Ihlerocera from Casta Rica. 99 



Fore wings below fuscous ; tlie costa and outer margin 

 reddisli ; subtertninal white points and a sliort postnietlial 

 white line on costa. Hind wings below: the costal half 

 reddisli ; the inner half white ; a fuscous spot on discocellular ; 

 a terminal and two dark streaks above it at anal angle. 



Expanse 21 millim. 



Ilab. Avangarez. 



Named after Mr. Carmiol, who kindly gave me the 

 specimen. 



LOPHOMYRA, gen. nov. 



Proboscis rather short and slight; palpi upturned, second 

 joint to vertex of head, third short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; antennae of male laminate. Thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and motathorax with small 

 spreading crest ; tibije fringed with long hair and scales ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Neuration 

 normal. 



Belongs to the Xylomyges group. 



Lophomyra tactta, sp. n. 

 Head, collar, and thorax mottled bufF-brown, grey, and 

 lilacine white. Abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wings: 

 basal third of costa lilacine, with black irrorations at base, 

 medially shaded with light brown ; outer part whitish, irro- 

 rated with yellowish green ; a lilacine shade in middle of 

 cell, and a lilacine shade below it except close to end of cell, 

 where there is some greenish yellow edged with light reddish 

 brown; a fuscous line below median to antemedial, which is 

 deeply outcurved, ending in some fuscous scales above sub- 

 median ; the inner margin broadly greenish yellow ; a white 

 streak on median at end of cell ; a median fuscous shade 

 oblique from costa, angled at vein 3, and interrupted on sub- 

 median ; postmeduil space from vein 8 to vein 2 lilacine, 

 followed by a deeply dentate fine dark line, punctiform on 

 outer angles, the line outwardly shaded with white, and also 

 inwardly on veins 3 and 4 ; a fuscous line along vein 5 ; a 

 snbterminal fuscous-grey shade between 5 and 7, and a broad 

 yellowish-green shade from vein 4 to inner margin ; the 

 ternien whitish, shaded wuth grey above vein 2 ; a terminal 

 dark line ; cilia light golden brown. Hind wings lilacine 

 brown. Hind wings below whitish, irrorated with buff on 

 costa ; a deeply dentate dark subterrainal line from costa to 

 below vein 6 and points on veins 2-4. 



Expanse '61 mm. 



Hab. Sixola, Juan Vinas. 



