Heterocera from Costa Rica. 371 



irregular row of subterminal black spots, beyond which the 

 outer margin is shaded with drab. Hind wings dark brown ; 

 the costal margin similar to postmedial space of fore wings ; 

 a medial and a postmedial faint buff shade. 



Expanse 76 mm. 



Bab. Tuis " 



Metanastria vibrans, sp. n. 



Palpi violaceous brown. Head, collar, and thorax brown, 

 irrorated with whitish buff. Abdomen above brown. Fore 

 wings brown, tinged with violaceous, the medial space 

 darkest ; the lines tine, dentate on costal margin, finely wavy 

 across wing; the basal line remote from base, upright; the 

 antemedial sligiitly oblique, incurved between vein 2 and 

 submedian, closely followed in cell by a white point; the 

 medial line slightly oblique, outcurved between 2 and sub- 

 median ; the postmedial curved on costal margin, parallel to 

 medial line; an irregular row of subterminal bufif spots, each 

 containing a cluster of black scales. Hind wings rich brown. 



Expanse 70 mm. 



llab. El fciitio, Cariblanco. 



Claphe itiflaia, sp. n. 



(J. Body and wings buff- brown. Abdomen with violaceous- 

 brown tufts doisally, except on first segment ;, anal hairs 

 very long, tipped with rtddish biown. Fore wings : an 

 antemedial fuscous shade on costa, crossed by an oblique pale 

 huffish line to inner margin, where it is outcurved and upbent 

 to vein 3, then fainter and lunular to vein 6, enclosing be- 

 tween vein 3 and inner margin a dark reddish-brown space, 

 crossed by vein 2 and submedian, which are buff; medial 

 space between the lines from vein 3 to 6 and subcostal shaded 

 with grey and crossed on discocellular by a rather heavy 

 dark reddish-brown stretik; a subterminal series of spots, 

 almost coalescent, and indicated by their slightly paler edging, 

 ending above vein 8 in dark reddish-brown spots ; terminal 

 luuular whitish streaks between the veins, outwardly finely 

 edged wiih darker brown. Hind wings rather daiker, except 

 on outer margin ; a teiminal brown line, inwardly edged witii 

 buff. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



JJab. Sixola. 



