Ileterocera from Costa Rica. G29 



narrow -white space at base ; a vague antemedial fuscous 

 shade ; a large buff-brown space on terminal area from veins 

 2-9, inwardly finely edged with dark velvety brown, above 

 and below more broadly so, and outwardly broadly edge! 

 with reddish brown ; this space contains a broad dark brown 

 band, incurved from vein 8, and suffusing with brown outer 

 margin between veins 4 and 5. Hind wings dark brown 

 with indistinct dark reticulations; cilia light brown, spotted 

 witli dark brown. 



Expanse 69 mm. 



Hab. Tuis. 



Hemipecten alfarce, sp. n. 



(^ . Head, collar, and thorax whitish grey, thiidy irrorated 

 with black, some reddish brown on thorax posteriorly. Fore 

 wings whitish grey, whitest on costal and inner margins ; 

 the costa medially finely dark grey, and with sliort down- 

 ward grey stria?, and upward strise from subcostal ; the inner 

 margin crossed by numerous brown lines, and others across 

 middle of wing, but further apart, the medial and line at end 

 of cell broader ; the lines on postmedial area between 2 and 5 

 suflfusing ; a round velvety black-brown spot subterminally 

 between 6 and 8, and a smaller dark brown spot nearer termen 

 between 3 and 4 ; a narrow steel-grey terminal shade. Hind 

 wings light brown. 



Expanse '66 mm. 



Hub. Tuis. 



Named after Mr. Alfara, Director of the Museum in 

 San Jose. 



Givira amanosa, sp. n. 



Palpi fuscous brown ; frons buff ; vertex and collar dark 

 brown, the latter edged behind with lighter brown; tiiorax 

 light Lrown, with dark lines and shadings; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, with pale transverse lines. Fore wings : base brown ; 

 antemedial dark brown spots coalescing, the spot in cell more 

 remote from base, outwardly edged with buff, and followed 

 by buff-brown on costa and in cell, and a large olive-brown 

 spot below cell ; the median space constricted below cell, 

 bifurcating on inner margin, brown, spotted with buff on 

 costa; outer portion of wing below vein 5 dark brown, with 

 three round light brown spots between 2 and 3, one near cell 

 between 3 and 4, and also between 4 and 5; terminal light 

 brown shades between 3 and 5, enclosing dark brown terminal 

 spots at veins 3 and 4; light brown semilunar spots on inner 

 margin ; a broad dark brown space beyond cell from costa to 



