5 IOLOGIA 
CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 


INSECTA. 


LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA. 


Vou. I. 
(TEXT) 


BY 


HERBERT DRUCE, F.LS., F.Z.S. 


1881-1900. 


InrTRODUCTION 


EXPLANATION OF PLaTsEs . 


CONTENTS 


xl 


Errata Et Corrnicenpna To Vous. 1. & II. xxxii 


SPHINGIDZ 
CastTNIIDA 
/EGERIIDE 
AGARISTIDE . 
ZYGENIDE 
ARCTIIDE 
CHALCOSIIDA 
LirHosIIpz . 
MELAMERIDE 


DiorrIpz 


1 
24 
28 

84 
36 
69 

119 
120 
142 
156 


OF VOL. 


LIpARID# 


SATURNIIDE . 


LASIOCAMPIDA . 


LIMACODIDE . 
BoMBYcipz . 
DREPANULIDE 
PsycHip& 
CossID& 
HEPIALIDA 
NoropontTIpDz 
Nocruip& 


DELTOIDz 


a2 


INTRODUCTION. 


Tue three Volumes of the Lepidoptera Heterocera of the Central-American fauna now 
completed deal with twenty-eight Families of this Order of Insects. Vol. I. extends to 
the end of the Deltoide; Vol. II. to the end of the Pyralide, with the Supplement 
and Appendix; Vol. III. includes the Plates only. The Micro-Lepidoptera are being 
dealt with by Lord Walsingham in Volume IV. 


The twenty-eight Families worked out by me may be analysed thus :-— 


The Sphingide are represented by 135 species, forty-six of which are peculiar to 
our region; of the remainder, fifteen have also been recorded from North America 


and several have a very wide range in South America. 


The Castniide include twenty species, ten of which, so far as at present known, are 
peculiar to Central America ; six inhabit Mexico, and one of them is recorded also 


from the United States. The South-American forms are much more numerous. 


The tropical Augeriide are very little known, but doubtless include a large number 
of species; Messrs. H. H. Smith and G. C. Champion collected, however, a considerable 
number of them, mostly in Mexico and the State of Panama. Of this family, eight 
genera and forty-four species are enumerated, forty-one of the latter being as yet 


only known from our region. 


The Agaristide include comparatively few American forms: nineteen species are 
enumerated from our region, eight of these not having been obtained elsewhere ; seven 


of the latter are described for the first time. 


The Zygenide, now called Syntomide by Sir George Hampson, are very largely 
represented throughout tropical America. From our region fifty-nine genera, two of 
which are treated as new, and 208 species, with seventy new, are here recorded; of this 


number, 152 appear to be peculiar to Central America. 


vi INTRODUCTION. 


The Arctiide rank next to the Pyralide in point of numbers, 350 species, with 
eighty-two new, being here recorded from Central America. Out of this total, 236 
appear to be peculiar to our region. Most of them are southern forms. 


The Chalcosiide are very poorly represented in the New World. Our four species, 
two of which are treated as new, belong to one genus, all of them being peculiar. 
They appear to mimic species of other families—either Lithosiide or Tortricide. 


The Lithosiide are fairly abundant in Central America, ranking next to the 
Sphingide in the number of species. Of the forty genera enumerated, two are charac- 
terized for the first time; and of the 119 species, fifty-three are described as new. 
Of the species, no fewer than 101 have not as yet been noticed from beyond our 


limits. 


The Melameride are not very numerous in the region here dealt with, their head- 
quarters being in Tropical South America, on the Upper Amazons and in Ecuador. 
Twenty-four genera are enumerated, four of which have been described for the first 
time; and of the sixty-four species, twenty are treated as new, forty-four of the whole 
number being peculiar. None as yet have been recorded from the United States. 


The Dioptide and Liparidz are represented in our region by thirty and fifty-three 
species respectively ; the first-mentioned family by eight genera, three of which are 
described as new, and with twenty-one new species, twenty-seven of the total number | 
being peculiar to Central America. The Liparide include fifty-three species, thirteen 
of which are treated as new, belonging to eighteen genera; two of the species have 
been recorded from the United States, while thirty-six are as yet only known from 


Central America. No species of Dioptide has been noticed from north of Mexico. 


The Saturniidee include many species, most of them being of large size. Of the 
nineteen genera and seventy-four species enumerated, nineteen of the latter are regarded 
as new; forty-seven appear to be peculiar to Central America. These insects are of 


very sluggish habits, and it is possible that additional species may still be discovered. 


The Lasiocampide and Limacodide are both well represented, the former by 113 
and the latter by sixty-four species, with forty-seven and thirty-three new respectively. 
The Lasiocampide belong to twenty-seven, and the Limacodide to twenty-two genera, 


INTRODUCTION. Vil 


one of the latter being treated as new. Of the first-mentioned family eighty-seven 
species, and of the latter forty-nine, appear to be peculiar. 


The next six families, viz. the Bombycide, Drepanulide, Psychide, Cosside, 
Arbelidz, and Hepialide, are all very poorly represented in our region, together by 
twenty genera and fifty-four species, twenty-eight of the latter being described as new; 
forty-four of the species seem to be peculiar. 


The Notodontide include 154 species, with thirty-two new, belonging to forty genera ; 
eighty species are as yet only known from the region dealt with. 


The Noctuide include no fewer than 696 species, ranking slightly in excess of the 
Geometridee in point of numbers. They are distributed under 196 genera, one of 
which is regarded as new, as well as 226 of the species. Of the 696 species, more 
than half (381) appear to be peculiar to Central America; many of them have a very 
wide range in South America, extending as far south as Rio Janeiro. 


The Deltoide are very rich in species, being nearly equal to the Zygenide in this 
respect. Sixty-one genera, twenty-four of which are characterized for the first time, 
and 206 species, with 128 new, are enumerated ; of the species, no fewer than 147 
seem to be peculiar. The moths belonging to this family are almost all found in the 
forests, and we have to thank Messrs. G. C. Champion and H. H. Smith for most of 
the specimens described. They are overlooked by most collectors. 


The Euschemide and Uraniide together include only five genera and twenty-two 
species, one of each being described as new; eleven of the species have not been 
recorded from elsewhere. The Uraniide, however, number some large and conspicuous 


forms. 


The Geometride, as already stated, rank next to the Noctuide as regards the 
number of species, but the number of genera is very much less. Of the latter, 148 (as 
against 196 Noctuide), with three new, are enumerated. These include 689 species, 
more than half of them (355) being treated as new; 409 of them, so far as at present 


known, are peculiar to Central America. 


_ The Siculide is a family of limited extent, and the Central-American forms call for 


Vill INTRODUCTION. 


no special remark. Seven genera and nineteen species are noticed, six of the latter 


being described as new; five of the species are peculiar. 


The Pyralide are extremely numerous in Central America, ranking next to the 
Geometride in number. 502 species, with 145 new, are enumerated, all referred to 
previously characterized genera; the number of the latter, 198, is inordinately large, 
and no doubt will have to be reduced. Of the total number of species, 224 are as yet. 
only known from the region under investigation. 


The total number of species of the above-mentioned families here enumerated is 
3639, belonging to 1026 genera, and forty additional species are noticed in the 
Appendix, making the total 3679. 


Forty-one genera and 1312 species are treated as new; and to the latter number 
must be added 238 others, described by me elsewhere, from material got together by 
our Editors and myself, but figured in this work, making the total number of new 
species dealt with by me 1550. Nearly two-thirds (2189) of the species are, so far as 
at present known, peculiar to Central America. The 101 plates contain 2273 figures, 
representing upwards of 1900 species. 


The following summary (p. ix) will show at a glance the total number of genera and 
species of each of the families of Heterocera treated by me in this work, exclusive of 
the forty species enumerated in the Appendix. The last column gives the approximate 
number of species peculiar to Central America. 


To give some slight idea of the great richness of the region under investigation as 
compared with that of the only tropical fauna that has been worked out to the same 
extent, viz. that of India, Ceylon, Burmah, and the Andaman Islands, by Sir George 
Hampson, it may be noted that from that vast region he enumerates 5618 as against 
our 3639 species, which is only 1979 more than we have recorded from Central 
America, a country not nearly so well known and very much less in area. I have very 
little doubt that when Yucatan and the northern and north-western parts of Mexico 
have been explored the number of species will be greatly increased, even if they do not 


exceed the total given in the ‘ Fauna of India.’ 


With regard to the distribution of the Central-American Heterocera, it is almost 
impossible to give any generalizations, because we know so little of the species from 


* 


INTRODUCTION. ix 


the adjacent parts of South America; but I think it may safely be said that their 
affinities are almost entirely South-American; the few North-American forms that do 
occur can hardly be looked upon as more than stragglers from the Southern United 
States, and those mostly belonging to genera that are widely distributed. 


To show how greatly our knowledge of these insects has increased during the progress 
of this work, it may be stated that in 1880, before this enumeration was commenced, I 


Total Total Species 
number New genera. number New species. peculiar to 
of genera. of species. America. 

Sphingide ..............4. . 35 1 135 6 46 
Castnlide ..............4. ‘ . 20 1 10 
Aiigeriide .... 02.00.00 eee 8 a 44 16 41 
Agaristide .............5 11 19 7 8 
Zygenide ...... eee ee eee 59 2 208 70 152 
Arctiide ...........0005- 81 350 82 236 
Chalcosiide .............. 1 4 2 4 
Lithosiide............6-6- 40 2 119 53 101 
Melameride .............. 24 4 64 20 44 
Dioptide ............000. 8 3 30 21 27 
Liparide .............04- 18 ve 53 13 36 
Saturniide ...........05. 19 ee 74 19 47 
Lasiocampide ............ 27 .e 113 47 87 
Limacodide .............. 22 1 64 33 49 
Bombycide ..........005- 5 .. 12 9 8 
Drepanulide .............. 4 - 18 6 11 
Psychidee  ........500.0-- 3 a é 1 2 
Cosside .........0e000---- 4 ve 9 2 6 
Arbelide ..........00.2 05 ve 5 5 5 
Hepialide ...........2005. 30 we 12 5 12 
Notodontide.............. 40 oe 154 32 80 
Noctuide ......-.......-. 196 1 696 226 381 
Deltoide .............-.. 61 24 206 128 147 
Euschemide .............. 2 es 4 1 2 
Uraniide ..........200 05 3 . 18 1 9 
Geometride .............. 143 3 689 355 409 
Siculide .........2.--060 7 19 6 5 
Pyralids ...... eee eee eee 198 502 145 224 

1026 41 3639 1312 2189 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., March 1900. b 


x INTRODUCTION. 


made a list of the Heterocera recorded from Central America, and the number of 


species was then considerably under 400. 


The arrangement followed is mostly that of Guenée and Walker, that of the 
Sphingide being in accordance with Dr. Butler's Monograph. 


The immense amount of material examined has been contributed as follows :—From 
Mexico, by Messrs. Becker, Boucard, Elwes, Flohr, Gaumer, Godinan, Hoge, Morrison, 
Riimeli, H. H. Smith, and Trujillo: Morrison’s specimens were entirely from the 
northern border, those of Becker from Durango, and those of Gaumer from Yucatan. 
From British Honduras, by Sir Alfred Moloney, and Messrs. Blancaneaux and Whitely. 
From Guatemala, by Messrs. Champion, Conradt (through Dr. Staudinger), and 
Rodriguez. From Nicaragua, by Messrs. Belt and Richardson. From Costa Rica, by 
Messrs. Rogers, Underwood, and Van Patten. From Panama, by Messrs. Arcé, 
Champion, Ribbe, Salvin, and J. J. Walker. 


In addition to the specimens received from these collectors, Mr. Schaus has been 
good enough to place nearly the whole of his very extensive series of Mexican 
Heterocera at my disposal, and Dr. Staudinger has lent us from time to time the 
numerous insects collected for him in Chiriqui by E. Trétsch. 


My best thanks are due to the Editors for their great assistance in procuring so 
many collections for the purposes of this work, which has occupied a large part of my 
leisure time during the past twenty years. 


March 1900. 


LIST OF 


PLATES. 


Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
SPHINGIDZ. Protoparce capsici ............ LXVII. 4 li. 315 

Perigonia lusca ...........--- II. 5 | i. 8, ii. 299 dilucida .............0-- LXVIUII. 5 ii. 316 

: restituta...... 0.0.02 0e- III. 6 | i. 8, ii. 299 || Pseudosphinx crocala.......... LXVII. 5 li. 316 
tacita ... 6. eee eee eee LXV. 3 ii, 299 || Monarda oryx ... ......00.- LXVIII. 6 ii. 317 

Pachygonia hopfferi .......... i... 1 i. 4 || Diludia corallina ............ II. 3 | i. 22, ii. 817 
yibbei... 2... e eee eee ee Il. - 2 i. 4 brevimargo, ¢ .......... LXVIUII. 1 ii. 317 
coffees * eee LXV. 2 ii. 299 || Hyloicus haterius ............ LXV. 5 ii. 318 

Unzela pronoe, d ......--+-+5 LXVI 1 ii. 300 || Sphinx perelegans ............ LXVIL 3 ii. 319 

Calliomma denticulatum ...... LXVIII 2 11. 300 
adalia.... 2... eee ee eee TT. -.- 4-1 i. 6 CasTNIIDZ. 

MOMIUS ....... eee ee ee IE. 3 ii. 301 || Acentrocneme hesperiaris ...... DXIX. © 6] ii, 319 
germen .........-.000 6 LXVI 10 ii. 301 || Megathymus indecisus, ¢ ...... LXIX 1 ii. 319 
gurcheri.........-2+e05- LXVI 2 u. 301 Qe ccc cece ceeceees LXIX, 2 ii, 319 

Enyo riscus, S «1... eee eee LXVI 3 ii. 3802 neumoegeni, ¢ ........-- LXIX 3 ii. 320 
tedium ..........08 eee LXVI 4 ii, 8302 || —— py Dicccccccnccceenes ‘LXIX 4 ii. 320 

Aleuron tachasara .........-+- LXV. 7 ii. 302 smithi, S ........ ee eee LXIX 5 ii, 320 

Pergesa mexicana .........-.. LXVIIT 3 ii. 303 || Castnia veraguana ............ IV. 4 4. 24 

Choerocampa libya ............ II... 5 | i.9, ii. 304 futilis.... 6. eee IV. 5 i, 26 
damocrita .........+---. LXVI 8 ii. 304 clitarcha .........0.065 III. 7 i, 27 

—— lelia .. 0... eee eee eee II. - 6, i. 9, ii. 304 staudingeri ............ LXVITI 8 ii. 320 
turbata .........0 2s eee LXVI 6 ii. 304 Giva . 6... ce eee ee eee ee IV. 3 i, 27 

Salvini .... eee eee ee eee IL. 2 i. 9 ZAQTHA 2... eee ee eee ee IV. 1,2 i. 28 

~——eumedon ..........+--- LXVI 9 ii. 305 
aVistor 1... eee eee ee ees I. 7 i. 10 ASGERIID.E. 

—— titand .... eee eee eee I.. 6 i. 11 || Sphecia championi, g ........ Vv. 4 | i, 29, ii, 321 
belti ... ee. ee eee eee I. 3,4| i. 11, ii. 305 a Qnc ccc nce c ee eeeee Vv. 5 | i. 29, ii. 821 
druceit ........ eee ee eee I. 5 | 1.11, ii. 305 || Ageria tryphoniformis ........ V. 3 | i. 29, ii. 321 
jocasta .. 6... eee eee eee LXV. 6 ii, 306 mardia .......-..--2+065 LXIX. 7 ii. 321 
potentia..... 6.6... ee eee LXVI. 5 ii, 3806 genta .. 0... cee ee ee eee Vv. 1 i. 30 
godmani.........2.-+50 ITI. 2 ii. 806 pallene .........-...--. LXIX. 8 ii. 321 

——- falco 1... ce ee ees I. 8 | i. 12, ii. 307 sellustiformis || .......... Vv. 2 | i. 30, ii. 321 

Pachylia darceta........-+.-+- Il. 4 i. 15 ‘vuficaudis .........:.... VV. 6 i. 30 

Ambulyx donysa ..........-. LXVI.. 7 ii. 309 mippolyte Lecce eee eens LXIK. 9 ; ii. 322 

Triptogon modesta, var. occi- ; - eipyla ...... 62. eee eee . 8 | i. 30, ii, 322 

dentalis Lee eee eee } LXVIT. 2 ii. 310 producta ........-.---- V. 7 | i. 80, ii. 322 

Smerinthus saliceti . ........ I. 9 | i. 17, i. 310 halmyris ..........005 LXIX. 13 ii, 322 
(2?) pseudambulyx ........ LXVIII 4 ii. 310 ||] ——~ hipsides...........----- LXIX. 14. ii. 322 

Amphonyx beelzebutht........ IIT. 4 i. 311 hela .. 0... ce ee eee eee LXIX. 15 ii. 8322 
walkeri ... 2.2.20 - ee eee LXV. 4 ii. 311 ||} ——leta ............--005- V. 10 i. 30 

Isognathus inclitus .......... LXVII 1 li. 312 || —— helena ..........--+-.-.- LXIX. 10 ii. 323 
yucatanus ........---+-- LXV. 1 ii. 312 armasata .......---+--.- LXIX. 11 ii, 323 

Oryba kadeni§ .......-..+-5. Til. 1 i. 314 hermione ...........+.. LXIX. 12 ii. 323 


* Pachygonia ericea on the Plate. 


+ Cherocampa cyrene on the Plate. 


t Amphonysx rivularis on the Plate. 


§ Clanis imperialis on the Plate. 


|| digeria sallustiformis on the Plate. 


b2 


xll LIST OF PLATES. 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate Fig Page. 
Aageria guatemalena .......... Vv. 9 | i.31, ii. 323 || Harrisina elongata............ LXX. 10 ii. 330 
tabogana ..........000- V~. 16 1.31 mexicana .............. LXX. 11 ii. 831 
CEreS 2... cc eee eee Lecce v. 11 i, 31 | Pyromorpha cinnianat ........ VI. 12 | i, 41 
—— proserpina.............. V. 13 | i. 31, 11. 323 |) Lycomorpha mexicana ........ VIII 1 | : i, 41 
——(?) hades .............. LXIX. 16 ii. 823 |) —— rata .............. 088. LXX. 13 | ii, 331 
geliformis, 6 ...........- Vv. 12 i. 32 anacreont..........66.. VI. 4 i, 41 
—_— QD cece cceeecees Vv. 17 i, 32 || —— marginata .............. LXX. 14 | i.41, ii. 331 
OVINIA 6... ee ee ee eee LXVIII. 9 ii. 324 0) LXX. 15 i, 831 
Melittia butleri .............. Vv. 15 | i, 32, ii. 324 | —— notha.................. LXX. 16 ii, 331 
smithi ...........-.265 LXIX. 17 ii, 8324 || —— basirei ................ LXX. 18 ii. 331 
beckerl ...........+..-- LXIX. 18 ii. 325 |, —— semifulva .............. LXX. 19 il. 332 
Tirista argentifrons .......... Vv. 14 i. 83 || —— augusta, 6 .........0.. LXX. 17 i. 332 
praxila .............06- LXVITI. 7 i, 3825 TOQI@ 6... ce eee eee LXX. 20 il, 332 
Sincara phyllis .............. Vv. 18 i. 33 || Histicea meldole ............ VI. 14 i, 42 
cambyses ...........4-- Vv. 19 i. 33 || Syntomedia vulcana ..... sees LXxX. 25 li. 3833 
—— lytea oo... cece cece ees Vv. 20 | 1,33, ii. 325 Joda ..... ee eee cece ee LXXI 15 il, 333 
manilia ...........500.- LXIX 19 ii. 325 || Eupyra pincipalis, g .......... LXX. 27 | i. 48, 11. 333 
——— MHONIA .. ee eee LXIX 20 ii, 325 Corydon ........ eee eee VI. 18 | 1. 44, ii. 333 
manoba .........-...56. LXIX 21 ii, 326 dama .................. LXX. 24 | il, $34 
Tarsopoda marcia ............ LXIX 22 ii, 326 schausi ................ LXX. 21 li, 3834 
Sannina verrugo.............. V. 21 i. 34 || Scena propylea ....... ceeeeee LXX. 26 | li. 334 
korites .......e. eee eeee V. 22 i. 34 || Calonotos trétschi ............ VIII oe i, 44 
metallicus .............. VITt. 2 i. 45 
cucadma ............6. LXX. 22 ii, 335 
AGARISTIDAE. Amycles albomarginata ........ Vil. 26 | 1, 45 
Alypioides walkeri............ LXxX. 1 ii. 326 strigosa .........0.0.6-- VIII. 3 | i, 46, ii, 335 
Alypia disparata, ¢ .......... LXX. 2 li, 32 flavicollis .............. VII. 11 | 1. 46, 11. 335 
Hecatesia falcata, ¢ .......... Vv. 23 i. 35 || Ichoria lycone .............. VI. 9 | 1.47, ii. 335 ~ 
a V. 24 i. 85 (?) parthia .............. LXX. 23 ii, 336 
Diamuna longipes ............ XXX. 18 |i. 334, 11.327 || Pseudosphenoptera demoanassa . LXXI 1 ii. 336 
adrasta ........ cece eeu XXX 20 | 1.334, ii.327 || Macrocneme auripes .......... VI. 15 i, 47 
a XXX 21, 1, 334, cyllarus................ LXXI 2 11. 336 
—— BECSSA ee ee ee eee eee ee , 22 i. 8327 || ——-lole  .............0.06. VI. 17 | 1, 48, ii. 337 | 
ij XXX 23, 1. 334, adonis .........000 eee VI. 16 | i. 48, ii. 337 
TT RN nnn eee eee es " L] 24 ii, 827 || —— cinyras ................ LXXI 4 ii, 337 
Clitis primulina .............. XXX. 25 | 1.335, ii. 327 hesion€ ...............- LXXI 3 | ii. 337 
Euthisanotia sancte-johannis LXX. 8 li. 828 evelina .............04. VIII 4 | i, 48, ii. 837° 
——— COSTA, Qo... eee eae LXX. 4 ii. 328 || Callicarus laconia ............ Vi. 18°, i. 49, ii. 338 
Laquea argentata ............ LXX. 5 ii. 329 misitra, 5 .........2 008. LXXxI 6 ii. 338 
jalapensis, 9 ............ LXXI 7. li. 338 
; Mastigocera calvipes .......... VI. 20 | i. 49, ii. 339 
AYGENIDE. wdipus VI. 19 | 4.49, ii. 339 
Procris thyana .............. VI. 7 i. 37 || Isanthrene echemon .......... VI. 22 | i. 50 
-——— thyesta ......... Lenses VI. 6 1. 37 championi .............. VIII 6 | i, 50, 11. 339 
~—— landia oo... . eee eee eee LXX. 6 ii. 829 crabroniformis .......... VI. 23 | i. 51 
--—— barne@ ...........0006. LXX. 3 li, 329 | Homoocera rodriguezi ........ LXXI 5 ii, 340 
Pseudoprocris gracilis ........ VI. 3 i. 38 beatrix .............04. VI. 25 i. 51, ii. 340 
Seryda megalops ............ VI. 5 | 1. 38, ii. 330 sahacon ................ LXXI 8. ii. 340 
Urodus ruficollis.............. VI. 11 i. 389 SAMINA 1.6... 6... eae LXXI 9. ii. 340 
dyraspes ...........0-- LXX. 7 ii. 330 | Sarosa pompilina ............ VI. 24 - i. 52 
Harrisina cirama ............ LXX. 12 | 1. 40, ii. 3830 || Erruca azia§ ................ VI. 21 = i. 58, ii. 340 
guatemalena* .......... VI. 10 i. 40 || Myrmecopsis crabronis ........ VIII 9 i, 54 
charaX 2... eee e ee eee: LXX. 9 ii. 330 | Sphecosoma fasciolatum........ VI. 26 | i. 54, ii, 341 


* Aglaope guatemalena on the Plate. 
+ Procris cenniana on the Plate. 


t Procris anacreon on the Plate. 
§ Homeocera azia on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. 


Xili 


Plate Fig. Page. Plate Fig. Page. 
Sphecosoma testaceum ........ VI. 27 i. 54  Trichura esmeralda .......... VII. 4 i. 65 
Gymnelia gigantea............ VIII 5 | i. 54, ii, 341 | ribbei.... 20... .. 0.0.0.0 ae VIII. 15 i. 65 
xenodorus .............. VIL. 1 | 1. 55, 11.341 | Neotrichura penates .......... LXXII 10 il, 350 
Lemocharis stryma .......... VII. 5 | i, 55, ii. 341 , Syntrichura placida .......... VIL. 8 i, 66 
MASA... ee ee eee LXXI 10 ii. 341 reba ....... cece ee ees LXXiII. 7 ii, 350 
~—— hereyna..............5. VIL. 6 i, 55 philocles .............. LXXII. 9 ii, 350 
-——(?) MOX ...... ee eee eee LXXI 11 ii. 341 || Napata leucotelus ............ VI. 24 | i. 66, ii. 350 
Gymnopoda subflamma ........ Vill 10 i. 56 guatemalena ............ LXXII 6 1. 66, ii, 351 
mecrida................ LXXI 12 ii. 342 | Chloropsinus potentia ........ LXXII 12 | ii, 351 
Thrinacia sanguinea .......... VII. 9 1. 56 | Procalypta victorina .......... VU. 16. i. 67 
prometina .............. LXX1 13 ii. 342 | Pterygopterus leucomelat...... VIII. 7. i. 67, 11. 351 
intermedia.............. LXXI 14 | 1.56, ii. 342 | clavipennis ............ LXXII 11 i. 351 
— ruatana ................ LXXI 17 ii, 342 | Antichloris viridis ............ VII. 25 i. 68 
Pseudocharis nenia .......... VI. 12 1. 57 panacea, d  ..... see ee VITI. 17- i. 68 
sithon .............0.. VII. 7 | 1.57, ii, 842 ruatana .............05. LXXII 14 | ii, 351 
Pheia intensa................ VII. 16 i. 57 | Eriphia tractipennis .......... VII. 27 i. 69 
Cosmosoma aleus ............ LXXI L6 i. 344 
protus ....... ee ee eee LXXI 19 ii. 344 Sper 
drucei* .........cce cess VIL. 13 | i, 59, ii. 344 “A ROTHD As. | 
ethodeea...........0.2.. LXXI 20 ii. 344 || Aclyptia conspicua............ VIII. 23 | i. 70, ii. 352 
S52 X¢) | VII. 14 i, 59 rufiventris.............. LXXII. 13 il, 352 
—-advena ...........0.00. VII. 15 | 1.59, ii. 344 moloneyl .............. LXXII 16 ii, 352 
—— myrrha ................ VIl. 10 i. 59 | Charidea costaricensis§ ........ VIII. 20 i. 71 
hector .......... 0.000. VII. 17 i. 60 || —~— xenodice, ¢ .........0.. VII 18 i. 72 
gurcherl....-.....0000e LXXI. 18 ii. 845 |} ———-—,Q2  ..........006. Vit. 19 i. 72 
—— pudica,? .............. LXXI. 21 ii, 345 griseldis................ VIII. 21 i. 72 
——impar ................ LXXI. 22 | 1. 60, ii. 345 1 LXXIT. 15 ii. 353 
vernanat ........000 eee Vil. 20 | i. 60, ii. 346 || Pseudocharidea eion, 3 ........ LXXII 26 ii. 353 
METS... 0... ee ee eee eee LXXI. 23 ii. 346 || Acreagris togata ............ VI. 8 1. 73 
Tlipa unxa .................. LXXI. 24 ii. 346 || Metriophyla alpha|| .......... VITl. 24 1. 73 
Dycladia mexicana............ VII. 2 | 1.61, i. 346 | Heliura pyrrhosoma .......... LXXII 19 li. 354 
lydia 2... 2... eee eee eee LXXI. 25 ii, 346 || Automolis grandis ............ VII. 25 i. 75 
—— thera.................. LXXI. 26 ii, 347 lucinia .... 2.2.2... 008, VIil. 26 i. 75 
demona ................ LXXI. 29 ii. 347 || —— teniataG .............. VII. 27 | 1.75, ii. 354 
—— vittata ................ VII. 21 | i. 61, ii. 347 nabdalsa, @ ............ LXXII. 21 ii, 355 
iMitata .....e cece ee eee VII. 23 | i. 62, ii. 347 ||] —— orbona, S ............4.. LXXII 20 ii, 555 
—— pyrgion ..............., VII. 22 i, 62 parma, So... eee eee ee LXXII 17 ii, 355 
flaviventris ............ VITI. 12 i, 62 || —— tegyra .............0.4. LXXII 24 i. 385 
augusta .......... sees VIL. 19 | i. 62, ii. 347 salma, S «1... eee eee ee LXXII 23 ii. 355 
semifulva .............. VIII. 11 | i. 62, 11.348 | Ischnognatha godmani ........ IX. 1 i. 76 
—-- utl@a ...............0.. LXXI. 28 ii. 348 || Cratoplastis romula, ¢ ........ LXXII 22 li. 356 
—— pyrrha .............4.. LXXI. 27 ii. 348 || Pionia undulata .............. IX. 3 | 1.77, 11. 356 
—— MOra .... 1. eee ee ee LXXII. 8 ii. 348 affinis...... ee eee eee eee IX. 4 | 1.77, 11. 356 
——felderi ................ Vit. 18 | 1. 63, ii. 348 elegans ..........--005- IX. 6 | i. 78, 11. 356 
ladan..............005, LXXII. 2 ii. 348 striata ........ 0. eee IX. 5 i. 78 
Pheenarete diana ............ LXXII. 1 li, 349 TACR cece cece eevee LXXII 18 ii, 356 
Argyroeides eurypon .......... VII. 3 | 1. 64, ii. 349 || Belemnia jovis .............. VITl. 22 | i. 78, ii. 357 
laurion ..........0. 000. VIII. 13 i, 64 trotschi, Sw. wee eee ee ee LXXITI 25 li, 357 
——menephron ............ VIII. 14 i. 65 Qe cece cece eee LXXII. 27 ii. 857 
—— minuta ................ LXXII. 3 ii. 349 || Sutonocrea tripunctata ........ IX. 2 i. 79 
——— M024 .......... eee eee LXXII. 4 ii, 349 || Epanycles gigantea .......... IX. 7 | 1,80, ii, 358 
—— (?) faveria .............. LXXII. 5 ii. 349 || Metastatia ossa ..........00.4. LXXIII 1 li, 359 


Cosmosoma impar on the Plate. 


Cosmosoma elegans on the Plate. 


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+ Pterygopterus superbus on the Plate. 


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§ Charidea arogans, var. costaricensis on the Plate. 


|| Heliura alpha on the Plate. 


{ Automolis imitata on the Plate, 


Xiv . LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
Philoros rnficeps...........+.- IX. 8 i. 82 || Halisidota cedon .......-.--- LXXIV. 1k ii, 372 
Ctenucha affinis, 6 .....----. LXXITI. 3 | 1. 83, 11.359 | -—— jalapa  ..........---0 6 LXXIV. 12 ii, 3872 
azteca ok. ee ee eee LXXIII. 2 ii. 360 | ——(?) eurygania........---- LXXIV. 14 ii. 372 
(?) dolens .......... ...| LUXXITI. 4 ii. 360 | semirufa ....---+ seers LXXIV. 10 li. 373 
Scepsis salatis............0005 LXXITT. 5 ii. 360 || Pheegoptera mansueta .....-.. X. 1 1. 94 | 
pollinia .... 0.6... eee LXXIII. 8 ii, 860 | —-— daraba ..........---05- LXXIV. 15 il. 374 | 
Theages lencophea............ IX. 9 | i. 84, ii. 861 || —— rhoda.............----- LXXIV.: | 17 li. 375 
striata 6... eee ee eee LXXIII. 9 ii. 361 0 xX. 9 | i, 95, ii, 375 
Eucereon amadis ............ LXXIII. 10 ii, 362 || —— hyalina .........+----6: LXXIV. 16 li. 375 
myrina ........ ‘nee seaee IX. 10 | i, 84, ii. 362 superba ........--- Lees xX, 2 | i. 95, ii. 375 
tripunctatum............ IX, 12 | 1. 85, 11. 362 proba... ... 2. eee eee eee LXXIV 20 ii. 375 | 
——— myrtusa...... eee eee LXXITI. 14 | i. 85, ti. 8362 | ——- masoni ................ LXXIV. 19 li. 376 
——— maia .........- eee eee IX. 13 | 1. 86, ii. 363 triphylia 2.1.0... .2- eee LXXIV. 18 il. 376 
Jeria 2... eee eee eee IX. 14 | i. 87, ii. 368 || Ecpantheria trebula, ¢ ........ X. 3 | 1.97, il. 376 
—— minutum, gd ......--.-6- LXXITI. 7 | i. 87, i. 868 n° ra LXXV. 1 1i. 376 
lutetia .......... tenes IX. 11 i, 88 || ——- decora ..........00 eee XxX. 6 i. 97 
TOQEVSL 2... eee ee ee ee IX. 15 1, 88 | -—— cotyora, do... cee eee eee xX, 4 | 1.97, ii 377 | 
——— promathides ........... LXXITI. 6 ii. 363 Qe cee eee fo OX. 5 | 97, 0. 377 
pometina ...........6.. LXXIII. 11 ii, 363 || Arachnis pompeia, d .......--- LXXV. 2 li. 37 
——— darantasia............-. LXXIil. 12 ii. 863 Qe rece eee eeee LXXV. : 3 ii. 377 
———-rububa ............005- LXXITI. 17 li, 364 VAV G6) Og a ~~ LXXV. | 5 | ii. 378 
-——— patrona ..... 0.2.0... LXXII. | 13 ii. 864 || —— rr LXXV. 8 ii. 378 
demonis,@ ............ LXXITI. 15 li. 364 confusa ...........0 000s LXXV. 7 | 1.99, ii. 378 
Phragmatobia albicosta ........ LXXITI. 18 | i. 88, ii. 364 suffusa, Q ........0-0 eee LXXV. 11 ii. 378 
Hyaleucerea vulnerata, 9 ...... LXXIII. 16 i. 365 amulaensis ............ LXXV. 4 ii. 378 
Thysanoprymna superba ...... LXXIIT. | 19 ii, 865 tenebra, Q 6... ee ee eee LXXV. 6 ii. 378 
Gippius sumptuosus .......... _ IX. ..- |-16 | i. 88, 11. 3865 perotensis, ¢  .......... LXXYV. 9 ii. 378 
| Evius lineatus .............. - IX. 17 i. 89 || ——- martina............. ...) DXXy. 12 i. 379 
walkeri ..........00.00- LXXIT. | 21 ii. 365 mishma .......-.-.ee0es LXXV. 10 ii. 379 
Idalus crinis ...........6.05.- IX. | 18 | 1. 89, ti. 366 | Carales obscurata ............ X. 7 | i. 99, ii, 379 | 
: eritheis ...........-..-- IX, 19 i. 89 euchetiformis .......... LXXV. 13 ii. 379 | 
herois ...... eee ee eee LXXIITI. 20 li. 866 divina, Go... cece ees LXXV. 14 il. 379 | 
dares ....... been e eee eee LXXIII. | 28 ii. 366 || —— phryganoides............ LXXV. 15 ii. 379 | 
alba .........6... eee LXXIMil. 22 i. 366 Utica 2... eee eee eee LXXV. 17 ii. 380 | 
Neritos flavo-roseus .......... LXXIII. | 25 | i. 90, ii. 8367 || Bertholdia albipuncta, ¢ ......| UXXYV. 16 ii. 380 | 
laodamia .............. IX. 20 i. 90 Qc ae eee e eens LXXV. 18 ii. 380 [ 
ASANA. see cece ee eee eee IX. 21 | i, 90, ii. 867 | —— philotera, d ............ LXXV. 19 ii. 380 | 
chozeba ...........-.--- IX. 22 i. 90 SQ cece cece eens LXXV. 21 ii. 380 
amastris, 6 ...-... eee ee IX, 23 | i. 90, 11.367 || Graphea marmorea .......... LXXY. 20 ii. 881 
ao 9 Q ence c eee eeee LXXITI. 26 ii. 367 || Pseudapistosia saduca, S ......) LUXXVIL-|] 1 ii. 381. | 
COLES 2. ee eee eee eee LXXITI. 24 li. B67 |} —-——-—, 2 ws ee eee ee nee LXXVI. z ii. $81 | 
|——tipolis ................ LXXIII. | -27 ii. 367 || Opharus albipunctatus ........ xX. > 11 |i. 102, ii. 882 
samos ................/ UXXIV. |- 1 ii. 368 mundator .............. xX. 10 i. 102 
Scaptius ditissimus............ LXXTV. 2 ii, 868 || —— ruficollis .............. X. 8 i. 102 
Rhipha vittipes .............. LXXIV. |: 4 ii, 8368 || —— tristis................-.. LXXVI. 3 ii. 382 
Elysius conspersus ............ IX, 25 i. 91 || —— linus .................. LXXVI. 4 i. 382 
Ammalo thrailkii ............ LXXIV. 21 ii. 369 belus ............00008- LXXVI. 5 ii. 882 
Mazeras ipsea ............0- IX. 24 | 1.91, ii. 369 Jacoa .. 6. eee eee eee LXXVI. 6 ii. 382 
Amaxia juvenis .............. LXXIV. 3) ii. 369 | Anaxita drucei ..........6... LXXVI. 8 11. 383 | 
CTEON ee. eee eee eee eee LXXIV. 6 ii. 369 || Esthema euploeoides .......... X. 12 i. 103 
PYTAION .. 6... ee ee LXXIV. 7 | 1.91, ii. 370 | Eucyane anacharsis .......... X.: 18 i. 104 } 
Castrica owenl ............6. LXXIV. 13 li. 370 ninonia ...........6.--. xX | 138 1, 104 
Zatrephes philobia............ LXXIV. 8 ii. 370 ; - 16, . 
(2) pronapides .......... LXXIv. 3 ii. 370 | excellens ............4. X { 17 1.104 | 
Halisidota labaca .......... ..{ LXXIV. ) ii, 371 |} —— arcwi, d .... ee eee eee X. 14 11. 104, ii. 383 
atra oe eeee eee ee IX, 26 | 1. 92, 11. 871 || —— Orr LXXVI. 12 ii, 383 
albiguttata ............ IX 27 | i. 98, ii. 871 || ——- phoenicides ............ xX 15 1.1085, ii. 8383 


LIST OF PLATES. XV 
Plate Fig Page. Plate. Fig. | Page. 
Composia fidelissima* ........ XI. 1 |i, 1085, ii. 884 Lit ; 
Phaloésia saucia, 9 .......... XI. 2 11.105, ii. 3884 PEEOSITD 2. 
Acribia maculifrons ..... vee XI. 3 /1.106, 11. 384 || Chrysocale magnifica .......... XI. 10 | i.121, ii. 394 |. 
Phaloé gaumeri, g............ XI. + 1i,107,i1. 385 | Apistosia metella ............ XII. 6 1.121, ii. 394 
aD Lecce cece eeee XI, 5 11.107, ii. 385 s\lla ....... 2. eee eee XII. 8 1.122, 11.394 
——-— verania, S  ............ XI. 7 | 1.107, ii. 385 CUNA 2... eee eee XIl. 90 i, 122 
helotes, Q.............. XI. 8 i. 108 || Lerina incarnata ............ LXXVII. | 14_ ii. 394 
—~ trotschi, 9 ............ XI. 9 |1.108, 11.385 | Tuina cingulata§ ............ XII. 11 i, 122, i1. 394 
cerealia, ¢  ............ LXXVI ai ii. 3885 sangala || ............-- XII. 12 | i, 122 - 

. ny Dee eee XI. 6 |i. 108, 11.385 |) Coementa timon .............. VI. 1 1, 12¢ 
Pericopis jansoni, d .......... XI. 10 i. 109 MOMIO.. ee ee ee eee VI. 2. i. 123 
-eerialis, J... 0... XI. 11 i, 110 || Cisthene polyzona ............ XII. 131.128, 11. 395 
——. > PQ cece cece eevee XI. 12 1.110 Citrina .... 1... ee eee XII. 14 1. 124 
cotta, So... ee ee eee LXXVI 9 ii, 385 CYLON... eee eee XII. 16 1, 124, 11. 895 
—— lygdamis, d . .......... XI. 17 i. 111 || Odozana floccosa.............. XII. 18 | i. 124 
eydon, Sv... cece eee eee LXXVI 14 ii, 386 hereyna ...... 0.2... eee XII. 17 |i. 124, ii, 395 
——— es Pe eee eee, LXXVI 15 ii. 386 elis... 2. eee ae | XII. 19 | i. 125 
pratides, ¢ ........0.0. LXXVI 13 ii. 386 || —— cordatula .............. XII. 20 | i, 125 
leda, S ..... eee eee eee XI. 13 i, 111 hippona..............6. XII, 15 1, 125 
tibesis, d ..........00., XI. 14 /i.111, ii. 386 || Talara pelopia .............. XII. 21 | 1, 125 
——— Pee ee eee ee. XI. 15 |i. 111, ii. 386 || Pseudotalara chrysippa ........ XII. 22 i. 126 
gaumerl, ¢ ............ LXXVI 10 li. 386 || Brycea disjuncta.............. XII. 23 i, 126 
—— sD cece eee c evens LXXVI 11 11. 386 Cynara ........ 0. eee LXXVII 16 li. 395 
arem@ ...........0005. XI. 16 i, 111 estla .. 00... ee eee eee LXXVIT 17 li. 395 
. See e ee eee CX li. 396 
montezuma, QF ........ LXXVII. a: \ 1. 387 cea Seen ixeviT i ii Bog 
howardi, d ............ LXXVIT. | 24 li. 387 semirosea .............. LXXVII 20 il. 396 
daphne ................ XT. | 1 i. 113 Mirma .............-.. LXXVII 22 il, 396 
——umbra ............... XT. 2 11.118, 11. 887 feronia ............2005 LXXVII 21. 1. 396 
-— felderi ................ XII. 4 i. 114 | Ruscino latifasciata .......... XII. 24 11.127, 11.396 
Salvini ....... eee eee XII. 3 i. 114 cynossema.............. LXXVII. | 23 li. 397 
Isostola superba.............. XI. 5 11. 115, ii. 388 Cypris..... 0... eee ee UXXVIT. | 5 ii, 397 
Gnophela morrisonit ........ XI. 7 i. 116 praxis ........... 2.00 LXXVIII. 4 li. 397 
——- epicharis, ¢ .......0..... LXXVII. 1 ii, 388 || -—— prusias ................ LXXVIII. 2 i. 397 
Spilosoma orizaba ............ LXXVILI. 4 ii. 389 || Mesenochroa rogersif] ........ XII. 25 i. 128 
Robinsonia grotel ............ LXXVII. 2 }i1.117, 1.390 || Ptychoglene xylophila ........ XIII. 1 |i. 129, ii. 398 
—— sabata ................ LXXVIT. 5 i. 390 pertunda ....... wee ee LXXVITI. 3 li. 398 
deiopea .............04. LXXVII. 9 ii. 390 || —— phrada .......... ee LXXVIII. 1 ii. 398 
SANCA.. 1. eee eee ee LXXVII. 3 ii, 390 pomponia .............. LXXVITI. 8 1. 398 
Salleea lacipea, ¢ ............ LXXVII. 6 li. 391 0 LXXVIII, 6 ii. 398 
-- » Qe cece cee eees LXXVII. 7 ii, 391 pamphylia.............. LXXVIII. | 10 ii. 399 
Heraclia rodriguezi .......... LXXVII. | 12 i. 392 || Boenasa polyphron............ LXXVIII. | 9 1. 399 
Hoplarctia (?) hodeva.......... DXXVIT. | 15 ii. 3892 | Lithosia mexicana, g ........ XIII. 2 i. 131 
Euchetes pelopea ............ LXXVII. | 8 ii. 393 9 QD cece cece eens XIII. 3 i, 131 
Cyenia(?) raspa, ¢ .......... LXXVII. | 11 li, 393 laudamia, d ............ _ XIII. 4 11,181, ii. 400 
—— lephassa, d ............ LXXVII. | 10 ii. 393 cecina .............40- LXXVIII, | 7 | ii. 400 
, ——— TAQ“UA.... eee ee eee LXXVIII. | 12 ii. 400 
CHALcostIp.x VA Va LXXVIII. | 11 ii. 400 
° ——— tyres ... eee ee eee LXXVIII. | 14 ii. 400 
Gingla radialis .............. NIT. 26 i, 120 (?) cytherea ............ LXXVIII. | 18 li. 401 
josialis ..............., XII. 27 i, 120 || Atolmis flavicollis ............ XII. 6 |i, 132, 11.401 
tortricalis .............. XII. 28 i, 120 | Areva leptalina ....... ...... XIIi. 5 i, 133 
—— equalis ................ LXXVII. | 13 ii. 393 tolteca 2.6... . eee eee LXXVIIT. | 15 i. 401 


* Composia olympia on the Plate. 
+ Fig. 25 is incorrectly marked ¢ on the Plate, 


~ Gonophela morrisoni on the Plate. 


