new Species of NoctuidiL'. 579 



Iscadia diopis, sp. n. 

 Iscadia aperta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 474 (part.). 

 ? . Head and thorax clothed with fuscous, red-brown, and 

 grey scales ; palpi with the second joint white in front, black 

 at sides except at tips ; pectus and legs grey- brown ; abdo- 

 men fuscous brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 grey irrorated with black and. suffused in parts with dark 

 red-brown ; some rufous suffusion at base followed by dark 

 red-brown except towards costa ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, Avaved, strongly excurved below cell, followed by 

 some dark red-brown suffusion ; orbicular and reniform round 

 brownish ocelli defined by fuscous and with spots of raised 

 black scales in centre ; an indistinct irregular medial line 

 angled outwards below costa ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line less distinct, irregularly waved, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold and bent 

 inwards at vein 2 to below end of cell, some dark brown 

 suffusion beyond it at discal fold and on inner area ; sub- 

 terminal line grey, defined on inner side biy slight dentate 

 dark marks and on outer by dark brown suffusion, minutely 

 dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a series of small black marks just before termen connected 

 by short streaks with a terminal series of small lunules. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia greyish at tips. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Sta. Clara Valley, 1200 feet {Ziircher), 

 1 ? type. Exp. 50 mm. 



Iscadia poliopepla, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax grey, mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 with the second joint white in front, black at sides except at 

 tips ; vertex of head blackish ; tegulfe with black medial 

 line; abdomen grey, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated with black and suffused with brown 

 except on basal and terminal areas, the basal area whiter ; an 

 obliquely curved dark antemedial line ; a diffused dark line 

 forming the iimer edge of the brownish area ; a black point 

 in end of cell and two black discoidal points on a faint 

 whitish bar ; postmedial line obliquely excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then strongly incurved and sinuous, angled inwards 

 just below siibmedian fold, followed by another minutely 

 dentate line bent inwards below vein 3 ; subterminal line 

 white, very irregular, oblique at costa, angled inwards below 

 vein 7 and at discal fold, interrupted and bent inwards to 

 the second postmedial line and vein 2, where it forms a 



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