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from the whitish buff behiiul by :i t'Li.>coii3 line. Abdomen 

 above dark grey, the anal segment whitish buff. Fore wings 

 whitish buff, with a few scattered black and brown scales ; a 

 fuscous line at base below cell ; the median and vein 4 to 

 outer spots finely dark olive-brown; a small cluster of dark 

 brown scales antemedially on costa and another below cell ; 

 orbicular a minute dark point ; reniform round, fuscous grey ; 

 an outer row of dark brown points on veins ; terminal black 

 I)i)ints largest towards apex ; the termen shaded with brown ; 

 ;i dark streak postmedially between 3 and 4, and a brownish 

 shade above it obliquily to below apex ; a fuscous shade on 

 costa above orbicular and one above reniform. Hind wingjj 

 white ; the costal margin and apex shaded with fuscous grey. 

 Fore wings below shaded with fuscous through and beyond 

 cell ; the median and veins postmedially streaked witii 

 fuscous ; a black discal spot ; a postmcdial black line on 

 costa. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



JIab. Juan Vinas. 



Xear Episilia rufisigna, Hmpsn. 



Episilia nezioj sp. n. 



cJ . Palpi brown below, whitish buff above ; frons, collar, 

 and thorax whitish buff; vertex buff-brown ; a velvety black 

 transverse line on collar ; abdomen dark grey, the anal hairs 

 ochreous brown. Fore wings brownish buff; a black line 

 below cell from base to below orbicular ; orbicular and reni- 

 form small, slightly paler; a black streak in cell from close 

 before orbicular to reniform ; terminal dark points between 

 the veins. Hind wings thinly scaled, white; a terminal 

 brownish-buff line. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



flab. Volcano Turrialba. 



Belongs to Section II. 



Nephelistis noctivaga, sp. n. 



c? . Palpi, head, collar, thorax, and dorsal basal tuft on 

 abdomen violaceous brown; abdomen dull fuscous brown, 

 with subdorsal buff hairs at base. Fore wings violaceous 

 brown, shaded with bronze medially between cell and sub- 

 median ; lines dark brown, the basal and postmedial out- 

 wardly edged with light brown, the antemedial inwardly so 

 edged ; the basal line indistinct ; the antemedial oblique on 

 costa, inbent along subcostal, straight to submedian, slightly 



