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wings : spots semihyaline whitish brown : a large spot between 

 veins 2 and 3, its outer edge incurved ; a small spot between 3 

 and 4 ; three small spots between veins 6 to 9 in a straight out- 

 bent line from costa ; cilia tipped with bistre grey. Hind wings : 

 a yellow postmedial hyaline point between veins 3 and 4. Fore 

 w"ings below fuscous brown, the costal margin broadly, and cell 

 shaded with yellow-brown, the spots as above ; a whitish post- 

 medial shade above submedian. Hind wings below brown ; a 

 small faint fuscous shade at discocellular, and similar spots post- 

 medially from veins 2 to 7, the one between 3 and 4 showing the 

 semihyaline point. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Hab. Port Limon, Juan Yinas. 



In British Museum. 



COBALOPSIS LATONIA, Sp. n. (PI. LIY. fig. 16.) 



S . Body fuscous brown ; palpi above vi^hitish grey ; abdomen 

 below pale buff. Wings dark brown. Fore wings : a fine 

 short whitish inbent streak below discocellular ; a small white 

 postmedial spot between veins 3 and 4, also above and below 

 vein 7. Hind wings : the veins fuscous. Fore wings below 

 fuscous in cell and postmedially below vein 3, the inner margin 

 irrorated with greyish ; costa, apical space, and termen yellowish 

 brown. Hind wings below yellowish brown; a fuscous shade near 

 inner margin expanding at anal angle ; five bluish white post- 

 medial spots from veins 2 to 7. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Hah. Juan Yinas, Cachi. 



In British Museum. 



CEnus nausiphanes, sp. n. (PL LIY. fig. 6.) 



(S . Palpi mottled whitish grey and dark brown. Body fuscous 

 brown; abdomen below whitish grey ; legs yellow-brown. "Wings 

 dark brown. Fore wings : the brand fine, black, inbent from 

 vein 3, and downcurved to submedian ; some yellowish scaling on 

 costa ; cilia tipped with grey. Hind wings : cilia yellow-grey. 

 Fore wings below fuscous at base, in, and below cell; costa yellowish 

 brown ; terminal half dull brown. Hind wings dull bi'own ; a 

 broad medial whitish shade, widest on costa and not reaching 

 inner margin which is simply irrorated with whitish gi'ey. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



Hab. Poas. 



In British Museum. 



Megistias xantho, sp. n. (PI, LIY. fig. 13.) 



(5' . Body fuscous mottled with brown hairs. Wings fuscous 

 brown. Fore wings : a yellow-brown streak on costa from base 

 to just beyond middle ; a similar streak above submedian medially 

 extending towards base ; a few similar scales outwardly beyond 