§ Lunia cngulata on the Plate, 


|| Lunia sangala on the Plate. 
“| Mesenochia rogerst on the Plate. 


Xvi LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
| Eurylomia ochreata .......... LYRVI i i. 1 
' Cydosia phedra, d .......... . | l ii. 402 

Eubaphe marginata bocce eee XIII. 8 |i. 186, ii. 402 Dropripz. 

Eudule conformis ............ XIII. 9 |i.137, ii. 403 || Laurona chthonophyle ........ XIV. 17 | 1. 156, ii. 408 
tripunctata .........65. XIII. 10 i, 188 || Dioptis candelaria ............ XIV. 16 1. 157 
daxata ........-e cena LXXVIII. | 17 ii. 403 |) Astyochia crane, ¢ .......... XIV. 18 1, 158 
lineata ........ 0... eee XIII. 11 i, 138 SET ee XIV. 19 1, 158 
rhotana ...........-000- LUXXVIIT. | 18 li. 403 faula ........ 02. eee eee XIV. 28 i. 158 

Leptidule medea* ............ XIII. 12 | 1.189, ii. 403 || Tithraustes hemon............ XIV. 20 i. 158 

Euphanessa pauper .......... LXXVIII. | 20 ii, 403 deiphon................ XIV. 25 i. 159 

Autoceras(?) phelina T........ XI. 13 i. 139 || Polypoetes deldon ............ XIV. 24 i. 160 

Eustixis minimat ............ LXXVIII. | 22 ii. 404 || —— etearchus .............. XIV. 23 i. 160 

Nola patella .........-...005 XIII. 14 i. 139 || —— maximus, ¢ ............ LXXVIII. | 31 ii. 409 
philodina .............. XIII. 15 i. 139 villia, Sw... ee eee eee LXXVIII. | 35 ii. 409 

-—— ophrydina .............. XIII. 16 i. 140 ||) —— creon.................. XIV. 22 i, 161 

——— minuta .............4.. XIIl. 17 |i. 140, 11. 404 eCYYMAS .. 1... ce eee ee XIV. 21 i. 161 

-—— melicerta .............. XITI. 18 |i. 140, ii.404 | Phanoptis vitrina ............ XIV. 26 i. 162 
patind ... ec. eee ee XIII, 19 | 1.140, ii. 404 || Stenele lutescens ............ XIV. 27 i. 162 
terulosa .......-..0 sees XIII. 21 i. 141 
vulgaris .............04- XIII. 22 i, 141 
cernitis ............000. LXXVIII. | 19 ii. 404 

Emene plumatella............ XIII. 20 i, 141 L 

IPARIDZ. 
Agarea minuta, d .......... LXXIX. 2 ii. 410 
MBLAMERIDZ, Biturix venosata.............. LXXIX. 4 | in, 382, 410 

Oricia truncata ............-- XITI. 23 | 1.142, 11.404 || Penora onaba, 9 ............ XV. 2 i. 164 

Hiera gyge ..... 6. eee ee ee eee XIV. 10 i, 142 as rr XV. 3 i. 164 

Virbia thersites ........0..6.. XITl. 24 i, 144 ombrea .........44. wees XV. 8 i, 165 

Sagaris hore ..........---+6- XII. 25 | 1.144, ii.405 || Xenosoma nigromarginatum .... XV. 4 i. 165 

Actea (?) draconis .......5+6-. XIV. 6 i, 145 giganteum ........ vee ees LXXIX. 1 ii, 410 

Ephialtias enoides ............ XIV. 1 i. 146 nicander .............. XV. 6 i. 165 
peba .... cee ee ere eeee LXXVIIT. | 23 ii. 405 || Caviria substrigosa............ XV. 1 i. 166 
ijaire ....... pee e eee ceee XIitT. 26 i. 147 || Archylus guttifascia .......... XV. 14 i, 166 
ATIACA oe eee eee eee eee XIII. 7 i. 147 mexicanus............-- LXXIX, 5 ii. 410 
superba .......-..e 2 eee LXXVIII. | 21 i, 405 | —— tener .................. LXXIX. 6 ii. 411 
coatepeca, d...... seen LXXVIII. | 24 ii. 406 | Carama plumosa.............. XV. 7 (i, 168, ii. 411 

Darna splendens.............. XIV. 2 i, 147 (?) argentea, 9 .......... LXXIX., 3 ii, 411 

Hagnagora catagrammina...... XIV. 3, 4 1.148 || Orgyia faleata, ¢ ............ LXXIX. 7 ui. 411 | 

Josia decorata..... 0... eee eee XIV. 5 i. 149 coresla, GO .....e eee eee LXXIX. 8 li, 412 
gigantea, Q ............ LXXVIII. | 25 ii, 406 || EKacles magnifica.............. XV. 13 11.169, ii. 412 

Flavinia intercepta............ XIV. 8 i, 151 || —— mexicana, d............ XV. 11 | 1.169, ii, 412 
velata....... pene ee eens XIV. 9 i, 151 || —— splendens, ¢...,......... XV. 12 | 1.169, ii. 413 

Pseudomennis coccinea ........ XIV. 11 i. 152 || —— 1 DQ cece cececceecs LXXIX. 11 i. 413 

Nelo chrysomela...,.......... XIV. 7 i, 153 || —— osmondei, ¢............ LXXIX. | 10 ii. 413 

Evagra jalifa ..... eee een eeee XIV. 15 i. 158 masoni, d...........4-- LXXIX. 9 ii, 413 
ribbei.........ceeee. .. XIV. 14 i. 153 azteca, So ...e cc cece eee LXXX, L ii, 413 

. 12, ; ATOR, Do Le eee cece eee ee LXXX. 4 ii. 413 
(Hnotrus striatus ............ XIV. | 13 \ 1, 154 Dryocampa dissimilis, ¢ ...... XV. 9 11.170, ii. 413 
. 26, . Qc eee eee eens XV. 10 |i. 170, ii, 413 
—— mamitas seer eeee ere e es UXXVIL. { 27 } ii, 40; assimilis, S|... . s,s... XV. 5 i, 170 
28, +» 4ne || Adelocephala boisduvali, 9 .... XVI. | i, 171 
splendens, ¢.......0.00- LXXVIIL. { } ii. 407 ne posses Bonn) ay , iim 
a) X00): LXXVIII. | 30 ii, 407 hogeil, So... eee ee een XVI. 9 i. 172 
Melanchroia phoebe .......... LXXVIII. | 32 ii, 408 | Coloradia clazomenia, @ ...... XVI. 3) i, 173 
. ; , 33, a marathusa, ¢ .......... XVI. 3 i. 173 
monticola .............. LXXVIII. { 34 | ii. 408 —_ 2... vor XVI ‘4 173 

* Lepidule medea on the Plate. t Eustixia minima on the Plate. 


+ Melania phelina on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. XVil 
Plate. Fig. Page. Plate Fig. Page 
SATURNIIDE. Dirphia citrina, ¢ ............ XX. 6 i. 194 
mae “6 
| Copaxa multifenestrata, var., 9 | LXXX. 6 (1.178, i1,415 | hégel, $ sete sess e. u : tog 
syntheratoides, d........ LXXX. 5 ii. 415 rosea, Gol, XX. |r 14.198. $i. 426 
trotschi, ¢  ........ eee XVII. 3 /1,174, ii, 416 ? 9 x ; 3 7 198, 496 
denda, Sees ieee eee ees rxxx | 3 i v6 | —— menander, dos... XX. 9 i. 196 
arene anna ; aie meonia, Gee eee eee es LXXXV. .| 3 ii, 426 
Automeris nopaltzin, Q  ...... LXXXI 3 ui. 417 Hylesia alinda, g XX 3 14.197. ii. 427 
moloneyl, d ..------ ++: LXXXT : n 417 acuta 3 .. XX. 1 fi. 197, ii. 427 
— PP reese ree LXXXI 2 HealT <-eeeereeee XX. 2 14,197, ii. 427 
——randa, o .............. LXXXI 4 il. ALG (?) lineata, Xx 4 5197 
—_ QD cece cece aee LXXXI 5 ii, 417 ; Q 7 Ort eters XX. 5 . 197 
—— banus, Sowers eerie AL 5 : i Oxytenis lonomica, ¢ ........ XXI. 1 i. 198 
_ PB perce trees ee es TTT ‘ we malecena, d ........... XXI. 2 i, 198 
—— zurobara, 9 ............ XVII 2 1.17% beprea | XXI 3. 4 «199 
—— cecrops, Sess eee eee XVI. (1.178, 0 417 Lonomia electra, ¢ .......... XXI. 7 i. 199 
—— averna, 2 .............. XVIT 4 i, 17 XXI 8 199 
——— boucardi, do... s+ ss sees XVI ° ys 178, ii. 418 concordia 3 oo, owe, XXL 6 |i. 200, ii. 427 
TT Bee avi 6 4.178, it co cluacina, ¢ ............ XXI. 5 i. 200 
TT Baganay Sve veer seen ‘ roa wneides, do... eee eee LXXXV. 4 ii. 427 
— ovine, Q ...-.....0 ees XVII. 8 11.179, 1.418 LXXXV 5 4 497 
is ‘ oe 9 DQ cece cece eae 
saturata, J -- ++. sees XVII. 9 i. 179 Metanastria mexicana, d ...... XXI. 9 i. 201 
—— daudiana, d .-.......... LXXXI 8 ii. 418 |) ~ XX1 10 20] 
ars Svvrerree rec enees aT ; } 180 Gloveria venerabilis, fg ........ LXXXV 7 11,202, ii. 428 
—— belti, doe. eee rere eee xvi 5 180 edwardsi®, ¢ .......... XXIL | 18 |i. 202, 4. 428 
ene LXXXI 6 1.181 i 418 yD cece c eee eens XXII 19 |i. 202, 11.428 
Tm XNI 6 i igo i aig | Lebeda championi, ¢ ........ XXII L i. 208 
——— Mendosa, Poss - +e esse. 2 |} DOE, Mg | Hutricha conradti, g....... LXXXKV. | 9 ii, 428 
—— phrynon, 5 .--- sss sees LXXXI i, 41 crossed, So. eee LXXXV. | 6 ii. 429 
—— orneates, Ss. sss sees LXXXU. | 1 i, 419 denda, 9 ......s 00s eee. LXXXV. | 10 ii, 429 
% copter LXXXIT 2 il. 419 NOX, GS vce e cee eee eee LXXXV 8 ni. 429 
Euleucopheus mania, d ...... LXXXIT A li. 420 Lasiocampa thyatira, ¢ ...... XXIL 9 = 903 
Ee LXXXIT. | 6 i, 420 | tolype levana, 2. ewe... eee LXXXVI. | 1 ii. 430 
norba, Sos. erere ene UXXXI. | 4 Hi, 420 deboma,@ ............ LXXXVI. | 3 ii, 430 
ns a tr | 3 nae hemira, d...... see. ee. LXXXVI. | 2 ii, 430 
ares, Fenner s rexel 4 ney caieta, Qo... eee eee LXXXVI. | 5 ii, 430 
OX, Sverre errr cee ee es ixxxin | i 'go1_|| Gasina tympania, ¢ .......... LXXXVI, j 4 ii, 431 
uma, J oves sees eee eres TXXXIL | 10 yap] radiata, So... se eee eee LXXXVI. | 6 ii, 431 
rr ue agdamea, g ..........-. LXXXVI. | 7 ii, 431 
: nitria, Go... ee eee LXXXII 9 ii. 421 ° LXXXVI 8 43] 
Antherwa chapata, ¢ ........ XIX. 1 |i. 185, il. 421 agesistrata, 3 _ ; srs LXXXVL 9 43D 
Arsenura arcel, Bice eneee XIX 2 i, 185 ° 9 . _ : LXXXVI 10 439 
ee XIX, 3 i. 185 trujillo, ¢...... 00... ee. LXXXVI. | 11 ii, 432 
——(?)championi .......... XVIII 4 i. 186 o LXXXVL | 12 439 
richardsoni ............ LXXXITI 1 ii. 421 lapena 3 a nn ° LXXXVL 13 ii, 439 
Attacus(?) ecydippe, d .......- LXXXTIT 2 ii, 423 Coeculia bella Q Sees XXIL 3 5 9005 
Telea aurelia, g........ LXXXITT 3 ii. 423 Hydrias limba Sooo. XXII 4 + 006 
| Metosamia godmani, d ........ LXXXIIT 4 ii, 424 J a 7 | a oo XXIL 5 5 906 
| montezuma, d .......--- LXXXIV 3h ii, 424 larunda ge XXIL 6 14.206. 4.433 
Rhescyntis norax, ¢ .......... LXXXIV Z | 1.192, 11. 424 laronia, ores XXIL. 7 ’ 5 908 
| deceana, «wwe eee LXXXVI. | 14 ii, 482 
Tastocamrip.x. deformis, Q ............ LXXXVI. | 16 ii, 433 
Preptos oropus, 9 ............ LXXXIV. 1 ii, 425 zurcheril, ¢ ............ LXXXVI. | 15 ii, 433 
Ormiscodes nora, 2 .......... LXXXV. 1 ii, 425 castalia, ¢ «wwe LXXXVI. | 17 ii. 433 
manes, ¢ 1... eee ee ee ee LXXXV. 2 li. 426 corcyra, ¢ «1... eee LXXXVI. | 18 ii, 433 
* Gloveria venerabilis on the Plate. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L., March 1900. Cc 


Xvlil ‘LIST OF PLATES. 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Hydrias certima, ¢ .......... LXXXVI. | 19 ii, 433 || Eupalia argentea, 3 .......... XXII. 10 i. 218 
charax, OG .... ccs wees LXXXVI. | 20 ii. 483 extensa, Q .......0.05- LXXXVIII.| 3 li. 448 
cercina, ¢ ..... wee eeee LXXXVI. | 21 ii, 434 | Perola daona ...............- XXIII. 11 | 1.219, 11.448 
lacinia, ¢ ......-. eee eee LXXXVI. | 23 ii. 434 dora .....2.. 0c eee eee XXIII. 12 i. 219 
— 9 QD cee eeee ee egee LXXXVI. | 22 ii, 434 || ——- caria ............002065 XXIII. 13. i. 219 
—— praxithea, g............ LXXXVILI. 1 li. 434 || —— elwa ............ 00085. XXIII. 14 |i. 219, ii. 443 
infernalis, ¢...........- LXXXVII. 2 ii. 484 || ——— ceres, Q ...........04- XXIII. 15 i. 219 
—. A Ora LXXXVII. 3 ii. 434 || —— lacipea, d.............. LXXXVIII.} 2 li. 443 
lyso, Qo... cee eee eee LXXXVITI. 4 ii. 435 || Semyra diversa .............. XXIII. 16 | 1.220, ii. 443 
Ocha lauda, ¢ ........-6-0-- XXII. 12 i. 207 (?) diana ....... 2... ee. XXITI. 17 ' 4, 220 
macerra, Go... eee eee LXXXVII. 5 ii, 435 agemytha, d  .......... LXXXVIII.| 4 ii. 443 
marginata, gd ........-. LXXXVII. | 6 ii. 435 straminea, Q .......... LXXXVIII.| 5 i. 444 
AMISENA.... ee ee eee ee LXXXVII. 7 li. 436 (?) arcuata, d .......... LXXXVIII.; 9 ii. 444 
libnites, Skee ee eee LXXXVII. | 8 ii, 436 || Kulimacodes méschleri ........ LXXXVIII. | 11 il. 444 
albula, ¢ ....... eee eee LXXXVII. | 10 ii. 436 || Prolimacodes triangulifera...... LXXXVIII. | 12 ii, 444 
Trabala(?) fusca .........4.. XXII. 11 |i, 207, 11.436 |) Zanola harpis................ XXIII. 18 |i. 222, ii. 444 | 
drucei*, Q .......-.e-- XXIII. 9 |i, 217, 11.486 || Tarchon felderi, d............ XXIII. 19 ji. 222,11. 444 
——(?) cebrenis, 9 .......... LXXXVII. ; ll ii, 437 Or XXITI. 20 |i. 222, 11. 444 
druceioides, Q .......... LXXXVII..| 9 ii. 437 tanais, Q 6... ee eee LXXXVIII.| 6 ni. 444 
Apatelodes ardeola, 9 ........ XXII. 9 i. 208 ‘corydona, @ ............ LXXXVIII.| 8 ii. 445 
adrastia, G6... ee ee eee XXII. 8 . i, 208 | —— (?) lybia, 9 ............ LXXXVIII. | 10 di. 445 
heptaloba, d..........-- XXII. 10 |i, 209, ii. 437 
——— albipunctata, 6 ........ LXXXVII. | 14 ii. 437 B 
-—— lacetania, 3d .........05. LXXXVII. | 12 |, ii, 487 omer as 
eee eee LXXXVII. | 18 ii, 437 || Hygrochroa casnoniat, d...... XXIII. 25 i, 224 | 
—— diffidens, ¢ ............ LXXXVII. | 15 ii, 488 || Carthara veca, dO ............ XXIII. 21 i, 224 
—-— verena, do... -- ee cae LXXXVII. | 16 11, 438 > Qe cece cence XXITI. 22 i, 224 
—— cima, dw. ee ee eee eee LXXXVII. | 18 ii. 438 lividia, d ............4. XXIII. 23 | 1. 225, 11. 445 
—-—— pandara, Q .......6.... LXXXVII. | 17 ii, 4388 || —— re XXIII. 24 11, 225, 11.445 
Olceclostera azteca, ¢ ........ LXXXVII.. | 19 ii. 488 || —— meevia, do ........-..... LXXXVIII. | 14 il. 446 
—— amoria, d ........ 0 eee LXXXVII. | 22 ii. 439 fe LXXXVIII. | 15 ii, 446 
Anticla ortygia .............. XXIII. 26 1, 225 
CATVA.... ee eee eee XXIII. 27 1. 226 
Limacopip 2. dodona, ¢........00 000, LXXXVIIL | 16 ii. 446 
| Alpis alydda, g ...........--.. XXII. 13 i. 210 || Asthenidia transversaria ...... XXIV. 1 1. 226 © 
—— salacia, Oo... ce ee ee eee XXII. 14 i, 211 
Sibine norba, g...... ce ee eee XXII... 15 i. 211 ; 
lysia, se seve eee. LXXXVII. | 20 ii. 439 DRepanvitp2, 
Echedorus nanus, 9 .......... XXII. 16 |i. 212, ii.440 || Perophora hegewischi, 9 ...... XXIV. 3 11.227, ii. 446 
—— phyllius, gd ............ LXXXVII. | 21 ii. 440 (?) fabia, ¢ 6... eee ee XXIV. 2 i, 227 
Sciathos ribbei, d ............ “LXXXVIII.| 1 ji. 441 || -—— mexicana, 9 ............ LXXXVIII.|} 7 li, 446 
Pinconia coa, Gd ....---e eee LXXXVII. | 23 ii. 441 inscita, DO ...... eee eee, LXXXVIII. | 13 ii. 447 
melinda, 9 ............ LXXXVII. | 24 ii. 441 acuta, do ...... eee eee LXXXVIII. | 17 li. 447 | 
Lagoa ravida ...........0.45- XXII. 17 i, 214 ostia, Q ow. kee ee eee LXXXVITI. | 18 oH, 447 
Parasa laranda, d............ XXIII. 1 i. 215 || Drepana chaonia, 2 .......... XXIV. 7 |i. 228, ii. 447 
: On XXIII. 2 1,215 || Mimallo syrinx, 9............ LXXXVIITI. | 19 li. 447 
—— imitata, d  ..........-.. XXIII. 3 |i. 215, ii. 441 || Trogoptera sao, gd .....- 0.6 LXXXVIITI. | 20 ii. 448 
—~ 5 QD dace ccc ee eee XXIII. _ 4 1,215, ii. 441 rumina, ¢  ............ LXXXVIII. | 22 ii, 448 
Ilaonome, 9 .........-.. XXIII. 5 i. 215 
minima, 9 ............ LXXXVII. | 25 ii, 442 “Coss 
Euclea urba, o ......- 0.00 n. XXIII. 6 i. 216 OsstD 2. 
BY ZI, So cece ec ee eens XXITI. 7 i. 216 | Cossus (?) multipunctata ...... XXIV. 9 i. 230 
oe . i. 217, || Langsdorfia forreri....... leeae XXIV. 5 11, 231, 11. 449 
Vip sania anticlea, g sees XXII. 8 {i 436,442 || Zeuzera cognata, Q .......... XXIV. 6 1. 231 
frigida ...........-000. LXXXVII. | 26 ii. 442 masoni, d.........-..5. LXXXVIITI. | 21 ii. 449 


* Vipsania anticlca on the Plate. 


+ Anthocreca casnonia on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. xix 
Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
ARBELID. . . Heterocampa (?) pyrrha, ¢ . XCI. 4 ii. 459 
! “ype -» » Qo reece cece eee XCI. . a) ii, 459 
Arbela philobia, f: LXXXIX. ( li, 449 Symmerista pinna ............ XXY, 9 i 939 
norax, Gow... eee eee LXXXIX. 6 ii. 450 . . i 
—-manes ..... LXXXIX 8 i. 450 | lineata ...........620.. XXY. 11 |i. 240, ii. 460 
° - Iba, oo... ese eee ee eee _XCT. 3 ii. 460 
—— tacita........ eee ee, LXXXIX 9 ii, 450 anes . vs 
_ xe . 1 4 Rosema ethra, d .....-.....- XXY. 12 |i. 241, ii. 460 
bee eee eee eens . i. 450 thesti: XCI 8 i 4G 
2 eee XC. 4 ii. 450 ostia, J esse eee sees i, 461 
, Cerura rarata, d .....-...... XCI. 7 ii, 461 
dandon, d ............ XCI. 9 ii, 461 
HEpratip2. | —— (?) rhotana, go... 0.00, XCL. 14 ii, 461 
Hepialus pharus, d .......... XXIV. 12 1, 232 tenuis, Jo... eee eee eeee XCL. 16 n. 462 
Dalaca assa..........0. 0000s XXIV. | 10 |i. 239, ii.450 || — y Qe cece eee eee XCI | 18. ii, 462 
obec cece bbeaee LXXXIX 2 ii. 450 || Mouralia annulifera .......... XCI. 10 ii, 462 
occ eee bee ees LXXXIX 3 ii. 451 || Phya dela, dg ..........-0 005. XCI. | 15 ii. 462 
Phassus triangularis .......... LXXXIX. | 1 |i. 233, ii. 451 salona, d .......- 22. eee XCI. 13 li, 462 
phalerus, d ........000- XXIV. 8 |i, 233, ii. 451 || ——— phraortes, d.........-.. XCI. ll ii, 463 
—— championi.............. XXIV. ll i. 233 ee XCI. 12 ii, 463 
—— costaricensis .........e.. XXIV. 4. i, 234 || Notodonta dara ..,........... XCII. 1 ii. 463 
——. marcius .... 0... cee ee ees LXXXIX 4 ii. 451 || Tifama (?) dardania, 9........ XCI. 17 ii. 463 
——smithi ........c.0e000e LXXXIX 5 ii. 452 || Hapigia ribbei .............. XXV. 8 |i. 244, 11. 464 
XOlotl...... ce eee eee XCI. 19 ii. 464 
Notopowrrp.at Lirimiris lignitecta, ¢ ........ XCI. 20 i, 465 
; (?) mephitis, Q.......... XCII. a) ii. 465 
Cecrita remuria, d .......... XC. 5 11,452 || Blera albolineata*, g ........ XXYV. 10 | 1, 245, 11. 465 
(Edemasia seriata, d.......... XXV. 1 |i. 235, ii. 453 |) Crinodes ritsema, gd .......... XCII. 4 | 1.246, 11. 465 
(?) alcimede, d.......... XC. 2 ii, 453 guatemalena, dg ...... XXV. 2 i, 246 
duronia, O ...... eee eee XC. 3 ii. 453 abscondens, ¢ ....1...... XCII. | 7 ii. 466 
terrena, So... ee eee eee XC. 6 ii. 453 || Naprepa cyllotat ............ XXV. 14 |i. 247, n. 466 
xylinata, Q ............ XC. 7 li. 454 pulcheria, g............ XCII. 10 ii. 466 
Schizura tonac ...........00- XC. 8 ii, 454 || Rhuda splendens, d .......... XXV. 13 i. 247 
Dasylophia deba.............. XC. 10 ii. 454 || Nystalea sambana, Q ........ XCIL. | 13 ii, 467 
zethus, 9 ........--008- XC. 11 i. 454 (?)demea, d .... se sae XCII. 12 ii. 467 
Edema mandela.............- XXV. 3 1. 235, ii. 454 sabella, Q..........005. XCII. 2 ni. 467 
lanassa, Go... eee ee eee XC. 9 11.455 || ——~— ——, ¢@ .. eee ee eee. XCII. 6 ii, 467 
—— alata, do... . eee eee eee XC. 12 ii. 455 danala, 9 .............. XCIL. 11 ii, 467 
—— anica, O ...ee ee cee eeee XC. 13 ii. 455 || —— arecosa, ¢ .......-e00, XCIL. 8 ii. 468 
——morona, od ............ XC. 14 ii, 455 || Rifargia masta .............. XCII. 9 ii, 469 
tlotzin, Q ....... eee eee XC. 15 li, 456 gelduba, Q ............ XCII. 3 ii, 469 
Magava multilinea, 2 ........ XC. 16 ii. 456 || Gonodonta primulina.......... XXV. 15 i, 255 
Lochmeeus albosigma.......... XC. 17 | 1, 236, ii. 457 elegans ............62., XXXVI. 1 i, 257 
Heterocampa dardania, 9...... XXV. 4 i. 2¢ 
sylla, Gow. ee ee ee ee eee XXYV. 5 1. 23 
—— manethusa, or XXV. 6 i, 237 Nocrvipas. 
——alector ......--...00005 XXYV. 7 i, 238 || Thyatira hersilia ............ XXVI. 2 i. 258 
——— argentata, d  .......-.. XC. 18 ii, 457 || —— heurippa .............- XXXVI. 3 |i. 258, ii. 470 
—— montana, 5d ......,..... XC. 19 li. 457 (?) hypatia ............ XXXVI. 4 i, 258 
daona, Q .......-. cee XC. 20 ii. 458 || Grammophora chaldera........ XXVI. 5 1. 259 
cross@a, Goo we eee ee eee XC. 21 ii. 458 || Panthea illudens{............ XXXVI. 6 | 1, 259, ii. £71 
aconthea, O ...... eee XC. 24 ii, 458 || Lichnoptera felina, gd ........ _ XCIIT. 1 ii, 471 
—— (?) nea, Dd... ese eee eee XC. 22 ii, 458 a XCIII. 2 ii. 471 
gsagana, OG ..-. eee ee eee XC. 23 ii. 458 || Acronycta dolens ............ XXVI. i i. 260 
——lmca, di... ee eee eee XCI. 2 ii, 459 dedala ..........-.005- XXVI. ‘8 i. 260 
—— (?) pylaon, g .......... XCI. 1 ii, 459 || ——- theodora .............. XCIII. 3 ii, 472 
—— (?) leona, J... 6... eee XCI. 6 ii. 459 velia .. ce. ee eee eee XCHI. 4 ii, 472 


* Lirimiris allolineata on the Plate. 


+ Ophitis cyllota on the Plate. 


+ Punthea pythion on the Plate. 


c 2 


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xx _ LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. 
Leucania multipunctata........ XXVI. 11 i, 261 || Agrotis altes ................ XXVII. 
diffusa ...........000.- XXVI. 10 1. 262 semidolens.............. XXVII. 
Juncaria pallens.............. XCIII. 5 ii. 473 splendens .............. XXVIII. 
~——— SAMIA.. 1... ee eee XCIII. 6 ii, 473 lamptera .............. XCIV. 
Chasmina alcidamea, ¢  ...... XCIII. 7 li. 474 || —— (?) limenia.............. XCLV. 
Gortyna ditissima ............ XXVI. 9 1, 265 daunus ................ XCIV. 
Neesia moesta ........ 0.00000. XXXVI. 12 1. 266 || —- fornax ................ XCIYV. 
- dolens ............048.., XXXVI. 13 i, 266 || Tiracola plagiata ............ — XXVIL. 
Iscadia aperta.............04. XCIII. 8 ii, 474 || Antachara (?) superba ........ Xciy. 
| Dargida niphanda ............ XXVI. 14 |i. 270, ii, 475 || Stiria rugifrons .............. XCIV. 
- amphion .............. XXVI. 15 i. 270 || Teniocampa (?) lineata ........ XXVII. 
sarepta .......0-2 seen XXVI. 16 i, 271 || -— vellerea,Q ............ XCIV. 
porphyra .............. XXVI. 17 i, 271 || Orthodes lodebar, ¢ .......... XXVIT. 
;——luma .... eee. eee eee ee XXVI. 18 i. 271 ||: Or XXVIL. 
lineata .............20. XCIII. 18 ii. 475 || Amathes temperata .......... _ XCIV. 
' Conservula cedica, G.......... XCTIII. 9 ii, 47 Xanthia alala........ 0.0.0... XCIV. 
» Qe cece cece eae XCIIL. 10 ii. 475 aleandra .............. XCIV. 
_ Heliophobus hipparis.......... XXVI. 19 i, 272 patula oo... ee. XCIV. 
Mamestra configurata ........ XXVI. 20 i, 272 || Cosmia laoripa .............. XCIV. 
dotata .............05. XXVI. 21 |1. 278, ii1.476 || Dianthoecia tura.............. XXVIT. 
—— hipparion .............. XXVI. 24 i. 273 || Hecatera hodeva ............ XXVII. i 
——infernalis .............. XCIII. 11 i, £76 hoshea ................ XXVII. 
rhadata ............000. XCITI. 12 li. 476 || Polia(?) lorina ....... bees XCIV. 
samula, Sw... eee eee XCIIL. 16 i. 476 (?) ameria .............. XCIV. 
TOXana ..........-..00. XCIIL. wi ii. 476 || Valeria laches................ XXVII. 
sadales .......-.....4.. XCIIL. 19 ii, 477 uscana .......-........ XXVII. i 
Apamea Mammida............ XCIII. 20 ii. 477 || Polyphenis respondens ........ XXVIII. 
letrina .... 02.0.0... 000 XCIII. Z1 ii. 477 || Hadena toxaridia ............ XXVII. 
(?) euryte, dw... eee. XCIII. 22 ii. 477 differens................ XXVII. 
Achatodes juane, ¢ .......... XCIII. 15 ii. 478 | Stiberalucina .............. XXVIT. 
Miana pulchra .............. XXVI. 22 i, 274 || Xylinaesula ................ XXVIII. 
wonella ......--. ee eee XXVI. 23 i, 274 lytea oo. eee ee XXVITI. 
Celena rubens .............. XXVI. 25 1. 274 | Cucullia phocylides............ XXVIII. i. 
perta ...............0,4. XXVI. 26 i, 275 || Anthoecia emessa ............ XXVIII. 
hamara ...............5. XXVI. 27 i. 275 SCLTA Lk ee XXVIII. 
OTIZAa .. 21... . eee XXVI. 28 1,275 | Cirrhophanus triangulifer ...... XCIV. 
0) 1) XXVIII. 1 i. 275 || Grotella salacon.............. XCIV. 
| —— minuta ................ XXVILI. 2 i, 276 pyronea........ 0.00000. XCIV. 
datis, Q ow... ee ee eee, XCIII. 13 li. 478 samula .............0.. XCIV. 
—— (?) lilacina, g .......... XCIIL. 14 ii, 478 || Adisura imitata .............. XXVIII. 
albomarginata .......... XCIII. 23 li. 478 || -—— grandis ................ XCIV. 
—— viridis ................ XCIII, 24 ii. 479 | Anarta agonax .............. XCIV. 
nigropuncta ............ XCIII. 25 ii, 479 || Panemeria rhea .............. XCIV. 
Hydrecia pyrrha ............ XCV. 1 u. 479 || Agrophila cleta .............. XXVIII. 
Perigea hippia .............. XXVIT. 3 | 1,277, ii. 480 phenna ................ XXVIII. 
fidelia .............05. XXVILI. 4 i. 278 ANA... eee eee XCIV. 
——— berinda ................ XXVII. 5 i. 278 luda ...............00. XCIV. 
agnonia ...........0.00. XCITI. 27 ii. 480 orcidia .............00. XCIV. 
—— tersa, do... ee eee XCIII. 26 ii. 481 mata ........ cece eee eee XCIV. 
adonea ...............4. XCIV. 4 ii, 481 || Metoponia demo.............. XXVIII. 
_ Meristis fea.................. XXVIII. 6 |i. 279, 11.481 | - primulina .............. XXVITI. 
Monodes citrina .............. XXVIT. 7 i. 280 || ——(?) procida ............ XXVIII. 
monyma................ XXVIL. § i, 280 umbria ............00.0. XCIV. 
Caradrina alana .............. XCIV. 1 li, 481 | Eugraphia effusa ............ XXVIII. 
Agrotis manethusa............ XXVITI. 9 i, 284 || Xanthodes laverna............ XXVIII. 
—— oroba ..............00.. XXVII. 10 1. 285 malacha............ 0... XXVIII. 
| —— OINEA . 0 ee XXVII. 11 i, 285 || —— (?) paulina.........000., XXVITII. 


LIST OF PLATES, Xxi 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Acontia phecolisea ............ XXVIIT. | 16 i. 306 ||, . 26, . 
embolima .............. XXVIIL | 17 i. 306 || Thalpochares (?) laurea ........ KOV. 41 97 j i 497 
apela .. 0... .. eee ee XXVIII. 18 i. 307 daria, ¢ wo... ee eee XCV. 29 ii. 497 
—— philomela .............. XXVIII. | 19 i, 307 (?) dasarada ............ XCV. 28 li. 498 
—— phya .... 2... eee. XXVIII. | 20 i. 307 || Xanthoptera laphyra.......... XCVI. 2 li, 498 
valena 1.1... . eee eee XXVIII. 21 i. 3807 || Calydia hemithea ............ XXIX, 20 1. 316 | 
—— phenna ................ XXVIII. 22 i. 308 | Palindia mustela ............ XXIX. 21 i, 318 
costalis ................ XXVIII. 23 i. 308 CZTA Leese ee eee XCVI. 1 li. 499 
—— (?)damia .............. XXVIII. | 24 i, 808 MICCA.. 2... ee eee XXIX. 22 11.319, ii. 500 
dacia ... 0... .. ee. e ee, XXVIII. 25 i. 808 |} —— evadens ................ XCVI. 4 ii. 500 
eratina .............0.. XXVIII. 26 i, 309 deva .......... 00.0008. XXIX. 23 |1. 320, ii. 500 
dela ..............005. XCIV. 29 ii, 492 || Dyomyx lineata, d............ XXIX. 24 |i, 320, ii. 500 
splendens .............. XCV. 2 ii. 492 9 QD ccc cece ce eaae XXIX. 25 |1. 320, 11. 500 
chea, O........ cee XCV. 3 li. 493 mates, Oo... c eee ee eae XOVI. 8 ii. 500 
—_— y Qo cece cece ee enes XCcV. 4 un, 493 | Dyops juba..............0... XXIX. 26 | 1.321, ii. 501 
darpa...... 0.0... ee eee XCV. Ss) ii, 493 phila .... 2.2... ee, XXIX. 27 i, 322 
Dacira forreri................ XXVIII. 27 i. 809 minthe ................ XXIX. 28 |1. 322, ii. 501 
roma, gd .........0000. XCV. 6 11. 493 striata ..........0..000- XCVI. 5 ii. 501 
Drobeta tiresias .............. XXIX. 1 i. 310 || Callopistria mexicana.......... XXX. 1 i. 823 
ithaca 2.0... eee ee XXIX. 2 i. 310 panamensis ............ XXX. 2 i, 324 
lea, Soe eee XCV. 7 ii. 493 CTA XCVI. 6 ii. 501 
cilix, do... eee eee XCV. 8 ii, 493 langia «1.2... eee eee XCVI. 7 ii. 502 
debora, gd .............. XCV. 9 1, 494 || Penicillaria abscondens ........ XXX. 3 i, B24 
—— (?) yeba, d ............ XCV. 10 li. 494 mattererl, J ............ . XCVI. 3 i. 502 
attina, Q oo... . eee eee, XCV. 11 ii, 494 || Ingura murina .............. XXX. 8 |1.326, ii. 502 
leada, G ...... 0.00... XCV. 12 11. 494 || Abrostola adrana ............ XXX. 9 1. 327 
Pseudina enossia ............ XXVIII 28 i. 311 || Basilodes mina .............. XCVI. 9 i. 503 
chuza, 9 ...........05. XCV. 13 il. 494 || Plusia coronides.............. XXX. 10 i. 328 
Eustrotia catea .............. XXIX 3 i. 311 arianda, Q ............ XXX. 11 i, 329 
glycera .............0., XXIX 4 i, 312 smithi, Q............... XXX. 12 i, 329 
catilina ............005 XXIX 3) 1,312 acantha .............0.4. XXX. 13 i, 329 
MNUMA........... eee XXIX 6 i, 312 acema ............004. XXX. 14 i. 330 
girba ............ 00005. XXIX 7 i, 312 | ——(?) argyra .............. XXX. 15 i. 330 
fausta ...........2.-6. XXIX 8 i. 312 anda ....... eee ee eee XCVI. 10 ii, 503 
catiena ..............0. XX1X 9 i, 313 abeona .............0.. XXX. 16 i, 832 
geta ..... eee ee eae XXIX 10 1, 313 TOXANG® ...... eee eee XCVI. 11 i. 503 
gilda .............0.0.. XXIX 11 i. 313 masoni .............0.. XCVI. 12 ii. 504 
fannia .... 1... eee ae XXIX 12 i, 313 longicornis.............. XXX. 17 i. 332 
j—catada .............0.. XXIX 13 i. 313 abrota .............00. XXX, 19 1, 333 
decorata, ¢ ............ XCV. 14 ii. 495 || Plusiodes(?) laronia .......... ACVI. 13 h. 505 
devara .............00. XCV. 15 ii. 495 (?) agenoria, d .......... XCVI. 14 11. 505 
—— bettina, 9.............. XCV. 16 ii, 495 alesa 2... . ec ee eee XCVI. 15 ii. 505 
—— hesidia ................ XCY. 17 li. 495 laodamia .............. XCVI. 16 1. 506 
cinecta, g ...... eee eee XCV. 20 11. 495 || Anomis aricina .............. XXX. 26 i. 337 
Thalpochares harudes.......... XXIX 14 1, 314 || Chytoryza tristis, Q .......... XCVI. 18 ii. 506 
idicra ... 2... eee eee XXIX 15 i, 314 | Hypsoropha adeona .......... XXX. 28 i. 338 
hirasa ..... Abe e ee eeee XXIX 16 i, 314 || Barydia severa .............. XXX. 27 i. 340 
—— hippotes................ XXIX 17 i. 315 || Pheocyma ilia .............. XXXI. 1 i. 340 
bias 2... eee eee XXIX 18 i. 315 || Homoptera emona............ XXXI. 3 i. 344 
hippotamada ............ XXIX 19 i. 315 amata ...........-2.00. XXXI. 4 11, 345, ii. 507 
lagore .......... 0. eee XCV. 18 11,496 || Safia enia ...............0.. XXXI. 5 i. 347 
laronia ................ XCV. 19 i, 496 || Lepidodes(?) enyra .......... XXXT. 6 i. 348 
darena, ¢ .............. XCV. 21 ii. 496 |) Phosphila exonia ............ XXXI. 7 1. 849 
laverna, dS  .... eee, XCV. 22 ii, 496 || Coenipeta wolia .............. XXXII. 9 |. i, 350 
(?) cimiata ...........0.0. XCV. 23 li, 497 dimidiata .... ......... XXXI. 10. i. 351 
(?) boeta ....... 0... XCV. 24 ii. 497 || Gadirthia candezei............ XCVI. 17 ii. 508 
—— (?) asteria .............. XCV. 25 i. 497 (?) lena, S ............ XCVI. 19 ii. 508 


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LIST OF PLATES. 


