ; basal half of costa and 

 ])art of cell thickly irrorated with brown, forming a dark 

 shade with its hind edge somewhat curved, the inner margin 

 with only a few brown scales, the whole limited by a white 

 line, broad',est below cell, and preceded on inner margin by a 

 small yellowish spot ; a medial brown line from costa, not 

 reaching median, followed by a buff shade on costa and some 

 brown irrorations below it ; discocellular defined by two 

 oblique brown lines ; a brown shade beyond cell suffusing 

 with postraedial line, which is slightly outbent from costa to 

 vein 3 ; postmedial space below cell and vein 3 yellow-buff, 

 interrupted by a white shade on inner margin ; an oblique 

 silvery white streak from below discocellular to inner margin 

 before tornus and an ojjalescent spot at tornus; postmedial 

 line followed from costa by a silvery-white streak ; the sub- 

 terminal brown from costa to vein 6, then yellow-buff, 

 followed by a silvery-white line to below vein 2, finely 

 edged with fuscous; termen yellow-buff; cilia grey. Hind 

 wings white ; a medial yellow-buff spot, not reaching below 

 vein 2, followed by opalescent white and preceded by a few 

 brown scales in cell ; a postmedial yellow-buff line expanding 

 towards costa and extending to termen below vein 2; a sub- 

 terminal white space, crossed by a fine wavy yellow-buff 

 line from near apex to vein 5 ; three or four terminal black 

 spots outwardly edged and separated by silvery scaling, also 

 preceded by a black line, forming two deep lunules above 

 each spot ; a tine brown streak near inner margin and small 

 brown spot near angle. 



Expanse 16-28 mm. 



llab. Juan Vinas, Tuis, Esperanza, Guapiles. 



