Oil Heterocera from Costa Rica. 509 



LXII. — yew Species of Heterocera from Costa Rica. — XVIII. 

 By W. SCHAUS, F.Z.S. 



Noctuidoe. 

 Caly^nniodes maneii, sp. n. 



(J. Palpi and vertex black; fions brown-black. Collar 

 and thorax reddish brown. Abdomen fuscous grey ; anal 

 hairs buff and brown. Fore wings mostly slate-colour ; a 

 light brown shade from base of costa to antemedial on inner 

 margin, interrupted in cell, crossed on costa and just below 

 cell by a dark brown line ; antemedial line reddish brown, 

 outcurved on inner margin, finely edged with black-brown ; 

 medial space shaded with light brown on costa and 

 before postmedial line, the inner margin similarly irrorated ; 

 orbicular broadly circled with buff-brown, followed by a 

 fuscous shade outbent from costa to median, then down- 

 turned ; reniform oblique, light brown, containing two darker 

 brown lines suffusing in front and behind ; a dark brownish 

 slate shade beyond cell filling angle of postmedial ; post- 

 medial fine velvety black-brown, angled at vein 6, vertical 

 from vein 4 to inner margin ; the veins on outer space 

 irrorated with grey ; terminal whitish points at veins ; a 

 light brown shade at apex, also subtermiiially from vein 4 

 to tornus. Hind wings fuscous grey, tinged with brown, 

 darkest terminally ; a large fuscous discal spot; cilia dirty 

 white crossed by a dark line at base. Hind wungs below 

 whitish irrorated with brown especially on costa and apex ; 

 discal spot large, black ; a dark postmedial line, inbent at 

 vein 2 ; a terminal fuscous shade between veins 4 and 6. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas. 



Vespola plumipes, sp. n. 



Very similar to V. cceruleifera, Wlk., but larger, and the 

 postmedial line more deeply incurved below vein 4. Tiie 

 abdomen below is entirely black in both sexes and the hind 

 tibiae of male are dilated and fringed with long hairs. 



Expanse, ^ 44 mm., $ 40-43 mm. 



Bab. Sixoia, Tuis. 



Acidaliodes infantilis^ sp. n. 



? . Body and wings greyish ; collar shaded with roseate 

 brown ; abdomen with transverse roseate-brown shades, and 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. x. 35 