Plato. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Prometopus ordinarius ........ XCVI. 20 ii. 509 || Ephyrodes similis ... ........ XXXII. | 17 i. 409 
Trisuloides pata .............. XCVI. 21 li. 509 E21: lg XXXITI, 1s i. 409 
Vespola ceruleifera .......... XXXI. 12 i, 852 || Freilla variabilis, d .......... XXXII. | 19 i. 410 
Melipotis imparallela.......... XXXI. 13 1. 854 humeralis .............. XXXII. 20 i. 410 
| ~~ Marmoraris ............ XXXI 15 i. 357 || Marmorinia curviluna ........ XXIII. 21 | - i, 411 
inconspicua ............ XCVI 22 it, 510 || Massala larina .............. XXXII. | 22 |i, 413, 1.521 
usipetes ..............0. XCVI 23 ii. 510 |) Capnodes lara................ XXXII. | 23 i. 414 
Cirrhobolina deducta .......... XCVI 24 | 1, 358, 11. 510 alceste ..0.....0...000. XXXII. 24 i. 417 
Catocala electilis.............. XXXI 8 11. 360, 11.511 aleinoe ............00.. XXXITI. 25 i, 417 
——— Junctura.... 2.0.0... eee XCVII 1 | 1.360, 11.511 || —— lappa........ 00.000 000. XXXII. | 26 i. 417 
IXION .... eee eee xXXXI 2 i. 860 || ——(?) argina .............. XXXII. 27° i, 418 
Ophideres serpentifera ........ XXXI 14 |i. 361, ii. 512 rhoda.................. XCVII. 19 ii. 521 
scabellum .............. XCVII 4 li. 512 (2) pira we... ee XCVII. 20 ii, 522 
Brujas circe ................ XXXI 11 i. 866 || Hypenaria(?) umbrigens ...... AXXIV. 1 [i. 421, 11.522 
Sypna exonia................ XXXII. | 3 i. 367 || Chamina(?) lamponia ........ XXXIV. 2 i. 422 
azteca, J ...........0.. XCVIT 2 ii. 514 || Orsa(?) agola.........0...... XXXIV. 3 i. 423 
» Q wveeeseeeeeees} = XCVII 3 ii, 514 
Letis vultura, gd ..... 2... XXXII 1 i. 370, ii. 514 
Qi vccccccccueenes XXXII 2 |i. 370, ii. 514 Detrorp. 
oreynia, d.............. XXXII 4 |i, 371, 11.514 | Macrodes leyna .............. XXXIV.: 4 i, 424 
9 Dee cece cece. XXXII 7 |i.371, ii.514 || Gustiana libitina, ¢ .......... XXXV. 1 | 1.426, ii. 522 
Thysania tiasa .............. XXXIT 10 11.374, ii. 515 intermedia.............. XOVIT, 21 ii. 522 
Bendis emylia .............. XXXIT 8 i. 378 limea, d «1.1... eee. XXXV. 2 i. 426 
enaria .... 0.0... eee XXXII 6 i. 378 mecyanalis ............ XCVII. 22 ii. 523 
(?) jonesi .... 0.2.0... XCVII 5 ii, 515 nigripalpis ............ XCVITI. 23 ii. 523 
Ophiodes daona .............. XCVII 6 11. 516 || Pterhemia ameriola, g ........ XXXYV. 3 i, 426 
raphia .............-.. XCVII 7 ii. 516 || Hypena manalis.............. XXXIV. 5 1. 427. 
Ophisma eolida .............. XXXII 9 i. 380 pilosalis.........0...... XXXIV. 6 i. 428 | 
Achewa schausi .............. XXXII 5 |1.380, ii. 516 andraca ................ XXXIV. 7 1. 428 
Rhosologia porrecta, g ........ XXXII 11 1, 383: lua... . ee eee eee XXXIV. 8 i. 428 
Herminodes sabata............ XCVII 10 ii. 517 variabilis XXXIV. (9-20 i. 429 
Baniana gobar ..... sete eee XCVII 8 li. 517 livia ..........0.0.008. XXXIV. 21 i. 429 
helicon ................ XCVII 9 ii. 517 anemos@ .............. XXXIV. | 22 i. 429 
fulvia, So oo... eee ee XCVII 11 ili. 517 || —— philomedia, ¢ .......... XCVII. 24 ii. 523 
— QR eee cece eee XCVII 12 ii. 517 vetustalis .............. XXXIV. 23 |i. 480, 11. 523 
——(?) ostia, «we... XCVII 13 ii. 518 || —— dispunctalis ............ XXXIV. =| 24 i, 480 
yD ccc eee e eee XCVII 14 u. 518 || —— securalis .............. XXXIV. 25 i. 480 
Isogona wolia................ XXXII 1 1, 340 pacificalis .............. XXXIV. 26 i. 430 
Focilla recurva .............. XXXII 2 11.392, ii. 518 lanassa ............000. XXXIV. 27 i. 480 
(?) laba ............ ...| XXXITII 3 i, 392 || —— andria, fg .............. XXXYV, 4 |1.431, ii. 523 
labecia, d ..... 01. XXXII. | 4 1, 3893 | ——levana ................ XXXV. 5 i. 431 
—— maxima................ XXXII 5 i, 393 || —— exceptalis .............. XXXV, 6 1. 431 
AZAVA.. LL ee ee ee XXXIIT 6 i. 3894 || —— andrapana KXXV,. 7 i. 482 
Jala... eee ae ...| XXXIIT 7 11.394, 11.519 || ——lebonia ................ XXXYV. 8 |i. 482, 11.523 
Galapha ageta, dO ............ XXXIIT 8 i. 396 || —— ammonia .............. XXXV. ) i, 482 
Sympis agnita................ XXXIIT 9 1. 898 || —— ancara ................ XXXYV, 10 |: i. 433 
Orthogramma(?) lamida ...... XXXIIT 10 | 1.399, 11.519 || ——lipara, ¢ ........000... XXXV, | 11 i. 433 
Thermesia joha, d............ XCVIT 15 ii, 519 | ——androna .............. XXXYV, 12 i. 434 
Ceras, Ow... eee eee XCVIT 16 11. 520 || —— anicina ................ XXXV, 13 1. 434 
Pangrapta minuta, ¢@ ........ XCVII 17 i. 520 —leuctra ................ XXXV, 14 i. 485 
Helia lampetia ..... ........ XXXII 11 i, 403 loxo ....... cece eee. XXXYV, 15 i. 435 
Metalectra agathia ............ XXXIII 12 i. 404 anda .............0000. XXXYV. 16 i. 435 
Selenis agarrha .............. XXXIII 13 i. 407 lolia .... 0. 2. XXXV, 17 - i, 435 
BONA 22... eee eee XXXII 14 i. 407 locusta ............00.. XXXY. 18 i. 436 
lacia we... cee eee eee eee XXXIII 15 1, 408 muscosa .............. XXXYV, 19 i. 436 
——- laonome................ XXXIIT 16 1, 408 || —— (?) angitia .......0.... XXXV. 20 i. 436 
~—— cades, So... eee ee eee XCVII 18 ii. 521 || —— (?) jactatalis............ XXXY, 21 ~ 4, 487 


LIST OF PLATES. ~ XXL 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Sotigena notodontoides ........ XXXV. | 22 i. 488 || Theotinus lycimnia, 9 ........ XXXVIII. | 2 i. 460 
dulcis) .........-..2 0 XXXV. 23 i. 488 || Tortricodes aon, ¢ .......... XXXVUI. | 3 i, 461 
Ogoas albipuncta, ¢ .......... XXXV. 24 i. 439 9 QD cece ence ee eees XXXVIII. 4 i. 461 
‘| Tomyris nigropuncta, ¢ ...... XXXYV. 25 i, 440 alucitalis, ¢ ............ XXXVIII. 5 i, 462 
Hormisa andaca .............. XXXV. 26 i. 441 9 QD cece eee e eens XXXVIII. 6 i. 462 
larymna .............. XXXYV. 27 i. 441 || Gaberasa anxa, dj ........-0 0. XXX VIII. 7 i. 462 — 
Hypenodes macula .......... XXXVI. | 1 i. 441 9 Qo cece eee eee XXXVIIT. |. 8 i, 462 | 
(?) lysizona ............ XXXVI. 2 i, 441 || —— manes, ¢ .............. XXXVIII. 9 i. 462 
(?) apis... . 0... eee eee XXXVI. 3 i, 442 || —— QD cece cece nee eee XXXVITIL. | 10 i. 462 
| Lametia ignitalis, d .......... XXXYV. 28 |i. 442, 11.524 || ——- albibasalis, fd .......... XXXVIUT. | 11 i. 463 
anemolia, Q ...........- XXXVI. 5 i. 442 || —— i Or XXXVIIL.. | 12 i, 463 
Myrtale imitata, d  .......... XXXVI. 6 i, 443 (?) albipunctalis, SO wees. XXXVIIT. | 18 i. 463 
——-, Qe eens XXXVI. 7 i. 443 || Lascoria phormisalis, ¢ ...... XXXVIII. | 14 i. 464 
Rivula orobena .............. XXXVI. 8 i. 444 i XXXVIII. | 15 i. 464 | 
mandane ...........-.. XXXVI. 4 i. 444 || Otaces lineata, gd ............ XXXVIII. | 16 1. 464 
Cyclopteryx oculata, g ........ XCVIT. 25 ii. 524 || Sitophora lyces, ¢  .......... XXXVIIT. | 17 i, 465 
Saserna scissilinea, d ........ XXXVI. 9 i, 444 | Epizeuxis (?) anticlea ........ . XXXVIII. | 18 i. 466 
lyde, S ... eee ee ee eee XXXVI. 10 1. 444 (?) maceria ............ XXXVIII. |.19 |i. 466, ii. 524 
— + Q eee cece ee eee. XXXVI. ll i, 444 |] —— (?) anger .............. XXXVIIT. | 20 i. 466 
—— (?) antias, Q............ XXXVI. 12 1, 445 (?) lineata....... beens XCVITI. . | 26 ii, 524 
—— (?) anyte, Q .........05. XXXVI. 13 i. 445 || Megatomis anna, ¢ .......... ' XXXVIIT. | 21 i, 467 
(?) arbuscula, Q ........ XXXVI. 14 i. 445 9 Qe cece cece aces XXXVIII. | 22 i. 467 
Menecina bifacies, 3 XXXVI. 15 i. 446 lysizona, 1... eee eee ee XXXVIIT. | 23 i. 467 
Zorzines plumula, d .......... XXXVI. 16 i. 446 || —— Qe nee e cece eee XXXVIII. | 24 i. 467 
Simplicia aonia, ¢  .... 1... XXXVI. 17 i. 447 || -—— anthippe, GS ovececececees XXXVIII. | 25 i. 468 
lycambes, d ..........4- XXXVI. 18 i. 447 antonia, ¢ «ww. eee eee XXXVIII. | 26 i. 468 
(?) lysandria, 2... 2... XXXVI. 19 i. 448 || Periphrage mago, d .......... XXXVIII. | 27 i, 468 
—— (?) anysis, Sw. wee eee, XXXVI. 20 i, 448 anyte, Gow. eee eee eee XXXVIII. | 28 i, 469 
—— mera, d .... see eee eee XXXVI. 22 i. 448 || Mastigophorus ly edus, SO we een. XXXIX. 1 i. 470 
5D cece eee eee XXXVI. 23 i. 448 antorides, gd .....-....-- XXXIX. 2 i, 470 
Narceea villosa, d ............ XXXVI. 21 i. 449 || ——- (?) anthores, GS iceleeceee XXXIX. 3 i. 470 
cnt eee ne es XXXVI. 24 i. 449 || —— (?) lysaniax, gd ..........| XXXIX. 4 i. 471 
Mamerthes nigrilinea, J ...... XXXVIUI. 1 i. 450 || ——- (?) mallophora, d........ XXXIX. 5 i. 471 
, o ccc e eee eeee XXXVILI. 2 i. 450 (?) aonia, ¢ ...... eee XXXIX. 6 i. 471 
Nicetas panamensis, ¢ .....-.. XXXVIT. 3 i. 450 || Neoherminia ceusalis ........ XXXIX. 7 i, 472 
n° ra XXXVI. 4 i. 450 diruptalis .............. XXXIX. 8 i. 472 
annon, d ..... eee ee eee XXXVILI. 5 i, 451 || —— (?) apsinthes, Q ........ XXXIX. 9 i. 473 
lycon, Gow eee eee ee eee XXXVII. 6 i. 451 || —— (?) anchisa ............ XXXIX. | 10 i, 473 
Strathocles ribbei, g  ........ XXXVI. 7 i. 452 (?) angitia.............. XXXIX. 11 i. 473 
Oe XXXVILI. 8 i. 452 || —— (?) stalemusalis, ¢ ...... XXXIX, | 12 i. 473 
imitata, Q  ....-.-.-0. XX XVII. 9 1. 452 || —— ——, QQ oes ee eee eee XXX1X. | 13 i, 473 
Pyrgion menippusalis, g ...... XXXVII. | 10 i. 454 || Palthis bizialis, Gove c ccc vev eee XXXIX, 14 1. 475 
QD cece eee nena XXXVIT. | 11 1. 454 ||] —— ——, QQ .. sere eee eee XXXIX, | 15 i, 475. 
Bleptina malia, g ...........5 XXXVII. | 12 ji. 455 || Neopalthis ’madates, Sovese cee XXXIX, 16 i. 475 
(?) laseea, Qo... eee eee XXXVII. | 18 1.455 ||} ————, @ .... wee eee eee XXXIX. | 17 1, 475 
—— (?) antinoe .........4-. XXXVILI. 14 i. 456 || Bertula talausalis, 3 Luce ae eee XXXIX. 18 11,476, ii. 525 
(?) magas, Q «wee eee XXXVIT. | 15 | i. 456 || —— 9 QD cect eee n eee XXXIX. 19 | 1.476, ii. 525 
—— (?) antelia, Q .......4.. XXXVII. | 16 |i. 456, ii. 524 lycas, Swe ee eee XXXIX. | 20 11.476, ii. 525. 
—— (?) aratus, @ «we we ee XXXVII. | 17 i. 456 || Bocana pharusalis, ¢ ......-. XXXIX. | 21 i, 476 
(?) macedo, Q .........- XXXVII. | 18 i. 456 —malis, Q ......-+..-e ee XXXIX. | 22 i, 477 
(?) lycens, 9 ww. ee eee. XXXVITI. | 19 i, 457 || —— theroalis, 9 ............ XXXIX, 23 i. 477 
Aristaria lydia, ¢ ............ XXXVIT. | 20 i. 458 pagasusalis, d .......... XXXIX 24 1. 477 
(?) lysis, Q  .. ee. eee. XXXVIT. | 21. i. 458 || —— yD reece eee eee eee XXX1X 25 i. 477 
—— (?)lycaon, fd 1.1... e. XXXVI. | 22 i, 459 lyse, So sees e eee eee ee XXXIX 26 i. 477 
(?) apicata, «we. ee eee XXXVIT. | 23 i. 459. antorides, d :........46. XXX1IX 2 1, 478 
(2) mera, dw... . ee eee XXXVIT. | 24 i. 459 || ———- (?) anteros, d .......... XL. 1 i, 478 
Theotinus virbiusalis, ¢ ...... XXXVIII. | 1 i, 460 —lycaste, Sj e eee eee eee XXXIX. | 28 i. 478 


XXiV LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
| Bocana lycaste, 9 ............ XXXIX. | 29 i, 478 || Adschropteryx martina, d  .... XLII. 3 ii, 12 
Malia, Gwe pe ee eee eee XL. 2 i. 479 || Cirsodes acuminata, 9 ........ XLII. 5 ii. 13 
—— (?)arbona, QQ .......... XL. 3 i, 479 arceno, ¢ ........-00--- XLIL. 4 di. 18 
. (?) marpesia, Q ........ XL. 4 i. 479 || Sabulodes arge .............. XLI. 6 ii, 13, 526 
Margites bugaba, gd .......... XL. 5 i. 480 argyra, Sow... eee eae XLII. 7 1. 14 
Argania pilosa, ¢ ............ XL. 6 |i, 480, 11.525 | —— a Oe XLIL. 8 li. 14 
9 Pence eee ee ee XL. 7 |1,480, 11.525 |) —— arses, ¢  .1......--.05. XLII. 11 ni. 14 
Hypoechana fuliginosa, ¢...... XL. 8. i, 481 12, ws 
Ariphrades setula, ¢. 0-0. XL. 9 | 1. 482 |] a Pee eee XLII. { 13 } il. 14 
Ipnea marina, ¢ .....-...... XL. 10 |1.482,i1.525 | ——— mastaura, ¢ ............ XLII. 9 11. 14 
ardalus, Q  .....-...... XL. 11 1.482 | —— ——, 9 .............. XLII. 10 ii, 14 
(?) mapeta  ............ XL. 12 i, 483 || —— matrona, d ......... wae XLII. 14 n. 15 | 
Didugua argentilinea, 2 ...... XL. 13 1,483, 11.525 | —— meduana, g ............ XLII. 15 11.157 
| Poona porrectalis ............ XL. 14 i, 484 arnissa, Gow... ee eee XLII. 16 ii. 15 
tessellata ..........005. XL. 15 i. 484 17,! ) 
Dy albomarginas, 9 01 OX | 46 vied | ees XLIL. { fH 
Ledeea arduine, ¢ ... ........ XL. 17 1. 485 matrica, 6 ............ XLU. 19 , 11. 16 
a XL. 18 i. 485 | Mucronodes artemon, ¢_ ...... XLII. 20 n. 17 
——mareella, d ............ XL. 19 i, 485 || Cimicodes primularia, ¢ ...... XLII. 21 1.18 
(?) arciva ...........0.. XL. 20 i, 485 || Paragonia arbocala, ¢ ........ XLII. 22 il. 20, 527 
Rhescipha obtusa, 2 .......... XL. 2] i, 486 maculata, ¢ .........4.. XCVIITI. 2 ii. 527 
Oroscopa concha, 9 .......... XL. . | 22 i. 486 | Prochcerodes arrhapa, 2 ...... XLII. 23 i, 21 
punctata .............. XL. 23 i. 486 columbipennis, ¢  ...... XLII. 24 li. 21 
Sorygaza didymata .......... XL. 24 1.487 || Lycimna caninata, ¢  ........ XLILL. 1 il, 22 
area, Qo... ee eee eee ee XL. 25 i, 487 Ps Or XLII. 2 li, 22 
mardia, 9 .............. XL. 26 i. 487 matalia, J... ee eee, XLII. . 3 li, 22 
arbela, Q ......-0 eee ee XL. 27 i, 487 artena, gd ...... cee eee XLII. 4 11, 23 
armasata, 2 ........0... XL. 28 1. 487 timareta, @ ............ XCVIII. 3 il, 527 
manto, 9 ............2.. XLI. 1 i. 488 |} Acrosemia undilinea, ¢ ...... XCVIH. 22 ii. 527 
—— (?) argandina, @ ........ XLI. 2) 1.488 || Herbita artayctes, g.......... XLILIT. 5 i. 24 
—— (?) Judicatalis, 9 ........ XLI. 3 1, 488 Dee ee ce eee XLII. 6 | li, 2+ 
——- (?) marica, 9 .......... XLI. 4 i. 488 medama, d ............ XLII. 7 ii, 24 
Plynteria marginata, S ........ XII. 5 i, 489 ||, —— a XLII. 8 ii, 24 
— 9 Q cece eee e een. XLI. 6 i, 489 (?) nedusia, S .......... XLIV. 1 li. 25 
lineata, do... ee ee cee XLI. 7 i. 489 || Oxydia apidania, var. bicolor, ¢.., XCVIII. 4 ii. 528 
Dida cidaria ................ XLI. 8 i, 490 unicolor, S ............ XCVIII. 6 n. 528 
gastropachata, var., 9 .... XLII. 10 ii. 27 
aromata, Q ............ XLII. 11 ii. 27 
EvscHEMrp, —— masthala, 9 ........... XLIn. | 9 ii, 28 
Phevochlzena polimeisy S vases) RE |G He + | —— medona, 9.0... -XLUI. { ie} 28 
cytheris, 9 ............ XLI. 11 WH, 2 |} —— ——-, Oo. eee eee een | XCVITIT. 5 11. 528 
Simena luctifera, ¢ .......... XLI 12 ui. 2 artaxa, Ooo... cee e eee, XLII. \ 1B ii. 28 
URANID A. SUERTE XLII, - ii. 28 
a sy : 
Uranidia fulgens ............ XUI. 16 i. 3 augusta, J «.........-. XLII. { 18 } i. 29 
Coronidia canace, @ .......... XLI. 13 ii. 6 || Drepanodes moneta, 2 ........ XLIV. 2 ii, 30 
echenais, Q ............ XLII. 15 i. 7 astanda ................ XLIV. 3 11. 30 
interlineata, 9 .......... XLI. 17 ii. 7, 525 asina, ¢ 1... 0. ee eee XLIV. 4 ii. 31 
——ribbei, 9 .............. XLI. 14 i. 8 (?) melina, Q .......... XLIV. 5) ii. 31 
beckeri, Qo... eee XCVIILI. 1 | li. 525 || Pyrimia arxata, G ............ XLIV, 6,7 ii. 33 
| megara, ¢  ......s eee XLIV. 8,9 ii, 34 
| ratoptera arvina, 9 .......... XLIV. 10 ii. 34 
Nenhele Ne arleeha xu ; fo +0. 398 mena, 2 ........ eee. —XLIV. =| 11 ii, 35 
Nepheloleuca ardama, ¢ ...... . i 1.10, 52 . , .. 
! ‘Eachropteryx marciana ...... XL. 2 i. 11, 526 i XLIY. { 3 } li, 35 
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LIST OF PLATES, XXV 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Cratoptera (?) ilecta, 2 ...... XCVIII. 7 li. 529 || Tetracis azonax, Q .......... XLVI. 8 | ii, 54, 530 
Gynopteryx asopia, gd ........ XLIV. 14 ii. 37 belides, 9 ...........08- XLVI. 9 ii. 54 
MYyNeS, GO ...eeeeeeeaees XLIV. 15 ii. 37 || Erosina meropia, ¢ .........- XLVI. 10 ni. 55 
—— megasa, So. se seen eaee XLIV. 16 ii. 87 || Selenia monima, ¢ .......... XLVI. 11 ii. 56 
minoa, d ..........62.. _ XLIv. 17 li, 37 9 DQ cece se cc eeaees XLVI. 12 ii. 56 
asteria, Gi... . eee ee wees XLIV. 18 ii, 38 asteria, Go... eee eee ee XLVI. 13 ii. 56 
i Orn XLIV. 19 ii, 388 || —— myrina, d...........2.. XLVI. 14 i. 56 
Apicia medusa, 2 ............ XLIV. 20 ii. 39 15, es 
Patillas ecco XLIV. | 21 ii. 89 banasa, J ses. - sees seen XLVI. { 16 } ii, 56 
mesada, dws ee ee ee eee XLIV. 22 ii. 39 nabdalsa, 5 .......-005. XLVI. 21 ii, 57 
mete Ses) ety [pe] E39 | mareea dee XLVL {| qg|} ii 87 
aurana, Go... ee ee eees XLIV. 25 11. 40 . 19, - 
micea, Go .+sssee esses XLIv. | 26 ii, 40 belisama, J ....-. +++, XLVI. { 20 } it. 57 
atia, Sow. cece cece eee XLIV. 27 ii. 40 . 22, - 
mera, Sw. sese se ee eae XLIV. | 28 ii. 40 azamora, S++. s esses XLVI. { 23 \ ii, 57 
a V. 29 ii. . . 
aurelia, Oller ALY. 1 . tn Hygrochroma nondina, ¢ ...... XLVI. \ 30 i ii. 58 
Megania, ¢ ........eeee XLV. 2 ii. 42 oD cece ee cw ee eeee XLVI. 24 | li. 58 
divalis, G .... cece eee XCVIII. 8 i. 529 bubona, ww. wee eee ee XLVI. 27 ii. 58 
— 9 DQ cece eee eens XCVIII. 9 ii, 529 || —— 9 QD cece cece cence XLVI. 28 ii. 58 
pomella, ¢ .........65- XCVIII. 10 ii. 529 CHSIA, Swe eee eee eee XLVILI. 1,2 1i. 59 
Epione (?) asteria, ¢.......... XLV. 3 ii. 43 |) —— A XLVII. 3 ii. 59 
rr XLV. 4 ii. 43 nemora, d........ ee eens XLVI. 4,5 ui. 59 
—— (?) megamede, ¢ ........ XLV. 5 ii, 44 re XLVII. 6, 7 ii. 59 
yD cece cece cceees XLV. 6 ii, 44 || Anisoperas subfulvata ........ XCVIIT. 11 i. 531 
Sicya aurunca, Ow... .. eee eee XLV. 7 ii. 46 catops, Sw. cee eee ee eee XCVIII. 14 ii. 531 
mesapla, sess eee eee XLV. ~—8 ii. 46 dolens, ¢ wo... cee wees XCVIII. 15 i. 531 
bala, wee eee ee eee ee XLV. 9 ii. 46 lurida, dow... cece eee ee XCVIII. 16 ii. 531 
neda, Gis .scecececceees XLV. 10 ii. 46 jodea .... eee cee ee eee XCVITII. 17 ii. 532 
—_— DQ cece ew ccceeeee XLV. 11 ii. 46 vesta, Go wee e cece e eee XCVIII. 18 ii. 532 
—— myron, dw... ee eee eee XLV. 12 ii. 47 urota, Q wc. eee eee eee ee XCVIITI. 19 li. 5382 
— QD cece ee ee eevee XLV. 13 ii. 47 || Azelina asterodia, ¢ .......... XLVII. 8 ii. 62 
—— (?) ascolia, So ......0ee- XLV. 14 i. 47 9 QD cece eee e eens XLVII. 9 ii, 62 
—— (?) hepburni, ¢ ........ XCVIII. 12 ii. 529 astapa, S ......ee ee eeee XLVII. 10 ii, 62 
—— (?) sirra, J... e eee eee XCVIII. B ii. 5380 || —— » QD cece ccac ee eeee epee 3 ii, 63 
. ; . —— melissa, ¢ ........-6.. . ‘12. i. 6 
Acrotomia muta, S .......... XLV. { 16 1, 48 metella .....-ssecceeee. XLVI. | 13 ii. 63 
polla, gd ..... eee eeees XLV. 17 ii. 48 || —-— aurunea, S ............ XLVITI. 14. ii. 63 
—_—— 5 DQ cee ne ec eeeeeee XLV. 18 ii. 48 |] ——— micca, SO .......... 00. XLVII. 15 ii. 64 
. 19, s — > DQ cece ec eeeeeeee XLVI. 16 ii. 64 
—— (?) mucia, S$ «..- +. +e, XLY. 1 20 u. 48 rumina, fw. sss ecee XLVI. |17 ii. 64 
—— minucia, ¢ ............ XLV. 21 ii. 49 | —— » Dee cece cece eee XLVII. 18 ii, 64 
— QD cece ccc eeceees XLV. 22 ii. 49 amanda, ¢  ......-. eee XCVIII. 20 ii. 533 
—— (?) bola, ¢  ........ eee XLV. 23 ii. 49 || Odontopera bubula, Q ........ XLVII. 19 li. 67 
(?) misa, Swe eee eee eee XLV.. 24 ii. 49 || Metanema cabiria, g.......... XLVI. 20 ii. 67 
Therina axion, 5 .........08. XLV. 25 ii. 50 1 QD cence eee reees XLVII. 21 ii, 67 
9 QD cee e ec ee ee eees XLV. 26 ii. 50 bonadea, S ........0ee- XLVII. 22 ii. 68 
betala, ¢ ..........66.. XLV. 27 11.50, 580 || —— An XLVII. 23 ii. 68 
—— munda, dd ...... eee eens XLV. 28 ii. 50 neon, Gs... sees eeeeee XLVILI. 24 li. 68 
bada, Swe eee eee eee XLVI. 1 ii. 51 |) —— Oe XLVI. 25 li. 68 
— 9 QD care ae cece eens XLVI. 2 i, 51 brea, G wwe eee eee eee XLVII. 26 ii. 68 
(?) nomia, J ........00.. XLVI. 4 ii. 51 |) Mychonia(?) bityla, gd ........ XLVII. 27 ii. 69 
Leucula avitta, ¢ .........0.. XLVI. 3 ii. 52 (2) noela ..........008. XLVILI. 28 ii. 69 
meganira, d ....-...+6.. XLVI. 5 ii. 52, 530 || Ennomos bitias, Q  .......... XLVITI. |1,2 11. 69 
Caberodes axona, ¢ .......... XLVI. 6 ii. 53 || Himera nestor, ¢ ............ XLVIII. 3 ii. 70 
messene, ¢ ...........- XLVI. | 7 ii. 53 || Amphidasis arnobia, ¢ ........ XLVIII. | 4 i. 71, 583 
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XXV1 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
Amphidasis matharma, ¢ ...... XLVIII. 5 ii. 71 || Racheospila busa, dg ........-- . LL. 8 li, 92 
De eee eee XLVIII. 6 ii, 71 (2) batina, Q wwe eee . da. 9, 10 li. 92 
charon, d ...... eee eee XCVIII. | 24 ii, 533 (?) asmura, ¢ «ww. ee eee --L.... | dl li. 92 
— 9 QD cece ee eee eens XCVIIT. 23 li. 533 splendens, S .......--- XCIX.. 4 li. 535 
undulosa, d .......+.-5: XCVITI. 26 ii. 533 || Synchlora (?) nortia, ¢........ .. Le. 3 li. 93 
Cleora godmani .............- XLVIII. 9 li. 72 ; . , e 

Boarmia novtiluea, ¢ sce XLVI. | 7 ii, 73 | Tachyphyle (?) nels, d ........ L. 14 ii, 93 
(?) cabira, So... eee ee ee XLVITI. 8 li. 73 || Mecoceras aulis, S .......... L. 15 li. 95, 536 
nephalia, ¢ .........--. XLVITI. 10 ii, 75 || Ophthalmophora mele, d...... LL. 16 ii. 96, 536 
brotes, Q ..........0 ee XLVIITI. 11 ii. 76 || —— DQ cece cece neces J La 17 ii. 96, 586 
nepia, Qo... eee eee es XLVITI. 12 li. 76 alba, So... eee eee eee ee LL 21 ii, 96 
minuta, Sow... ee eee XCVIII. 25 li. 534 limboguttata, d ........ . L. . 18 ii. 96 
Tephrosia bostar, ¢ .......-.. XLVIII. 13 ii. 76 asopis, Sw... eee ee ee ee L. 19 li. 97 
—~bura, do... eee eee vee. XLVI 14 li. 77 || —— A Or L.. 20 ii. 97 

| ——-(?) azenia, ¢ 6. eee eee XLVIII. 15 ii. 77, 534 aspledon, 9 ..........4. L. 22 ii, 97 
—— (?) balsa, g............ XLVIII. 16 ui. 77 bella... cece eee L. 23 1i. 98 
—murena, GC ... see e eens XLVIII. 17 ii. 78 | —— molpadia, 9 ............ L. 24 ii. 98 
—— Or XLVITI. 18 ii. 78 || Byssodes appropriata, ¢ ...... L. 25 ii. 98 
AXICA, Swe ee eee eee eee XLVITI. 19 ii. 78 miletia, S wee ee ee eee LL. 27 ii. 99 

(?) lineata, ¢ .......... XCIX. 2 li, 534 || —— nevia, g ...... eee eee I. 26 li. 99 
Frgavia bogotaria, 2.......... XLVIItI. 20 ii. 78 nazada, Qo. eee ee ee ee AL. 28 ii. 100 
calvina, S...... eee eee XLVIII. 21 ii, 79 || Ephyra megista, ¢ .......... Lo 1 ii, 101 
—— 9 QD cece cree e eens XLVIII. 22 ii. 79 citrina, QP ...... eee eee ee L1.: 2 li. 102 
—— caletra, do... eens XLVIII. 23 ii. 79 obscura, G  ... cee eee XCIX 6 ii. 5356 
assecoma, So... . eee eee XLVIII. 24 ii. 79 || Anisodes melitia, Q .......... LI. 3 ii. 104 
——, Pee ce cceeeeee XLVIII. 25 ii. 79 caletra, So... kc eee eee Li. 4 ii. 104 
Bryoptera (?) candara ........ XLVIITI. 26 ii. 80 carbina, Sd) ............ LI. 5 ii, 104 
(?) lymax, Q  .......... XGVIII. 21 ii. 5384 chaon, dw... se eee eee XCIX,. 5 ii. 537 
Bronchelia subroraria, ¢ ...... XLIX. | 1 ii. 81, 534 peon, Q we... cece cece es XCIX as li. 537 
Nasica, OG ....seeeeeeeee XULIX. 2 ii. 81 albocostata ..........0. XCIX 8 li. 537 
conjugaria, ¢ .......... XLIX. 4 ii, 81, 584 || —— (?) osteria, 9 .......... XCIX 9 li. 537 
detexta, ¢ ......ee cess XLIX. 3 i. 82, 534 || —— (?) sobrina, ¢ .......... XCI1X 10 li, 538 
Bonatea duciata,  .......... XLIX. 6,7 li, 82. || ——~-—-, 2... eee eee XCIX 11 ii, 538 
Geometra iridaria, J .......... XLIX. 5 li. 83 (?) miniata, d .......... XCIX 12 ii, 538 
carbina, Q ww... ee eee XLIX. 8 ii. 84 |) Asellodes laternaria, 9 ........ LI. 8 11, 105 
aturia, Go csc cee eee eee XLIX. 9 ii. 84 || Trygodes musivaria, g ........ LI. 6,7 li. 105 
Nemoria iris, ¢ ............5- / XLIX. 10 il, 85 || -—— niobe, ¢ .. ee eee eee ee LI. 9,10 li. 106 
11, . —— merta, d .... ccc. ce eee LI. 11 11. 106 

AS8A, Jove se eee sree cess XLIX, 12 i. 85 ategua, So... ce eee eee LI. 12 ii. 107 

(2) unifasciata, 9 ........ XCIX. 1 i. 535 | ——melia, Od ...........005. LI. 13 il. 107 
Gelasma albidata, 9 .......... XCIX. 3 li, 5385 Callas, Swe eee eee eee LI. 14 ii. 107 
Omphax neenia, Q  .......... XLIX. 13 ii, 86 carbania, J ............ LI. 15 ii. 107 
. 14, - | —— (?) auxesia, Sd .......... LI. 16 | 1. 108, 588 
Comibeena venezuelata, g...... XILIX. 15 li. 87 : . Oe! LL 17 | ii, 108,538 
. ) - Zois subtectata, d..........5- LI. 18 ii, 108 
belisama, S .........2.. XLIX. 17 li. 87 —— 2 eee. LL. 19 i 108 
-—— invasata, 5 ............ XLIX. 18 ii. 88 ascantia, Q ..... ee eee LI, 20 ii. 109 
-—— callicula, ¢ ............ XLIX. 19 u. 88 batea, d 1... ee eee ee eee LI. 21 ii, 109 
Anaplodes pistaciaria, g ...... XLIX. 20 li. 89 camma, @ ..... eee ee ee ee LI. 22 ii. 109 
Racheospila arycanda, ¢ ...... XLIX. 21 ii. 89 nundina, J. ............ LI. 23 li. 110 
athena, dw... eee ee eee XLIX. 22 ii, 89 | —— » QD voce cece ccenes LI. 24 ii. 110 
~calliope, d .......2... L. 1,2 i. 90 0) es LI.. 25 ii. 110 
——mustela, dé .........08, L. 3 ii. 90 |; —— » DQ cece cen cee eces LI. 26 ii. 110 
CApyS, Go wee eee eee eee L. 4 li. 90 cassandra, d...... ee cae LI. 27 li. 110 
astra, Go... eee ce eee L. 5 11. 90, 585 | —— (?) ono, 9 ............ LI. 28 11. 110 
atrapes, Q .... eee eee L. 6 li. 91 (?) catana, @ ww... we LI. 99 ii, 111 
—— satisfacta, gd .........05- L. 7 ii. 91 albipunctata, Q ........ XCIX. 14 i. 539 | 


LIST OF PLATES. XxVii 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 

'| Cleta (?) minuta, d .......... LI. 30 ii. 111 || Semiothisa (?) contorta, J LIL. 19 ii. 133 
Cambogia obada, d  .......... _ LIT. 1 ii. 112 || Thamnonoma imitata, gd ...... LI. 20 ii, 134 
» QD cen eee eee eeece _ LIE. 2 ii, 112 a LIII. 21 ii, 184 
—— numida, f ..... eee eee, LIT. 3 li, 112 olympusa, d ...... eee eee LITI. 22 li, 184 
—— occia, Dw... eee ee eee LIT. - 4 ii. 11é panassa, ¢  ............ LITI. 23 il. 135 
| —— odatis, dw... cc cc eee ee LII. 5 li. 113 (?) cecinna, ¢ .......... LITI. 24 ii. 185 
| —— numeria, d .........05. LI. 6 ii. 113 |; Pachydia carfinia, d .......... LITT. 25 ii. 186 
—— nucula, gd ...... ce ee eee LIL. 7 ii. 114 yD cece cece cecnes LITI. 26 ii. 186 
—— cedon, d .......eeceeee LII. 8 ii. 114 casperia, S «1... ee eee, LITI. 27 ii. 136 
(?) necula, S .......... LII. 9 u. 114 || —— 9 QD cece eee ceeeee LI. 28 ii. 136 
| Dochephora pilosa, ¢ ........ XCIX, 15 11, 5389 || —— orewa, dD... . ee eee eee eee LIV. 1 li. 136 
| Asthena carnana, ¢ .......... LIT. 10 n.115 | —— 9 QD cece cece ce eeee LIV. 2 ii. 186 
i re LI. 11 ii. 115 || —— cercyon, Gd ........-.... LIV. 3 ii, 137 
neclas, GO wo... eee ee eee LIL. 12 ii. 115 || —— cermala, d ............ LIV. 4 li. 1387 
—— (?) tharossa ............ _ XCIX. 16 li, 5389 || ———, 2 ...... eee en. LIV. - 5 ii. 137 
—— (?) malvina, d .......... XCIX. 13 ii. 5389 || —— oroanda, d ............ LIV. 6,7 ii. 137 
(?) sylvia oo... ee eee eee XCIX. 17 i. 539 nigristicta ...........6.. XCIX. 20 ii, 542 
Acidalia (?) obrimo .......... LIT. 13 ii. 117 | Gorytodes orsima, d .......... LIV. 8 ii. 138 
CAVANA 2... cece ee eee eee LIT. 14 ii. 117 (?) mexicana, fd ........ XCIX., 19 li. 542 
—— OCA .ecececccccecccece Lil. 15 ii. 118 || Perigramma orates, d ........ LIV. 9 ii. 139 
celenna ........ eee eens LIl. 16 ii, 118 (?) cesata, 9 ........00.. LIV. 10 ii. 139 
—— (?)enona ...........4.. Lil. 17 ii. 118 |) Zerene orsona, d ............ LIV. 11 li. 140 
| ——— minuscula * ............ LIT. 18 | i. 118, 540 || Scoria selectata, J ............ LIV. 12 ii. 140 
| ——— nursica .........e ee eee LIT. 19 ii. 119 || Fulgurodes organat, Q2........ LIV. 13 li. 140 

—— olmia .... cc cee eee eee LIT. 20 ii. 119 . . 14, . 
camera... ‘LU. 21 190 Nipteria ordea, 9 ..........., LIV. 15 ii. 140 
catenes .........e..000- LIT. 22 ii. 120 erata, Ow k eee eee eee LIV. 16 ii. 141 
| —— privata ............0-8, LIT. 23 ii. 120 viatrix, Oo... ee ee eee. LIV. 17 li, 141 
calidata .........20000 ee Lil. 24 ii. 120 || Nephodia cetaria, d .......... LIV. 18 ii, 142 
—— (?) numitoria .......... LIT. 25 ii, 121 (2?) oreades, ¢ .......... LIV. 19 ii, 142 
|—— (?) carmenta ............ LIT, 26 ii, 121 || Crocypus (?) orocana, d ...... LIV. 20 li, 143 
—— (?) ocrisia ..........000- LII. 27 ii, 122 || Eupithecia cercina, S ........ LIV. 21 li, 144 
nycteis .............4.. LIT. 28 ii. 122 orilochia, ¢ ............ LIV. 22 ii, 144 
Odrussa .......ec eee cece LIL. 29 ii, 122 || —— orsetilla, d ............ LIV. 23 li. 144 
Erosia opigena, ¢ .......-..-.. | LITT. ~ 1 ii, 126 | —— certissa, J ............5.. LIV. 24 ii, 144 
9 DQ cece cece eeee LUI. 2 ii. 126 || —— ——, Q .... eee eee LIV. 25 ii, 144 
incisaria, Gow... ee eee ee Lil. 3 ii. 126 || —— orbelia, d ..........4-.. LIV. 26 ui, 145 
— rr LIT. 4 ii. 126 || —— carellia, Q ............ _ LIV. 27 ii. 145 
—- omana, SD vo. cece cee ace LIT. - 5 ii. 127 || ——- chabora, ¢ ............ LIV. 28 ii, 145 
—— cassera, O.......ee0ee. LITI. 6 ii. 127 || ——- ornea, ¢ .............. LIV. 29 ii, 146 
— yD cece eect eeeees LITT. 7 ii. 127 || —— oroba, 6 .......+...... LIV. 30 ii. 146 
—— (?) carilla, d  .......... LITI. 8 ii. 127 || —— oroandes, 5 .........-.. LIV. 31 ii, 146 
—— ocalea, Q ....... ese eee LITII. 9 ii, 127 || —— cerynea ............06-. LIV. 32 ii. 146 
—— ora, Qo wees cece cee eeeee LITI. 10 ii. 128 || —— oretilia ................ LV. 1 ii. 147 
——— (?) imella, 9 .........,.. XCIX, 18 ii, 540 | —— choma, ¢ .........++-5. LV. 2 ii. 147 
Semicthisa cardinea, ¢ ........ LIL. { 3 ii, 180 | eae Ly 8 aero 
Carpo, Gwe. eee eee eee LIT. 13 | ii. 130,541 | —— (?) osiana, d........ 00 - LW. 5 li. 147 
14, os , ce dee eee eeeees V. 6 ii, 147 
catualda ............6- EII. | 1B uu. 132 Lepiodes chrodna, g .......... LV. 7 «148 
ostia, Oo... ee eee eee ee LITT. 16 ii, 132 (?) pierla: we... eee ee eee LV. 8 ii, 148 
acutaria, Go... eee eee LITl. 17 | ii, 133,541 || —— (?) maxima, Q .......... XCIX. 21 li. 542 
castalia, d) .. 4.1... eee LITE. 18 311383 || —— (?) unicolor, d .......... XCIX., 22 ii, 542 


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XXVlii LIST OF PLATES. 
Plate Fig Page. Plate. Fig. Page. 
| Lepiodes (?) punctata, ¢ ...... XCIX. 23 ii. 542 || Coremia procilla  ............ LVII. 5 ii. 169 . 
| Lobophora (?) orthesia, g ...... LV. | 9 ii. 149 praxila .............46- LVII. 6 li. 169 » 
(?) cerevia, d .......0.. LY. 10 ii. 149 cyllene .........e.000e- LVI. 7 il, 170 
Cleomantes leuconotula *, ¢.... LY. 11 | ii, 149, 543 CYAN€ owe eee ee eee ees LVII. 8 il. 170 
Larentia columella, ¢ ........ LV. 12 ii. 150 || Psaliodes crotona ...........- LVII. 9 i. 170 
» QD cece cccevecece LV. 13 ii. 150 pomona, Sd ...... eee eee LVII. 10 li. 171 
10) oa LV. 14 ii. 150 damia ........ee ee eeee LVII. 11 ii, 171 
polimela, ¢ ............ LV. 15 ii. 150 cydna, Sow. eee eee eee LVII. 12 ii. 171 
—— (?) conica, d............ LV. 16 ii. 151 || —— deedala, var., d .......... LVII. 14 ii. 171 
—— (?) plautilla, g .......... LV. 17 ii. 151 || —— 9 Deve ce cece eens LVII. 13 ii, 171 
——— narosa, 9 .........2-06- XCIX. 24 li, 543 damophila, ¢ .......... a R il. i 
. . 18, ae 10s: rr . 11. 
Heterusia clustimena, ¢ ...... LV. \ iG } li. 153 tyra, Soe ee LVIL. 17 ii. 172 
20, oe cynthia ...........-08.- LVII. 18 11. 173 
v-album........00.e eee LV. \ 21 } li. 153 porcia cence ueueeeeaue LVIL. 19 ii. 173 
Scotosia gavara, de... eee eee XCIX, 25 ii. 548 CUNINA .. ee cee eee eee es LVII. 20 il. 173 
Pterocypha cometes .......... LY. 22 ii. 157 COMA 1... ee eee ee eee TE 21 ii. ue 
; 23, .. —— posides, d.........0000- LVIL. 22 ii. 17 
Ischnopteryx chryses, ¢ ...... LY. | 94 } ii. 158 promax. d........ 0... LVIL. 93 ii. 174 
—- » DQ cee ce ce eeeees LY. 25 ii. 158 cromna, Gow. eee eee ee LVII. 24. li. 174 
26, e —— Dee eee cecees LVII. 25 ii, 174 
canopus, fo rn LY. { 27 } ii. 158 polyxena, S cc ceceeceues LVI. 296 ii. 174 | 
—— (?) aristophilides, ¢ ...... LV. 28 ii. 159 cormasa, Gow... ee eee _ LVI. 27 ii. 174 
(2?) polymenes, ¢ ........ LV. 29 ii. 159 MYKO.. eee eee eee XCIX. 28 ii. 544 
| Hammaptera coras............ LVI. 2 ii. 160 || Bagodares prosa, ¢ .......... LVI. 28 i, 175 
(?) cylon .............. LVI. 3 ii, 161 » Qe cece cece cece LVII. 29. 11.175 
Rhopalista fulvifusa .......... XCIX. 6 ii. 544 || Dineurodes (?) populonia, 9 LVIII. 1 ii. 176 
Cidaria polyphonta, ¢ ........ LVI. 1 ii. 162 (?) cynossema, dg ........ LVIII. 2. ii. 176 
5D cece c cee eeeees LVI. 4 ii. 162 || Eubolia dane, ¢ ............ LVIII. 3 uu. 176 
—— (?) prema, d............ LVI. 5 ii, 162 CVda 2... cee eee eee LVIII. 4 ii, 177 
—(?) pomponia, ¢ ........ LVI. 6 ii. 162 || Stamnodes proana ............ LVIII. 5,6 ii. 177 
— > DQ ec eee cece nace LVI, 7 ii. 162 || Marmopteryx patamon ........ LVITl. 7,8 li. 178 
—— (?) damo, ¢ ............ LVI. 8 ii. 163 || Phellinodes rubedinaria........ LVIII. 9 li. 178 
—— 9 Qe cece eee eeee LVI. 9 ii. 163 : . 10, . 
cyriades, 3 ............ LVL 10 | 163 Erateina rogersi.............. LVI. 1 il } ii. 180 
Hydriomena sordidata, § ...... LVL. { a } ii, 163 CYTIS eee ee eee ee ee eees LVIIL. | 1 I ii, 180 
nme CE) TH 12] BG2GE | troehtoaes potyzona cose wor. {16} as 
proba, Sw... cee ee eee LVI. 18 li. 164 . 16, ee 
__ PO LVL. 19 i 164 Cydonia ........ eee eee LVIIT. rh } ii. 182 | 
cydra, dw... ee eee eee LVI. 20 li. 165 CIUSA 2... ce eee eee LVIII. 18 ii, 182 
—. 9 Q ee cece ceca ee LVI. 21 ii. 165 || —— (?) prusa .............. LVIII.. 19 ii. 182 
dada, Jo... . see eee ee LVI. 22 ii. 165 || —— (?) proana.............. _ LVI. 20 ii, 182 
—— ——, Preece eee LVI. 23 ii. 165 || —— (?) promenea’............ LVIII. 21 ii. 182 
cynosura, ¢ .......0005- LVI. 24 ii. 165 || —— (?) crossa .............. LVIII. 22 li. 183 
Epirrhoe crypta .............. LVI. 25 ii. 166 || Emplocia potentia ............ LVIII. 23 ii. 183 
daira, Swe eee eee eee LVI. 26 ii. 166 ; 24, . 
oyllene we esses sees LVI. | 27 ii, 166 CYMAKA vee eves seen LVI. {| 35 } ii, 183 
psyra, G ww ee eee eee eee LVI. 8 ii. 166 . 26, . 
pompilia .............. LVII 1 ii, 167 -prumnides.............. . LVIII. | 947 } i. 184 
CYISPA.... se ee ee eee eee XCIX 27 i. 544 s {| 28, . 
Melanippe pontina ............ LVII 2 ii. 168 tortricina, J ..+.... +... LVI. 4 | So \ i. 184 
cyarda ........--....6. LVII 3 ii. 169 || —— ——, 2 ...........0.8. LVIII. 30 li. 184 
Coremia cinereolimitata, ¢ LVII 4 il. 169 


