188 Mt. W. ScLaus on 



black, outwardly edged with buff; a wavy black medial line 

 beyond reniform, followed by two fainter black lines less 

 wavy ; the postmedial lunular black, outwardly edged with 

 light brown, and with white on costa ; subterminal small 

 clusters of whitish scales; a wavy submarginal black line; 

 a marginal straighter brown line ; cilia white ; fringe on 

 inner margin fuscous. Hind wings slightly glossed with 

 purple ; the lines continued from fore wings ; terminal 

 yellowish shades at tips of veins ; cilia black from vein 4 to 

 anal angle. Underneath lighter brown ; black spots at end 

 of cells ; fuscous medial and postmedial lines, witli a fainter 

 geminate line between them ; subterminal white spots more 

 distinct. 



Expanse 84 mm. 



Hub. La Florida, Guapiles. 



Allied to L. iphianassa, Cr. 



Letis tuisana^ sp. n. 



S . Head, thorax, and wings dark brown, glossed with 

 purplish. Abdomen black, tinged with purple ; fine trans- 

 verse lilacine lines posteriorly on segments. Fore wings r 

 the base of costa with white irrorations ; a fuscous streak ou 

 base of costa ; a fuscous streak in cell more remote from 

 base ; antemedial black, interrupted in cell by orbicular, 

 which is black, annular, outwardly edged with light brown 

 and lilacine ; reniform large, outlined as in orbicular, closely 

 followed by a wavy geminate black medial line, filled in with 

 lilacine brown ; a similar line between the medial and post- 

 medial, which is broad, lilacine brown, edged and crossed by 

 lunular black lines, and terminating in a small white spot 

 on costa ; a subterminal fuscous shade spotted with lilacine 

 brown, which becomes a line below vein 2*; a submarginal 

 wavy black line, outwardly shaded finely with light brown 

 between the veins ; a marginal finer black line; cilia fuscous. 

 Hind wings with similar lines ; the margin deeply crenulate ; 

 buff spot on cilia terminally. Fore wings below greyish 

 brown ; a fuscous spot in cell ; a dark spot on discocellular ; 

 a dentate fuscous postmedial line ; subterminal lilacine-white 

 spots, forming a line below vein 3 inwardly shaded with 

 fuscous ; small black marginal spots between the veins. 

 Hind wings below darker than fore wings and strongly 

 tinged with purple ; a large black spot on discocellular; a 

 fine fuscous medial line, followed by a faint geminate dark 

 shade ; the postmedial black, lunular, dentate, outwardly 

 shaded with lilacine ; a broad fuscous subterminal shade, 



