2S-G On Heterocera from Costa Rica^ 



Uemiceras torva^ sp. n. 



Palpi buff in front, brown behind. Head : fi-ons lilacin© 

 brown ; a white band behind ; vertex white irrorated with 

 brown. Collar buff shaded with brown and violaceous be- 

 hind. Thorax violaceous ; patagia ochreous buff. Abdomen 

 light brown above. Body yellowish white underneath. Fore 

 wings ochreons buff; a fine wavy antemedial line, faintly 

 punctiform on veins ; a small brownish spot at end of cell, 

 preceded by a point below subcostal ; a row of fuscous points 

 on veins from costa at 2 mm. from apex to a large spot on 

 inner margin at excision, this spot somewhat reniform, brown 

 broadly edged with dark violaceous ; the lobe and excision 

 on inner margin finely edged with dark violaceous ; a sub- 

 terminal dentate pale brownish shade from vein 4 to apex. 

 Hind wings brownish white ; the veins terminally, inner and 

 outer margins more distinctly brown; the stigma still 

 darker. 



Expanse 41 mm. 



Hob. Sixola, Guapiles. 



Close to //. va^heri, Schs. 



Hemiceras zula, sp. n. 



Head : frons reddish brown; vertex grey mottled with 

 white. Collar and thorax greyish, irrorated with reddish 

 brown. Abdomen above fuscous grey. Body below whitish. 

 Fore wings silky grey, palest on costal margin ; antemedial 

 line fine, dark brown, outwardly oblique across cell, indentate 

 below cell, then outwardly oblique but slightly indentate on 

 submedian, with black points at subcostal and at angles ; 

 postmedial very fine, brown, lunular, dentate with black 

 points on veins ; a faint silky brown shade from vein 2 to 

 inner margin crossed by postmedial; some faint silky brown 

 shades on outer margin ; inner margin lobed and excised. 

 Hind wings greyish brown ; a whitish shade in and beyond 

 cell ; cilia white, opaque spot concolorous. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



The female has pectinated antennse. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Hah. Tuis. 



Distinguished from H. deoniata, Wlk., by the pectinated 

 anteim^ in the female and the more angular antemedial 

 line. 