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LIST OF PLATES. XXixX 

Plate. Fig. Page. Plate Fig. Page, 
g Sufetula dentata ....... peace LX. 13 li. 203 
TOULID i. TUSINA 6. eee eee eee ees LX. 14 ii, 208 
Herdonia thetis .............. C. 1 ii. 545 || Pyrausta cyralis, ¢ .......... LX. 15 li. 204 
Rhodoneura pulchelloides ...... LIX 1 li. 185 decetialis, ¢ .........0.. LX. 16 ii, 205 
cece cece nee LIX. 2 ii. 185 |) —— trizonalis .............. C. 11 ii. 550 
Lecce eee eee ewees LIX. 3 ii. 185 obtusanalis ............ C. 12 li, 550 
anastomosalis .......... LIX. 6 ii. 186 || Phlycteenia praxitalis ........ LX. 17 ii. 205 
levigata, var. .......... LIX. 4 li. 186 (?) prusalis ............ LX, 18 ii. 205 
Pharambara polychloralis ...... LIX. 5 ii, 186 || Syllythria rosa ...........6.. LX. 19 | ii, 206, 551 
cence ee eee wees LIX. 7 li. 186 IdesSa ww kee eee eee LX. 20 ii. 206 
Aziba macropterania .......... LIX. 8 ii. 187 || —— (?) conradti ............ LX. 21 ii, 207 
Draconia peripheta .......... LIX. 12 i. 187 SALVIA... eee ee cee eee LX. 22 ii. 207 
Lecce ec aees LIX. 10 ii. 187 rhealis .......... cc eeee LX. 23 ii. 207 
eee e eee ee eens LIX. 9 ii. 188 || Herbula prochytalis .......... LX. 24 ii. 208 
| Dysodia sica .......... eee ee XXX, 4 |i, 325, ii, 502 || Boreophila cereralis .......... LX. 25 ii. 209 
IPSA .. cece wee cece eens XXX, 5 |i, 325, ii, 502 | Hyalorista deidamialis ........ LX. 27 ii. 210 
Lecce cece eeeres XXX. 6 |i. 3825, 11. 502 || Condylorrhiza silicalis tf, ¢ LX. 26 | i. 211, 551 
sec e eee ee eres XXX. 7 |i, 325, 11. 502 || Epicorsia (?) prumnides, ? LX. 28 ii. 212 
Meroctena zygialis............ C. 13 ii. 551 
Aphytoceros lybialis .......... LX. 29 ii. 213 
PrRaLip#. senahuensis, 9 .......... LXI. 1 ii, 214 
Episemnia ligatalis .......... LIX. 11 ii. 189 samarialis .. rte ee eee ees C. 14 ii. 551 
Mapeta schausi, ¢ .........4.- LIX. 14 ii. 190 || Terastia meticulosalis ........ LXI. 2 ii, 215 
Lee eee eeues LIX. 13 ii. 190 || Megastes praxiteles, ¢ ........ LXI, 3 li, 215 
Azamora penicillana, Q........ LIX. 17 ii, 191 Or LXI. 4 ii. 215 
Cece e eee tase wees C. 2 ii. 545 || Atheropoda remusalis ........ LXI. 5 li. 218 
Lae cece cece C. 3 li, 545 pontealis .............. LXI. 6 ii. 218 
Amblyura proclea, ¢.......... LIX. 15 ii. 191 || Polygrammodes sanguinalis .... LXI. 7 li. 218 
suc e eee eee LIX. 16 ii. 191 CyYAMON, Gwe wesw ee eees C. 15 ii. 552 
Tosale oviplagialis, S ........ LIX. 18 | ii, 192, 545 | Pachynoa croesus ............ LXI. 8 ii, 219 
9 QD cece cece eeeeee LIX. 19 | ii, 192, 545 flavidalis, G ....... eee LXI. 9 ii. 220 
Salobrena cyrisialis, f ........ LIX. 20 ii, 192 || —— yD ve ceee ee eeeeee LXI. 10 ii. 220 
(Ectoperia propylea, dS ........ LIX. 21 li, 193 cyclades, ¢ ...+........ LXI. 12 ii. 220 
sec e een e ee nees LIX. 22 ii, 193 ; see e cece eee LXI. 13 ii. 220 
Lecce eee eres LIX. 23 ii, 193 | Pachyzancla cynoalis, ¢ ...... LXI. 11 li. 221 
Clydonopteron pomponius, ° . LIX. 24 1i. 193 semilaniata tence ee eeee C. 16 ll, 552 
Catadupa splendens, 5 ........ LIX. 25 ii. 194 || Zunacetha angulifera.......... LXI, 14 ii, 222 
Galasa deera ........0e ee eeee LX. 1 | ii, 195, 546 bugabensis  ............ LXI. 15 li, 223 
(2?) daulisalis ..........-- LX. 4 ii. 195 | Salbia xiphialis Lee eee e ees LXI. 16 li. 223 
Idnea propriana, Q .........- LX. 2 ii. 196 lauralis, 9 .......-.-.- LXI. 17 li. 224 
Monoloxis cinerascens ........ C. 4 li. 546 lotanalis, Q ..........5- C, 17 li, 553 
cece teen eeee C. 5 ii, 546 || Sarothronota (?) citrinalis ...... LXI, 18 ii, 224. 
Parachma meterythra ........ C. 6 ii. 547 |) Erilusa coelivitta, ¢ .......... LXI. 19 li. 226 
Tetraphana daphne, Q ........ LX. 5,6 ii. 197 croceiceps, Sow... se eee. LXI. 20 ii, 226 
Siga pyronia, Q ........ee eee LX. 7 ii. 198 — purpuralis, Q .......... LXI. 21 li. 226 
Macalla dapha ............-. LX. 3 ii. 198 || Acridura metallica, S$ ........ LXI. 22 li, 227 
Locastra phyalis ..........-- C. 7 ii, 547 prochyta, Q ..........6. LXI. 23 ii. 227 
Deuterollyta calitas .......... C. 8 ii. 547 || —— dedala, Sires eeeeeeeeees LXI. 24 li. 227 
Pococera pemphusalis ........ C. 9 ii, 548 (?) hadriana ............ LXI. 25 ii, 227 
Caphys subrosealis*, 9 ........ LX. 8 ii, 200 | Margaronia innotata .......... LXI. 26 ii. 228 
Stemmatophora demonica, ¢.. LX. 9 ii. 200 || Eudioptis praxialis............ LXI, 28 ii. 231 
(?) albopunctalis, 2 ...... LX. 10 ii. 201 cumalis .......+..s.ee- LX. 27 ii. 232 
Pyralis datames .............. LX. 11 li, 201 damalis .........+-...4. LXI. 29 li, 232 
Lecce eee eneee LX. 12 ii. 201 || -—— exclusalis .............. LXI. 30 li. 233 
cece ee eee eee C. 10 ii. 549 || Cliniodes opalalis ............ LXII 1 ii, 235 


* Ugra subrosealis on the Plate. 


+ Condylorrhiza sublutalis on the Plate. 


XXX LIST OF PLATES. 
Plate. Fig Page. Plate. Fig. Page, 
Cliniodes cyllarusalis, ¢ ...... LXI. . 31 ii. 235 | Syngamia tremulalis .......... CI. 15 li, 559 
» DQ veveeeee ees LXI, 32 ii. 235 || AXdiodes (?) unipunctalis ...... LXII 26 ii, 261 
underwoodi, 9 .......... C.. 18 ii. 553 || Filodes pucilla ...........4. LXII a li. 263 
Carbaca prognealis............ .. LXII. 2 li. 235  ancanti alt =o, : 
Tyspanodes cnasalis, gS c=: | a ii, 553 || Phectosemia argentipunctalis LXII. 29 } ii, 264 
Agathodes monstralis, ¢ ...... LXII. 5 ii, 236 || Phryganodes omphalobasis CI. 14 li, 559 
Agrotera marucalis, g ........ LXII. 3 ii. 237 || _Ischnurges eudamidasalis ...... CI. 13 il, 560 
calanticalis ............ LXII. 4 iil. 237 bagoasalis ..........+-5- CI. 16 ii. 560 
darsanalis .............. LXII. 6 ii, 238 || Diasemia erubescens .......... CI. 17 ii. 560 
Pterygisus apygalis*.......... _LXII. 7 | i. 238, 554 (?) minutalis............ . CI. 18 ii. 560 
rhealis .............0.. LXII. 9 ii. 239 || Cybolomia ossealis, Q ........ . CL. 19 li, 560 
Pantographa cybelealis, ¢ .... LXII. 8 ii. 240 || Leucochroma prosalis ........ . LAI. 30 il. 266 
limatat, ¢ ............ LXII. 10 | ii. 240, 554 saltigalis .........0006- LXII 31 li. 266 | 
—— pharaxalis, 6 .......... _ LXII. 12 ii, 240 (?) ruscialis ............ LXITI 1 iil. 266 
idmonalis .............. LXIT. 11 ii. 240 || Glaphyria (?) ausonialis ...... CL 20. ii, 561 
gorgonalis .............. LXII. 13 ii. 240 || Blepharomastix gigantalis...... LXIT 5) ii. 269 
expansalis= ............ LXII. 14 | ii. 241, 554 vilialis$ 1... eee eee LXIII 24 i. 269,561 
Sathria minnithalis, g ........ LXII. 15 li, 242 ranalis || .......eee eee LXIIT 38 | u. 269, 561 
Ceratoclasis lupa ............ C. 20 ii, 554 romalis, SO .....-..e0--e LXIII 4 ii. 270 
Samea (?) asadiags ..........6. C. 19 ii. 555 | ——— (?) demantrialis, gd ...... LXIII 6 ii. 270 
Mimorista salaconalis ........ LXII. 16 | ii. 245, 555 stenialis9]; ¢ .......... LXIIT 7 | ii. 270, 561 
Ledereria randalis ............ LXII. 17 ii. 250 coatepecensis............ LXIII 8 ii. 270 
Conchylodes salamisalis........ DXII, 19 li. 251 crusalis ......... ee eee LXIIT 9 ii. 271 
(?) sabatalis ............ LXII. 18 ii, 252 || Stenia bufalis'................ Cl. 21 ii. 561 
Homophysa faleatalis ........ C. 22 ii, 555 || Eurrhyparodes splendens ...... LXITI 10 ii, 271 
remellalis .............. C. 24 li. 556 || Cataclysta premalis .......... LXIIT 11 li, 272 
citronalis .............. . ¢. 27 ii. 556 walis .... cece e eee ee eee LXIII 12 ii. 272 
Omiodes roxonalis ............ _ EXIT 20 ii. 253 onyxalis**,............. LXIII 13 | ii, 272, 562 
Milvalis.............00- LXII. 21 ii. 253 romanalis .............. LXIIT 14 ii. 273 
Pionea fusculalis ............ C. 25 ii. 556 cumalis . .............. LXIIT 15 ii, 273 
phealis, ¢ .........0.. CI. 1 ii, 556 || —— pulcherialis ............ LXIII 16 li, 274 
— A Or CI. 2 ii. 556 darsanialis ............ LXII 17 i, 274 
antigastridia ............ C. 26 ii. 556 cronialis, ¢ ............ LXIIT 18 i. 274 
asychanalis ............ CI. 3 ii. 557 eryptalis, S ............ LXIT 19 ii. 274 
—— belialis ................ CI. 4 ii. 557 || Hydrocampa xantholeucalis ff ..| LXIII 22 | ii. 275, 562 
—— thyanalis .............. CI. 5 ii. 557 procialis .............. LXTII 20 ii, 275 
chanesalis .............. CI. 8 li. 557 randalis .........-.2.00- LXIII 21 | ii. 275, 562 
tisiasalis .......-...04. CI. 6 ii. 557 debalis ...............4. LXIIit 23 ii. 276 
aponianalis ............ CI. 7 li. 557 pomperialis ............ LXIII 24 i, 276 
crambialis .............; CI. 9 ii, 558 || —— (?) dematrialis .......... LXIIlI 25 il. 276 
Bocchoris chalcidiscalis ........ C. 23 ii. 558 || —— (?) procrealis............ LXIII 26 li. 276 
Phostria (?) cryptalis.......... LXII. 22 il. 255 (?) dendalis ............ LXIII 27 ii, 277 
(?) cyrisalis, ¢ .......... LXIiI. 23 ii. 255 || Paraponyx citronalis .......... LXTIT 28 ii. 277 
Hedylepta (?) mizaralis, ¢ .... CI. 10 ii. 558 azialis .............05. LXIII 29 ii. 277 
—-— lehialis ................ CI. 11 ii. 558 hodevalis .............. LXIIT 30 ii. 278 
Epichronistis dadalis .......... LXII. 24 li. 258 echmialistt ............ LX 31 | ii. 278, 562 
(?) cylonalis ............ LXIT. 25 | ii, 258,559 || Hellula phidilealis ............ CI. 23 ii. 56: 
mellinialis.............. CI. 12 ii, 559 || Scoparia albifrons ............ -LXIV 2 i. 278 


* Pterygisus appialis on the Plate. 

t Pantographa suffusalis on the Plate. 

+ Pantographa orsonalis on the Plate. 

§ Blepharomastix pulverulalis on the Plate. 
|| Blepharomastix datisalis on the Plate. 


{| Blepharomastix sagralis on the Plate. 


** Cataclysta divulsalis on the Plate. 


ody, 
rt 


Hydrocampa decetialis on the Plate. 


+t Paraponyx bosoralis on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. XXXI 
Plate. Fig. Page. Plate Fig. Page. 
Scoparia delphusa ............ LXIV 1 ii. 279 | Crambus lascaellus ...... wees LXIV 14 ii. 289 
smithi ................ LXIV 3 ii, 279 cadarellus .............. LXIV 15 ii. 290 
sabura .......-..+..00- LXIV 4 ii. 279 racabellus ...........005 LXIV 16 ii. 290 
albipunctata ............ CI. 22 ii. 563 || —— misgabellus ............ LXIV 17 ii. 290 
Pyenulia sylea .............. CI. 24 ii. 564 || —— expansellus ............ LXIV. 18 ii, 291 
Acrobasis pachylepidella, § .... CI. 25 ii. 564 || —— minuellus .............. LXIV. 19 ii, 292 
Dioryctria zimmermanni ...... CI. 26 ii. 564 || Diptychophora smithi ........ LXIV 20 ii, 292 
Nephopteryx fuscifrontella LXIV 5 ii, 282 || Platytes endochalybella ...... LXIV 21 ii, 293 
drucei .............4-. LXIV 6 ii, 282 || Argyria opposita ............ LXIV 22 ii, 294 
Laodamia guatemalella ........ LXIV 7 ii, 282 pustulella ..........-44. LXIV 23 i, 294 
Euzophera phryganoides ...... LXIV 8 ii. 285 || Eromene californicalis ........ LXIV 24 li, 295 
Homeeosoma soraella.......... CI. 28 ii. 565 | Erupa ruptilineella .......... LXIV 26 li. 295 
Trachonitis lucidalis .......... LXIV 9 ii, 286 similis ...........0.00- CI. 27 ii, 566 
Bethulia championella ........ LXIV 10 ii, 287 || Diatreea neuricella............ LXIV 27 ii, 295 
Schoenobius longirostrellus LXIV 11 li. 288 saccharalis ............ LXIV 29 ii. 296 
Crambus melchiellus .......... LXIV 12 ii. 289 || Doratoperas atrosparsellus, ¢ LXIV 28 li. 297 
nergaellus .............. LXIV 13 ii. 289 | Mesolia plurimella............ LXIV 25 ii, 297 


VOLUME I. 
Page Line Page Line 
3 7 after lusca insert (Tab. ITI. fig. 5.) 181 10 
3 17 = after restituta insert (Tab. III. fig. 6.) 2138 ~=10 
4 8 for hoppferi read hopfferi. 262, 
4 9 for hoppferi read hopfferi. 263 
8 20 for tripolemus read triptolemus. 
9 19 for 4 read 6. 
17 25 for Macrosilia read Macrosiia. 
24 27 ~ = after veraguana insert (Tab. IV. fig. 4.) say “e 
26 { ot 4, } for atymnus read atymnius. 396 26 
47 9 for Aclytea read Aclytia. 
65 7 for fasciolata read fasciolatum. 398 6 
140 16s for VIII. read XIII. 
179 22 after zouine insert sp. n. 
VOLUME II. 
Page Line Page Line 
28 13 for platyptera read platypterata. 4038 16 
102 8 for punctata read punctaria. 404 1 
211 4 for D. read B. 
265 The genus ASCIODES has by mistake been | 404 2 
entered twice, on pp. 241 and 265. 404 4 
265 25 for 1 read 2, 405 
267 10 Hrase the reference to the genus Homophysa. 
268 The genus ASOPIA has by mistake been en- | 410 
tered twice, on pp. 202 and 268. 
268 19 = for 1 read 2. 421 25 
293 18 Erase the reference to M, quadristigmalis, Guen. 442 
295 19 Erase the words sp. n. 
333 14 for sauleyi read saulcyt. 
337 24 for ferra read ferrea. 455 13 
340 18,14 for A. read Z. 473 5 
368 see The genus RHIPHA has by mistake been en- 513 21 
tered twice, in Vol. I. p. 79, and in Vol. II. 589 1 
p. 368. 549 28 
368 23 for 1 read 2. 550 19 
379 21 for obscurator read obscurata. 550 =—-.26 
379 28 for obscurator read obscurata. 552 8 
389 25 for Cyenia read Cyenia. 552 20 
394 12 Erase the reference to S. bolteri. 
403 2 for comformis read conformis. 


ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. 


for arminia read armidia. 
for Laparide read Liparide. 


The name PHILOCHRYSA should be used for 
E. timais (Cram.), HEUTHISANOTIA 
having been adopted for a different genus 
in Vol. II. p. 328. 

for Chytorhyza read Chytoryza. 

for Rhamphia read Ramphia. 

for AMPHIGONIIDAs 
GONIINE. 

for THERMESIIDA& 
MESTINZ. 


read AMPHI- 


read TJTHER- 


Sor 6 read 7. 

for EUSTIXIA read EUSTIXIS: the genus 
EUSTIXIA is entered on p. 563. 

for Hustixria read Eustixis, and for ii. read iii. 

Jor Bustixia read Eustixis. 

The genus EPIDESMA has by mistake been 
entered twice, on pp. 360 and 405. 

The genus BITURIX has by mistake been 
entered twice, on pp. 382 and 410. 

for lavandera read lavendera, 

The genus METRAGA has by mistake been 
entered twice, in Vol. I. p. 209, and in 
Vol. IT. p. 442. 

Jor figg. read fig. 

for Leucanea read Leucania. 

for malitissa read malitiosa. 

for 138 read 14. 

Sor 3 read 2. 

for 6 read 5. 

for 7 read 6, 

for 1 read 2. 

Erase the reference to P. silicalis,and transfer 
the localities mentioned to Condylorrhiza 

_ Silicalis, on p. 551. 


BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 


ZOOLOGIA. 


Class INSECTA. 


Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
Suborder HETEROCERA. 


Fam. SPHINGIDAi*. 


Subfam. MACROGLOSSINA. 


AELLOPUS. 
Aellopus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131 (1816). 


Six species have been included in this genus, whereof four belong to South America 
and two to West Africa. It is doubtful, however, if the African forms are really con- 
generic, their narrow elongated bodies being very different from what is found in the 
American representatives of the genus. Of these latter two, or at most three, of the 
species are really distinct, the others being of doubtful value. 


1. Aellopus tantalus. 
Sphinx tantalus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 361’. 
Aellopos tantalus, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. 11: t. 157. f. 1-4”. 
Macroglossa tantalus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 88 °. 
Sphing titan, Cr. Pap. Ex. ii. p. 73, t. 142. f. F*. 
Macroglossa annulosum, Sw. Zool. Ill. iii. t. 1382. £. 1°. 

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (mus. Oaf.), Cordova (Riimeli), Mazatlan (HZ. Bawards), 
Valladolid, Yucatan (Gauwmer); British Honpuras, river Sarstoon (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuatEMALA, Duefias (Ff. D. G. & O. S., mus. Oxf.), Zapote, San Gerdénimo, Coban 
(Champion); Panama (Boucard, mus. D.).—AntvILLES, Jamaica ?, San Domingo 3, &c. ; 
CoLomBIA, Santa Marta (mus. D.); EcuaDor (mus. D.) ; Venezveta?; Guiana, Surinam’; 
Amazons, Para®; Braziu®, Rio (mus. D.). 


* In the arrangement of this family I have in a great measure followed that propounded by Mr. Butler in 
his paper on the Sphingide (Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 511 e¢ seqq.). 


BIOL. CENT.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., April 1881. aa 


bo 


HETEROCERA. 


This species seems to have an uninterrupted range over a very wide area. I am 
unable to detect any tangible specific characters whereby to separate the large series of 
specimens before me. It remains a question whether the insect described by Cramer as 
Sphine fadus is really distinct from A. tantalus. The figure, it is true, shows no abdo- 
minal white band on the upper surface; but this, I think with Boisduval, is probably 
due to the greasy state of Cramer’s specimen. I have a Mexican example in this con- 
dition, which is not separable from others in the normal state. Mr. Butler keeps the 
two insects separate, but gives no reasons for so doing. Boisduval, in his latest work 
on the Sphingide (Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 358, 1874), was strongly of the opinion 
that Macroglossa tantalus, M. titan, and M. fadus were only varieties of a single 
species. 


EUPYRRHOGLOSSUM. 
Eupyrrhoglossum, Grote, Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 42 (1865). 


A purely Neotropical genus containing two species, both of which are found within 
our fauna. 


1. Eupyrrhoglossum sagra. 
Macroglossum sagra, Poey, Cent. Lep. dec. 2* (fide Butler). 
Macroglossa sagra, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 89°; Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 360°. 
Eupyrrhoglossum sagra, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 531°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Areé, mus. D.).—Cusat?; CoromBia?; Ecuapor (mus. D.); 
Uprer Amazons (mus. D.); Brazin? 3, 


A wide-ranging southern species, of which I have as yet seen only a single Central- 
American specimen, which was taken near Chiriqui. 


2. Kupyrrhoglossum ceculus. 

Sphinz ceculus, Cr. Pap. Ex. ii. p. 80, t. 146. f. Gt. 
Macroglossa ceculus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 88°; Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 359°. 
‘Macroglossum fasciatum, Sw. Zool. Ill. iii. t. 1382. f. 2%. 
Macroglossa corvus, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 66°? 

Hab. Mexico?; Guaremaa, El Jicaro and Cubilguitz (Champion); Nicaracua®; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—CotomBia*; Ecuapor (mus. D.); Trinmap (mus. D.) ; 
Guiana, Surinam !, Cayenne*?; Amazons, Para?; Brazin 234, 


A. species closely allied to the last, but easily recognized by the greater width of the 
yellow fascia on the secondaries and the absence of the yellow margin. WV. corvus is a 
“name proposed by Boisduval for a specimen said to have come from Nicaragua®. I 
believe it belongs to this species, but am not certain on the point. 


PERIGONIA.—-PACHYGONIA. 3 


PERIGONTA. 
Perigonia, Walker, Cat. Het. viii. p. 100 (1856). 


Mr. Butler enumerates nine species of this genus, of which P. zlus is but a synonym 
of P. lusca; and others he names seem to rest on very doubtful authority. Three closely 
allied species are found within our region, whereof two have an extensive range in 
South America, the third being also found in Cuba. | 


1. Perigonia lusca. 
Sphinx lusca, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 1407. 
Perigonia lusca, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 5327. 
Perigonia interrupta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. Suppl. p. 29%. 
Perigonia ilus, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 66 *. 
Hab. Muxtco®; Guaremata 3 (Sallé) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama (Boucard, 
mus. D.).— ANTILLES, San Domingo ?; Cotomsia (mus. D.); Ecuapor (mus. D.). 


According to Mr. Butler? P. interrupta, Walk.®, belongs here. As regards P. ilus, 
Boisd., I have, through Mons. C. Oberthiir’s kindness, had an opportunity of examining 
the type, and have no hesitation in referring it to P. lusca. 


2. Perigonia restituta. 
Panacra restituta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. Suppl. p. 32°. 
Perigonia restituta, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 582°. 
Hab. Muxico (Hartweg1*), Cordova (Riimeli)—VENEZUELA; Ecuapor (mus. D.); 
AMAZONS, Para 2. | 


In this species, of which I have examined the type, the median yellow spot of the 
secondaries, so conspicuous in both P. dusca and P. stulta, ismuch reduced in size, being 
a small round spot instead of a band as in the allied species. No specimen has yet been 
sent from any part of Central America south of Mexico. 


8. Perigonia stulta. | 
Perigonia stulta, Herr.-Sch. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 106°; Schmett. Ins. Cuba, p. 20’. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—CuBa 2. 


A single specimen in my collection agrees with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure of this 
species !, The orange belt of the secondaries extends along the whole costal half from 
the base to the apex, thus differing from P. lusca and P. restituta. 


PACHYGONIA. 
Pachygonia, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Zool. ii. Lep. Th. iv. t. 75 (1868). 


This genus contains about five species, of which three occur in Central America—two 
9) 
aa 2 


4 HETEROCERA. 


being peculiar to the State of Panama, and one ranging to Para at the mouth of the 
Amazons. All are Neotropical. 


1. Pachygonia subhamata. 
Perigonia subhamata, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 1027. 
Pachygonia caliginosa, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Zool. ii. Lep. Th. iv. t. 75. f. 10”. 
Hab. Muxico! (mus. Oxf), Cordova (Riimeli); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 
—VENEZUELA!; Amazons 2, Para !. 


2. Pachygonia hoppferi. (Tab. I. fig. 1.) 
Pachygonia hoppferi, Staud. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1875, p. 118’. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, Arcé, Mus. D.). 


Differs from P. subhamata in having the pink bands on the secondaries more distinct 
and wider apart. 


3. Pachygonia ribbei, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 2.) 


Brown, paler beneath: primaries glossy greyish brown from the base to beyond the middle, several indistinct 
ochreous streaks along the costal margin; an ochreous spot close to the apex, but not touching the costal 
margin: secondaries dark brown, paler at the base, and slightly ochreous at the anal angle: head, thorax, 
and abdomen brown above and pale ochreous heneath. Exp. 24 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe). 


Differs from the other species of this genus in having the bands of the secondaries 
smaller and duller. 


UNZELA. 
Unzela, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 161 (1856). 


One species only of this genus is as yet described. It has a very wide distribution, 
ranging from North America to South-east Brazil. 


1. Unzela japix. 
Sphinx japix, Cr. Pap. Ex. i. t. 87. f. C’. 
Unzela japis, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 162°; Butl. Trans. Z, 8. ix. p. 535°. 
Tylognathus japys, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 293%. 
Hab. Untrep Status ! 2,Panama, Chiriqui (bbe), Rio Chagres (mus Staudinger). — 
Guiana, Surinam‘*; Brazit‘4, Rio 2°. 


I have only seen one specimen of this species from Central America, which was 
taken near Chiriqui. 


PROSERPINUS.—CALLIOMMA. 5 


PROSERPINUS. 
Proserpinus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 182 (1816). 


This genus contains five species, of which one occurs in Central America, two in 
North America, and two in the south of Europe. The species are all small. 


1. Proserpinus terlooi. 
Proserpinus terlooi, H. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1875, p. 4°. 
Pterogon terloott, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. et Het. i. p. 125, t. xiv. £3”. 


Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan !? (Baron Terloo). 


This species is closely allied to the European P. proserpina, Pall. Mr. Henry 
Edwards informs me that two specimens of this species are in the collection of 
Dr. H. Behr, of San Francisco. These were taken in the Sierra Madre, in the State 
of Sinaloa, by the late Baron Terloo. 


CALLIOMMA. 
Calliomma, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 108 (1856). . 


About eight species are placed in this genus by Mr. Butler, of which three occur in 
Central America, the others being found only in South America. 


, 1. Calliomma licastus. 
Sphinx licastus, Cr. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 3881. f. A’. 
Calliomma licastus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 110°. 
Calliomma parce, Lucas in R. de la Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, vii. p. 291, t. 17. f£. 2° (ex Fabr.). 

Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaur); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—ANTILLES 2, Cuba’; Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, 
Surinam 1. 


This species has a wide range, and, so far as I can see, does not vary to any extent. 
Mr. Butler has enumerated three species in his Catalogue closely allied to C. lécastus ; 
but I think them of very doubtful value. The specimens from Ecuador in my collection 
do not vary in the least from the Central-American ones. 


2. Calliomma thorates. 
Oreus thorates, Hiibn. Zutr. ff. 525, 526°. 
Pergesa thorates, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 151°. 
Calliomma thorates, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 540°. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca22; Guatemaua, Polochic valley (F. D. G. & O. S., mus. Oxf.) 
Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—ANTILLES 1, Haiti ?, St. Vincent 3, &c.; CoLomBia 3; 
Ecuapor (mus. D.) 


6 HETEROCERA. 


I have a large number of examples before me of this wide-ranging species; the 
specimens from Ecuador are generally smaller than those from Central America. 


I have not yet seen an example from any locality south of Ecuador. 


3. Calliomma adalia, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 1.) 


Primaries olive-green, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by five brown lines, the first two 
near the base, the third beyond the end of the cell, the fourth a waved line close to the third, the fifth 
nearest the outer margin; a short waved line from the apex to the middle of the fifth line; an indistinct 
brownish patch near the anal angle, extending upwards along the outer margin: secondaries dark brown, 
abdominal margin and anal angle greenish; fringes white: head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green, 


beneath pale ochreous. Exp. 2:5 in. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 


Very distinct from any other species. 


ENYO. 
Enyo, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 182 (1816). 

This genus is allied to the preceding, and differs principally by the shorter and more 
robust body and dentated margins of the wings. With one exception, it is a purely 
Neotropical genus. I much doubt, however, H. cinnamomea, Herr.-Schaff., described 
from Australia, being really from that region. 


1. Enyo lugubris. 
Sphine lugubris, Linn. Mant. p. 537; Drury, Ill. Ex. 1. p. 61, t. 28. f. 2*; Abbot & Smith, Nat. 


Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. i. p. 59, t. 30%. 
Enyo lugubris, Hiibn. Zutr. ff. 595, 596; Walk. Cat. vii. p. 113°. 
Sphinx camertus, Cr. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 225. f. A*. 

Hab. Norra America?.—Mexico, Mazatlan (H. Edwards), Cordova (Riimeli) ; 
Guatemala (PF. D. G.& O. S., mus. Oxf.), Coban (Champion); Honpuras*®; Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxf.); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbé).—Antities !, Cuba (mus. D.), 
Haiti?; Venezveta®; Cotompia?; Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam*; AMazons, 
Santarem ?; Brazit, Rio °. | 


This species seems to have an immense range, from Georgia to South Brazil. I 
cannot detect any good specific characters whereby to separate the large series of 
specimens before me. Mr. Butler considers it doubtful whether E. camertus is 
distinct from £. lugubris. I do not think there can be any doubt that they belong to 
but one species. Specimens in my collection from Cuba are very much smaller, but in 
other respects do not differ in any way from the type. The redder tint mentioned by 
Mr. Butler as peculiar to H. camertus occurs in specimens from many of the above 
localities. Ido not think that any value can be attached to it. 


ENYO.—ALEURON. 7 


2. Enyo danum. 
Sphine danum, Cr. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 225. f. B’. 
Thyreus danum, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 67 ?. 
Enyo danum, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 541°. 


Hab. GuaTeMALa?; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—ANTILLES, San Domingo}; 
Ecuabor (mus. D.); Paru?; Bottvia?; Guiana, Surinam 1. 


This is a well-marked species, easily distinguished from its allies by the pale yellow 
patch on the abdominal margin of the secondaries. 


3. Enyo gorgon. 
Sphinx gorgon, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 142. f. E’. 
Sphing lyctus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 225. f. F?. 
Thyreus lyctus, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 68°. 
Einyo lyctus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 115%. 


Hab. Mexico (mus. Ovf.); Brimisnh Honpuras, river Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); Nica- 
racuA?; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); Gutana, Surinam 12; 
Brazit 4. 


ALEURON. 
Aleuron, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 71 (1870). 


Mr. Butler places three species in this genus. 


1. Aleuron chloroptera. 
Sphinx chloroptera, Perty, Del. Anim. Ar. Bras. t. 31. f. 3%. 
Enyo chloroptera, Walk. Cat. viii. p.118?. 
Aleuron chloroptera, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 71°; Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 206%. 


Hab. Guatemata?; Honpuras? (mus. Brit.); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 
Chiriqui (/7b0é).—Guiana, Cayenne*; Brazin}. 
A wide-ranging southern species, of which I have as yet seen only three Central- 


American specimens. 


2. Aleuron iphis. 
Enyo iphis, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 116). 
Tylognathus iphis, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. p. 295’. 
Tylognathus scriptor, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Zool. ii., Lep. Th. iv. t. 82. f. 4°. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D., Ribbé).—Gutana, Surinam ??; Amazons3; 
Brazi }. 

I have only seen two specimens of this species from Central America; and none has 
been as yet sent from any locality north of Panama. 


8 HETEROCERA. 


GONENYO. 
Gonenyo, Butler, Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 543 (1877). 

Mr. Butler states that this genus differs from Hnyo in the form of the palpi, and 
also from Callenyo in the more highly developed palpi, the length of the abdomen, the 
undulation of the outer margin of primaries, &c. I must say that I find the differences 
between many of these genera of Sphingide so slight that I much doubt their value ; 
and had I time to work out all the characters of the different genera, I feel sure 
some of them would have to be given up for want of definite characters. 


1. Gonenyo carinata. 
Enyo carinata, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 117°. 
Gonenyo carinata, Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 543”. 


_ Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—Para ! ?. 


HEMEROPLANES. 
Hemeroplanes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1383 (1816). 

This genus is allied to Enyo, from which it differs as follows :—The wings are much 
broader, the body much larger and more robust, and the antenne longer and more 
slender. It is a Neotropical genus, two of the four known species being found in 
Central America. 


1. Hemeroplanes triptolemus. 
Sphinx tripolemus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 216. f. F’. 
Calliomma triptolemus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 111%. 
Madoryz triptolemus, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 154°. 
Hab. GuateMaua, Coban (Champion); Panama, Colon (Boucard, mus. D.).—Ecuapor 
(mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam !, Cayenne®; Amazons, Para ?, Ega?; Braziu?. 


This species seems to have a very extended range, though I have only seen two 
specimens from Central America; they do not appear to differ in any respect from the 
South-American form. 


2. Hemeroplanes oiclus. 
Sphine oiclus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 216. f. C’; Merian, Ins. Surinam, t. 39°. 
Madoryx oiclus, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. p. 151°. 


Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GuatemaLa (Boucard, mus. D.).— 
GUIANA, Surinam ! ?, Cayenne °. 


I have only seen two specimens, both of which are in bad condition; but I have no 
doubt they are of this species. 


CHEROCAMPA. 9 


Subfam. CHAHROCAMPINZ. 


CH/EROCAMPA. © 
Cherocampa, Duponchel, Hist. Lép. Fr. ii. Suppl. p. 159 (1835). 


The species of this genus are widely distributed over the globe, Asia being the head 
quarters of the genus. Mr. Butler enumerates seventy-nine species in his paper on the 
Sphingide. I have described six from Central America, making eighty-five described 
species ; some of these, however, are of very doubtful value. 


1. Cherocampa trilineata. 
Cherocampa trilineata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. Suppl. p. 30°. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).— VENEZUELA! ; TRINIDAD (mus. D.). 


I have only seen one specimen of this species from Central America, which agrees in 
all respects with the type. The Trinidad specimens are small and darker in colour, 
but do not differ in any other respect. 


2. Cherocampa libya. (Tab. II. fig. 5.) 
Cherocampa libya, Druce, Ent. Monthl. Mag. xiv. p. 249°. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui! (Arcé, mus. D.). 


The specimen from Nicaragua differs from the type, the orange band of the posterior 
wing being slightly narrower and more clouded with black. 


3. Cherocampa lelia. (Tab. II. fig. 4.) 
Cherocampa lelia, Druce, Ent. Monthl. Mag. xiv. p. 249°. 


Hab. Mexico (mus. Staudinger); Panama, Chiriqui! (Arcé, mus. D.). 


I have as yet only seen three specimens of this species. It is nearly allied to C. libya, 
but is smaller, the primaries much paler and narrower, the orange fascia of the secon- 
daries much wider, the black margin being very narrow and not reaching the apex. 


It resembles C. neoptolemus (Cr.) from Surinam, but wants the well-defined red band of 
the secondaries. 


4, Cherocampa porcus. 
Oreus porcus, Hiibn. Ex. Schmett. ii. t. 162. 
Darapsa porcus, Walk. Cat. viii. ‘p. 187. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—EcuaDor (mus. D.). 


5. Cherocampa salvini. (Tab. I. fig. 2.) 
Cherocampa salvini, Druce, Ent. Monthl. Mag. xiv. p. 249°. 
BIOL. CENT.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., April 1881. bb 


10 . -HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Guatemaia!, Las Nubes (Salvin, mus. D.); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. 
Oxf.) ; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 


The specimen figured is the type from Guatemala. The only other examples 
known to me are in the Hope collection at Oxford and in that of Dr. Staudinger. 


6. Cherocampa anubus. 
Sphinx anubus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 128. f. F’. 
Cherocampa anubus, Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 562°; Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 266°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxf.) ; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 
—Gur4na, Surinam !, Cayenne?; Braziu?, Rio. 


The only Central-American specimens of this species that I have seen are in the 
Hope collection at Oxford. 


7. Cherocampa tersa. 
Sphinzg tersa, Linn. Mant. p. 588+; Drury, Ill. i. p. 61, t. 28. f£. 3”. 
Cherocampa tersa, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 131°. 

Hab. Nortu America®, Maryland ?.—Mexico%, Mazatlan (ZH. Edwards), Cordova 
(Riimelt); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guarumata, Duefias (F. D. G. & 
O. S., mus. Oxf.), Coban (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Arcé, mus. D.).—AntILLES, Jamaica?, San Domingo, &c.; Ecuapor (mus. D.); 
TRINIDAD (mus. D.); Paraeuay (mus. D.); Braz. 


I have a large series of this wide-ranging species before me. In Guatemala it 
seems to be a scarce insect ; I have only seen two specimens from that locality. Those 
from Paraguay are the smallest I have seen, but do not differ in any specific characters 
that would enable me to separate them. 


8. Cherocampa crotonis. 
Cherocampa crotonis, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 183°; Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p- 170°. 


Hab. Nicaracua?; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—VENEZUELA |, 


9. Cherocampa aristor. (Tab. I. fig. 7.) 
Cherocampa aristor, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 69’; Sp. Gén. des Lép. Hét. i. p. 2707. 
Cherocampa aristor, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. 1x. p. 563 °. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA .—CoLomMBIA !2; VENEZUELA 3, 


For the pleasure of figuring this species I am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir’s kind- 
ness in allowing me to have the type specimen from his collection for that purpose. I 
must, however, remark that its presence in Central America requires confirmation, as 
it rests solely on the authority of Boisduval, who included it in his paper on the 


CHAROCAMPA. 11 


Lepidoptera of Guatemala, a work full of inaccuracies as regards the localities of the 
species mentioned. 


10. Cherocampa titana. (Tab. I. fig. 6.) 
Cherocampa titana, Druce, Ent. Monthl. Mag. xiv. p. 249°. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui! (Arcé, mus. D.). 


This species is allied to C. aristor. I have only seen a single specimen of it. 


11. Cherocampa belti. (Tab. I. figg. 3, 4.) 
Cherocampa beltt, Druce, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv. p. 2487, 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales ! (Belt). 


A second specimen of this fine insect is in the Hope collection at Oxford, to which 
it was presented by the late Mr. Belt. The species is nearly allied to C. virescens, 
Butler. 


12. Cherocampa nitidula. 
Cherocampa nitidula, Clemens, Journ. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 1517; Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 564’. 
Cherocampa levis, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 356, t. 14. f.1°. 
Hab. Mexico, Mirador?; Guatemanta, Las Mercedes (Champion); NicaRracua, 
Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui (2bbé).—Ecvapor (mus. D.). 


The specimens in my collection from Ecuador are small, but in other respects do not 
differ from the type. They are the only ones I have seen from South America. 


13. Cherocampa cyrene, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 5.) 


Primaries rich brown, a pale pinkish-brown band crossing the middle of the wing from the inner margin to the 
costal margin just above the apex, all the veins showing, and marked by small brown dots as in C. nitedula ; 
secondaries dark brown, crossed by a broad pale brown fascia rather below the middle. Underside reddish 
brown, thickly speckled with dark brown. Head, thorax, and upper part of abdomen dark brown; under- 
side and apex reddish brown. Exp. 44 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.). 


I have only seen a single example of this species; it is quite unlike any with which 
I am acquainted, but nearest C. nitidula. 


14. Cherocampa versuta. 
Cherocampa versuta, Clemens, Journ. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 152’. 


Hab. Mexico}. 


