232 Mr. W. Schaus on 



Apicia Jlexilis, sp. w. 



^ . Palpi and frons brown. Vertex grey. Collar grey, 

 mottled with fuscous. Tliorax and abdomen whitish buff, 

 the latter irrorated with black dorsally. Wings whitish buff 

 to outer line, then tinged with lilacine brown, thinly irrorated 

 with black scales, partly connected by dark strias, chiefly on 

 hind wings; black discal points. Fore wings: anteniedial 

 line very fine and indistinct, outangled, marked by a darker 

 point on subcostal ; outer line from apex to middle of inner 

 margin lilacine white, finely wavy, preceded by a dull green 

 shade and some black in places ; subterminal fuscous points 

 between veins 3 and 4, and 5 and 6. Hind wings : a post- 

 medial line near cell like outer line of fore wing ; a faint 

 subterminal lilacine line, preceded by a dull green shade. 

 Wings below dull whitish; a subterminal broad brovv^nish 

 shade suffusing with greyish termen at apices and at tornus 

 of fore wing. Fore wings heavily striated with brown ; 

 traces of a fuscous outer line; a black line on discocellular. 

 Hind wings : some strige on costal half ; a black discal 

 point. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Ilah. Carillo, Puriscal. 



Pyrinia rvjinaria, sp. n. 



S . Head purple-brown. Collar grey, irrorated with 

 purple-brown. Thorax and wings reddish brown. Abdomen 

 orange-brown. Wings with darker stripe ; outer margins 

 glossed with lilacine slate ; outer line dark reddish brown, 

 slightly wavy, outwardly shaded with slate. Fore wings : 

 costa whitish grey, spotted with black, broadest on basal 

 half ; a reddish-brown medial line, angled at end of cell and 

 inwardly shaded with slate ; a black point on discocellular; 

 the outer line expanding on costa. Wings below orange, 

 striated with dark red. Fore wings : a medial purplish 

 blotch at end of cell and one from cell to inner margin ; the 

 shading following outer line bifurcating at vein 3 to tornus. 

 Hind wings : the outer line purplish ; the termen shaded 

 with red. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hah. Juan Vinas, Tuis, San Mateo. 



Metanema striolata, sp. n. 



^ . Antenna3 pectinated. Head, collar, and thorax dull 

 greyish brown. Abdomen brighter brown. Wings light 



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