Iletcrocera from Costa Rica. 1^'5 



4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from niitUlIe of (li.sco- 

 cellular ; 6, 7 from upjjcr anj^le ; 8 luiastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Type of genus, Ltioselia egrcgia. 



Lciosdia egregia, sp. n. 



? . Palpi, vertex, collar beliinci, and palagia lilaciiie 

 brown ; trons whitish ; collar in front greenish ; thorax poste- 

 rioily white ; abdomen light rcddisli brown. Fore wings : 

 the base pale green, crossed by a broken black line; ante- 

 medial space dark lilacine, with a large paler spot above 

 submedian, outwardly irregular, faintly edged with wiiite, 

 and then by the antemedial black line, which is outcurv^d, 

 sli'i'lilly lunular, interrupted on subcostal and median veins ; 

 medial space lilacine, suffused with green on costa, in cell 

 close to antemedial, and just below cell j the inner margin 

 green, mottled with white; a fuscous-brown medial curved 

 shade to submedian, interrupted by reniform ; the reniforni 

 narrow, greenish, outlined finely with white; postmedial 

 fine, fuscous brown, deeply outcurved beyond cell, heavily 

 marked by spots between veins 4 and 6 ; space beyond post- 

 medial to subterminal dark lilacine, the veins irrorated with 

 grey and white; the apex above vein 7 white, irrorated with 

 green; the subterminal from vein 7 wav}', whitish; the outer 

 margin greenish grey ; a lunular terminal black line ; cilia 

 brown, spotted with fuscous. Hind wings brown, tinged 

 with lilacine. Fore wings below with a daik line and spot 

 on costa before apex, liind wings below white ; the costal 

 margin broadly irrorated with lilacine and dark brown ; a 

 line medial dark streak on costa ; an interrupted dentate 

 postmedial line. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Hah. Sixola, 



!Near M. mannorata, Schs. 



Trachea nigrescens, sp. n. 



? . Head, collar, and thorax fuscous grey, mottled with 

 lighter grey ; a transverse black line on collar. Abdomen 

 brownish grey, with dorsal black tutts. Fore wings fuscous 

 grey, faintly tinged with brown on postmedial space ; lines 

 black, indistinct ; basal line deeply outangled on inner 

 margin ; antemedial outcurved, geminate, divided by a third 

 line between cell and submedian ; orbicular large, outlined in 

 black; a brown-black wavy medial geminate line ; the reni- 

 form white, irrorated with yellow, edged by a black linCy 