I have never seen specimens of this species; and Mr. H. Edwards informs me that it 
is quite unknown to him. 


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12 .HETEROCERA. 


15. Cherocampa chiron. 
Sphinzx chiron, Drury, Ill. i. t. 26. f. 3°. 
Cherocampa chiron, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 565°. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxf.) ; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 
—-Braziu?, Monte Video ”. 


This species seems to me to be only a red form of C. nechus. Mr. Butler informs me 
that he has received fresh specimens of both species in the same collection. 


16. Cherocampa nechus. 
Sphinex nechus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 178. f. B’. 
Cherocampa nechus, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 565°. 
Hab. Mexico? (mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Ecuapor (mus. D.) ; 
Paracuay (mus. D.); East InprEs }. . 


Cramer’s locality is without doubt erroneous. 


17. Cherocampa falco. (Tab. I. fig. 8.) 
Cherocampa falco, Walk. Cat. vill. p. 132°. 
Cherocampa fugax, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 70°. 


Hab. Mxxico!? (Hartweg); Honpuras?. 


I have examined Boisduval’s type; it differs slightly from Walkev’s, but not, in my 
opinion, in any way sufficient to justify its being considered a distinct species. The figure 
is taken from Boisduval’s type. 


18. Cherocampa ceratomioides. 
Cherocampa ceratomioides, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 358, t. 14. f. 2°; Buti. 
Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 565 *, 


Hab. Muxico, Mirador, Cordova (Riimelt); Panama, Chiriqui (Areé, Mus. D).— 
VENEZUELA*; Brazil, Rio?; Paraguay (mus. D.). 


A very wide-ranging species. The Central-American specimens are larger and darker 
in colour than those from the south. 


DEILEPHILA. 
Deilephila, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 42 (1816). 
This genus is very widely distributed, being found in the Nearctic, Neotropical, and 


and Palearctic Regions. Twenty-two species are enumerated by Mr. Butler in his 
Catalogue, one only being found in Central America. 


DEILEPHILA.—PHILAMPELUS. 13 


1. Deilephila lineata. 
Sphinx lineata, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 5417. 
Sphine daucus, Cr. Pap. Ex. ii. t. 125. f. D*. 
Deilephila lineata, Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 568°. 
Hab. Nortu AmErica?.—Mexico, Mazatlan (H. Edwards), Oaxaca? ( Hartweg, mus. B.). 
—ANTILLES, Jamaica, Haiti, &c.; CoLomBia; Ecuapor (mus. D.). 


The only Central-American specimen with which I am | acquainted 1 is one in the 
British Museum. 


PHILAMPELUS. 
Philampelus, Harris, Amer. Journ. Sc. xxxvi. p. 299 (1839). 


Nineteen species are placed in this genus by Mr. Butler, several of them being of 
very doubtful value. I quite agree with him that P. eacus and P. cissi are only varie- 
ties of P. pandorus and P. satellitia. Sixteen species are found in the Neotropical, and 
three in the Ethiopian Region. 


1. Philampelus vitis. 
Sphinz vitis, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 3541. 
Eumorpha elegans Jussieue, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. i. t. 170. f. 1, 27; ii. t. 163. f. 3, 4. 
Philampelus vitis, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 574°. | 
Hab. Mexico? (Boucard, mus. D.); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui 
(mus. Staudinger).—ANTILLES, Jamaica®, San Domingo*; Ecuapor; Paraguay; 
ARGENTINE RePuBLIc (mus. D.). | | 


This appears to be a wide-ranging common southern species; but as yet I have only 
seen four specimens from Central America, which do not differ in any respect from the 
large series of southern specimens before me. 


2. Philampelus linnei. 
Philampelus linnei, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. pp. 157, 179, 182, t. 3. f. 3. 
Sphine vitis, Cr. Pap. Ex. i. t. 268. f. E. 
Philampelus vitis, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 176°. 

Hab. Mexico *, Cordova (Riimeli); Guaremaa, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Ribdé ; | Arcé, mus. D.), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.).—AntILLES, San Domingo}, 
Cuba (mus. D.); CoLuompia, Manaure (mus. D.); Ecuapor (mus. D.); TRintpaD 
(mus. D.); GUIANA. 


Walker in his Catalogue places this very distinct species with P. vitis1. The Cuban 
specimens are the smallest I have seen, but do not differ in any other respect. I have 
not seen an example from any locality south of Ecuador. PP, vitis has a much more 
southern range. ; 


14 HETEROCERA. 


3. Philampelus typhon. 
Sphinx typhon, Klug, Neue Schmett. Mus. Berl. Heft i. t. 3. f. 1}. 
‘Philampelus typhon, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 177”. 


Hab. Mexico 12, Oaxaca (Deppe, mus. Ozf.). 


Of this fine species I have only seen the specimen in the Hope collection at Oxford ; 
its nearest ally is P. linnet. 


4. Philampelus pandorus. 
Daphnis pandorus, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. i. t. 161. f. 3, 4. 
Philampelus pandorus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 174°. 
Hab. Norva America 1.—Mextico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatema.a, Coban (Champion); 
Panama, Chiriqui (i0bé).—AwntiLuEs, Jamaica (mus. D.). 


A very variable species, closely allied to P. lycaon (Cr.). 


5. Philampelus satellitia. 
Sphinz satellitia, Linn. Mant. i. p. 539'; Drury, Ill. i. t. 29. f. 1’. 
Philampelus satellitia, Butl. Trans. Z.8. p. 576°. 
Hab. British Honpvuras?; Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui (R7b0é, 
Arcé, mus. D.)—Antities, Jamaica? ; CoLomBia, Antioqua (mus. D.); Ecuapor 
(mus. D.). | 


This species is the largest of the genus ; its nearest ally is P. lycaon. 


6. Philampelus anchemolus. 
Sphinx anchemolus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 224. £. C’. 
Philampelus anchemolus, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 178’; Butl. Trans. Z.S. ix. p. 577°. 


Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (H. Edwards); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).— 
Guiana, Surinam!?; Rio Janerro?. 


Very closely allied to P. satellitia. 


7. Philampelus labrusce. . 
Sphinx labrusce, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 352 ; Clerck, Icones Ins. t. 47. f. 3. 
Philampelus labrusce, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 178°. 
Hab. Muxtco! (Boucard, mus. D.).—ANTILLES, Jamaicat, San Domingo!; Cusa 
(mus. D.); Cotompia!; Ecuapor (mus. D.); VENEZUELA’; ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 
(mus. D.). 


This species occurs in Mexico; but as yet I have not seen a specimen from any other ~ 


PHILAMPELUS,—PACHYLIA. 15 


part of Central America. In South America it is common, and ranges over a very 
wide tract of country. 


PACHYLIA. 
Pachylia, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 189 (1856). 


Six species have been described, all peculiar to Tropical America, three (as far as I 
know) being found in Central America. 


1. Pachylia ficus. 
Sphinzx ficus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr., ex Clerck, Icones Ins. t. 49. f. 21. 
Pachylhia ficus, Butl. Trans. Z.8. ix. p. 578’. 

Hab. Mexico?; British Honpvuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemata, Coban 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers, van Patten, 
mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—Antittes, San Domingo; Ecuapor 
(mus. D.) ; Trintpap (Mus. D.). 


This insect varies to a considerable extent—some specimens having all the markings 
dark and well defined, whilst in others they are almost wanting; but I cannot detect 
any character of specific value by which to separate the large series of specimens 
before me. 


2. Pachylia darceta, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 4.) 


Uniform dull brown, paler beneath ; primaries with some slight undulating brown bands beyond the middle, 
two straight brown bands near the base, and a brown spot at the end of the cell; secondaries brown, 
rather paler at the base ; abdomen, antenne, and legs brown. xp. 43 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 
This species resembles Nephele equivalens, Walk., from West Africa. 


3. Pachylia syces. 

Einyo syces, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 132. 
Sphinz ficus, Cram. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 394. f. D. 
Pachylia syces, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 578. 
Pachylia inornata, Clem. Journ. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 159... 

Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli) ; British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Panama, 
Chiriqui (#766é)—Ecuapor (mus. D.); Upper Amazons (mus. D.); Paraguay 
(mus. D.). 


This species is easily distinguished from the former one by having the secondaries 
uniform dark brown. 


16 . HETEROCERA. 


4. Pachylia resumens. 
Pachylia resumens, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 190*; Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. auss. Schmett. ii. f. 556. 
Hab. Honpuras!; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxf.); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbé ; Arcé, mus. D.).—Antittes, San Domingo!; Ecuapor (mus. D.); Brazit, 
Riot. | 
This is the smallest species of the genus, and easily distinguished from the two 
preceding species by the primaries wanting the light spot at the apex. 


Subfam. AMBULICINA. 


AMBULYX. 
Ambulyx, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 120 (1856). _ 


Twenty-three species are placed in this genus, five of which are described from 
Tropical America, three only as yet being found in Central America. 


1. Ambulyx strigilis. 
Sphinx strigilis, Linn. Mant. i. p. 588; Cr. Pap. Ex. i. t. 106. f. B’. 
Ambulyx strigilis, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 121°. 
Hab. Panama (mus. Staudinger).—AntILLES, San Domingo? (mus. D.); Braz, Rio 
Janeiro 7. 


2. Ambulyx gannascus, 
Sphing gannascus, Stoll, Pap. Ex. t. 35. f. 3, 3B’. 
Ambulyx gannascus, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 581°. 
Hab. Guatema.a, San Isidro (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxf.) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—ANTILLES, Jamaica?. 


The locality Cape of Good Hope given by Stoll! is, without doubt, a mistake. The 
specimens before me agree well with his figure. I have not seen an example from 
any locality south of Panama. 


8. Ambulyx rostralis. 
Ambulyx rostralis, Boisd. Lép. Guat.’ p. 68; Feld. Reise d. Nov. Zool. ii., Lep. Th. iv. t. 77. f. 62; 
Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 581°. 


Hab. Nicaragua!.—Co.tomsBia!; Ecvapor (mus. D.); Amazons?®; Braziu, 
I have, through the kindness of Mons. C. Oberthiir, examined the type of this species. 


The specimens from Ecuador agree with it in all respects. Boisduval’s is the only 
authority for its occurrence in Central America. 


AMBULYX.—AMPHONYX. ; 17 


4, Ambulyx sexoculata. 
Ambulyx sexoculata, Grote, Aun. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 204. 
Hab. GuaTeMaLa (mus. Brit.).—Braziu1. 


This species is allied to A. rostralis and A. gannascus. 


Subfam. SUERINTHINA. 


SMERINTHUS. 
Smerinthus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. p. 431 (1802). 


_ About six species are placed in this genus, two being found in Central America. 


1. Smerinthus ophthalmicus. 
Smerinthus ophthalmicus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xii. p. 67"; '; Strecker, Lep. Rhop. & Het. pt. 7, 
t. 7. ff. 4, 5°; Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 592°. 
Hab. N. Amurica, California ?.—Mexico!? (mus. Brit.). 


2. Smerinthus saliceti. (Tab. I. fig. 9.) 
Smerinthus saliceti, Boisd. Sp. Gen. des Lép. Hét. p. 35°. 
Hab. Mexico}. 
I have only seen the type specimen of this species, kindly lent me by Mons. C. Ober- 
thiir to figure. It is nearly allied to S. ophthalmicus, but a much smaller species. 


Subfam. SPHINGINA. 


AMPHONYX. 
Amphonyz, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba (1832). 


This genus is closely allied to Acherontia, from which it mostly differs in having 
longer and narrower wings, more slender antenne, and semitransparent hind wings. 


1. Amphonyx duponcheli. 
Amphonyx duponcheli, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba’; Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 599”. 
Macrosilia anteus (part.), Walk. Cat. viii. p. 200°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus, D.).—ANTILLES, Jamaica? ®, San Domingo? *, 
Cuba! (mus. D.), Trinidad (mus. D.). | 


_ [have not’ seen specimens of this species from any locality north of Panama. 


2. Amphonyx medor. 
Sphine medor, Cr. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 394. f. A*. 
Amphonyx medor, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 599°. 
Hab. Mexico?, Jalapa (Hége), Valladolid, Yucatan (Gawmer).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); 
GUIANA, Surinam }, 


Allied to the preceding species, but altogether darker in colour. 
BIOL. CENT.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1881. ce 


18 HETEROCERA. 


3. Amphonyx rivularis. 
Amphonyz rivularis, Butl. P. Z. 8S. 1875, p. 11°; Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 599, t. 94. £. 6. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oaf.); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).— 
Amazons, Ega 1. 


This species is easily distinguished from all other members of the genus by the green 
shade of the primaries. 


4, Amphonyx cluentius. 
Sphing cluentius, Cr. Pap. Ex. i. t. 78. f. Bt. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam! ; BraziL, Rio (mus. D.). 


I include this species on Dr. Staudinger’s authority. 


ANCERYX. 
Anceryz, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 222 (1856). 


This genus, as restricted by Mr. Butler, contains two closely-allied species, both 
belonging to the Neotropical Region. One only of these occurs within our limits. 


1. Anceryx alope. 
Sphinz alope, Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. t. 27. f. 1°. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribdé).—AntitLes, Jamaica!; Ecoapor (mus. D.); S.E. 
Brazi (mus. D.). 


I have only seen a single example of this species from Central America, taken near 
Chiriqui. It agrees in all respects with a large series of specimens from Ecuador. 


ISOGNATHUS. 
Isognathus, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 187 (1862). 


Mr. Butler places nine species in this genus, all being found in South America, one 
only as yet having been recorded from Panama. 


1. Isognathus scyron. 
Sphine scyron, Cr. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 801. f. B’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam 1. 


I have not seen a Central-American specimen of this species, but include it on the 
authority of Dr. Staudinger. 


DILOPHONOTA. 
Dilophonota, Burmeister, Abhandl. naturf. Gesellsch. Halle, p. 69 (1855). 


Very close to the two preceding genera. It contains about eleven species, six of 
which occur within our region. 


DILOPHONOTA. 19 


1. Dilophonota ello. 
Sphinz ello, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 351; Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. t. 27. f. 3. 
Anceryx ello, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 224. 

Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (H. Edwards), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hége) ; GuaTEMALA, 
Mirandilla, Coban (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Arcé, mus. D.).—AntiLtEs, San Domingo &c., Trinidad (mus. D.); Couomsia (mus. D.) ; 
Ecuapor (mus. D.); ARGENTINE Repustic (mus. D.). 


This species ranges over a very wide tract of country. It does not vary to any extent, 
and is easily distinguished from the nearly allied species by its pale anterior wings. 


2. Dilophonota omphalez. 
Anceryz omphalea, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 72°. 
Dilophonota omphalee, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 608”. 
Hab. Mexico? (Hartweg); Nicaragua!; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).— 
ANTILLES, San Domingo 2. 


This species is very close to D. wnotrus; in fact, I think it is hardly distinct. 
Boisduval does not mention it in his last work on the Sphingide. 


8. Dilophonota enotrus. 
Sphinz enotrus, Cr. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 801. f. C’. 
Dilophonota enotrus, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 603%. 
Hab. Mexico (Hartweg1); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—AntILLES, San 


Domingo *, Trinidad (mus. D.); Ecuapor (mus. D.); Argentine Repustic (mus. D.). 


4. Dilophonota obscura. 
Sphinx obscura, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 53887. 
Anceryx obscura, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 226. 
Erinnyis stheno, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. iii. t.° 


Hab. Mexico!, Mazatlan (H. Edwards); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).— 
ANTILLES, San Domingo ”. 

Mr. Butler states that the examples of this species from San Domingo are paler than 
those from Mexico. 


5. Dilophonota rhebus. 
Anceryx rhebus, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 72°. 
Dilophonota domingonis, Butl. P. Z. 8S. 1875, p. 2587. 
Hab. Mexico!; British Honpuras 1.—Antiiies, San Domingo; Ecuapor (mus. D.). 


Mr. Butler Placed Boisduval’s species with D. obscura. vube, the the kindness of 


is the same as D. rhebus. 
ce 2 


20 HETEROCERA. 


6. Dilophonota caicus. 
Sphing caicus, Cr. Pap. Ex. ii. t. 125. f. F*. 
Ancerya caicus, Walk. Cat. vill. p. 228°. | 
Hab. Honpuras?; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—AntiLLEs, San Domingo ?; 
Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam ?. 


I have only seen a single specimen from Central America. 


MACROSILA. 
Macrosila, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 198 (1856). 


Mr. Butler restricts this genus to two species, one of which occurs in our district. 


1. Macrosila incisa. 
Macrosila incisa, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 205;'. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Braziu, Rio }. 


My example from Chiriqui is paler than the Brazilian specimens. | 


PROTOPARCE. 
Protoparce, Burmeister, Abhandl. naturf. Gesellsch. Halle, p. 63 (1855). 


In this genus Mr. Butler places twenty-three species. It is closely allied to 
Macrosila, the chief difference being the much wider anterior wings. 


1. Protoparce rustica. 

Sphine rustica, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 540°; Cr. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 301. f. A’. 
Macrosila rustica, Walk. Cat. vill. p. 199°. 
Sphinx chionanthi, Smith & Abbot, Lep. Ins. Georg. i. t. 34°. 

Hab. Norta America *.—Mexico %, Mazatlan (Forrer); British Honpvuras, Belize 
(Blancaneaux); Guatemata (F. D. G. & O. S.); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—ANTILLES, San Domingo ®, Trinidad (mus. D.); HEcouapor 
(mus. D.); Gutana, Surinam ?, Brazil ’. 


- The larva of P. rustica is described and well figured in Smith and Abbot’s work on 
the insects of Georgia. 


2. Protoparce ochus, 
Sphinz ochus, Klug, Neue Schm. Heft i. t. 3. f. 2. 
Macrosila instita, Clemens, Journ. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 1647. 
Hab. Mzxico!, Cordova (Riimelt), Jalapa (Hoge); Honpuras?; Guatema.a, San Isidro 
(Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


- This fine species is quite unlike any other. It is best placed with the P. carolina 
group. I have never seen a specimen from any locality south of Costa Rica. 


PROTOPARCE. 21 


8. Protoparce carolina. 
Sphinx carolina, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 846*; Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. t. 25. £.1°; Abbot & 
Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Georg. t. xxxiii.®; Walk. Cat. viii. p. 216°. 
Hab. Norta America 23,—Mexico4, Mazatlan (H. Edwards), Cordova (Riimelt) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—ANTILLES, San 
Domingo 4, Cuba (mus. D.), Trinidad (mus. D.); Ecuapor (mus. D.); S.E. Braziu4 
(mus. D.). 


The larva and pupa of P. carolina are well figured by Abbot and Smith 3. 


4. Protoparce jamaicensis. 
Protoparce jamaicensis, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 608’. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—ANTILLES, 
Jamaica ! (mus. D.). 


A well-marked form of P. carolina, being always larger, and the secondaries with a 
pale brown instead of whitish ground-colour. 


5. Protoparce paphus. 
Sphinz paphus, Cr. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 216. f. B*. 
Hab. Panama (mus. Staudinger).—-GUIANA, Surinam 1. 


I have never seen this species, but include it here on the authority of Dr. Staudinger. 


6. Protoparce lucetius, 
Sphina lucetius, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 301. f. B’; Walk. Cat. viii. p. 2217. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—GuIaNa, Surinam 1; Brazi?. 


I have only seen a single specimen of this insect. It is closely allied to the pre- 
ceding species, from which it differs in having the anterior wings very much 
darker in colour, more thickly marked with black lines, and the posterior wings 
much blacker. 


7. Protoparce cingulata. 
Sphinx cingulata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 5457. 
Sphina convolvuli, Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. t. 25. f. 4 (nec Linn.) *. 
Sphina cingulata, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 215 °. 

Hab. Mexico %, Mazatlan (H. Edwards), Cordova (Riimel:); GuaTeMaLa, Pantaleon 
(Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).— ANTILLES, 
Jamaica’, San Domingo, &c., Trinidad (mus. D.); CotomBia (mus. D.) ; Ecuador 
(mus. D.). 


This is a widely ranging species and varies to some extent in “the colour of the 
secondary wings. In some specimens these wings are almost pink, in others greyish, 
closely resembling those of P. convolvult, Linn. 


HETEROCERA. 


i) 
i) 


PSEUDOSPHINX. 
Pseudosphinx, Burmeister, Abhandl. naturf. Gesellsch. Halle, p. 65 (1855). 


1. Pseudosphinx tetrio. 

Sphinz tetrio, Linn. Mant. i. p. 538°. 
Sphinx hasdrubal, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 246. f. F’. 
Macrosila hasdrubal, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 202°. 
Sphing asdrubal, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba *. 

Hab. British Honpuras’, Belize (Blancaneaua); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, 
Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—AwntiLLes, San Domingo 3, Cuba‘; Braz? (mus. D.). 

This species varies much in the colour of the primaries. I have before me a specimen 
from Costa Rica very much darker than any others, and observe it agrees well with the 
form Mr. Butler has described as P. obscura; but, in default of other differences, I do 
not see any good specific characters whereby to separate it from the rest of my series. 


DOLBA. 
Dolba, Walker, Cat. viii. p. 229 (1856). 
In this genus three species are placed, one of them being found in our country. 


1. Dolba hartwegii. 
Dolba hartwegii, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 259'; Ill. Lep. Het. pt. i. p. 8, t. 15. f. 3%. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca! 2 (Hartweg), Maltrata (Hoge). 


This species is closely allied to Dolba fo from India. 


DILUDIA. 
Diludia, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 188 (1865). 

Twenty-one species are included in this genus by Mr. Butler, nine being found in the 
Neotropical Region, three of them occurring within our country; the others are widely 
distributed over the globe, seven occurring in the Oriental, four in the Australian, and 
one in the Ethiopian Region. 


1. Diludia sesquiplex. 
Sphinx sesquiplex, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 78’; Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 78. f. 5. 
Hab. Guatumata }, 


I have never seen this species. 


2. Diludia corallina, n. sp. (Tab. II. fig. 3.) 


Primaries greyish brown, thickly marked with yellowish-green scales, several indistinct waved brown bands 
crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin ; secondaries dark brown, crossed in the middle by 
two greyish bands: abdomen greyish, tinged with yellow. Exp. 43 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemaua, San Isidro (Champion). 


Allied to D. rufescens, Butl., but smaller and much greyer in colour. 


DILUDIA.—SPHINX. 23 


83. Diludia lichenea. 
Macrosila lichenea, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 2047. 
Diludia lichenea, Butler, Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 614°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége).—Braziu} 2. 


The Mexican example agrees well with the type in the British Museum. 


SPHINX. 
Sphinx, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 796 (1766). 
Seventeen species are included in this genus, which is widely distributed over the globe. 


1. Sphinx leucophzata. 
Sphinz leucopheata, Clemens, Journ. Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 168'; Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 618”. 
Hab. Mexico *, Oaxaca (Hartwegq). 


I have not seen Clemens’s species; but, from the description, should judge it to be 
the same as S./ugens. This opinion is shared by Mr. H. Strecker, who says, in his ‘ Lepi- 
doptera Rhopalocera and Heterocera,’ that it is quite unknown to American entomologists. 


2. Sphinx lugens. 
Sphinx lugens, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 219°. 
Sphinzg andromede, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 74°. 
Hab. Mexico, near the city (Hége), Oaxaca! (Hartweg) ; British Honpuras 2. 


Mr. Butler says of this insect—“ Although coming from the same locality as the 
preceding, and very like it in its general characters, I believe this species to be quite 
distinct. It is altogether shorter, broader, and darker, and has the pale bars of secon- 
daries much narrower and whiter.’ I think it very doubtful whether Clemens’s species 
is distinct ; the specimens of S. dugens I have examined in the Oxford Museum vary to 
some extent. 


3. Sphinx justicie. 

Sphinz justicie, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 220°. 
Sphinx merops, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 73 ?. 
* Hab. Mexico”, Cordova (fiimeli); British Honpuras? ; Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers) ; 
PanaMa, Chiriqui (22b0é ; Arcé, mus. D.).—Brazit, Rio }. 

This is a common species in Central America, but becomes scarce south of Panama. 
Through the kindness of Mons. C. Oberthiir I have had an opportunity of examining 
Boisduval’s type of S. merops,and find that it must without doubt be referred to S. justicia. 


4. Sphinx lanceolata. 
Sphinz lanceolata, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 78. f. 3°. 
Hab. Mexico!; Guatremaa }. 


I have never seen a specimen of this fine species. 


24 HETEROCERA. 


CERATOMIA. 
Ceratomia, Harris, Sill. Journ. xxxvi. p. 298 (1839). 


1. Ceratomia amyntor. 
Agrius amyntor, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. in. t. 
Ceratomia amyntor, Butl. Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 621°. 
Hab. Nort America!.—Mexico + (mus. Brit.). 


Fam. CASTNIIDA. 


CASTNIA *. 
Castnia, Fabricius, Syst. Glossat. sec. Illig. Mag. vi. p. 270 (1807). 


Sixty-eight species are included in this genus, all being found in the Neotropical 
Region. Sixteen species occur in our country, two or three of these being of doubtful 
origin, their occurrence in Central America requiring confirmation. 

Prof. Westwood gives very minute details of the structure of this genus in his paper, 
but does not seem to have found sufficient characters to warrant him in adopting the 
separate genera proposed by Boisduval for the several rather distinct-looking forms 
included in it. 


1. Castnia dedalus. 
Papilio dedalus, Cr. Pap. Ex. i. p. 1, t. i. f. A, B’. 
Castnia dedalus, Westw. Trans. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. 1. p. 167 °. 
Papilio cyparissius, Fabr. Gen. Ins. Mant. p. 257 °. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam }; 
Upper Amazons (mus. D.). 


Apparently a common species in Guiana and the Amazons valley; thence it spreads 
to the State of Panama, where, however, it would appear to be less abundant, a single 


specimen only having come under my notice. It appears to be unknown in South 
Brazil. 


2. Castnia veraguana. 
Castnia veraguana, Westw. Trans. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 168, t. 30. f. 1°. 
Hab. Panama, Veraguas! (Arcé, mus. Oxf.). 


This very fine species is allied to C. cacica, from which it differs in several particulars 
pointed out by the describer. The only specimen with which I am acquainted is the 
type now in the Oxford Museum. This was sent some years ago to Messrs. Godman 
and Salvin from the State of Panama by their collector Arcé. 


* In the arrangement of this genus I have to a great extent followed that of Prof. Westwood in his paper 
on this genus (Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 155 et seqq.). 


CASTNIA, 25 


3. Castnia cacica. 
Castnia cacica, H.-Schiffer, Aussereur. Schm. f.143'; Westw. Trans. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 1692. 
Castnia procera, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Het. i. p. 503°; Westw. Trans. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 169%. 

Hab. Guaremata?®, Polochic valley (Salvin?, mus. Ouf.), San Juan (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt ?, mus. Oxf.) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, 
Chiriqui (2ibbé, Arcé, mus. D.); Bugaba, 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).—CoLoMBIA }. 

This species has a wide range in Central America, as will be seen above. In South 
America it is restricted to the valley of the Magdalena. 

The specimens before me differ from H.-Schaffer’s figure in wanting the white spot 
at the end of the discoidal cell of the primaries. Through the kindness of Mons. C. 
Oberthur, I have been enabled to examine the type of Boisduval’s C. procera, and find 
that it does not differ in any respect from C. cacica, except in wanting the white 
discoidal spot; and I cannot but think that it is a mistake on the part of Herrich- 
Schaffer in inserting this spot, and believe his figure to have been taken from a rubbed 
specimen. I have now before me a considerable number of examples from widely 
different localities, and do not find the slightest trace of the spot referred to. In some 
specimens recently received from Bugaba, traces of three ill-defined marginal red spots 
are present on the primaries. The red band and the spots on the secondaries vary to 
some extent: in some specimens before me the band is narrow and the spots quite 
small and distinct ; in others the former is much wider, and the spots almost joined 
together, forming a marginal band instead of a row of spots. 


4. Castnia icarus. 
Papilio icarus, Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 18. f. a, B*. 
Castnia icarus, Dalman, Monogr. p. 10”; Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 75°; Walk. Cat. i. p. 19%. 
Hab. Guatemaua ?.—Gutana, Surinam!; Braziu24, Maranham. 


The only authority for the statement that this species occurs in Central America 
appears to be Boisduval, and therefore requires confirmation, the species being a 
southern one. 


5. Castnia atymnius. 
Castnia atymnius, Dalman, Monogr. p. 121; Walk. Cat. i. p- 17°; Boisduval, Sp. Gén. des Lép.- 

Het. i. p. 528°; Westw. Trans. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 172%. | 
Castnia spixii, Perty, Del. An. Art. Bras. t. xxxi. f. 3°. 
Castnia salasia, Boisduval, Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Het. i. p. 529. 

flab. Mexico, Cordova (Rimeli); Guatemata’, Cahabon, Panima, Senahu, and San 

Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten), 
Trazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Veraguas (Boucard, mus. D.), Colon 
(Boucard, mus. D.).—Ecuapor and S.E. Braztu 124 (mus. D.). 


This species varies greatly, some specimens before me from Costa Rica being almost 
BIOL. CENT.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L., November 1883. dd 


26 HETEROCERA. 


without the white band on the primaries. But I cannot detect any difference of specific 
importance which would enable me to separate my large series of specimens. Prof. 
Westwood, in his paper on the genus Castnia+, divides the species into three forms; 
but I am unable to do so, having specimens that completely connect them all 
together. Castnia salasia of Boisduval agrees in all respects with this species. I have 
compared the type with a large number of specimens, and cannot detect the slightest 
difference. 


6. Castnia futilis. (Tab. IV. fig. 5.) 
Castnia futilis, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 15817. 
Hab. Nicaragua (Delattré); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu (Rogers); Panama, 
Chiriqui, Veraguas (Arcé, mus. D.), Bugaba, 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This species is very distinct from Castnia atymnus, though Prof. Westwood considers 
it the same in his memoir on this genus, stating that the type in the British Museum 
is only a rubbed and faded specimen of C. atymnus. Having before me a long series of 
specimens in the finest condition, I find that C. futilis differs in many respects from 
C. atymnus, and that it must be retained as a distinct species. A Costa-Rican example 
is figured. 


7. Castnia licus. 
Papilio licus, Faby. Ent. Syst. iii. t. 47°; Drury, Ins. i. t. 16. £. 1, 2; Cramer, iii. t. 223. fA, B*. 
Castnia licus, G. R. Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 143; Walker, Cat. i. p. 184, vii. p. 1582°; West- 
wood, Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 178°. 
Hab. Ntcaracua, Chontales (EZ. M. Janson, mus. D.); Costa Rica (Van Patten, 
mus. D.).—Ecuapor ° (mus. D.) ; East Perv and Botivia (mus. D.); Gutana, Surinam 23 ; 
TRINIDAD (mus. D.); Amazons, Para‘*®, Santarem (mus. D.), Ega4®; Braz 4 &, 


This species seems to be a scarce insect in Central America. Van Patten only 
obtained a single example from Costa Rica, and some years later Janson sent one from 
Chontales in very poor condition. Both specimens agree well with the southern ones 
before me ; but as yet they are the only examples I have seen from our country. 


8. Castnia inca. 
Castnia inca, Herr-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schm. f. 488, 489°; Walk. Cat. i. p. 24°; Hopffer, 
Neue Schmett. Heft ii. t. 4. f.2°; Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 171. 
Casinia chtarcha 3, Westwood, loc. cit. p. 176, t. 30. f. 1. 
Hab. Muxico!?*, Cordova (Hége), Valladolid in Yucatan ( Gaumer); GUATEMALA, 
Senahu (Champion) ; Honpuras ?.—VENEZUELA 2, 


All the specimens I have seen agree well with Herrich-Schaffer’s figures. The male 
of Westwood’s C. clitarcha belongs to this species. 


CASTNIA. 27 


9. Castnia clitarcha. (Tab. III. fig. 7.) 
Castnia clitarcha, Westw. Trans. Lion. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 176, t. 30. f. 2. 

Hab. Panama (Salvin, mus. Oxf.), Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), Bugaba, 800 to 
1500 feet (Champion). 

The specimen figured by Prof. Westwood as the male of this species, I believe to be 
the male of Castnia inca. The true male of C. clitarcha now figured is a much larger 
insect, agreeing much more closely with the female. It has the outer margins of the 
secondaries black instead of orange, as in that species. C. clitarcha appears to have 
a very limited range in Central America; as yet I have only seen specimens from 


Chiriqui. 


10. Castnia chelone. 
Castnia chelone, Hopft. Neue Schmett. Heft i. t. v. f. 1, 2°. 


Hab. Mexico }, 


I have never seen specimens of this species ; but it appears to be allied to C. mygdon 
from North Brazil. 


11. Castnia viryi. 
Castnia viryi, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 515, t. 2. f. 3%. 
Hab. Mexico!; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrotsch, mus. Staudinger). 
I have seen several specimens of this species; it is clearly the northern form of 
C. evalthe, which does not occur in our country. 


12. Castnia diva. (Tab. IV. fig. 3.) 
Castnia diva, Butler, Lepid. Exot. t. 17. f.1, 2*; Westw. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 187 *. 
Castnia tricolor, Felder, Reise Nov. Zool. Bd. ii. Lep. t. lxxix. f. 3°; Boisduval, Sp. Gén. des Lép.- 
Hét. p. 531%. 

Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt and Janson, mus. 
D.); Pawama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Cham- 
pion).—CoLoMBIA ®. 

This fine species is generally distributed throughout Central America. The specimens 
from the Volcan de Chiriqui differ from the type in several respects; the primaries are 
of a much darker colour, and almost without the metallic spots; the orange marginal 
band of the secondaries is almost wanting, being broken up into two or three spots close 
to the apex. Some specimens recently obtained by the British Museum from Colombia 
agree best with those from Chiriqui. I think it quite probable that the more southern 
form may prove to be a distinct species; but upon that point I do not at present feel 
certain, not having as yet a good series for comparison. I have figured a Chiriqui 
example, showing its difference from the more northern form, already figured in 


Mr. Butler’s ‘ Lepidoptera Exotica.’ 
dd 2 


28 HETEROCERA. 


13. Castnia zagrea. (Tab. IV. figg. 1, 2.) 
Castnia zagrea, Felder, Reise d. Novara, Zool. B. ii. t. 79. f. 2'; Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Zool. i. p. 189°. 
Gazera zagrea, Boisduval, Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. p. 548. 
Hab. Centran America (Salvin, mus. Felder)1; Panama?, Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger); Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Boqueron 1000 feet (Champion). 


This fine species resembles Papzlio ascolius, Felder, in its general coloration. ‘The 
specimens figured, I believe to be sexes; but only having two examples, I am unable 
to determine this point with absolute certainty. Dr. Staudinger’s specimen is a female, 
and agrees well in all respects with Dr. Felder’s figure. 


14. Castnia salvina. 
Castniu salvina, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 190, t. 82. f. 1’. 


Hab. Panama, Veraguas (Salvin, mus. Oxf.) 


This species is very closely allied to C. colombina, Boisd., the only difference being 


the black margin of the secondaries. The only specimen known to me is the type in 
the Oxford Museum: 


15. Castnia linus. 

Papilio linus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 257. f. A’. 

Castnia linus, Walk. Cat. i. p. 82’. 

Castnia heliconioides, Herr-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schm. t. 4. f. 15°; Westwood, Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 192 *. 

Gazera linus, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. p. 544°. 


Hab. Guatema.a ?.—CotomeBia (mus. D.); Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam !; 
Amazons, Santarem (mus. D.); NortH Braziu? 4 (mus. D.). 


My only authority for including Castnia linus in our fauna is the specimen in the 
British Museum, said to be from Guatemala. As it is a southern species, I feel doubt- 
ful if it should be admitted without further confirmation of its occurrence within our 
limits. 


Fam, HGERIIDA. 


This family has received very varied treatment of late years, having been shifted about 
from place to place by various authors, and has not as yet found, so far as I can see, 
any position better suited for it than immediately preceding the Zygeenide, following 
after the Sphingide. To some extent I agree with Mr. Butler that in many respects 
the A‘geriide appear to be allied to the Pyralide, but in others they most certainly are 
not. The flight of these moths is very different, that of the former being very rapid, and 
in many of the species resembling that of the Sphingide. They generally fly in the 
hottest sunshine, whereas the Pyralide are almost exclusively evening and night fliers. 


SPHECIA.—ZGERIA. 29 


I do not consider the fact of the larve being internal feeders should be taken very 
much into account as regards the position of the perfect insect ; otherwise I do not see any 
reason why we should not divide the whole of the Heterocera into two divisions, namely, 
those the larve of which are internal feeders, and those that are not. But in so doing we 
should be compelled to place together forms that are utterly distinct as perfect insects, 
and in no other way allied to each other; and I think that it is quite impossible to base 
a classification on the earlier stages of the Heterocera until we are acquainted with the 
larvee of most of the exotic species of which at present we know next to nothing. 


SPHECIA. 
Sphecia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 127 (1816). 
Six species are placed in this genus by Walker in his British Museum catalogue. 
They are very generally distributed over the globe, two species being found in the 
Palearctic Region, three in the Oriental Region, and one in the Nearctic Region. A 


new species now described is the first recorded of this genus from the Neotropical 
Region. 


1. Sphecia championi, sp. n. (Tab. V. figg.4 6,5 2.) 


Male hyaline ; primaries with the costal and inner margin black, the apex slightly shaded with golden yellow, 
a reddish-brown band at the end of the cell; secondaries hyaline, shaded with yellow, the fringe black, 
except on the inner margin, veins mostly black; palpi yellow beneath, reddish at the tips; antenne 


reddish brown: thorax black, banded with brown and yellow; abdomen black with the segments banded 
with bright yellow ; legs reddish yellow. 


Female differs from the male in having the primaries almost all dark brown, excepting near the anal angle, 


where they are hyaline; in other respects the female agrees well with the male. Expanse of male 13 
inch ; female 13 inch. 


Hab. GuatTeMaa, near the city (Champion). 


A male and female of this fine species were taken in copulé by Mr. Champion on 
Psidium guava. 


| AEGERIA. 
Aigeria, Fabricius, Ilig. Mag. vi. p. 288 (1807). 


This genus contains a large number of species which are very generally distributed. 
In Central America it is well represented by fourteen species. 


1. Aigeria tryphoniformis. (Tab. V. fig. 3.) 
Aigeria tryphoniformis, Walk. Cat. vill. p. 481. 
Sesia tryphoniformis, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 443’. 
Hab. Guatema.a, Panzos (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
—AMAZONS, Para, and Villa Nova ! 2, 


The specimens agree well with Walker’s type. The figure is from a Guatemala 
example. 


30 HETEROCERA. 


2. Aigeria senta, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 1.) 
Primaries hyaline, the costal margin, discal mark, and outer margin black; secondaries hyaline, the fringe 
black: head, thorax, and abdomen black; antenne black; palpi white beneath, black above; collar 
white ; legs black, with tufts of blackish hair on the tibie. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos (Champion). ° 
A very small species, not nearly allied to any with which I am acquainted. 


3. Aogeria sellustiformis, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 2.) 


Primaries whitish hyaline, the costal margin and the apex black, the discal mark black; secondaries with the 
fringe only black: head, antennew, and thorax blue-black ; palpi white beneath, black above ; legs black ; 
tarsi banded with white. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to 4. producta, but is a much larger insect. 


4, Migeria ruficaudis. (Tab. V. fig. 6.) 
Aigeria ruficaudis, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 6°. 
Sesia ruficaudis, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 4517. 
Hab. Panama, San Feliz (Champion).—Urrsr Amazons, Ega (Bates 12), 


The single specimen sent by Mr. Champion agrees well with Walker’s type, but not 
with his description, as far as the wings are concerned. 


5, Higeria deipyla, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 8.) 


Primaries hyaline, with a golden-yellow shade, the costal margin and the apex brown; discal band brown, 
edged with yellow, inner margin yellow; secondaries hyaline, the outer margin slightly banded with 
brown: head and thorax black, banded with yellow; palpi lemon-yellow; antennz black above, beneath 
(excepting at the tips) reddish brown ; abdomen black, with all the segments banded with yellow; the anal 
tuft black, tipped with white ; beneath, the abdomen is bright yellow ; legs pale yellow. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This species is not unlike &. ichneumoniformis, but differs in many respects. 


6. Migeria producta. (Tab. V. fig. 7.) 
Atigeria producta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 41. 
Sesia producta, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 449. 
Hab. Mexico ', Oaxaca (Sallé); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


The type specimen is in poor condition. The species is allied to 77 rhysseformis, 
but still very distinct. The figure is taken from a Bugaba specimen. 


7. Mgeria leta, (Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Aigeria leta, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 59. 
Sesia leta, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 459. 
Hab. Guavemata, San Geronimo (Champion). 


Walker’s type is a very faded specimen, and without any locality ; but it is without 
doubt the same as the Guatemala examples before me, one of which I have figured. 


JEGERIA. 31 


8. Aigeria aurata. 
Ageria aurata, H. Edwards, Papilio, i. p. 190. 
Hab. Panama (H. Edwards). . 


Allied to @&. ceriiformis, Led. 


9. Aigeria flava. 
Aigeria flava, H. Edwards, Papilio,i. p. 189. 
Hab. Panama, Colon (Mead). . 


Size of 4. tipuliformis. 


10. Aigeria guatemalena, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 9.) 


Hyaline: primaries slightly shaded with yellow near the base; the costal margin and apex brown ; secondaries 
hyaline with the fringe brown in some lights; the wings are quite opalescent: head, palpi, and antenne 
pale yellow beneath, above black ; abdomen black, banded with yellow, the whole of the under surface 
pale yellow; legs yellow. Expanse 1,)5 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


This species is allied to 44. cynipiformis (Esp.), but is easily distinguished from that 
species by the opalescent colour of the wings, and the greater number of yellow bands 
on the abdomen. 


11. Aigeria tabogana, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 16.) 


Primaries dark brown, yellowish hyaline on the inner margin from the base to near the anal angle; secon- 
daries hyaline, the outer margin slightly brown: head, thorax, and abdomen black, the back of thorax 
and the abdomen banded with yellow; antenne black; palpi pale yellow; collar yellow; legs black 
above, yellowish white on the underside. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Taboga Island (Champion). 


Mr. Champion only obtained a single specimen of this very distinct species. 


12. Aigeria ceres, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 11.) 


Primaries glossy black, greenish at the base, a small round hyaline spot beyond the cell near the anal angle ; 
secondaries hyaline, the outer margin and fringe black: head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen black ; anal 
tuft black ; legs black, tarsi banded with yellow. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Totonicapan 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 


This species is very distinct. Only a single specimen has been sent. 


13. Aigeria proserpina, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 13.) 


Primaries glossy greenish black; secondaries dull black, the basal third hyaline: head, palpi, and antenne 
black, the collar and underside of thorax reddish brown; upperside of thorax and all the legs black ; 
abdomen wanting. Expanse 2? inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, San Geronimo (Champion). 


A small species, very distinct from any with which I am acquainted. Only a single 
specimen was received. 


32 HETEROCERA. 


14. Mgeria geliformis. (Tab. V. figg. 12 & 17, ¢ 2.) 
Akgeria geliformis, Walk. Cat. vii. p.46*. 
Aigeria geliformis, H. Edwards, Papilio, i. t. 4. f. 7, 7a, p. 208?. 
Sesia geliformis, Boisd. Sp. Gén. des Lép.-Heét. i. p. 441 °. 
Hab. Nortn America, United States !23.—Mextco, Jalapa (Hége). 
The type specimen of this species is in very bad condition, being much rubbed and 


worn, and the figure given by Mr. Edwards has far too much colour on the anterior 


wings. I have both sexes before me, and have figured them from fresh Mexican 
examples. 


MELITTIA. 
Melittia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 128 (1816). 


This genus is very generally distributed, its headquarters being Asia. ‘The American 
species are rather smaller insects, and not nearly so thickly covered with scale-like 
hairs. In other respects they do not differ from their Asiatic allies. 


