23 G KocrtJiDiE. 



cell somewhat darlier, Uuderside of both wings with small 

 blackish discoidal spots ; fore wing with some blackish saffusion on 

 postmedial area from below costa to submedian fold. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 $ . Ea:j). 48 millim. 



*7358. Herminiocala atomosa. (Plate CCIII. fig. 2.) 



Bhosologia atomosa, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 218 (1911). 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous, the tegulse irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; a black streak on vertex of head and 

 tegulaB ; palpi black-bi'own except at tips ; frons with lateral black 

 points ; antennse brown except at base ; shoulders and legs black- 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally suffused with reddish brown, 

 ventrally irrorated with black and with lateral black spots on 2nd 

 and 3rd segments. Fore wing grej'ish ochreous with faint red- 

 brown striae and irrorated with black scales ; the costal edge rufous ; 

 a subbasal black point below the cell ; traces of a curved antemedial 

 line and of a claviform stigma; a black point in middle of cell; 

 some rufous suffusion at end of cell with the reniforra on it defined 

 by black-brown except above and an elliptical black spot just 

 beyond lower angle of cell met by a brown line from costa below 

 which it is angled outwards ; a brown subterminal line arising from 

 apex, oblique to discal fold and slightly angled outwards below vein 

 7, excurved and obsolescent below discal fold ; a series of black 

 points just before termen. Hind wing ochreous tinged Avith rufous, 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; a terminal series of 

 black points from apex to vein 2; cilia reddish ochreous; the 

 underside ochreous, the costal area tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal spot, slight curved postmedial 

 Hue, almost obsolete below vein 5, and terminal series of black 

 points. 



Hab. Costa Kica, Juan Yinas {Schaus), type t 6 iu U.S- I^^at. 

 Mus. Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus ECCRITA. 



lype. 



Eccrita, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 207 (1857) ludicra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint i-eaching to about 

 middle of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short with tuft of scales in front ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibite slightly fringed with hair, 

 the fore tibite not spined, the mid and hind tibial strongly spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally flattened and without crests. Fore wing narrow, the margins sub- 

 parallel, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 

 half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from well 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



