Ileterocera from Costa Rica, 55 



frons pale buff. Abdomen dark fuscous grey, with dark 

 brown subdorsal tufts. Fore wings dark brown, the basal 

 half almost black, crossed bj a darker, velvety, wavy ante- 

 medial line and limited by a similar shade > dark steel-grey 

 shades at base of inner margin, in cell, and beyond ante- 

 medial in and below cell ; black spots on costa divided by 

 roseate buff lines, the orbicular small, annular; the reniforin 

 oatliued in white points and streaks ; the postmedial out- 

 curved, surmounted by a dark velvety spot on costa, heavily 

 marked beyond cell,, incurved to below cell well before reni- 

 form, and very fine to inner margin ; a subterminal velvety 

 shade near costa; the outer margin broadly shaded with dark 

 steel-grey, almost black, with a purplish tinge; submargitial 

 dark spots inwardly shaded with light brown ; a terminal 

 wavy dark line. Hind wings dark brown, pale at apex ; a 

 fine postmedial dentate black line, followed by a broad 

 velvety brown-black shade from below vein 6 to inner margin ; 

 a large dark lilacine grey space on outer margin between 

 veins 2 and 4, crossed by a pale shade. Fore wings below 

 dull brown, irrorated with white; geminate medial spots on 

 costa and a single medial line ; the postmedial finely dentate; 

 a terminal whitish spot at vein 4. Hind wings below dull 

 brown, heavily irrorated with white to postmedial ; a gemi- 

 nate medial line ; a dark spot on discocellular ; the post- 

 medial finely dentate; some white terminally at vem 5 and 

 apex. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Hab. Guapiles, Esperanza. 



The female has the wings almost entirely suffused with 

 blue-black, the dark subterminal shade on hind wings 

 narrower. 



Expanse 40 ram. 



Sofia permixta, sp. n. 



Body and wings brownish buff, tinged with roseate and 

 irrorated with black and dark brown scales. Head mottled 

 with dark browni and white. Collar with a dark transverse 

 line and white tips behind. Thorax streaked with dark 

 brown. Abdomen with dark subdorsal tufts. Fore wings : 

 the base blackish, limited by a velvety antemedial line 

 inwardly oblique from costa, crossed by a velvety basal line 

 and slightly irrorated with buff ; orbicular small, light 

 brown ; two fine wavy medial lines, dark brown, with another 

 broken line between them ; reniforra large, outwardly in- 

 curved, marked by roseate buff streaks, preceded by a dark 