About eighteen species of this genus are enumerated by Walker in his Catalogue, 
three only occurring in our country. 


1. Melittia satyriniformis. 
Melittia satyriniformis, Hibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. f. 453, 454, p. 17°; Boisd. Sp. Gén. 
des Lép.-Hét. i. p. 4717. 
Melittia pulchripes, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 67°. 
Hab. Nortu America ?,—Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); GuaTEMALA, 
San Gerdnimo (Champion).— VENEZUELA ; LOWER AMAZONS®, 


2. Melittia ceto. 
Melittia ceto, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 62, t. 30. f.67; Walk. Cat. viii. p. 66’. 
Hab. Norta AMERICA.—GuaTeMALA, San Geronimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This appears to be a rare insect. Mr. Champion has only sent two specimens. 


8. Melittia butleri, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 15.) 


Like WM. satyriniformis, but with the primaries quite hyaline, the costal margin slightly black, the hair on the 
hind legs dusky brown, without red. 


Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé, mus. Brit.). 


A very distinct species. 


TIRISTA. 
Tirista, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 22 (1864). 


This genus is allied to Melittia and to Tarsa. It only contains a single species. 


TIRISTA.—SA NNIN A. 30 


1. Tirista argentifrons. (Tab. V. fig. 14.) 
Trista argentifrons, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 22. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé). 
The type of this species and the only specimen known to me is in the British 
Museum. 


SINCARA. 
Sincara, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 61 (1856). 
This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of an insect sent home by 
Mr. Bates from Para. It is allied to Melittia, from which it differs in its more robust 
form and short thick antenna, also in its being without the hair on the hind legs. 


1. Sineara phyllis, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 18.) 

Primaries slightly hyaline, brownish yellow at the base, the costal and inner margin orange-yellow ; secondaries 
hyaline, the fringe brown: head, thorax, and abdomen blackish brown, the front of the thorax slightly 
yellow, the third segment of the abdomen yellow ; palpi and collar yellow; antennw black, yellowish at 
the base; legs brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
I have only received a single specimen of this insect, in very poor condition, and do 
not feel certain about the yellow markings on the thorax and abdomen. 


2. Sincara cambyses, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 19.) 
Primaries whitish hyaline, the costal margin and apex black; secondaries hyaline, the outer margin and fringe 
slightly black : head, thorax, and abdomen black; antenne and legs black, the tarsi speckled with a few 
yellowish hairs. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 

A small species, of which only a single specimen has been sent. It closely resembles 
typical Ageria, excepting its short thick antenne, which are characteristic of the genus 
Sincara. 


8. Sincara lytza, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 20.) 


Primaries hyaline, yellowish near the base; the costal margin and apex slightly brownish black ; secondaries 
hyaline, the fringe brown: head, thorax, and antenne black. palpi greyish white below, above black ; 
abdomen black, each segment banded with white, the anal tuft greyish white; legs black, speckled with 
a few white hairs. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 


Only one example of this curious little species appears to have been taken. | 


SANNINA. 
Sannina, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 63 (1856). 
Four species of this genus have been described by Walker—one from North America, 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., June 1884. ee 


o4 HETEROCERA. 


two from Borneo, and one from Cambodia. I have not seen specimens of any of the 
eastern species, but think it is quite possible that upon a careful examination they 
may prove to belong to another genus. 


1. Sannina verrugo, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 21.) 


Primaries bright orange-red, slightly black at the base and apex, the fringe on the outer margin broad and 
black ; secondaries bright orange, slightly hyaline, the fringe from the apex to the anal angle black: head, 
thorax, abdomen, palpi, antenne, and legs all glossy black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Esperanza (Hoge). 


Only a single example of this fine insect was sent. It is allied to S. uroceriformis, 
Walk., from North America. 


2. Sannina korites, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 22.) 


Primaries reddish orange, the base, half the costal margin, and the veins black ; secondaries orange, the base 
hyaline, bordered with black on the outer margin: head, thorax, and abdomen black ; legs greenish black ; 
antenne pale yellow. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This species is allied to S. verrugo, the chief difference being the hyaline spots at the 
base of the secondaries and the pale yellow antennz, and also its smaller size. 


Fam. AGARISTIDZA. 


The representatives of this family in the New World are few, Asia and Africa being 
its headquarters. I at present know of a very small number of genera that are found 
in the Neotropical Region, one of those being the curious genus Hecatesia, the only 
other representatives of which are from Australia. 


PSEUDALYPIA. 
Pseudalypia, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 


1. Pseudalypia crescens. 
Eusemia crescens, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1774°. 
Agarista grotei, Boisd. Lép. de la Calif. p. 70”. 
Alypia grotei, Boisd. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1874, p. 64°. 
Alypia (Agarista) grotei, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 13 *. 
Hab. Mexico! (Glennie, mus. Brit.); Sonora (Lorquin ?), State of Vera Cruz (Schaus *), 
Jalapa (Hoge), Guanaxuato (Boucard, mus. D.). 


The specimen from Jalapa differs slightly from Walker’s type by having a second 


minute white spot on the posterior wing; but in all other respects it agrees well 
with it. 


PSEUDALYPIA.—HECATESIA. 35 


2. Pseudalypia bimaculata. 
Agarista bimaculata, Herr.-Schaff. Auss. Schmet. p. 71, f. 26°. 
Agarista trimaculata, Boisd. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1874, p. 65’. 
Hab. Mexico ! 2. 


This insect is only known to me by Herrich-Schaffer’s figure; but I cannot agree 
with Mr. Kirby in considering it a variety of the preceding species. 


ALYPIA. 
Alypia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 351; Packard, Proc. Essex Institute, iv. p. 23. 


This genus contains about twenty species, only one of which occurs in our country. 


1. Alypia octomaculata. 

Zygena octomaculata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. i. 1, p. 402. 

Sphine octomaculata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 345. f. C*; Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. f. 119, 
120; Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georg. 1. p. 87, t. 44°. 

Alypia quadriguttalis, Hubner, Verz. p. 351. 

Alypia disparata, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 18°? 

Hab. Nortu America 7,—Mexico, Cordova (Riimel), Jalapa (Hége).—Gutana 2. 

This species appears to be pretty common in Mexico; but as yet I have not seen 
any specimens from any locality further south. I very much doubt the locality given 
by Cramer being correct. . 

Mr. H. Edwards has recently described a species of this genus from Mexico %, and 
this may be represented by our specimens from the State of Vera Cruz. With the 
materials before me I am not in a position to give a positive opinion as to its specific 
value, 


HECATESIA. 


Hecatesia, Boisduval, Monogr. Zygen. p. 11; Walker, Cat. i. p. 54; Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, 1. p. 199. 


Professor Westwood, in his paper on Castnia and allied groups, places three species 
in this genus, all coming from the Australian region. J have recently received from 
Mr. Champion a fourth species, the neuration of the males being exactly the same as 
in those from Australia. 


1. Hecatesia falcata, sp.n. (Tab. V. figg. 234, 242.) 


Primaries of the males dark brown, marked with paler streaks of the same colour ; two narrow greenish-brown 
lines crossing the wing from the outer side of the vitreous spot on the costal margin to near the anal 
angle; a narrow yellowish line from the base extending to the middle of the wing, which is thickly 
speckled with greyish-white scales; secondaries bright chrome-yellow, very broadly bordered with dark 
brown: head, thorax, and a tuft of hairy scales at the base of the abdomen dark reddish brown, the 
abdomen pale chrome-yellow; antennze brown above, silvery white on the underside; legs yellowish 
brown; the underside of the primaries and secondaries pale yellow, with the outer margins of both wings 


ee 2 


36 HETEROCERA. 


broadly banded with brown. The female is very much the same as the male, excepting that it is larger, 
the primaries are less distinctly marked and rather redder brown in colour. Expanse, ¢ 13, 9 2 inches, 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion); Volcan de Chiriqui (mus. 
Staudinger). 

Of this very interesting species I have before me.three males and one female. The 
males do not differ in any respect, excepting that in two of the examples the vitreous 
spot is much more transparent, evidently caused by the specimens having been longer 
on the wing, and having rubbed off some of the long scales. 


PHASIS. 
Phasis, Walk. Cat. u. p. 312. 

Walker founded this genus for the reception of a single insect, collected by Mr. Bates 
on the Amazons. It now contains six or seven species, mostly from South America, 
two only as yet having been received from our country. It is allied to the eastern 
genus Husemia; but I consider it nearer the genus Orthia. Walker placed it with the 
Lithosiide. 


1. Phasis tribuna. 
Ephialtias tribuna, Hibn. Zutr. zu Samml. exot. Schmett. f. 491, 4927. 
Josia (Thyrgis) tribuna, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 817’. 
Josia? continua, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1646’. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux) ; GuatTEMaLa, Panima (.Cham- 
pion); Nicaracua, Chontales (7. Bel¢).—St. Domineo (Tweedie) *.—Cupa1? (Carter, 


mus. D.). 


This species varies to some extent in the width of the yellow centre of the secon- 
daries, a Cuban example being precisely the same as those from Nicaragua. 


2. Phasis separata. 
Josia? separata, Walk. Cat. vil. p. 1645 '. 
Hab. Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely, mus. D.); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
—Co.tomaia !, Ecuapor, and East Peru (mus. D.). 
This pretty species seems a very scarce insect in Central America, whence I have 
only received two specimens. In Ecuador and Peru it is rather common. 


Fam. ZYGAINIDZ. 
Subfam. ZYGANINZA, Butler. 


This subfamily includes the genus Zygena of Fabricius (which is not represented 
in our country), also the genus Procris and other allied genera. The species are by 
no means common, judging by the small number of specimens received. 


PROCRIS.—TRIPROCRIS. 37 


PROCRIS. 
Procris, Fabricius, Illiger’s Magazine, vi. p. 289. 
Walker in his ‘ Catalogue’ places about twenty species in this genus, which appears 
to be very widely distributed. He only mentions one species from the Neotropical 
Region. 


1. Procris pusilla. 
Procris pusilla, Walk. Cat. i. p. 112*; Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 14, t. 6. f. 1. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—VENEZUELA 1. 
I have only received one specimen of this insect which it agrees fairly well with the 
type in the British Museum. 


2. Procris thyana, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 7.) 
Primaries and secondaries semitransparent black, with the costal and outer margins rather darker: the head, 
antenne, and legs black ; thorax and abdomen slightly glossy greenish black. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. GuatemaLa, Quiche Mountains 9000 feet (Champion). 
Two specimens of this species were obtained by Mr. Champion. The specimen 
figured I believe to be the male. The female is rather larger and paler in colour. 


3. Procris forreri, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform semitransparent sooty black: head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen deep 
black ; legs also black. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Milpas 5900 feet (Forrer). 
This species is nearly allied to the preceding, from which it chiefly differs in its much 
smaller size and rather narrower primaries. Three examples were obtained. 


4. Procris thyesta, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 6.) 
Primaries and secondaries semitransparent black, the veins slightly greenish; antenne and front of the 
head black; the back of the head and front half of the thorax dark chrome-yellow ; abdomen and legs 


black. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Guaremaia, Duefias (Champion). 


This species is most nearly allied to P. thyana. 


TRIPROCRIS. 
Triprocris, French, Papilio, iii. p. 191. 
I have not found any other reference to the description of this genus, which I can 
only recognize from the species from Arizona, described by Mr. French as LT. martenit. 


38 HETEROCERA. 


1. Triprocris aversus. 
Triprocris aversus, H, Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 13°. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 
Unknown to me. 


PSEUDOPROCRIS, gen. nov. 


Allied to the preceding genus, much about the same size, but with the primaries rather more rounded at the 
apex ; the neuration nearly the same, excepting that the cell is slightly longer; secondaries same as 
Procris. Head small; the palpi very minute. Antenne very long, quite two thirds the length of the 
wing, not pectinated, but quite thick, and almost clubbed at the end. Thorax and abdomen thick ; the 
abdomen extending about one third of its length beyond the secondaries. Legs moderately stout. 


1. Pseudoprocris gracilis, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 3.) 


Primaries greenish, shot with black ; secondaries hyaline at the base, and in the middle the costal and outer 
margin brownish green; the underside of both primaries and secondaries glossy bluish green: head, 
thorax, and abdomen green, very bright on the upper side; antenne bright glossy green, the tip black ; 
legs greenish black. LExpanse 1,), inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Milpas 5900 feet (Horrer). 


This and the following species differ from all the described forms known to me by 
their extremely long antenne. The specimen from Milpas is much browner in colour ; 
but this may arise from its being a very worn specimen. 


2. Pseudoprocris dolosa, sp. n. 


Primaries semitransparent black, the costal, outer, and inner margins black ; secondaries hyaline, excepting the 
costa and apex, which are dusky: head, antenna, thorax, and legs black; abdomen wanting. Expanse 
1 inch. . 


Hab. Guatrema.a, Calderas (Champion). 


A single example, in very poor condition, has been received of this insect. It 
resembles in colour Procris thyesta; but the antenne at once show that it is more 
closely allied to Pseudoprocris gracilis. 


SERYDA. 
Seryda, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1598. 
Walker founded this genus for the reception of a species sent by Mr. Bates from the 
Amazons. 


1. Seryda megalops, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 5.) 

Primaries and secondaries uniform semitransparent greenish black, slightly darker on the costal and outer 
margins of the primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen black, glossed with green; antennwy very deeply 
pectinated, rather long, being quite two thirds the length of the wing; legs black; a tuft of hair on each 
side of the anus extending some way beyond, forming a small brush-like appendage. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. GouateMata, Capetillo (Champion). 

Unly a single example of this very distinct insect was sent. I have placed it in this 
genus with considerable hesitation, not having seen Walker’s type; it agrees well in all 
respects with his description, excepting that it is a very much larger species. 


' URODUS. 39 


Subfam. PHAUDINA. 


. URODUS. 
Urodus, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 80, fig. 219. 


Herrich-Schaffer founded this genus for the reception of two insects from Venezuela. 
They are very scarce in collections, most likely owing to their being overlooked by 
collectors on account of their great resemblance to flies. 


1. Urodus monura. 
Urodus monura, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 219+; Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1630; Butl. 


Journ, Linn. Soc. Zool. xii. p. 860°. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA ! ; 
Lower Amazons, Para (Bates 2). 

Of this species I have seen but very few examples. It does not appear that its 
range extends northwards beyond the Volcano of Chiriqui, Champion never having 


met with it in any other locality. 


2. Urodus ruficollis, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 11.) 


Primaries and secondaries black, the latter slightly hyaline near the base: head and antenne black, with a 
bright orange-red collar; thorax and abdomen dull black; legs black. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Senahu (Champion). 
A single example of this insect was sent; it differs from all the other species of 
Urodus known to me in having a red collar. 


3. Urodus modesta, sp. n. 
Primaries dark purplish brown, slightly glossy near the outer margin; secondaries dusky hyaline, with the 
margins black: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs all dull black. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. GuatTEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion). 
Of this pretty little species I have received a considerable number of specimens, but 
only from the locality mentioned ; neither have I any evidence of its occurrence in any 


other place. 


4. Urodus imitata, sp. n. 
Primaries uniform glossy brown; secondaries hyaline, with the outer margins very narrowly bordered with 
brownish black: head, thorax, and abdomen black; legs brownish black; antenne wanting. Exzpanse 
3. inch. 
Hab. GuatEmata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
This species is closely allied to U. modesta, the chief difference being its larger size 


and hyaline secondaries. Only a single example was sent. 


40 . HETEROCERA. 


PAMPA. 
Pampa, Walker, Cat. i. p. 238; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. xii. p. 360, t. 28. f. 13. 
Walker founded this genus for the reception of several species; it has since been 
restricted by Mr. Butler, who now only places two of Walker’s species in it: they are 
both small insects, only one of them occurring in our country. 


1. Pampa mystica. 
Euchromia mystica, Walk. Cat. i. p. 239". 
Pampa mystica, But]. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 860. 


Hab. Guatemata, Lanquin (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson) !. 


A single specimen of what I believe to be this species was sent. 


HARRISINA. . 
Harrisina, Packard, Proc. Essex Institute, iv. p. 31 (1864) ; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. of N. America, 
p. 178. 
This genus is well characterized by Dr. Packard in his notes on the family Zygenide. 


1. Harrisina americana. 
Aglaope americana, Boisd., Griff. Cuv. Reg. An. Lep. t. 84. f. 11. 
Procris americana, Boisd. Sp. Gén. Lép. t. 16. £. 7. 
Harrisina americana, Packard, Proc. Essex Inst. iv. p. 81; Stretch, Ill. Zygenide and Bombycide 
of North America, p. 180. 
Hab. Nort America, Arizona (Morrison, mus. D.).—GuatTeMaa, San Gerdnimo, 


San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 


2. Harrisina guatemalena, sp.n. (Aglaope guatemalena. Tab. VI. fig. 10.) 
Primaries and secondaries uniform semitransparent dull black: head, antennw, thorax, and abdomen black, 
Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, El Reposo (Champion). 


One specimen only of this small species was obtained. 


8. Harrisina rumelii, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform glossy black: the head and front half of the thorax pale yellow; antennz 
black ; the abdomen black, shot with dark blue; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (fiimelz). 
Only a single example of this insect was sent. It is allied to H. terana. 


-PYROMORPHA. 
Pyromorpha, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. t. 43. f. 222. 
This genus is well characterized by Mr. Stretch in his work on the Zygenide and 


PYROMORPHA.—LYCOMORPHA. 4) 


Bombycide of North America (p. 33). Walker placed it in the Lithosiide, but gives 
no reason for so doing. 


1. Pyromorpha dimidiata. 
Pyromorpha dimidiata, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. t. 43. f. 222°. 
Maithaca perlucidula, Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1860, p. 541. 


Hab. Norta America !.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


The Mexican examples agree well with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure. 


2. Pyromorpha cinniana. (Procris cinniana, Tab. VI. fig. 12.) 


Primaries brownish black, slightly yellow along the costal margin; secondaries pale yellow, the costal and 
outer margins broadly bordered with brownish black: head and antenne black; front of thorax pale 
yellow ; thorax, abdomen, and legs black. Expanse } inch. 


Hab. Guaremata, Capetillo (Champion). 


Of this pretty little species only a single example was sent. 


Fos LYCOMORPHA. 


Lycomorpha, Harris, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, xxxvi. no. 2. 


1. Lycomorpha mexicana, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 1.) 


Primaries from the base, for about two thirds of the length, brownish yellow, the apical third deep black ; 
secondaries black, slightly yellowish hyaline at the base: head and antenne black; front and sides of 
thorax deep yellow ; back of thorax and abdomen black ; legs black. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (forrer). 


2. Lycomorpha anacreon, sp. n. (Procris anacreon, Tab. VI. fig. 4.) 


Primaries pale yellow, the apex and outer margin narrowly banded with greenish black, a small black streak 
on the inner margin from the base to nearly the middle ; secondaries yellow, much darker from the base 
to the middle, the apex slightly black: head and antenne black, thorax yellowish ; abdomen and legs 
black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


This is a very distinct species. 


3. Lycomorpha contermina. 
Lycomorpha contermina, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 13°. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 


4. Lycomorpha marginata. 
Lycomorpha marginata, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 13’. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 


I do not recognize either of these species, recently described from Mexico. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., June 1884. Sf 


42 - HETEROCERA. 


Subfam. FUCHROMIINA. 


uchromiine, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 361. 


HISTIC#A. 
Histiwa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 216 (1854). 


This genus contains about eight or nine species, all very much alike in pattern and 
colour. Only one species, so far as I at present know, occurs in our country, the others 
being all from South America. | 


Histiea meldole. (Tab. VI. fig. 14.) 
Histica meldole, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 362*; Aid Ident. Ins. i. t. 63. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—VENEZUELA!; TrinrpaD 1. 


Mr. Champion states that he only found this insect in the thick forest. It is 
very closely allied to H. bellatriz from Colombia, a species which seems to vary to a 
considerable extent. 


SYNTOMEDIA. 
Syntomedia, Harris, Silliman’s Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, xxxvi. p. 316 (1839). 


1. Syntomedia albifasciata. 
Syntomedia albifasciata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soce., Zool. xii. p. 8667. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Honpuras }. 


2. Syntomedia melanthus. 

Sphinz melanthus, Cr. Pap. Exot. iti. t. 248. f. C?. 
Euchromia melanthus, Walk. Cat. i. p. 229; Cat. vii. p. 16267. 
Syntomedia melanthus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 366°. 
Sphinx nycteus, Cr. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 825. f. F. 

Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Ventanas, Milpas, and Presidio (Forrer), Jalapa 
(Hoge), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); GuatemaLA, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; 
Honpuras; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.), 


Trazu (Rogers); Panama, Caldera (Champion).—VxENEZUELA??; Guiana, Surinam!; 
East Peru (mus. D.). 


This species has a very extended range, and seems to be subject to a slight amount 
of variation. The examples before me from Guatemala have all the pale markings 
much smaller than in the specimens from Mexico, but in other respects do not differ. 
Sphin nycteus, Cramer, is the female of this species. I have the male and female in 
copuld, taken by M. Boucard in Mexico. 


SYNTOMEDIA.—EUPYRA. 43 


8. Syntomedia saulcyi. 
Glaucopis saulcyi, Guérin, Ic. Rég. Anim. p. 502”. 
| Endera saulcyi, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 367. 
Calonota? niveifascia, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1628. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli).—MartTIiniQuz !. 
This species is closely allied to S. melanthus, and I consider much better placed 
here than in the genus Endera. 


4. Syntomedia epilais. 
Euchromia (Hippola) epilais, Walk. Cat. i. p. 227”. 
Syntomedia epilais, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 366; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 238, t. viii. f. 5. 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan (Gaumer); British Honpuras}, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneauz). 
This species seems to be peculiar to Mexico and Honduras. I have not seen any 


specimens from any other locality. 


ENDERA. 


Endera, Walker, Cat. i. p. 228 (1854). 

Walker founded this genus upon a Mexican insect, and then included in it six other 
species belonging to very different genera. Mr. Butler, in his notes on the family 
Zygenide, restricts it to H. vulcanus, the type of Walker’s genus, and Glaucopis 
saulcyi, Guérin, a species I consider much more closely allied to Syntomedia, to which 
I have removed it. 


1. Endera vulcanus. 
Euchromia (Endera) vulcanus, Walk. Cat. i. p. 228%. 
Glaucopis vulcanus, Herr.-Schaff. Samm. aussereur. Schmett. f. 295. 
Endera vulcanus, But]. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 367. 
Hab. Mexico }. 
This species is well figured by H.-Schaffer. The type is in the British-Museum 
collection ; it is the only specimen that I am acquainted with. 


EUPYRA. 
Eupyra, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 78. 


This genus contains about seven species, two of which occur in our country. 


1. Kupyra principalis. 
Eupyra principalis, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 97; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 367. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé, mus. Brit.). 


This fine species is closely allied to E. regalis, Herr.-Schaff. The only specimen 
known to me is the type in the British Museum. 
| | ff? 


44 HETEROCERA. 


2. Kupyra corydon, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 13.) 


Primaries glossy black, thickly speckled with green scales; a narrow green band crossing the wing close to the 
base ; two small hyaline spots about the middle of the cell, three at the end, second and third very 
minute, and four beyond nearer the apex; secondaries black, with a central band of four bluish hyaline. 
spots, the fourth below the others and close to the apex: head, thorax, and abdomen black, two white 
spots on each side of the thorax; antenne black, rather deeply pectinated; legs black. Expanse 13 
inch, 


Hab. Guatemas, Senahu (Champion). 
This appears to be a very scarce insect. Mr. Champion only obtained a single 


specimen. Dr. Staudinger has sent me a specimen also from Guatemala, but without 
the exact locality. 


CALONOTOS. 
Calonotos, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 123; Walk. Cat. i. p. 234. 


Mr. Butler has divided this genus into three sections ; but I am not able to see his 
reason for so doing; the insects placed in these sections differ considerably, and I 
should have thought them worthy of generic distinction; but not having a sufficient 
number of specimens I am unable to determine this point. 


1. Calonotos nexa. 
Lemocharis neva, Herr.-Schaff. Samml, aussereur. Schmett. f. 254; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1627. 
Calonotos nexa, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 368°. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid, Yucatan (Gawmer); GuatEMaLa, Cubilguitz (Champion).— 
Upper AMAZONS 1. 


The specimens of this insect from Mexico are the smallest I have seen; but in other 
respects they do not differ in any way. | 


2. Calonotos tiburtus. 
Sphing tiburtus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 287. f. C*. 
Calonotos tiburtus, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 12. 
Euchromia tiburtus, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 244. 
Hab.. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion); Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, 
mus Staudinger) — Guiana, Surinam }. 


I have specimens of both sexes before me; they agree well with Cramer’s figure, 
being closely allied to C. nexa. 


3. Calonotos interrupta. 
Calonota interrupta, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 16287. 
Hab. Mexico 1. 


4. Calonotos trotschi, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 8.) 


Primaries black, crossed beyond the middle by a band of four hyaline spots, the first and second close to the 
costal margin quite small, the third and fourth larger, three elongated streaks near the base bluish 
hyaline; secondaries black, with the base and a small spot near the apex hyaline: head black, with a 


CALONOTOS.—AMYCLES. 45 


minute white spot on each side; antenne and palpi black; thorax and abdomen greenish black, the side 
of the abdomen chrome-yellow; legs black. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. Staudinger). | 


This species is nearly allied C. sandion, from which it differs in all the hyaline spots 
being much smaller and the bright yellow sides of the abdomen. 


5. Calonotos metallicus, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 2.) 


Primaries black, with a white spot at the base; a semitransparent round white spot beyond the cell close to 
the costal margin ; a small golden-coloured streak in the middle of the wing close to the base: secondaries 
black, with a small white spot on the costal margin near the middle; this spot is only seen when the 
primaries are set well forward: head black, white in front; palpi black ; thorax black, with six minute 
white spots in front, and a large round golden spot at the base; abdomen golden yellow, with a black line 
on each side; the underside white, margined with black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion, Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


This species is allied to C. phlegmon, Fabr. The examples before me are all males. 


AMYCLES. 
Amycles, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 231. 


The neuration of the secondaries is figured by Mr. Butler in his paper on the 
Zygenide. This genus contains about five species, most of them resembling Hymeno- 
pterous insects. 


1. Amycles postica. 
Pampa postica, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1630°. 
Amycles postica, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 369. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—LoweEr Amazons, Santarem 1. 


I have only received a single example of this species from Mr. Champion, which 
agrees well with the type in the British Museum. 


2. Amycles flavifascia. 

Amycles flavifascia, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 231+; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Zool. xii. p. 869. 

Pampa flavifascia, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1630. 

Pampa aliena, Walk. 1. c. i. p. 241. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Panima (Champion).—E. Pzrvu (mus. D.); Braziu}. 


Only a single example of this species was received; it agrees well with Herrich- 
Schaffer’s figure, and also with specimens before me from East Peru. 


3. Amycles albomarginata, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 26.) 


Primaries black shading to brown, the apical portion white. Secondaries hyaline, the outer margin broadly 
banded with black: head, thorax, and abdomen black; antennz and legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This species is allied to A. flavifascia, from which it chiefly differs in having the 
secondaries hyaline. 


46 HETEROCERA. 


4, Amycles strigosa, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 3.) 


Primaries brown, excepting at the apex and a central narrow semihyaline streak extending from the base to 
the outer margin; secondaries brownish black, slightly hyaline at the base: head, thorax, and abdomen 
dull black ; antennse and legs black, the former tipped with yellowish white. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion). 


This species closely resembles a black wasp from the same locality, and, like the other 
species of Amycles, it is found flying in the hottest sunshine. 


5. Amycles flavicollis, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 11.) 


Primaries black, with a central hyaline streak from the base to beyond the middle; secondaries hyaline, the 
outer margin bordered with black: head, thorax, and abdomen black; collar bright yellow; antenne 
slightly pectinated, black at the base, the tips white; legs black. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Zapote, Panzos (Champion). 


This small species is very distinct from any other, and it is with considerable hesi- 
tation that I have placed it in this genus. I have only a very few examples; but, as 
far as I can see, the neuration is the same as Amycles postica. 


PSOLOPTERA. 
Psoloptera, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 369 (1876). 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler upon Walker’s Euchromia thoracina. It 
seems to me to be very closely allied to Jchoria. At present only two species are 
known, one of which occurs in our country. | 


1. Psoloptera thoracina. 
Euchromia (Autochloris) thoracina, Walk. Cat. i. p. 243°. 
Psoloptera thoracina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 369; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 24, 
t. 8. f. 6. 
Hab. Guatemata (Boucard, mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui and Bugaba (Ribbe & Cham- 
pton).—Amazons, Ega!; EcuaDor (mus. D.). 
The specimens from our country agree well in all respects with the type. It appears 
to be a scarce insect ; I have only received very few examples. 


SAURITA. 


Saurita, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 23. 


1. Saurita cassandra. 
Sphinx cassandra, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 806. 41; Cr. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 894. f. G. 
Glaucopis cassandra, Anon. Ins. Surinam, pt. 85 ; Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. t. 164. f. 1-4. 
Euchromia cassandra, Walk. Cat. i. p. 236°’. 
Saurita cassandra, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 370. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Riimeli); Costa Rica, Irazu (fogers).—VENEZUELA!; BRAZIL?, 


-ICHORIA.—MACROCNEME. AT 


This appears to be a very variable species; the Mexican examples are very much 
darker-coloured than those from Costa Rica. Hiibner’s figures are intermediate between 
the two. 


ICHORIA. 
Ichoria, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 370. 


Mr. Butler places three species in his genus. In Central America these insects seem 
to be very rare; I have only received two examples of Walker’s species. 


1. Ichoria quadrigutta. - 
Euchromia (Aclytea) quadrigutta, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 2451. 
Ichoria quadrigutta, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 370; Ill. Lep. Het. pt. i. p. 25, t. 10. f. 1. 
Hab. Mexico1; GuatemaLa (Staudinger); Costa Rica (Van Patten and Boucard, 


mus. D.). 


2. Ichoria lycone, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 9.) 
Primaries and secondaries, upper and underside uniform blackish brown; antenne slightly pectinated : head, 
thorax, and abdomen black; a blue dot on the back of the head, and one at the base of the thorax, also a 
bright red spot on each side of thorax and a central red spot on the first segment of the abdomen; legs 


black. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu and Rio Sucio (Hogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Cham- 
pion). 
The figure is from a Chiriqui specimen. 


MACROCNEME. 
Macrocneme, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 124; Walker, Cat. i. p. 248. 
This genus is well represented by six species in our country, three of them being new. 


1. Macrocneme leucostigma. 
Glaucopis leucostigma, Perty, Delect. t. 31. f. 11°. 
Macrocneme leucostigma, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 371”. 

Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuatemaLa, San Isidro, Zapote, Tamahu, Panzos (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache 
(Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.).—VENE- 
ZUELA?; Brazin }. 

This species seems to have a very extended range; it does not vary to any extent. 
Mr. Champion informs me that it is a very common insect in Central America. 


2. Macrocneme auripes. (Tab. VI. fig. 15.) 
Macrocneme auripes, Walk. Cat. i. p. 2501; Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 25, t. 8. f. 4. 
Hab. Guaremana, Teleman and Panzos (Champion); Honpuras * (Dyson) Panama, 


David (Champion), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.). 


48 HETEROCERA. 


This species differs from all the other species of Macrocneme in having the tarsi 
bright orange-yellow. It appears to be a scarce insect in our country; I have only 
. received three examples. The figure is from a Guatemala specimen. 


3. Macrocneme vittata. 
Euchromia (Macrocneme) vittata, Walk. Cat. i. p. 149°. 
Macrocneme vittata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 372. 
Hab. Guaremaua, Panzos (Champion)—LoweEr Amazons, Para 1 (Bates). 


The Guatemala examples agree well with the type in the British Museum. 


4, Macrocneme iole, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 17.) 


This species is allied to M. leucostigma, Perty, but it is a much larger and more beautifully coloured insect. The 
primaries are glossy black, crossed near the base by a wide bright golden-green band—in some specimens it 
almost extends to the base; secondaries black: head and thorax greenish black; antenne black, tipped 
with white; abdomen golden green, with four small white spots at the base; legs greenish; the tibia and 
tarsus thickly clothed with long black scales ; the tarsus is not tipped with white as it is in M. leucostigma. 
Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdnimo, Calderas (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 


The specimen from Chontales is very much faded and worn, but I believe it to 
belong to this species. The figure is taken from Chiriqui examples. 


5. Macrocneme adonis, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 16.) 


Primaries dark violet-blue, shot with green in some lights, the outer margin and the apex blackish ; secondaries 
black, shaded with dark blue at the apex: head and thorax black; abdomen greenish black, with two 
white dots at the base; antenne and legs black. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); GuatEMALA, Chacoj (Champion); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This is the finest species of Macrocneme with which I am acquainted. In Guatemala 
it appears to be a rare insect as Mr. Champion only met with a single example; in 
Chiriqui it is much more abundant. 


6. Macrocneme evelina, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 4.) 
Primaries and secondaries uniform dull black, the apex of the primaries dusky white: head, thorax, abdomen, 
and legs black; antenne black, tipped with white. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


I have only received a single example of this dull-coloured insect. I believe it 
is a female. 
CALLICARUS. 
Callicarus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 182 (1866). 


This genus contains only a few species, two of them being found in our country; it is 
very closely allied to the next genus (Mastigocera), the differences being well defined 
by Mr. Grote in his ‘ Notes on the Zygeenidee of Cuba,’ 


CALLICARUS.—MASTIGOCERA. 49 


1. Callicarus plumipes. 
Sphinx plumipes, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. ii. t. 27. f. 3. 
Euchromia (Horamia) plumipes, Walk. Cat. i. p. 252. 
Callicarus plumipes, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 372; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 25, t. 8. f. 2. 
Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); GuatumaLa, San Gerdénimo (Cham- 


pion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 


2. Callicarus laconia, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 18.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform brownish black, much the same colour as C. plumipes, several very minute 
blue dots at the base of the primaries: head black, with the front blue; thorax black, with three bluish- 
white spots on each side; abdomen black, with two blue spots close to the base, and a row of bluish-white 
dots on either side; antenne and palpi black, not tipped with white as they are in C. plumipes; legs all 
black, the hind legs thickly covered with long hairs. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer). 

Of this pretty little species I have only received a single example in poor condition ; 
it is easily distinguished from C. plumipes by its smaller size, black abdomen spotted 
with blue, shorter and black hind legs. 


3. Callicarus texanus. 
Callicarus texanus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 1847. 
Hab. Norta America, Texas! —Mexico, Milpas (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge). 
This species closely resembles Mastigocera edipus. It isa smaller and much slighter- 
looking insect. 


MASTIGOCERA. | 
Mastigocera, Boisduval, Lép. Guatemala, p. 81 (1870). 

This genus is very closely allied to Callicarus, from which it differs as follows :—the 
antenne are longer, the palpi more erect, and the second joint much longer than in 
Callicarus ; the neuration is very much the same, but the tuft of hair on the hind legs 
is much larger, and more in the shape of a ball. Mr. Champion tells me that he 
always found these insects beneath the leaves of certain trees when in flower. 


1. Mastigocera calvipes. (Tab. VI. fig. 20.) 
Mastigocera calvipes, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 81*; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 373 *, 


Hab. Mexico!; Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers).— VENEZUELA?. 
I have examined the type of this species; the specimen before me agrees with it in 
all respects. The figure is taken from the Costa-Rican example. 


2, Mastigocera cedipus. (Tab. VI. fig. 19.) 
Mastigocera edipus, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 81; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 373. 
Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); GuatEMALA, San Gerdnimo (Cham- 
pion). 
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50 HETEROCERA. 


This fine species is most nearly allied to M. calvipes, but it is a very much larger 
insect. In Guatemala it appears to be rare, where Mr. Champion only obtained two 
examples. The type of this insect was kindly sent to me by Mons. C. Oberthiir for 
examination; it only consists of the wings and hind legs gummed on to a card, but 
still quite sufficient to identify the species with certainty. 


ISANTHRENE. 
Isanthrene, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 125; Walker, Cat. i. p. 154 (1854). 


This genus has had about eleven species placed init. All these insects are of a very 
hornet-like appearance. Five species are found in our country. 


1. Isanthrene pompiloides. | 
Glaucopis (Isanthrene) pompiloides, Walk. Cat. i. p. 1567. 
Isanthrene pompiloides, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 874; Tll. Lep. Het. pt. i. p. 26, t. 12. 
f. 10. 
Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); GuateMaLa (mus. Brit.1). 


This species seems to be a Mexican insect, the only authority for its occurrence in 
Guatemala being the specimen in the British Museum. Mr. Champion did not meet 
with it. 


2. Isanthrene echemon, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 22.) 


Primaries yellowish hyaline, darker along the costal margin, the inner and outer margins narrowly banded 
with black, rather wider at the apex; secondaries yellowish hyaline, the inner and outer margins bordered 
with black: the palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen deep black; antenne deep orange-yellow, almost scarlet 
at the base; the legs brownish black. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Guatemaua, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Mr. Champion only obtained a single specimen of this fine species; it is quite unlike 
any other described Jsanthrene with which I am acquainted, its nearest ally being the 
Mexican I. pompiloides, Walker, a species that is perhaps peculiar to that country. | 


3. Isanthrene championi, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries and secondaries reddish-brown hyaline, the outer and inner margins of both the primaries and 
secondaries narrowly bordered with black: the head, thorax, and abdomen black, with two minute yellow 
spots at the base; antenne pale yellow at the tips, almost red at the base; legs black, the veins on the 
upperside are black, on the underside they are bright scarlet. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


I have named this very fine insect after Mr. Champion, who obtained a single | 
example of it in the neighbourhood of Bugaba. It is a very distinct species, its nearest 
ally being L. echemon from Guatemala. 


4, Isanthrene incendiaria. 
Glaucopis incendiaria, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. t. 165. 


ISANTHRENE.—HOM(COCERA. 51 


Glaucopis (Isanthrene) flavicornis, Walk. Cat. i. p. 155 (nec Fabr.). 
Isanthrene incendiaria, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soe, Zool. xii. p. 375. 


Hab. Mexico, Milpas (Forrer). —Brazit (mus. D.). 


A single example of this species was sent; it agrees well with specimens in my own 
collection from South Brazil. 


5. Isanthrene crabroniformis, (Tab. VI. fig. 23.) 
Isanthrene crabroniformis, Staudinger, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 120 (1875). 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui and David (Ribse1, Champion), Colon (Boucard, 
mus. D.), Taboga Island (Champion). 
A very common species in Chiriqui, most nearly allied to I. flavicornis, Fabr., from 
Colombia. 
HOMC:OCERA. 
Homeocera, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 26. 


The type of this genus is Homeocera crassa, Felder. Mr. Butler in his paper on the 
Zygenide includes eight species in this genus, three of which occur in our country. 


1. Homeocera jansonis. 
Gymnelia jansonis, Butl. & Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 116. 
Gymnelia jansonis, Butl. Lep. Exot. t. 61. f. 17°. 
Homeocera jansonis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 375. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cartago! (Van Patten), Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba (Champion, 
Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 
I have only seen three examples of this species; the type is now in the British 


Museum. 


2. Homeocera beatrix, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 25.) 

Primaries and secondaries yellowish hyaline, the outer and inner margins bordered with black, the base of the 
primaries black, spotted with bright green scales: head and thorax black, banded and spotted with bright 
green; abdomen black, broadly banded with bright metallic green, each segment narrowly margined with 
pale yellow; anus bright orange; antenne black, very slightly pectinated ; legs brownish black. Expanse 


13 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (idbe), Bugaba and San Feliz (Champion). 
This beautiful little species is allied to H. jansonis, from which it differs in having 
extremely narrow margins to the primaries, and being of a much more yellow colour. 


8. Homeocera scintillans. 
Lemocharis scintillans, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schm. f. 244. 


Glaucopis (Pecilosoma) flavitarsis, Walk. Cat. i. p. 158°. 
Homeocera scintillans, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 376; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 26, t. 12. £. 4, 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).— VENEZUELA}. 
A single example in bad condition was received in Van Patten’s last collection; it is 
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52 HETEROCERA. 


allied to H. gansonis and H. beatriz, but differs from both, the most marked difference 
being that the extremity of the abdomen is greenish black instead of red, as itis in 
the above-mentioned species. 


4. Homeocera beata. 
Homeocera beata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 376+. 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger).—Co.omsia (Bouchard 1); Braziu. 


The example in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees well in all respects with Mr. Butler’s 
type. 


5. Homeocera salvini. 
Homeocera salvini, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 376; Ill. Lep. Het. pt.i. p. 27, t. 17.8. 4. 
Hab. Panama, Obispo (Salvin). 


The only example of this insect with which I am acquainted was taken by Mr. Salvin 
some years ago near Obispo, and presented by him to the British Museum; it is very 
distinct, and the largest species of this genus found in our country. 


SAROSA. 
Sarosa, Walker, Cat. i. p. 151 (1854). 
Three species only are placed in this genus by Mr. Butler, one of them being found 
in our country. It is allied to Krruca, from which it chiefly differs by its longer and 
narrower primaries and more deeply pectinated antenne. 


1. Sarosa pompilina. (Tab. VI. fig. 24.) 
Sarosa pompilina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 3777. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); Brazit, Espiritu 
Santo 1, 


The specimen from Chiriqui agrees well with the type. I have only seen a single 
example from our country. Mr. Champion did not meet with this species. 


ERRUCA. 
Erruca, Walker, Cat. i. p. 165 (1854). 

Walker founded this genus for the reception of a single insect. Mr. Butler, in his 
revision of the Zygeenide in the British Museum, has placed about thirteen species in 
it, mostly from the Neotropical Region. I have lately described three others from 
Ecuador, making about sixteen known species, only one of them having been previously 
recorded from our country. I now add the description of another species. 


1. Erruca varia. 
Glaucopis (Isanthrene) varia, Walk. Cat. i. p. 157°. 
Erruca varia, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 378. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Amazons, Para }, 


ERRUCA.—MYRMECOPSIS. 53 


This species is very closely allied to E. pertyt, and I think it is more than likely it 
will prove to be the same; but at present I have not a sufficient number of specimens 
to determine this point with certainty. I have only received a single example from 
Panama. 


2. Erruca azia, sp.n. (Homeocera azia, Tab. VI. fig. 21.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform yellowish hyaline, the outer margins of both narrowly bordered with black, 
the inner margin of primaries, from the base to near the anal angle, yellowish brown; a few metallic 
green scales at the base: head green; thorax black, with a large green spot close to the base; abdomen 
black, with two yellowish-white bands at the base and one spot of the same colour on each side, a double 
row of green spots on the abdomen near the middle; antennew black, with brownish-yellow tips; legs 
black, with the tarsus yellow. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion). 


Of this very beautiful species I have only received a single example. 


MYRMECOPSIS. 
Myrmecopsis, Newman, Zool. viii. Append. cxxii, (1850). 
The insects of this genus are nearly all like Ichneumonide. They are mostly very 
rare in collections, specimens only coming at long intervals. Three species are found 
in our country. 


1. Myrmecopsis semihyalina. 
Glaucopis (Pseudosphex) semihyalina, Walk. Cat. i. p. 197°. 
Pseudosphex vespiformis, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 425. 
Myrmecopsis semihyalina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 380; Ill. Lep. Het. pt. i. p. 28, 
t. 13. f. 9. 
Hab. GuateMata, Teleman (Champion).—Braziu }. 


The specimen I have received agrees well with the type in the British Museum, which 
I think more than likely came from one of the Central-American States, and not from 
Brazil, the locality “Brazil” being used very often for specimens from any part of 
South America. 


