Heterocera from Costa Rica. 189 



outu-avdly sliadecl with white from inner margin to vein 3, 

 and from vein 6 to apex. 



Expanse SO mm. 



The female has the lines sliaded with lilacine, the spots 

 outwardly edged with white ; the postniedial broadly white, 

 lunular dentate, crossed by a heavy fuscous-brown line ; the 

 subterminal shade spotted, white, the spot below costa 

 largest. Underneath the postraedial line is outwardly shaded 

 with white. 



Expanse 87 mm. 



Hah. Tuis. 



Trissophaes cohihra, sp. n. 



cJ . Head, collar, and thorax dark violaceous brown ; 

 golden-brown patches on metathorax ; a few lilacine scales 

 on patagia. Abdomen orange ; fuscous-brown dorsal tufts 

 at base. Fore wings : the base to antemedial golden brown, 

 crossed by a dark basal line ; the antemedial inwardly oblique 

 fiom costa to submedian near base, tine, blackish ; the space 

 beyond to outer line shaded with silky lilacine, and crossed 

 by some fine brown lines ; the orbicular a black point ; the 

 reniform consisting of two brownish lines and followed by a 

 postniedial brown line from costa to vein 5 ; the outer 

 line blackish from apex to inner margin before middle, and 

 followed by a broad golden-brown shade, changing to lilacine 

 brown on outer margin and towards apex ; a submarginal 

 dark streak between veins 3 and 7. Hind wings orange ; 

 the outer margin above vein 2 broadly black, its inner etige 

 somewhat dentate ; an irregular postmedial black fascia 

 from vein 5 to inner margin above angle. Underneatli the 

 outer margin of hind wings is broadly black from veins 2-7, 

 the apex irrorated with black. 



Expanse 74 mm. 



The female similar, except the fore wings which are dark 

 silky brown, strongly tinged with purplish and with dull 

 lilacine on outer margin ; the basal and antemedial lines and 

 medial shade inwardly oblique from costa, dark reddisii 

 brown, most noticeable on lobe of inner margin ; the reni- 

 form projecting inwardly and outwardly along median vein, 

 dark reddish brown; the postmedial irregular wavy, very 

 oblique inwardly from vein 4 to inner margin ; the outer 

 line oblique from apex to between 5 and 6, straight to 

 between 3 and 4 and outwardly shaded with very dark 

 brown, then very oblique to middle of inner margin, where 

 it is followed by a large reddish-brown space to near tornus, 

 and has a whitish point on it between veins 2 and 3; sub- 