2. Myrmecopsis polistes. 
Pseudosphex polistes, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schm. f. 39, 40. 
Myrmecopsis polistes, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 880°. 
Glaucopis (Pseudosphex) polistes, Walk. Cat. i. p. 196°. 
Myrmecopsis eumenides, Newm. Zool. viii. Append. cxxii. 

Hab. Guatemaa, Teleman (Champion).—Braziu ! 2. 

A single example of this insect was taken by Mr. Champion, who tells me that he 
only found the species of this and the following genus flying about flowers in the 
hottest sunshine at midday, usually in company with the Hymenopterous insects, which 
they so closely resemble. 


54 HETEROCERA. 


3. Myrmecopsis crabronis, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 9.) 


Primaries and secondaries brownish hyaline, darkest along the costal margin: head, thorax, abdomen, and 
legs greasy black ; antenne reddish brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata (mus. Staudinger); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This species is allied to MW. polistes, Hiibner, but differs from it by being considerably 
larger, and by having a black head, thorax, and abdomen, instead of yellowish brown, 
as in that species. 


SPHECOSOMA. 
Sphecosoma, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 381 (1876). 


This genus has three species placed in it by Mr. Butler, two of which occur pretty 
commonly in our country. 


1. Sphecosoma fasciolatum. (Tab. VI. fig. 26.) 
Sphecosoma fasciolatum, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 881°. 
Hab. Guatema.a, Panzos, Teleman; Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Co.omBiA, Santa 
Marta!; Braziu. 


This wasp-like insect was pretty common at Teleman, but I have only received a 
single example from Bugaba. 


2. Sphecosoma testaceum. (Tab. VI. fig. 27.) 
Glaucopis (Pseudosphex) testacea, Walk. Cat. i. p. 1967. 
Sphecosoma testaceum, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 381. 
Hab. GuateMaa, Panzos, Teleman (Champion).—Brazit 1. 


This species closely resembles Myrmecopsis polistes, Hiibn. 


GYMNELIA. 
Gymnelia, Walker, Cat. i. p. 152 (1854). 


The genus Gymnelia, as now restricted, forms a very natural little group of species, 
in form resembling Homeocera, two species as yet only occurring in our country. 


1. Gymnelia gigantea, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries hyaline, the base, costal, outer and inner margins, and a band at the end of the cell black; secon- 
daries, the base and inner margin broadly black, the outer slightly bordered with black: the head, thorax, 
and abdomen black ; the collar dark blue and the abdomen banded with the same colour; antenne black ; 
legs bright scarlet. Expanse 2} inches, 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


This very fine species is closely allied to G. torguata, from which it differs in having 
the abdomen all black banded with blue, instead of half red, as in that species, also in 
the legs being scarlet instead of black. It is the largest species known to me. 


GYMNELIA.—GYMNOPODA. 55 


2. Gymnelia xenodorus, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 1.) 

Primaries and secondaries yellowish hyaline, the outer and inner margins broadly banded with black, a black 
band at the end of the cell: head and collar blue; antenne black, tipped with white; thorax black ; 
abdomen black, shot with blue on the sides, the first segment dirty white, the fifth, sixth, and seventh 
orange-red on the upperside ; legs black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos (Champion). 
This species is allied to G. whitelyi, from Eastern Peru; but it is at once distin- 
guished from that insect by its bright-red extremity of the abdomen. 


LA MOCHARIS. 


Lemocharis, Herrich-Schiffer (part), Samml. aussereur. Schmett. 258. 


This genus, as restricted by Mr. Butler, now has about eight species placed in it, all 
of them being small. Herrich-Schaffer included a large number of species in his genus, 
many of them belonging to quite different genera. ‘Three species occur in our country, 
two of them being new. 


1. Lemocharis trigutta. 
Glaucopis (Pseudomya) trigutta, Walk. Cat. i. p. 145°. 
Lemocharis trigutta, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 883; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 29, t. 7. f. 10. 


Hab. Guavemaa, Panzos (Champion).—CotomBia!; Amazons, Tabatinga (IL. Stuart, 
mus. D.). 

This species is found over a very extended range of country. The example from 
Guatemala is darker in colour than those from South America, but in other respects it 


does not differ. 


9. Lemocharis stryma, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 5.) 
Primaries and secondaries hyaline, with the veins and outer margins black: head and antenne black; thorax 
black, with a small spot on each side and one at the base bright carmine ; abdomen black; legs black, 


the tarsus of the hind legs white. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Bele). 


8. Lemocharis hercyna, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries hyaline, the base, inner and outer margins narrowly bordered with black, the apex broadly black ; 
secondaries hyaline, with the outer margin black: head, thorax, and antenne black; abdomen pale 


chrome-yellow ; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
A pretty little species, resembling Ilipa stilbosticta, Butler, from Colombia. 


GYMNOPODA. 


Gymnopoda, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 22; Index, p. 5. 
_ Dr. Felder states that this genus is allied to Horama. The primaries are long and 
narrow, as in that genus, the palpi are rather long, and the antenne slightly pectinated. 


56 HETEROCERA. 


1. Gymnopoda subflamma, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 10.) 


Primaries semitransparent black, except from the base to the end of the cell, which is quite hyaline, almost 
the same as Gymnopoda ochracea, Felder; secondaries hyaline, the outer margin and apex dusky black: 
the head and antennz black, collar with a few whitish scales; thorax and legs black; abdomen reddish 

yellow, with a central band of black spots; the anus black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion). 


Of this insect I have only received a single example. It is closely allied to Dr. Felder’s 
species, from which it chiefly differs by having a white collar and a row of black spots 
down the centre of the abdomen. 


THRINACIA. 
Thrinacia, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. xii. p. 884 (1876). 


Two species are placed in this genus by Mr. Butler, one of which occurs in our 
country, also two new species now described. 


1. Thrinacia afilicta. 
Glaucopis (Pseudomya) afflicta, Walk. Cat. i. p. 144°. 
Thrinacia afficta, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 384; Il. Lep. Het. i. p. 29, t. 7. f. 12. . 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion).—Brazi 1. 


2. Thrinacia sanguinea, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 9.) 
Primaries black, hyaline in the centre of the wing; secondaries black: head, antenne, and abdomen black ; 
thorax and the base of the primaries bright red; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion). 


This species differs from 7. afflicta, Walk., in having the primaries more hyaline and 
the base of the wings all red. 


3. Thrinacia intermedia, sp. n. 


Closely allied to the preceding species, the chief difference being its more sooty colour, red instead of black 
head, slightly more pectinated antenne, longer and narrower primaries, the abdomen and legs black. 
Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 8000 feet (Champion). 


A very distinct species, of which a single example was sent. 


PSEUDOCHARIS, gen. nov. 


General appearance of Lemocharis; neuration of the primaries as in Dycladia; secondaries very small and 
narrow at the apex. Head small; palpi minute, first joint oval, second elongated, thickly clothed with 
scales, Antenne very slightly pectinated, with thirty-nine joints. Thorax and abdomen short and 
thick, the same as in Dycladia. Fore leg long and slender, the coxa very flat; femur long and slight; 
tibia rather short, with a short spur rather beyond the middle; tarsus five-jointed, hind leg very long, 
tibia with four spurs, the first two about the middle, the second pair at the end close to the tarsus, which 


PSEUDOCHARIS.—PHEIA. 57 


is very long; both tibia and tarsus clothed with long hairy scales closely resembling the hind legs of 
Macrocneme adonis, only being very much smaller.—Type P. nenia. 


1. Pseudocharis nenia, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries brownish black; secondaries black hyaline from the middle to the inner margin: head, antenne, 
thorax, and abdomen black; a minute red spot on each side of the head; legs black. Expanse ? 
inch, 


Hab. GuateMaa, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


2. Pseudocharis sithon, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 7.) 


Primaries and secondaries hyaline, with the costal, outer, and inner margins broadly bordered with brownish 
black: head and antenne black; thorax black, with a red spot on each side in the front; abdomen black, 
with the side broadly banded with scarlet; legs black. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 


Two specimens of this species from the same locality differ from the type in having 
the red markings pale yellow; in all other respects they are the same. 


PSEUDOMYA. 
Pseudomya, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 124. 


‘Three species are now placed in this genus by Mr. Butler, one of them being very 
common in our country. 


1. Pseudomya tipulina. 


Glaucopis unicolor tipulina, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. t. 164. 
Pseudomya tipulina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 124; Butl. Il. Lep. Het. i. p. 29, t. 7. f. 7. 
Glaucopis (Pseudomya) bibia, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 143. . 


Hab. Guatemata, Senahu, Panima (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, 
Champion).—S. E. Braziu (mus. D.). 


This species closely resembles a fly about the same size; in fact it is difficult to 
distinguish between the two insects. Mr. Champion informs me that they both fly 
together. | 


PHEIA. 
Pheia, Walker, Cat. i. p. 146 (1854). 
This genus has about four species placed in it by various authors, only one of which, 
so far as I at present know, occurs in our country. The genus is nearly allied to 
Gymnelia. 


1. Pheia intensa. (Tab. VII. fig. 16.) 
Glaucopis (Pecilosoma) intensa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 159°. 
Pheia intensa, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 386; Ill. Lep. Het. 1. p. 380, t. 12. fig. 11. 
Hab. Honnvras (Dyson)!; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 
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MOCHLOPTERA. 
Mochloptera, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. D. 386 (1876). 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler for the reception of two insects, the one 
described by Perty, the other by Walker, who had both placed them in different genera 
from which they are clearly distinct. 


1. Mochloptera xanthocera. 
Gymnelia xanthocera, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1608. 
Mochloptera xanthocera, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 886. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo, Panzos, Senahu (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Zrétsch). 

This species is very close to M. acrorantha, Perty, the only difference being, so far as 
I can see, in the colour of the antenne; in M. xanthocera they are pale citron-yellow, 
while those of Perty’s species are black, excepting the tips, which are pale yellow; in 
other respects they do not differ in the slightest degree. The type of Walker’s species, 
with which I have compared the specimens before me, is now in the Oxford Museum 
without any locality attached to it, though Walker gives Brazil as his locality in the 
description of this species in his Catalogue. 

So far asl at present know, the range of the northern form is from Guatemala to 
Panama, and of the southern one from Ecuador to North Brazil. 


COSMOSOMA. 


Cosmosoma, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 155. 


This genus has between twenty and thirty species placed in it, most of them from 
South America, though it is well represented in our country by about ten species, some 
of which are the same as the southern ones. 


1. Cosmosoma metallescens. 


Lemocharis metallescens, Ménétriés, Enn. Corp. An. Mus. Petr. ii. t. 14. f. 1%. 
Cosmosoma chalcosticta, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 887. 


Hab. Guatemaia, Las Mercedes (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridse), Bugaba 
(Champion).—Brazit }. 

Mr. Butler doubtfully places this species as a synonym of C. pheres of Cramer. I 
cannot agree with him. C. pheres of Cramer is a very different-looking insect; the 
primaries are much wider and the body larger, in fact itis much more robust. Cramer's 
species came from Surinam, and appears to me very different. I have a large series of 
specimens before me, and some of them have the spots bright brassy green, instead of 
blue-green as mentioned by Mr. Butler in his description of C. chalcosticta; this is more 
frequent in the females than in the males. Mr. Champion took the sexes of this species 
in copuld ; the female differs from the male by having the extremity of the abdomen 


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bright orange-yellow and the antenne simple. This species, I am informed by Mr. 
Champion, is common near the Volcano of Chiriqui; but he only met with two 
examples of it in Guatemala. 


2. Cosmosoma confine. 
Lemocharis confinis, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 255. 
Glaucopis remota, Walk. Cat. i. p. 170°. 
Cosmosoma confine, But]. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 387 *. 
Hab. GuatEMALA (Boucard, mus. D.)—CotomBia ; EcuapoR; VENEZUELA }?. 


A single example of this insect was brought from Guatemala by Mons. Boucard, 
agreeing in all respects with those in my collection from South America. 


8. Cosmosoma elegans, sp. n. (Tab. VII. fig. 13.) 

Primaries and secondaries hyaline; the costal margin, the base, and part of the inner margin of primaries 
yellow, the apex and outer margin black, the outer and inner margins of the secondaries narrowly 
bordered with black: the head, antennsx, and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen yellow, striped and banded 
with black and blue spots; legs yellow and black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panima, Cubilguitz (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


This very pretty little species is unlike any other with which I am acquainted. 


4, Cosmosoma saron, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 14.) 

Primaries yellowish hyaline, the costal margin yellow, the apex, outer and inner margin brownish black, the 
veins black ; secondaries hyaline, the outer margin narrowly banded with black: the front of head dirty 
white; palpi and antenne black ; the back of head and the thorax black, with metallic bluish-green spots ; 
abdomen black, shot with green; legs black. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (4760e). 
Of this very distinct species I have only received a single example, the abdomen of 
which is very flattened, making it impossible to tell with certainty as to its markings. 


5. Cosmosoma advena, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 15.) 

Primaries and secondaries hyaline, the apex and outer margins broadly banded with black ; the front of head, 
palpi, and antenne black ; the back of head, thorax, and sides of the abdomen nearly to the anus bright 
orange-red, the anus and a central band black; legs brownish black. Expanse 1} inch, 

Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo, Senahu (Champion). 
The example from San Gerdnimo is larger than that from Senahu, and not quite so 


bright in colour; it is most nearly allied to C. auge, Linn. 


6. Cosmosoma myrrha, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 10.) 
Primaries and secondaries hyaline from the base to just beyond the cell, the apex, outer and inner margins 
broadly black ; the thorax and base of the primaries bright crange-yellow: the head, antenne, and palpi 
black ; abdomen black, the anus bright blue ; legs wanting. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemara, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Of this beautiful little insect, I have only received a single example. At first sight 
it reminds one of Thrinacia sanguinea ; but it is clearly a Cosmosoma. 


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7. Cosmosoma hector. (Tab. VII. fig. 17.) 
Glaucopis (Cosmosoma) hector, Staudinger, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 1207. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe 1, mus. D.). 


This very beautiful species is easily distinguished from all others of this genus by its 
bright scarlet abdomen. Dr. Staudinger has received a considerable number of speci- 
mens; but Mr. Champion did not meet with a single example. 


8. Cosmosoma auge. 
‘Sphinz auge, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 807. 
Cosmosoma auge, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 3887. | 
Cosmosoma omphale, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. f. 1, 4; Stretch, Ill. Zygenide and 
Bombycide of North America, p. 153, t. 7. f. 57; Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. 
p. 189°. . 
Hab. Norta America, Florida! 2.—Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.), Jalapa (Dr. 
Clemens *); GuatemaLa, San Gerdénimo, Cahabon, Cerro Zunil, Zapote (Champion) ; 


Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Cusa and Jamaica 
(mus. D.). 


This is the only species of this genus known to me that has red legs. The examples 
from Guatemala have the black patch at apex of the primaries wider than in those from 


the other localities; but I do not consider the character sufficiently marked to admit 
of another species being described. 


9. Cosmosoma teuthras. 
Glaucopis (Cosmosoma) teuthras, Walk. Cat. i. p. 1687. 


Cosmosoma teuthras, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 3897; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 81, t. 18. 
f. 5. 


Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.); Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Venuzun.a}; 
Brazi 2, 


10. Cosmosoma cingulatum. 


Cosmosoma cingulatum, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 389. 

Hab. Mexico, Ventanas (Forrer), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); GuaTeMa.a, 
Zapote, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; Panama, Veraguas (Arcé }). 

This species seems to be very common in Guatemala, judging from the large number 
of specimens sent by Mr. Champion ; it is a well-marked race of C. teuthras. 


11. Cosmosoma impar. (Tab. VII. fig. 20.) 
Glaucopis (Cosmosoma) impar, Walk. Cat. i. p. 1697. 


Hab. Mexico! (Argent); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This very distinct species is most nearly allied to C. auge. 


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ILIPA. 
Iipa, Walker, Cat. i. p. 166 (1854). 
- This genus has seven species placed in it by Mr. Butler, only one of them being as 
yet found in our country. They are closely allied to Dycladia. | 


1. Tlipa stilbosticta. 
Ihpa stilbosticta, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 391°. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Veraguas.—Cotompia!; Ecuapor (Buckley, 
mus. D.). 

In the examples from Bugaba the black margins of the wings are considerably 
narrower than in those I have from Ecuador ; but an example before me from Colombia 
seems intermediate between the two forms. I have therefore preferred considering 
them the same as Mr. Butler’s species, with which my examples from Ecuador agree 
well. 


DYCLADIA. 
Dycladia, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 20; Index, p. 4. 
This genus now has about thirty species placed in it. They are generally of small 
size, with short thick abdomens, and are commonly found all over Tropical South 
America. 


1. Dycladia mexicana. (Tab. VII. fig. 2.) 
Gymnelia mexicana, Walk. Cat. Suppl. i. p. 84°. 
Dycladia mexicana, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 392. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 
A single example, in poor condition, was found dead on the ground ; it agrees in all 
respects with Walker’s type. 


2. Dycladia vittata. (‘Tab. VII. fig. 21.) 
Pheia vittata, Walk. Cat. Suppl. i. p. 83°. 
Dycladia vittata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 392. 


Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Sallé!); GuateMaa, Panzos, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 
3500 feet (Champion). 

Two specimens only of this species were sent. The figure is taken from the Atitlan 
example, which agrees well with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


3. Dycladia correbioides. 
Dycladia correbioides, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. iv. t. 102. f. 20; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool, 


xii. p. 3947. 
- Hab. Guaremata, Las Mercedes, San Gerénimo, Panima, Tamahu, Zapote (Champion); 


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Costa Rica, Cache, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, David, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion).—CoLoMBIa * ?. 

This species appears to be a common insect in Central America. The specimens 
before me agree well with Dr. Felder’s figure, also with those in the British Museum 
from Colombia. 


4, Dycladia imitata, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 23.) 


Primaries and secondaries whitish hyaline, with the costal, outer, and inner margins bordered with black, the 
apex broadly black: head and palpi black; antenne black, tipped with white; thorax and abdomen 
orange-yellow, with a narrow central black line from the back of the head to the anus, which is black ;. 
legs brownish black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuatTeMALa, Panzos (Champion). 
This pretty species is allied to D. bura, from which it is easily distinguished by its 
yellow abdomen and white-tipped antenne. 


5. Dycladia pyrgion, sp. n. (Tab. VII. fig. 22.) 

Primaries hyaline, the apex and outer margin black, the base orange-yellow; secondaries hyaline, the apex 
black : the head, palpi, and legs black; antenne black, tipped with white; thorax and sides of abdomen 
orange-yellow ; a narrow central band from the base of the abdomen to near the anus and the three last 
segments black; the underside of the abdomen silky white. LExpanse 1 inch. . 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (A2bbe), Bugaba (Champion). 
The figure is taken from the Bugaba example. 


6. Dycladia flaviventris, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries and secondaries hyaline, the veins and all the margins black, widest at the apex of the primaries: 
head black, whitish in front; palpi black; antenne black, tipped with white; thorax black, with a small 
yellow spot on each side; abdomen black from the base to about the middle, the anal half pale yellow ; 
a small white spot on either side close to the base; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


Of this species I have only seen a single example, sent me by Dr. Staudinger, who 
received it from his collector in Panama. 


7. Dycladia augusta, sp.n. (Tab. VII fig. 19.) 


Primaries hyaline, the base black, the costal and inner margin pale yellow to near the middle, the apex, outer 
margin, and anal angle narrowly bordered with black; secondaries hyaline, with the costal and inner 
margin pale yellow, the apex black: the head and antenna black; palpi yellow, tipped with black; the 
front and centre of thorax metallic bluish black, the sides yellow; the underside of the thorax and legs 
yellow; abdomen wanting. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Teleman (Champion). 


I have only received a single example of this beautiful little species. It is quite 
unlike any other known to me. 


8. Dycladia semifulva, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 11.) 


Primaries and secondaries yellowish hyaline ; the base of the primaries, a spot at the end of the cell, the apex, 


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outer margin, and anal angle black; the apex and inner margin of the secondaries narrowly bordered with 
black: the head, palpi, and antennw black, the front of the head white; thorax black, banded with 

_ yellow ; abdomen pale yellow, excepting at the anus, where it is bluish black ; legs yellow. with the tarsi 
black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (7rétsch, mus. Staudinger). 
A beautiful little species, allied to D. augusta. 


9. Dycladia felderi. (Tab. VII. fig. 18.) 
Dycladia felderi, Druce, P. Z. 8S. 1883, p. 377, t. 39. £. 97. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos, Teleman (Champion).—Ecuavor (Buckley 1). 


The specimens from Guatemala agree in all respects with those from Ecuador. This 
species is allied to D. batesit. 


HYELA. 
Hyela, Walker, Cat. i. p. 172 (1854). 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of a single insect. Mr. Butler places 
four species in this genus, only one of which is found in our country. 


1. Hyela sanguinea. 
Glaucopis (Hyela) sanguinea, Walker, Cat. 1. p. 172. 
Hyela sanguinea, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 398; Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 37, t. 11. f. 18. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Rzdbe). 
Mr. Champion did not meet with this species. Walker’s type is without any locality. 


Subfamily HUNOMIIN AL. 


DINIA. 
Dinia, Walker, Cat. i. p. 189 (1854). 


1. Dinia eagrus. 
Sphinx eagrus, Cr. Pap. Ex. iti. t. 198. f. C. 
Dinia eagrus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 402. 
Eunomia mena, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. 11. t. 154. 
Glaucopis auge, var. 8, Walk. Cat. i. p. 190. 
Glaucopis (Dinia) saucia, Walk. Cat. i. p. 190. 

Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemana, Panima, Cubilguitz, 
Panzos, Teleman, San Gerénimo, Tamahu (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten, 
mus. D.), Irazu (Rogers); Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Caldera, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion), Veraguas (Arcé, mus. Brit.).—CoLoMBIA to SoutH Brazit. 


This species is a very common insect, and it is found over a very extended range of 
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D. mena, Hiibner, appear to me to be nothing but slight varieties of D. eagrus, Cram. 
I now have a very large series of specimens before me, and find that the so-called 
species are found in exactly the same locality, flying together. Mr. Butler keeps them 
distinct in his Monograph, but states that they may be only varieties of one species. I 
feel certain that such is the case, and have therefore placed them all under Cramer’s 
name. A figure showing the curious way this insect passes its pupa state will be found 
in the ‘ Proceedings of the Entomological Society’ for 1883, p. 24. 


JETHRIA. 
#thria, Hibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 120; Walker, Cat. i. p. 188. 
This genus was adopted by Walker for the reception of a species described by Stoll. 


It is most nearly allied to the genus Dinia; but it can readily be separated from it by 
its different neuration and much more robust appearance. 


1. Athria hemorrhoidalis. 


Sphinx hemorrhoidalis, Stoll, Pap. Ex. t. 12. f. 1. 
Glaucopis hemorrhoidalis, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 189. 
Akthria hemorrhoidalis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 402. 


Hab. British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux).—Ecuapor (mus. D.) ; BRazit. 


A single example, in poor condition, agreeing in all respects with those from Ecuador. 


ARGYROEIDES. 
Argyroeides, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 403. 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler for the reception of a single species described 
by Walker. It now contains about six species, all from Tropical South America. 


1. Argyroeides eurypon, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 3.) 


Primaries and secondaries glossy hyaline, with all the nerves black ; a very faint black margin at the apex of 
the secondaries, a small spot on each side of the head, one at the base of the primaries, and the anus pale 
yellow: head, palpi, and antenne black; thorax and abdomen black, with dirty white bands on each 
side; legs black. Expanse 1} inch. . 


Hab. Guatemata, Panajachel 5000 feet (Champion). 


Only a single example of this species was obtained. 


2. Argyroeides laurion, sp. n. (Tab. VIIL. fig. 13.) 


Primaries and secondaries hyaline, with the nerves all black, the costal and outer margin narrowly bordered 
black : head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen black, the underside of the thorax and abdomen dirty white ; 
the legs black, tarsi whitish. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This insect is allied to the preceding species, but is very distinct from it. 


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3. Argyroeides menephron, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries and secondaries hyaline, the nerves and outer margins brownish black: head black, palpi pale 
yellow ; antenne brownish black at the base and tips, yellow in the middle; thorax and abdomen black, 
striped and banded with pale yellow; legs black on the upperside, yellow on the underside, Expanse 
1 inch. . 


Hab. PanaMa, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
This species so closely resembles Sphecosoma fasciolata, excepting in the very different 
neuration, that it might easily be mistaken for that insect. 


TRICHURA. 
Trichura, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p.126; Walker, Cat. 1. p. 192. 
This genus now contains about seven or eight species, three of which occur in our 
country. These insects closely resemble Ichneumons ; they are mostly very scarce in 
collections. 


1. Trichura druryi. 
Trichura druryi, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 126; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. 
p- 405°. 
Sphinx coarctata, Drury, Ill. ii. t. xxvii. f. 2”. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Teleman (Champion); Honpuras!?; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(mus. Staudinger). 


A single example of this insect was sent by Mr. Champion. 


2. Trichura esmeralda. (Tab. VII. fig. 4.) 
Glaucopis esmeralda, Walker, Cat. 1. p. 194°. 
Trichura esmeralda, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 405; Lep. Het. p. 39, t. 13. f. 11. 


Hab. British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux) ; Honpuras (Dyson); Guate- 
MALA, Tamahu (Champion). 


3. Trichura ribbei, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 15.) 


Primaries and secondaries hyaline, the costal, outer, and inner margins of the primaries narrowly bordered 
with black; the apices of the secondaries broadly black: head, antenne, and palpi black, front of palpi 
white; the back of the head, front and sides of the thorax bluish green, the base of the thorax black ; the 
abdomen dark bluish black, contracted part white at the sides and beneath; caudal appendage black, and 
longer than the abdomen ; legs bluish black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 
A specimen of this species is in the British Museum from Bogota. It is allied to 
T. latifascia. 


SYNTRICHURA. 
Syntrichura, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 405. 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler for the reception of a small insect sent home 
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by Mr. Bates from San Paulo. It is allied to Trichura, from which it principally differs 
in the neuration of the primaries. 


1. Syntrichura placida, sp. n. (Tab. VII. fig. 8.) 


Primaries and secondaries yellowish hyaline, with the veins black; margins very narrow black: head, thorax, 
and abdomen black, not glossy as in S. virens; collar red; antenn black, the tips pale yellow; the base 
of the abdomen yellow. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Tamahu (Champion). 
Only a single example of this species was obtained by Mr. Champion. It is close 
to S. virens, Butler ; but it differs in several well-marked characters. 


Subfam. ANTICHLORINZ. 


Antichlorine, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 408. 


NAPATA. 
Napata, Walker, Cat. i. p. 231. 


1. Napata leucotelus. (Tab. VII. fig. 24.) 
Napata leucotelus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 409°. 
Euchromia (Napata) terminalis, var., Walker, Cat. i. p. 231°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gauwmer) ; 
GuaTeMALa, San Gerénimo, Panzos, Panima, Teleman (Champion); Honpuras !2.— 
Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers).— VENEZUELA 12; Brazi?. 


This species is very distinct from WN. terminalis, Walker. 


2. Napata guatemalena, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries uniform brownish black, the fringe white at the apex and anal angle of the prima- 
ries, also on the outer margin of secondaries: the front of head, thorax, and the base of the primaries 
bright metallic green; the head bright red; palpi red, with black tips; antenne black, slightly pecti- 
nated; abdomen black, with several indistinct green lines; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guaremata, Tamahu, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 


This species is easily distinguished from the two others described by the bright red 
head and dark brownish-black wings. 


PROCALYPTA. 


Procalypta, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 411. 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler for the reception of a species that Walker 
had placed in the genus Euchromia: it is a very distinct-looking insect. The type in 
the British Museum is without anyabdomen. I am inclined to think Procalypta should 
be placed near the genus Charidea; but not possessing any specimens of Walker’s 
species, and only three of the one now described, I am rather uncertain upon this point, 
not being able to dissect the specimens. 


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1. Procalypta subcyanea. 
Euchromia (Endera) subcyanea, Walker, Cat. i. p. 230°. 
Procalypta subcyanea, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 411; Lep. Het. p. 40, t. 8. f 11. 


Hab. Mexico (Hartwig, Mus. Brit.) +. 


The only specimen of this species known to me is the type. 


2. Procalypta victorina, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 16.) 

Primaries glossy black, with three large yellowish hyaline spots forming a slightly curved band from near the 
base tb the costal margin close to the apex; secondaries glossy black, shot with bright blue, a very minute 
hyaline spot on the costal margin close to the base, underside bright morpho-blue: head, thorax, and 
basal half of the abdomen deep black ; the thorax with six white spots on ‘the front; antenna black; the 
lower half of the abdomen bright bluish black; the anus dark carmine; legs black. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 8000 feet 
(Champion). 

This very fine species is easily distinguished from P. subcyanea by the absence of the 
spots on the secondaries. 


DIPTEROMORPHA. 
Dipteromorpha, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 28. 
This genus is very close to Antichloris, Hiibner; the primaries are, however, rather 
longer and more pointed. 


1. Dipteromorpha adusta. 
Dipteromorpha adusta, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 28. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Cordova (Riimeli); Guaremata, Senahu, Tamahu, 
Teleman, San Gerdénimo, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
This species is a very common one in Guatemala. Mr. Champion tells me that he 
found it flying about flowers in the hottest sunshine, generally with a hymenopterous 
insect, which it so closely resembles. 


PTERYGOPTERUS. 
Pterygopterus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 411, t. 29. f. 10. 
Mr. Butler founded this genus for the reception of a Brazilian insect. It is allied to 


Antichloris. 


1. Pterygopterus superbus, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 7.) 

Primaries blackish brown, excepting at the apex, which is broadly banded with pure white, narrowly edged 
with black on the outer margin, the costal margin and veins shot with blue; secondaries glossy bluish 
black on the underside, the veins are all glossy blue: head, thorax, and abdomen bluish black, a light- 
blue band on each side of the abdomen; palpi bluish; antenne black, with the tips yellowish brown; legs 
bluish black. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Rio Gatun (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 
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68 HETEROCERA. 


Of this very beautiful species I have only seen a single example. It is quite unlike 
any other with which I am acquainted. 


ANTICHLORIS. 
Antichloris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 124; Walk. Cat. i. p. 247, t. 29. f.5; Butler, Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 418. 
This genus now contains about seven species, some of them being of great interest 
by so closely resembling other insects that at times it is almost impossible to detect 
them at first sight. 


1. Antichloris eriphia. 
Zygena eriphia, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. 1. p. 163; Mant. Ins. 11. p. 105. 37. 
Euchromia (Antichloris) eriphia, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 247; vi. p. 1631°. 
Antichloris eriphia, Butl. loc. cit. p. 413”. 
Antichloris phemonoé, Hiibn. Zutr. Samm]. exot. Schmett. figs. 15, 16. 
Hab. Mexico!; GuarEmata, San Juan, Panzos (Champion).—West Inpizs; AMAZONS, 
Para ?. 


The examples from Guatemala agree well with Hiibner’s figure. 


2. Antichloris viridis, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 25.) 
Primaries greenish black, with the basal half bright metallic green; secondaries black, with the costal margin 


silky greyish brown: head, palpi, and antenne greenish black; collar bright carmine; thorax black, the 
front bright metallic blue-green ; abdomen bronzy green; legs black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This species is allied to A. caca, Hiibn., but is much more brilliantly coloured, 
resembling Macrocneme tole. 


3. Antichloris panacea, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 17, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries uniform pale brown; the secondaries semitransparent white, with the outer and inner margin 
narrowly edged with brown: head, antenne, and palpi black; thorax brown, with a bright-red spot on 
each side in the front ; abdomen brown, shot with purple. Female differs from the male in having the 
secondaries dark brown, and simple antenne. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Ivazu (Rogers). 


4, Antichloris anthracina. 
Euchromia (Anycles) anthracina, Walk. Cat. i. p. 253°. 
Antichloris unthracina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 413; Lep. Het. i. p. 40, t. 9. f. 7. 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman, Vera Paz, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (2ibbe & Champion) —VENEZUELA!; Braziu}, 


ERIPHIA. 
Eriphia, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 102.£.17, t. 29. f.6; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 414. 


This genus is very close to Antichloris; I very much doubt its being distinct, but as 
yet I have not sufficient material to decide this point. 


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1. Eriphia tractipennis. (Tab. VII. fig. 27.) 
Eriphia tractipennis, Butler, loc. cit. p. 414°. . 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman, Panzos, Senahu (Champion); Honpuras, San Pedro 
(Whitely, mus. D.); Nicaragua, Chontales! (Janson); Costa Rica (Gabb, mus. D.); 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (2ibd¢).—CotomB1a (mus. D.). 


Fam. ARCTIIDA. 


Subfam. CHARIDEINAL. 
Charideine, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. pp. 408, 414. 


Previously to the publication of Mr. Butler’s paper referred to above, most of the 
genera and species of this subfamily were included in the Zygenide. I quite agree 
with Mr. Butler that the Charideine are more closely allied to the Arctiide than to the 
Zygenide, though really forming a connecting link between the two. 


ACLYTIA. 
Aclytia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 123; Walker, Cat. i. p. 244; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Zool. xii. p. 414, t. 29. f. 7. 
This genus now contains about six species, all previously recorded from South 
and Central America. 


1. Aclytia heber. 
Sphinx heber, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. t. 287. f. a. 
Aclytia heber, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 123; Grote, Notes on the Zygenide of Cuba, p. 5’; 
Butler, loc. cit. p. 414. 
Sphing halys, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. t. 357. f. ¢. 
Aclytia halys, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1238. 
Autochloris heber, Herr.-Schaff. Corr.-Bl. Reg. no. 8, p. 115. 
Euchromia halys, Walk. Cat. i. p. 243°. 
Euchromia heber, Walk. Cat. i. p. 244‘. 
Aclytia hylas, Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 41, t. 10. £. 6. 
Hab. Guatemata (Dr. Staudinger), Cerro Zunil (Champion) ; Honpuras (Dyson) 4.— 
Cusa ? (Boucard, mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam !3; Lowrmr Amazons to SOUTH-EAST BRAZIL. 


I have very little doubt that the insects figured by Cramer as Sphinx heber and 
S. halys are the sexes of one species—an opinion confirmed by Mr. Grote, who, in his 
notes upon the Zygenide of Cuba, says that Prof. Poey sent them as the sexes of a 
single species. The Cuban examples in my collection are in all respects similar to those 
from Guatemala. The species seems liable to a certain amount of variation. In some 
examples the alar band is very narrow and broken into spots; in others it is wide, 
crossing the primaries from the costa to near the anal angle. 


70 HETEROCERA. 


2. Aclytia punctata. 
Aclytia punctata, Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 414’. 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion); Honpuras! (Dyson). 


I believe this to be an extreme form of A. heber. 


3. Aclytia ventralis. 
Glaucopis ventralis, Guér. Icon. Régne Anim., Ins. text, 503°. 
Aclytia ventralis, Walker, Cat. 1. p. 245. 
Hab. Mexico 1. 


This species is quite unknown to me. 


4, Aclytia conspicua, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 23.) 

Primaries black ; secondaries whitish hyaline, with the apices and outer margins broadly black: head, antenne, 
and palpi black, the head with a blue spot between the antenne; thorax black, with two bright-red spots 
on each side, the first being at the back of the head, the second close to the base of the primaries ; abdo- 
men on the upperside metallic bluish-green, with two narrow black lines down the centre from the base 
to the apex, the underside of the abdomen pale citron-yellow ; legs brownish black, the coxe of the fore 
legs citron-yellow. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 

This species is very distinct from any other with which I am acquainted, and it. is 
the largest of the genus. Dr. Staudinger has also received specimens taken by Herr 
Trétsch on the Volcano of Chiriqui. 


CHARIDEA. 


Charidea, Dalman, Vet. Ac. Hand]. 1816, p. 225 ; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 415, t. 29. 
f. 11. 


This genus now has about thirty species placed in it, several of which are of very 
little value, and when more material comes to hand will doubtless prove to be only 
slight varieties of other species. Charidea contains some of the most beautiful of all 
the moths, the metallic colours of their bodies and the undersides of their wings 
surpassing in brilliancy the bright blues of the Morphide. ‘The genus is well repre- 
sented in our country by about seven species. 


1. Charidea submacula. 
Euchromia (Automolis) submacula, Walk. Cat. i. p. 214°. 
Charidea submacula, Butl. loc. cit. p. 415; Lep. Het. i. p. 41, t. 13. f. 7. 
Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.); GuateMaLa, Teleman (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Cartago (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (£16b¢).— VENEZUELA 1. 


This species appears to be a very scarce insect in our country. I have only received 
very few examples; these are generally larger than those from Venezuela. 


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2. Charidea arrogans. 
Euchromia (Automolis) arrogans, Walk. Cat. i. p. 214’. 
Charidea arrogans, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 415; Lep. Het. i. p. 42, t. 13. £. 12. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hoge); Guatemata, Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 
3500 feet, San Gerénimo, Tamahu, Panima (Champion); British Honpuras, Rio 
Sarstoon (Blancaneaux); Panama, Veraguas (Salvin, mus. D.).—VeEnEZUELA (Becker). 


This species is found over a very extended range of country from Mexico to Vene- 
zuela, although it has not as yet been found in Costa Rica, its place being taken in that 
country by a very closely allied form. ‘The examples from Mexico agree well with the 
type from Venezuela in the British Museum. In the examples from British Honduras 
the spots and band of the primaries are very much paler; but the specimens before me 
from that locality are in poor condition, and that may to some extent be the cause of 
the difference in colour. 


3. Charidea costaricensis, sp.n. (Charidea arrogans, var. costaricensis, 'Tab. 
VIII. fig. 20.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cartago (Van Patten, mus. D.), Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama (Staudinger). 


This species is in every respect the same as C. arrogans, except in the colour of the 
outer margins of the secondaries, which are of the same pale yellow as the bands and 
spots of the primaries, instead of bright red as in C. arrogans. I have a large series of 
both before me. C. arrogans appears to be a common insect in Mexico and Guatemala, 
and ©. costaricensis is equally common in Costa Rica, but as yet I have only seen a 
single example from Panama sent by Dr. Staudinger. 


4. Charidea scintillans. 
Euchromia scintillans, Butl. Lep. Exot. t. 61. f. 16°. 
Charidea scintillans, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 416. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.1), Ivazu, San Francisco, Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; 


Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


As far as Iam at present aware this species is only found in Costa Rica and Panama; 
its place being taken in Mexico and Guatemala by a very beautiful little species named 
by Walker C. gloriosa, which I believe to be the Glaucopis bella of Guérin. 


5. Charidea panamensis, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries deep black, shot with bright metallic blue at the base; a wide chrome-yellow central 
band crosses the primaries from the costal margin to the outer margin close to the anal angle; the outer 
margin of the secondaries bordered with chrome-yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen bright greenish blue ; 
antenne and palpi black. Expanse 1? inch. ' 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


This species is allied to C. scintillans, from which it can at once be distinguished by 


72 HETEROCERA. 


the yellow band of the primaries extending to the outer margin and nearly to the anal 
angle, and the fringe being dirty white instead of bright carmine. 


6. Charidea bella. 


Glaucopis bella, Guérin, Icon. Régne Anim. texte, p. 502°. 
Charidea bella, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 416”. 
Charidea hemalodes, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 82°. 
Charidea bivulnera, Grote et Robinson, Ann. Lyc. New York, vii. t. 2. f. 2°. 
Euchromia (Automolis) gloriosa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 215°. 
Charidea gloriosa, Butl. Lep. Het. i. p. 43, t. 10. f. 10°. 
Charidea eximia, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 82”. . 
Hab. Mexico’, Orizaba!?, Jalapa (Hoge); Brrrish Honpuras?4, Rio Sarstoon 
(Blancaneaux); Guatemata? 4567, San Gerdnimo, Duefas, Purula, Panima, and 


Senahu (Champion). 


This extremely variable species ranges over a very wide extent of country. It has 
been described no less than five times by various authors. I have had an opportunity 
of examining several of the types and of comparing them with the fine series of speci- 
mens before me, but Iam unable to detect any good specific differences whereby to 
recognize as distinct any of these slight varieties. I therefore place them all under 
Guérin’s name, feeling certain that they represent nothing but individual specimens of 
a very variable insect. 


7. Charidea xenodice, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 183,19 2.) 

Male. Primaries deep black, with a minute blue spot at the base, and a large elongated yellow spot near the apex, 
not reaching either the costal or outer margins; secondaries black, with the costal margin nearly to the 
apex broadly banded with yellow, the base and inner margin slightly shot with dark blue in some lights ; 
antenne and palpi black: head, thorax, and abdomen bright metallic green banded with black; legs 
black on the upperside, brown on the underside; the female differs from the male in being browner 
coloured and with the spots dirty white instead of yellow. Expanse, § 13 inch, ? 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This species is very distinct from any with which I am acquainted; it is best placed 
in the C. arrogans group. In Costa Rica it seems to be a very scarce insect, whence 
I have only seen a few examples taken by Mr. Rogers. Van Patten did not meet 
with it. 


8. Charidea griseldis, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 21.) 


Male. Primaries bright carmine-red, the apices and inner margins broadly banded with black; secondaries 
black, shaded with dark blue, underside the same as above, but shot with brilliant bluish green; antennee 
and palpi black, the palpi bright green on the underside: head and front of thorax bright metallic green ; 
thorax black; abdomen dark purple-blue. The female is slightly larger than the male, but in all other 
respects agrees well with it, except that it has not any blue colour on the underside. Expanse, 
6 1 inch, 9 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet (Forrer). 


_ A very distinct and handsome species. 


ACREAGRIS.—METRIOPHYLA. 73 


ACREAGRIS. 
Acreagris, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 83. f. 2, Index, p. 1. 
This genus appears to me to be closely allied to Charidea. 


1. Acreagris correbioides. 
Acreagris correbioides, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 83. f. 2°. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek) 1. 


I have not seen a specimen of this species. 


2. Acreagris togata, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 8.) 

Male. Primaries deep brick-red, the costal, outer, and inner margins narrowly bordered with black, the apices 
and fringe white; secondaries black, slightly glossed with very dark blue, the fringe at the apex white; 
antenne, palpi, legs, and thorax black: head and abdomen dark glossy blue; the antenne are rather 
deeply pectinated in the male, but quite simple in the female. Expanse, ¢ 1} inch, 9 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerdénimo, Duefias, Panajachel 5000 feet (Champion); Costa 
Rica, Rio Sucio, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


The figure is taken from a female Guatemalan example; at the time the Plate was 


drawn I had not received a male. 


METRIOPHYLA. 


Metriophyla, Butler, Ill. Lep. Het. 1. p. 43. 
This genus is nearly allied to Heliura, but I think quite distinct. 


1. Metriophyla apicalis. 
Charidea apicalis, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. i. f. 236. 
Heliura apicalis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 417. 
Histioca apicalis, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1624. 
Metriophyla apicalis, Butl. Il. Lep. Het. i. p. 43, t. 8. f. 7. 
Euchromia albiplaga, Walk. Cat. i. p. 218. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 


Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Bugaba (Champion).—VENEZUELA; BRAZIL. 


The examples from Guatemala are not so bright in colour on the upperside as those 
from more southern countries, but in other respects they agree. 


2. Metriophyla alpha, sp.n. (Heliwra alpha, Tab. VIII. fig. 24.) 


Primaries greenish black, slightly metallic green at the base, the apices white; secondaries dark bluish black, 
the base shot with metallic green, the fringe and outer margin edged with white; antenne black: head, 
thorax, and abdomen bright blue-green. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 

I have only received a single example of this beautiful little species. It is allied to 
M., apicalis, from which it differs in its much narrower primaries, in the absence of the 
blue marks on the upperside, and also in its smaller size. 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1884. kk 


74 HETEROCERA. 


HELIURA. 
Heliura, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 417, t. 29. figs. 18, 17. 


This genus was founded by Mr. Butler for the reception of eight species, some of 
which are extremely close to Charidea; but he has since taken out H. apicalis and 
proposed a new genus for it. 


1. Heliura leneus. 
Sphinx leneus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 248. f. G. 
Heliura leneus, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 418. 

Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion). 

This appears to be a very scarce insect; I have only received two examples. The 
specimen from Belize is much smaller than the one from Panama: it is in poor con- 
d tion, and without more material I prefer keeping it with H. leneus for the present, 
though it is quite possible it may prove to be distinct. 


2. Heliura lamia. 
Heliura lamia, Buti. Ill. Typ. Lep. Het. 1. t. 16. f. 8; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 44. 
Hab. Guatemata, Duefias, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion) ; Costa Rica (Gabd, mus. D.). 


—wN. Brazit. 
The specimens from Guatemala agree in all respects with those from Costa Rica. 


3. Heliura testacea, sp. n. 

Primaries pale brown, slightly hyaline near the base, a slightly hyaline narrow band crossing the wing beyond 
the middle from the costal margin to near the anal angle; secondaries whitish hyaline, the apices and outer 
margins broadly bordered with black; thorax and abdomen pale brown: head, underside of thorax, and 
abdomen chrome-yellow ; antenne and palpi black; legs pale brown. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Pantaleon (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. 
Staudinger). 
This species is most nearly allied to H. lamia, though very distinct from that insect. 


4. Heliura atava, sp. n. | | 
Primaries brownish black ; secondaries whitish hyaline, with the apices and outer margins broadly banded with 
black; thorax and the upper and under side of the abdomen brown, the sides bright metallic blue: the 
front of head, palpi, and antenn brownish black ; the back of the head and underside of the thorax pale 


carmine ; legs brown. Expanse 1? inch. 
Hab. Panama, Colon (Boucard, mus. D.). 


This species differs from all others that I am acquainted with. 


5. Heliura solicauda. 
Heliura solicauda, But). Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xu. p. 418°. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson) }. 


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AUTOMOLIS. 


Automolis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170 (1816) ; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 420, 
t. 29. f. 25 (1876). 
Mr. Butler, in his paper on the Antichlorine, enumerates ten species belonging to 
this genus, none of which are found in our country, although it is well represented by 
the four species now described. 


1. Automolis grandis, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 25.) 


Primaries rich orange-yellow, the apex, inner margin, and anal angle narrowly bordered with black: secon- 
daries orange-yellow, broadly bordered with black from the base to the apex: head, thorax, and abdomen 
above the same colour as the primaries, below deep black ; the base of the abdomen on the upperside is 
crossed by a black band; antenne, palpi, and legs black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


A single example. 


2. Automolis lucinia, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 26.) 


Primaries brownish black, the costal margin close to the base and a central longitudinal streak pale yellow ; 
secondaries dark orange-yellow, broadly banded with black from the apex to the anal angle: head, thorax, 
and abdomen black, striped with metallic-green spots; antenne, palpi, and legs black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


A single specimen. 


3. Automolis imitata, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries black, the costal margin and a central, broad, longitudinal band chrome-yellow ; secondaries black, 
with a broad costal orange streak: head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, with a wide central black band 
from the back of the head to the anus, which is slightly shaded with blue; antenne black; palpi black 
above, yellow on the underside; legs black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mzxtico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Las Mercedes, Senahu 
(Champion). 

This species is allied to A. fulgurata from Espiritu Santo, from which it is easily 
distinguished by its paler colour and yellow abdomen. 


4, Automolis sicilia, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries pale citron-yellow, the apex of the primaries black, enclosing a short, whitish streak ; 
the outer margin of the secondaries broadly banded with black: head, thorax, and the basal portion of the 
abdomen pale yellow, the anal half black, glossed with dark blue; legs brownish; the antenne and palpi 
black. Expanse 12 inch. 7 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


I have only seen a single example of this very distinct species, which resembles 
A. contraria, Walker, from Ega. It can readily be distinguished from that species by 
the much smaller black apical spot, and by its entirely wanting the black outer margins 
of the primaries; it is also without the central black streak across the thorax. 


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76 HETEROCERA. 


ISCHNOGNATHA. 
Ischnognatha, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 2. 


This genus appears to be close to Automolis. 


1. Ischnognatha godmani, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 1.) 


Primaries with the basal two thirds brownish black, all the veins and the apical third pale yellow; secon- 
daries pale yellow, the costal margin narrowly banded with black, the inner and outer margin broadly 
banded with black: the head and front ‘of the thorax bright yellow, striped with brownish black; 
thorax brown; tegule brown and yellow; antenne black; palpi pale yellow; abdomen black on the 
upperside, also the anal segments; the sides and under surface pale yellow; legs yellow and black. 
Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Sphinx rutilus of Cramer is allied to this species, and will come into this genus. 


2. Ischnognatha semiopalina. 
Ischnognatha semiopalina, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 2°. 
Trichromia semiopalina, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 99°. 
Hab. Nicaraaua?.—Britiso Guiana?. 
My only authority for including this species in our fauna is Boisduval’s, who states 
that he received a single example from Nicaragua. 


CRATOPLASTIS. 
Cratoplastis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102. f. 8. 


1. Cratoplastis diluta. 
Cratoplastis diluta, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 102°. f£. 8; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 430. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).— Amazons (Bates) ’. 


A single specimen of this curious species was obtained. 


PIONIA. 
Pionia, Walker, Cat. i. p. 255. 
This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of an insect from Venezuela. 
Central America appears to be the head quarters of this genus, eight species occurring 
in our district, six of which are now described for the first time. 


1. Pionia lycoides. 
Pionia lycoides, Walk. Cat. i. p. 2567; Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. t. 8. f. 107, 
Hab. Britisn Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


—VeENEZUELA (Dyson) 1; Ecuapor (mus. D.); Sours-nast Brazi ?. 


In our country this species appears to be scarce. From Ecuador I have a good 
series of specimens, which do not differ in any respect from those from Central 
America. 


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2. Pionia undulata, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 3.) 


Primaries almost the same as in P. lycoides, but the fulvous bands are narrower ; secondaries hyaline, the outer 
margins slightly black: head, front of thorax, and tegule brown; the back of thorax and base of the 
abdomen black; abdomen brown, with the anal third black; antenne and palpi black; legs brownish 
black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos (Champion). 


Of this species I have only received a single example, which differs considerably from 
P. lycoides. The wide fulvous band on the abdomen readily distinguishes it from that 
species. 


3. Pionia obtusa, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries fulvous, with the central black band narrow and almost broken into spots, the apical black 
spot much smaller than in P. lycoides; secondaries hyaline, with the costal margin pale brownish yellow, 
and a minute black spot at the apex: head and thorax brownish; abdomen with a central black band 
from the base to the anus, where it is broad and reaches the sides, the sides near the base and on the 
underside brownish yellow; antenne black, with the base brown ; palpi and legs all fulvous. The female 
slightly larger than the male, and with less black on the abdomen. Expanse, ¢ 13 inch, 2 17 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Torola (Champion). 


This species is allied to P. lycoides and P. undulata, from both of which it differs in 
many respects, and principally in having the abdomen, legs, and palpi brownish yellow 
instead of black as in those species. The basal third of the antenne also is brown. 


4, Pionia agnonides, sp. n. 
Primaries dark brownish yellow, with a V-shaped mark on the costal margins, and the apices black ; secondaries 
hyaline, the outer margins slightly shaded with black: head and thorax fulvous; abdomen and legs black. 
Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Nicaraava, Chontales (Belt, mus. D.). 


This specimen is in poor condition ; it was in one of the first collections sent by the 
late Mr. Belt to the late Mr. Hewitson, who kindly forwarded the moths to me. 


5. Pionia affinis, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 4.) 


Primaries uniform brownish yellow, with the apices black ; secondaries blackish hyaline: head, thorax, and the 
sides of the abdomen the same colour as the primaries; antennex, palpi, and abdomen black. Expanse 
14 inch. 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion). 


This species is allied to P. agnonides. 


6. Pionia calopteridia. 
Pionia calopteridia, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 381’. 
Hab. Guaremata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 
1500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA! ; LowER AMAZONS, Para !. 


The examples before me agree well in all respects with Mr. Butler’s type in the 
British Museum. 


78 HETEROCERA. 


7. Pionia elegans, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 6.) 


Primaries light yellowish brown, darker on the inner margin, the apical spot glossy black ; secondaries dusky 
hyaline, tinted with yellow near the base: head and thorax brownish yellow, with a narrow central black 
line; abdomen black, with a narrow yellow line on each side; antenne, palpi, and legs black. Expanse 
1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 


A very distinct little species allied to P. calopteridia, from which it can easily be 
distinguished by the absence of the black band on the primaries. 


8. Pionia striata, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 5.) 


Primaries dark orange-yellow, with a short black streak on the inner margin, and one near the apex; secon- 
daries hyaline, clouded with black, darkest on the outer margin: the head and thorax orange-yellow ; 
abdomen smoky black on the upperside; the sides and underside pale brown; antenne black; palpi with 
the tips and the upperside black; the underside yellow; the legs black. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, mus. D.); Panama, Caldera, Bugaba, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion, Trétsch, mus. Staudinger). 

This species is quite distinct from any of its allies, but nearest to P. elegans, only 
without the black apical spot. 


BELEMNIA. 
Belemnia, Walker, Cat. i. p. 211; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 422, t. 29. f. 24. 
= Belemnia crameri, Baker, loc. cit. p. 8389, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 422. 
Walker founded this genus for the reception of Sphinx eryx, Fabricius. It now has 
four species placed in it, one of which occurs pretty commonly in our country, and as 
far south as Panama. 


1. Belemnia jovis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 22.) 
Belemnia jovis, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xv. p. 889°; Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. 
p. 4227. 
Hab. Guatemata, Senahu (Champion); Britise Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blan- 
caneaux) ; Honpuras '? (Miller); Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, Veraguas 
(Salvin) '?, Volean de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


This fine species appears to be pretty common, though very local, in Guatemala. I 
have received but few specimens from any other locality. 


APICONOMA. 
Apiconoma, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 422, t. 29. f. 22. 
Mr. Butler states that this genus is allied to Automolis. 


1. Apiconoma ventralis. 
Glaucopis ventralis, Guérin, Ic. Régne Anim. texte, p. 5037. 
Apiconoma ? ventralis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 422. 


Hab. Mexico }. 


This species is quite unknown to me. 


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RHIPHA. 
Rhipha, Walker, Cat. i. p. 278; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xu. p. 423, t. 29. f. 21. 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of an insect from Rio Janeiro. 


1. Rhipha subulifera. 
Kucyrta subulifera, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 102. f. 37. 
Rhipha strigosa, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 423; ll. Lep. Het. i. t. 9. f. 12 (nee Walker). 


Hab. Panamal. 


Mr. Butler places Dr. Felder’s species as a synonym of Walker’s. I think he must 
have done so without comparing the two species. 2. subulifera has white secondaries 
bordered with black, also a white head, and a central white spot on the thorax. In 
R. strigosa the secondaries are quite black, also the head and thorax. I have very 
little doubt but that they are two very distinct species. 


SUTONOCREA. 
Sutonocrea, Butler, MS. in Mus. Brit. 


1. Sutonocrea tripunctata, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 2.) 


Primaries uniform pale yellow, the base from the costal margin to the hind margin greenish black; a spot at 
the end of the cell, one at the anal angle, and one beyond nearer the apex greenish black, and a narrow 
greenish-black band crossing from the costal to the outer margin close to the apex: front of head and a 
central spot on the thorax bright bluish green; head, thorax, and abdomen yellow; antennx and palpi 
black ; fore legs with the coxe and femora yellow, the tibie and tarsi black, banded with white. Expanse 


12 inch. 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 
This pretty species is very distinct from any other with which I am acquainted. 


EMPUSA. 
Empusa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 428. 


1. Empusa vitrea. 
Phalena vitrea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 276. f. C. 
Empusa vitrea, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 644°; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 423”. 


Hab. British Honpvras, Belize (Blancaneaur); GuatemMata, Rio Maria Linda, Cerro 
Zunil (Champion) ; Panama, San Feliz, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—GuIana, 
Surinam !; Brazit, Rio Janeiro ! 2. 


This species is widely distributed in Central America, but is nowhere common. 


2. Empusa tybris. 
Phalena tybris, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 92. f£. D?. 
Empusa tybris, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 645; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 424. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam !, 


Two examples of this species were sent, both of which agree well with Cramer’s figure. 


80 HETEROCERA. 


GALETHALEA. 
Galethalea, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xu. p. 424. 
Mr. Butler includes three species in this genus, one of these occurring in our 
country. 


1. Galethalea confinis. 
Charidea confinis, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 277’. 
Galethalea confinis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 424. 
Hab. GuateMa.a, San Gerénimo (Champion).—Braziu!. 


This species appears to be scarce. I have only three specimens, a male and two 
females. 


EPANYCLES. 
Epanycles, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 425, t. 29. f. 18. 


1. Epanycles imperialis. 
Pampa imperialis, Walk. Cat. i. p. 241°. 
Epanycles imperialis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xu. p. 426. 
Hab. Guatemata, Panzos (Champion).—BRaziL, Santarem }. 


Only a single example of this species was sent. ‘This agrees in all respects with 
Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


2. Epanycles obscura. 
Aclytia obscura, Méschler, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1872, xxxiil. p. 348. 
Epanycles obscura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 46°. 
Epanycles stellifera, Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. t. 16. f. 10. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). Amazons !. 


3. Epanycles gigantea, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 7.) 

Primaries pale brown, with silvery white lines and minute spots, and a dark brown spot about the middle on the 
costal margin; secondaries whitish hyaline, dusky at the anal angle and along the outer margin: head, 
palpi, and antenne black; thorax and basal half of the abdomen brown, the anal half chrome-yellow; the 
anus black; the underside of the abdomen brown, with a white line on each side; legs brownish black, 
spotted with white on the upperside. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 
6000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 

The figure is from a Guatemala example; this is slightly worn, and does not show 
the pale lines as in some of the Panama examples which I received after the Plate was 
drawn. ‘This species is much the largest of the genus, but the neuration, antenne, 
and palpi agree well with those of K. obscura. 


EUAGRA.—PHILOROS. 81 


EUAGRA. 
Euagra, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 323. 


This genus now has five or six species placed in it, only one as yet having been found 
in our country, the others in South America. 


1. Kuagra hemanthus. 
Dioptis hemanthus, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 324°. 
Euagra hemanthus, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 111”. 

Hab. Mexico!?; Guatemata, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Zapote, Lanquin (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Cartago (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion). 

This species has a very wide range in our country, but it appears to be scarce. 
I have only received a few examples, mostly single specimens, from each locality. 
The specimens before me do not show the slightest variation. 


MYDROMERA. 
Mydromera, Butler, Cist. Ent. u. p. 112. 


1. Mydromera isthmia. 
Euagra isthmia, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 24°. 
Mydromera isthmia, Butl. Cist. Ent. 1. p. 112. 
Agyrta molckeni, Staudinger, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1875, p. 121. 

Hab. Guatema.a, Torola 1000 feet, Las Mercedes, Teleman, Panima (Champion) ; 
British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaux); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt).— 
CoLtomBia, Muzo (Chesterton, mus. D.); AMAzoNS 1}. 

This insect appears to be pretty common in Guatemala, but from other localities 
further south I have only received a few examples. 


METASTATIA. 
Metastatia, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 115. 
Mr. Butler founded this genus for the reception of Hiibner’s Hyelosia pyrrhorhea. 


1. Metastatia saphira. 
Agyrta saphira, Staudinger, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1875, p. 122?. 
Hab. Guatemata, Panima, Las Mercedes (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui ! 


(Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), Caldera (Champion). 


Subfam. CTENUCHIN AL. 


PHILOROS. 
Philoros, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 283. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1884. il 


82 HETEROCERA. 


1. Philoros rubriceps. 
Ctenucha (Philoros) rubriceps, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 283°. 
Philoros rubriceps, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 429. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemaa, Duefias, Purula, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
—CoLoMBIA!; VENEZUELA 1. 


2. Philoros venosa. 

Ctenucha (Philoros) venosa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 284°. 

Ctenucha venosa, Stretch, Zygeenide et Bombycide North America, p. 31, t. 1. f. 10°; Boisd. Lép. 
Guat. p. 83°. 

Philoros venosa, But]. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xu. p. 429. 


Hab. Nortu America, Texas 2, Arizona (Morrison, mus. D.).—MeExico !3, Milpas 5900 
feet (Forrer) ; Guatemaia, San Joaquin, Quiche Mountains 9000 feet, San Gerdénimo 
(Champion); Honpuras?; Costa Rica (Boucard, mus. D.), Irazu 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (27bbe), Bugaba (Champion).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); VENE- 
ZUELA}. 

This common species is very variable: in some specimens the streaks on the primaries 
are dark orange-yellow, from which they vary to pale yellowish white; in others the 
pale marks vary much in width. 


3. Philoros ruficeps. (Tab. IX. fig. 8.) 
Ctenucha (Philoros) ruficeps, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 284°. 
Philoros ruficeps, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 429. 
Ctenucha opaca, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 84’. 
Hab. Mexico! (mus. Staudinger); GuarTuMaLa?; HonpDuRAS ?. 
The figure is from Dr. Staudinger’s specimen, which agrees well with Walker’s type 
in the British Museum. 


CTENUCHA. 
Cienucha, Kirby, Fauna-Bor. Amer. iv. p. 305. 


This genus is most thoroughly described by Dr. Packard in his “ Notes on the Family 
Zygenide ” (Proc. Essex Inst. iv. p. 33). 

The species placed under this genus by Boisduval in his Lepidoptera of Guatemala 
do not belong to it. 


1. Ctenucha robinsoni. 
Ctenucha robinsonii, Boisd. Lép. Calif. p. 71. 
Hab. Mexico, Sonora. 


This species is unknown to me. 


CTENUCHA.—THEAGES. 83 


2. Ctenucha votiva. 
Ctenucha votiva, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 13. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


3. Ctenucha proxima. 
Ctenucha proxima, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 14. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


4. Ctenucha modulata. 
Ctenucha modulata, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 14. 
Hab. Muxtco, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


5. Ctenucha bimaculata. 
Ctenucha bimaculata, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 103. f. 4°. 
Hab. GuatemMata!, 


6. Ctenucha affinis, sp. n. 


Closely allied to C. bimaculata, the only difference being the absence of the white spot at the apex of the 
primaries. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 

I have before me two males and two females of this moth; they do not show the 
slightest indication of the apical white spots. I have, therefore, ventured to describe it 
as a separate species. 


LEUCOPSUMIS. 
Leucopsumis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 177; Walker, Cat. i. p. 310. 


1. Leucopsumis circe. 
Bombyx circe, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 268. f. D, t. 274. f. EY. 
Leucopsumis circe, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 177. 
Tosia circe, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 311°. 
Evagra affinis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 88°. 
Hab. Nicaracua?.—Ecvuapor, Guayaquil? ; VENEZUELA to Brazi ! 2. 


I think it doubtful if this species occurs in our country. I only include it here on 
the authority of Boisduval. In South America it is a common species. | 


THEAGES. 
Theages, Walker, Cat. i. p. 721. 


This genus is scarcely distinct from Eucereon. 


1. Theages quadricolor. 
Theages quadricolor, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 7221; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 430. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbe).—Brazit }. 
i 2 


84 HETEROCERA. 


2. Theages leucophza. (Tab. IX. fig. 9.) 
Theages leucophea, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 722*; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 480. 
Hab. Guatemaua, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridée, 
mus. Staudinger).—Ecuavor (Buckley, mus. D.); S.E. Braz}. 


The specimen from Panama agrees well with those from Brazil. The Guatemala 
example is figured ; it is rather more highly coloured than the other specimens. 


EKUCEREON. 
Eucereon, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 123. 


This genus, containing a considerable number of species, is well represented in our 
country by about twenty-two, ten of which are new and now described. The species can 
be divided into three groups :—(1) those with yellow on the abdomen, (2) those with red 
abdomen, and (3) those with the abdomen brown, with the apex yellow. 


1. Eucereon varium. 
Euchromia varia, Walk. Cat. i. p. 266"; Butl. Lep. Het. t. 9. f. 5; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 48. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D., Ribbe, mus. Staudinger)—CoLomBia; AMAZONS, 
Para }, 


The ground-colour of the primaries in the Chiriqui examples is rather paler than in 
the type, but in other respects they appear to belong to the same species. I havea 
specimen before me from Bogota that is rather darker in colour than those from Chiriqui, 
but not so dark as those from Para. 


2. Kucereon abdominale. 
Carales abdominalis, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 731°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA}, 


A single example of this insect was obtained ; it agrees fairly well with the type in 
the British Museum. 


3. Eucereon myrina, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 10.) 

Primaries semitransparent, white, with a number of black spots (encircled with yellowish white) close to the 
base, a cluster of black spots round the end of the cell, a marginal and submarginal row of spots extending 
from the costal to the inner margin, black, bordered with yellow, the fringe silky white; secondaries semi- 
transparent, greyish white, the outer margin narrowly bordered with black, the fringe silky white: head 
and thorax dark grey, spotted with black, the collar yellow; abdomen yellow, with a band of black spots 
on either side, and one down the centre; on the underside the primaries and secondaries are tinted with 
yellow close to the base. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. GuatEmALa, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Of this. very distinct and pretty species Mr. Champion only obtained a single 
example. 


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4, Eucereon setosum. 
Phalena setosa, Sepp, Anon. Ins. Surinam, i. p. 25, t. 9°. 
Eucerea setosa, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1641. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer).—Guiana, Surinam }. 


The two specimens received agree well with Sepp’s figure. 


5. Eucereon tripunctatum, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 12.) 


Primaries pale brown, mottled with a number of fine dark lines, three dark brownish spots almost in a straight 
line from the apex to the base, the basal spot being the largest ; secondaries brownish, slightly hyaline 
from the base to the middle: head, thorax, and basal portion of the abdomen dark brown, the abdomen 
yellow, the anus, a central band of spots, and one on each side brownish black; antenne black ; palpi 
black at the base, the points pale brown; legs light brown, the underside of the abdomen pale yellow. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guaremaua, San Gerénimo (Champion): Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 
6000 feet (Champion). 


In Guatemala Mr. Champion only met with a single example of this insect, but from 
Panama he sent several. 


6. Eucereon archias. 
Sphinx archias, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. t. 14. figg. 9, 10°. 
Eucereon archias, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 123. 
Euchromia archias, Walk. Cat. i. p. 267°. 
Fuicereon archias, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 48. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli): GuaTEMALA, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion).— 


Guiana, Surinam ! 2; Sourn-zast Brazin (mus. D.). 


The specimens of this species agree well with Cramer’s figure. 


7. Eucereon latifascia. 
Eucerea latifascia, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1689 *. 
Hab. British Honpvras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Cham- 


pion); Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Lowsr Amazons, Para 1. 
The examples before me agree well with Walker’s type in the Oxford Museum. 


8. Kucereon myrtusa, sp. n. 


Primaries dark brown, banded and speckled with pale greyish-brown scales; secondaries dusky, slightly hyaline 
near the base: head and thorax brown, banded with darker brown; abdomen red; the anus, a central band 
of spots, and one on each side black, the underside yellowish; legs, palpi, and antennz brown; the under- 
side of the primaries uniform pale brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
A single example of this dull-coloured insect was sent. It is most like £. tripunctatum, 
from which it is at once distinguished by the body being bright red. 


86 HETEROCERA. 


9. Eucereon tetragramma. 
Euchromia tetragramma, Walk. Cat. i. p. 268°. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.); Honpuras}. 


Only a single example of this insect was sent by Van Patten. 


10. Kucereon roseum. 
Euchromia rosa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 271°. 
Eucereon rosa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 48°. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson, mus. Brit.) 1.—AMAZzONS ?. 


The only specimen of this insect known to me is the type. 


11. Eucereon rhodophila. 
Eucerea rhodophila, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1638". 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); GuateMata, San Gerénimo (Champion).—Valley of 
the Amazons 1. 


I regret that I have been unable to examine the type of this species; but Walker’s 
description agrees well in all respects with the specimens before me, and I have very 
little hesitation in attaching this name to them. 


12. Eucereon pilatii. 
Euchromia pilatii, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 270°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Yucatan (mus. Brit.); Honpuras (Dyson, mus. Brit.)}. 
—Braziul. 


A small species, which appears to be very scarce, as only two examples have come 
before me. 


13. Hucereon maia, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 13.) 

Primaries pale reddish brown, with four or five indistinct dark patches beyond the middle nearest the apex ; 
secondaries creamy white, slightly margined with pale brown from the apex to the middle of the outer 
margin: head and thorax brown; abdomen red; the anus and a very minute central band of spots black ; 
antennse and palpi brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, mus. Staudinger).—Kcuavor, Sarayacu (Buckley, mus. D.). 


In Costa Rica and Ecuador this species appears to be pretty common; but I have 
only seen a single example from Panama. Mr. Champion did not meet with it. 


14. Eucereon hogei, sp. n. 


Primaries greyish white, crossed by four irregular dark greyish-brown bands, between which are several small 
spots ; secondaries dirty white: head and thorax white; abdomen very pale pink, with a row of black spots 
on each side; palpi white; antenne black, with the tips white. LExpanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


Only a single example of this species was obtained ; it resembles H. abdominale, but 


EUCEREON. 87 


it is much more clearly marked, and has the abdomen pale pink instead of brown, as 
in that species. 


15. Eucereon arenosum. 
Eucereon arenosum, Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. i. p. 51, t. 17. f.10'; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 48. 

Hab. Guatumaa, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).— AMAzoNSs }. 

The specimen from Cubilguitz agrees well with Mr. Butler’s type, but that from the 
Volcan de Atitlan is rather smaller, darker in colour, and has the spots somewhat closer 
together. It is quite possible the latter may belong to a different species; but only 
having a single example I do not feel certain upon this point. 


16. Eucereon leria, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 14.) 

Primaries pale brown, thickly covered with black spots bordered with yellow, a white spot at the base, several 
white spots across the middle of the wings, from near the costal margin to the inner margin, two white 
spots beyond the end of the cell, beyond which, and near the anal angle, a narrow white line; secondaries 
dusky hyaline: head and thorax brown with darker spots, the collar yellow; the abdomen pinkish 
carmine, the anus black; palpi yellow in front; antenne black, rather deeply pectinated. Hxpanse 
14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), 3000 to 4000 feet 
(Champion).—Ecuapor and Bottvia (Buckley, mus. D.). 


The figure is from Dr. Staudinger’s specimen, with which the examples before me, 
taken by Mr. Buckley, agree well in all respects. That taken by Mr. Champion is 
smaller and has more white on the primaries, but I believe it is without doubt 
referable to this species. 


17. Hucereon costulatum. 
Charidea costulata, Herr.-Schaff. Samm]. aussereur. Schmett. f. 276. 
Ctenucha costulata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 131°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, San Gerdnimo, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet 
(Champion).— VENEZUELA}. 


This species appears to be very common in Guatemala and Panama, but from 
Costa Rica I have only seen a single example. It is a very variable species, both in 
size and colour; the smallest examples are from Guatemala, those from Panama are 
much yellower in colour than any of the others, but I cannot detect any differences 
sufficiently marked to enable me to separate them. 


18. Eucereon minutum, sp. n. 


Primaries brown, mottled with darker brown; secondaries pale brown, the fringe silky white: head, thorax, 
and abdomen dark brown; the anus and last segments bright yellow ; antenne brown, yellowish-white at 


the tips; legs brown. Expanse ? inch. 


88 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


A single example only of this small species was obtained. 


19. Hucereon lutetia, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 11.) 


Primaries dark brown, with a whitish spot on the costal margin, close to the apex; secondaries dusky brown, 
slightly whitish hyaline at the base: head, thorax, and basal half of the abdomen dark brown, the collar 
and lower half of the abdomen pale yellow; antennz and palpi brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


20. Kucereon rogersi, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 15.) 


Male, Primaries with the ground-colour very pale brown, almost white near the apex, thickly covered with a 
series of irregular bands of black spots, bordered with yellow; the secondaries whitish hyaline, with the 
outer margins bordered with blackish brown: head, thorax, and part of the abdomen, also the anus, all 
black; the collar, sides, and anal segments of the abdomen bright yellow; the underside almost white ; 
antenne and palpi black ; the legs black. The female is the same as the male, but rather larger, and the 
spots not quite so close together. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion). 
PHRAGMATOBIA. 
Phragmatobia, Stephens, Il. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 78. 


Walker places seven species in this genus. 


1, Phragmatobia albicosta. 
Phragmatobia albicosta, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 630°. 
Hab. Mexico !, Presidio (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge); Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt). 
This species seems to me to belong to a genus distinct from Phragmatobia, but at 
present I have not sufficient material to enable me to settle this point with certainty. 


GIPPIUS. 
Gippius, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 638. 


1. Gippius sumptuosus. (Tab. IX. fig. 16.) 
Gippius sumptuosus, Walk. Cat. i. p. 634°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer); Honpuras 1}. 
The figure of this curious species is taken from a Mexican example, which agrees 
well with the type from Honduras in the British Museum. 


EVIUS. 
Evius, Walker, Cat. iti. p. 639. 


Walker places six species in this genus, several of which have been now put into 
other genera. 


EVIUS.—IDALUS. 89 


1. Kvius hippia. 
Phalena hippia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. t. 12. £. 8. 
Empusa hippia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170. 
Evius hippia, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 640; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 431. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion).—Gutiana, Surinam 1. 


Of this species Mr. Champion only obtained a single example, which agrees well with 
Stoll’s figure. 


2. Evius lineatus, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 17.) 


Primaries creamy white, thickly lined with brownish black, the ground-colour near the base brownish ; 
secondaries uniform pale yellow: head, thorax, and the upperside of the abdomen dark yellow, the front: 
and base of thorax spotted with black; the underside of the abdomen and the anus white; legs white; 


antenne brownish white at the tips. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Panama, San Lorenzo (Champion). 


A single example of this pretty little species was obtained. 


IDALUS. 
Idalus, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 645. / 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of Phalena admirabilis, Cram., a South- 


Brazilian insect. 


1. Idalus crinis, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 18.) 


Primaries glossy white, a spot at the base and a narrow band crossing beyond the middle from the costal to 
the inner margin pale brown, bordered with a narrow black line on each side; between it and the base 
are two central yellow spots, three minute black streaks close to the anal angle, and one beyond on the 
outer margin near the apex; secondaries pure white, tinted with carmine on the inner margin: head and 
thorax white, spotted with red and yellow; abdomen bright carmine above; the anus, a central band of 
minute spots, and the underside white; antennz brownish black, pale at the tips. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (forrer). 
I have only received a single example of this insect ; it is allied to /. admirabilis, but 


very distinct. 


2. Idalus critheis, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 19.) 


Primaries deep citron-yellow, crossed about the middle from the costal margin to near the anal angle by a 
narrow band of black spots, bordered on the inner side by a white band almost as wide, the base white, 
with a few black spots near the inner margin; secondaries yellowish white: head and central part of 
thorax deep yellow, front and base of thorax white; abdomen bright carmine on the upperside; the anus 
and underside white; antenne and fore legs brownish black; hind legs white. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 

This species resembles J. admirabilis, from which it is easily distinguished by the 
very much narrower black band crossing the primaries, and the entire absence of the 
red spots which are always present in that species. 

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NERITOS. 
Neritos, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 711; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 481. 
The type of this genus is Neritos repanda, Walk., from Rio Janeiro. 


1. Neritos flavo-roseus. 
Evius flavo-roseus, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 640°. 
Neritos flavo-roseus, Butler, loc. cit. p. 431. 
Hab. Honvuras}. 


2. Neritos laodamia, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 20.) 


Primaries pale yellow, very much clouded with reddish brown; secondaries whitish hyaline: head and thorax 
yellowish brown; the abdomen pinkish yellow on the upperside; the anus and underside brownish 
yellow ; antennew brown; the underside of primaries with a black spot at the base, and the dark markings 
the same as above, but pale pink. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


I have only seen a single example of this pretty species. 


3. Neritos asana, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 21.) 


Primaries pinkish brown, with several small red spots near the base, a semihyaline yellowish-white elongated 
spot on the costal margin near the apex, brown at the anal angle; secondaries pale pink: head and 
thorax pale reddish brown; palpi red; antenne brown, the tips white; abdomen red on the upperside, 
pale yellowish brown on the underside. Expanse g 1, 2 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. D., Champion), Bugaba 800 to 1500 
feet (Champion). 

The figure is from a female example taken by Mr. Champion; the male only differs 
in being smaller in size. 


4. Neritos chozeba, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 22.) 


Primaries reddish brown, thickly powdered with brown scales, from the apex to the anal angle much paler than 
any other part of the wings: secondaries creamy white: head, thorax, and palpi reddish brown; abdomen 
red; the anus yellow; antenne black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 

A single specimen of this species was received ; it does not agree well with the genus 
Neritos, but without examining more specimens I should not like to make it into a 
new genus. 


5. Neritos amastris, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 23.) 


Primaries reddish brown, with a number of orange-coloured spots bordered with red extending from the base 
to beyond the middle; a yellowish-white dot bordered with red below the costal margin and nearest the 
apex; secondaries pinkish hyaline, darkest round the outer margin, the fringe yellow: head, thorax, and 
abdomen reddish yellow ; antenne black, with the tips white. Hxpanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to WV. asana, from which it can readily be distinguished by the 
absence of the yellowish-white mark near the apices of the primaries. 


ELYSIUS.—MAZARAS. 91 


ELYSIUS. 
Elysius, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 713. 


This genus appears to be very closely allied to Ammalo. 


1. Elysius dorothea. 
Phalena dorothea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 228, t. 397. f. K*. — 
Elysius dorothea, Walk. Cat. iti. p. 715. 
Zatrephes dorothea, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 171. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Gutana, Surinam }. 


A single example, in poor condition, of what I believe to be this species. 


2. Elysius russatus. 
Elysius russatus, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 60. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


3. Elysius clitus, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform deep chrome-yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen the same colour; antennez 
and palpi black; legs brownish yellow. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Boucard, mus. D.). 


4. Elysius conspersus. (Tab. IX. fig. 20.) 
. Elysius conspersus, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 714°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Bugaba (Champion).—AMAZONS, 


Para 1. 
The Bugaba example is figured. 
AMMALO. 
Ammalo, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 622; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool, xii. p. 432. 


1. Ammalo chrysogaster. 
Halesidota chrysogaster, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 312". 
Ammalo chrysogaster, Butl. loc. cit. p. 432. 
Hab. Muxtco, Mazatlan (ex coll. Sommer in mus. Staudinger), Cordova (Hoge), Valla- 
dolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Costa Rica (Van Patten).—Co.omsta, Bogota 1, 
In Costa Rica this species appears to be common; Dr. Van Patten sent a good series 


of specimens. 
MAZZERAS. 
Mazeras, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 632. . 
Walker founded this genus for the reception of a South-Brazilian insect. 1 quite 
agree with Mr. Butler in including Walker's Halesidota sanguineata in this genus. 


Phalena sanguinolenta will also come here. 
1. Mazeras ipsea, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 24.) 


Primaries pale citron-yellow, from the base along the costal margin, and extending across the wing to the 
mm 2 


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inner margin, reaching the anal angle, where it is joined by a narrow band from the apex, all pale pinkish 
brown ; near the base are several small yellow spots bordered with red, a narrow broken red line extending 
from the apex to the anal angle, and a submarginal row of very minute brownish spots; secondaries bright 
pink: head and front of thorax bright yellow; abdomen red; the anus and underside yellowish white ; 
antenne black, with the tips white; legs yellow above, white on the underside. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger, Champion). 


Two examples. The figure is taken from the one in Dr. Staudinger’s collection; the 
other, obtained by Mr. Champion, is much faded and worn, but has indications of a 
brown marking at the anal angle of the secondaries. In other respects the specimens 
agree fairly well, and J have no doubt that they are referable to the same species. 


HALISIDOTA. 


Halisidota, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170. 
Halesidota, Walk. Cat. i. p. 732. 


1. Halisidota tessellaris. 
Phalena tessellaris, Abb. & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii. t. 757. 
Halisidota tessellaris, Hibu. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170; Walk. Cat. iii. p. 732’; Grote, Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phil. v. p. 242. 
Hab. Norta Americal.—Mexico? (Boucard, mus. D.). 


A single specimen from Mexico, agreeing well with North-American specimens, is in 
my collection. 


2. Halisidota cinctipes. 
Halisidota cinctipes, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 242’; H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 76°. 
Hab. Norta America!.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) ?; 
Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion).—CuBa!; VENEZUELA. 


This species is closely allied to the preceding, but clearly distinct. 


3. Halisidota atra, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 26.) 


Primaries sooty black, with the markings closely resembling those of H. cinctipes, but wanting the marginal 
black line of spots; secondaries uniform brownish black: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black; 
antenng black; the underside of the thorax yellowish. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes (Champion). 


Of this species I have three specimens before me; they seem to vary to some extent 
in the bands and spots of the primaries. The female is rather larger than the male, 
and much lighter in colour. 


4. Halisidota cary. 
Halisidota carye, Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 258°; Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1909. 
Halesidota annulifascia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 734. 
Halisidota porphyrea, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 283; Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 307. 


Hab. Norra AmErical.—Guatema.a, Capetillo (Champion). 


A single female example of this insect was obtained. 


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5. Halisidota albiguttata. (Tab. IX. fig. 27.) 
Phegopiera albiguttata, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 99°. 
Hab. Honpuras }. 


The only specimen known to me of this little-known species is the type, now in the 
possession of Mons. C. Oberthiir, to whom I am indebted for the pleasure of figuring it. 


6. Halisidota piperita. 
Halisidota piperita, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 293°. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers).—Braziu }. 


A single specimen was obtained. 


7. Halisidota strigulosa. 
Halesidota strigulosa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 737. 
Halesidota citrina, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 314. . 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 


6000 feet, Bugaba (Champion).—Co.omsia ; Ecuapor (mus. D.). 


8. Halisidota cadavessa. 
Halisidota cadavessa, Grote. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio, Mazatlan (Forrer); Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Ridbe, mus. Staudinger). 
Named from Mr. Grote’s types now in the British Museum. 


9. Halisidota seruba. 
Halisidota seruba, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f£. 280. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Presidio, Tres Marias Island (Morrer); GUATEMALA, 
Cerro Zunil, Duefias, Volcan de Atitlan, Las Mercedes (Champion); Honpuras, San 
Pedro (Whitely, mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ibe, Champion). 


This species varies considerably in the darker markings of the primaries; in some 
specimens the markings are well defined, in others almost wanting. 


10. Halisidota secta. 
Halesidota secta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 313’. 
Hab. Honpuras, Limas }. 


This species is unknown to me. 
11. Halisidota bicolor. 


Halesidota bicolor, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 734°. 
Hab. Mexico}. 


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12. Halisidota armillata. 
Halisidota armillata, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 76. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


13. Halisidota propinqua. 
Halisidota propinqua, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 76. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


EUHALISIDOTA. 
Euhalisidota, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 248. 


This genus was founded for the reception of Euhalisidota luxa, Grote, from Cuba. 


1. Kuhalisidota cervina. 
Euhalisidota cervina, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 77. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


This species is unknown to me. 


SYCHESIA. 
Sychesia, Moschler, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 653 (1877). 


1. Sychesia fimbria. 


Sychesia fimbria, Méschler, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 658, t. 9. f. 22 (187 7)", 
Phegoptera subtilis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p- 51’. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu 
(Logers).—Ecuapor (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam}; Amazons 2. 


2. Sychesia breviuscula. 
Halesidota breviuscula, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 3111. 
Euhalisidota aperta, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 77?. 


Hab. Mexico}, Jalapa (Hoge), State of Vera Cruz 2 (Schaus); Guatemata, Volcan de 
Atitlan, Pantaleon, Panajachel, Cerro Zunil, Las Mercedes (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 

This species appears to be common in Guatemala. I have no doubt that the insect 
lately described by Mr. H. Edwards under the name of Euhalisidota aperta belongs to this 


species. This insect is closely allied to 8. fimbria, Méschler ; it can easily be separated 
from Phegoptera by its much shorter primaries. 


PHAGOPTERA. 
Phegoptera, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. figg. 58-68, 288-294. 


1. Phegoptera mansueta. (Tab. X. fig. 1.) 
Halisidota mansueta, H. Edwards, Pap. iv. p. 75. 


Hab. Muxtoo, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus), Milpas 5000 feet (Forrer). 


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The insect figured I believe to be the species lately described by Mr. H. Edwards; 
it agrees well with his description. P. mansueta is very closely allied to H. edwardsit, 
Packard (4. translucida, Walker), if, indeed, it is distinct; but the type of Walker’s 
species is in poor condition, and therefore I do not feel certain upon this point. 


2. Phegoptera ochraceator. 
Halesidota ochraceator, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 310°. 
Hab. Mexico!; Guatemata, Panima, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
This species is very nearly allied to the following. 


3. Phegoptera aconia. 
Phegoptera aconia, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. fig. 64°. 
Halesidota aconia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 744. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).—VENEZzUELA }. 
Two specimens of this insect were received in Van Patten’s last collection; they 
agree with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure in all respects. 


4, Phegoptera suffusa. 
Phegoptera suffusa, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 67. 
Halesidota suffusa, Walk. Cat. m1. p. 745. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


5. Phegoptera cornea. 
Phegoptera cornea, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. figg. 61, 62°. 
Halesidota cornea, Walk. Cat. 11. p. 745. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége).— VENEZUELA}. 
A single example of this species was received ; it is the only specimen | have seen as 
yet from Central America. 


6. Phegoptera alba, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 9.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform semihyaline white, with the costal and inner margin of the primaries very 
pale yellow: head, thorax, and upper half of the abdomen white, the anal half of the abdomen brown, 
with a central band of white spots; antenne and fore legs yellowish brown. LExpanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Mexico (mus. Staudinger). 
This species is very distinct from any other known to me. 


7. Phegoptera superba, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 2.) 

Primaries pale pinkish brown, crossed by five irregular darker brown bands from the costal to the inner 
margin, the band nearest the apex is the widest, and crosses from the costal margin to the middle of the 
outer margin, a large black spot at the base; secondaries very pale pinkish brown, almost hyaline from 
the middle to the base; head, thorax, and the basal part of the abdomen pale brown; the abdomen black, 
banded with bright carmine; antenne, front of head, and palpi black; fore tibiee carmine within, the rest 
of the legs black; the underside of the abdomen pale brown. Expanse 33 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Only a single example of this very fine insect was sent; it is quite unlike any other 
species known to me. 


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ECPANTHERIA. 
_Ecpantheria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 183; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p- 528. 

The species of this genus are extremely variable; in fact it is difficult to find two 
specimens exactly alike. In some examples before me the spots on the primaries are 
quite different on one side from what they are on the other. M. Oberthiir has named a 
large number of specimens as distinct, which, without doubt, belong to one species; and 
also many others that have already been described by Cramer and Walker, whose 


descriptions appeared to be unknown to him; and some he has omitted to put into his 
list altogether. 


1. Ecpantheria eridane. 


Ecpantheria eridane, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 183; Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. 
p. 105, t. 12. f. 2, 3. 


Hypercompa eridane, Hiibu. Samml. exot. Schmett. £. 1-4. 

Ecpantheria muzina, Oberthiir, loc. cit. f. 4. 

Ecpantheria abscondens, Oberthiir, loc. cit. p. 106, t. 12. f. 7. 

Ecpantheria garzoni, Oberthiir, loc. cit. p. 107, t. 13. £. 3. 

Ecpantheria yukatanensis, Oberthiir, loc. cit. p. 107, t. 13. f. 4. 

Ecpantheria alpha, Oberthiir, loc. cit. p. 108, t. 14. f. 2. 

Ecpantheria icasia?, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 181. f. E. 

Ecpantheria cunigunda, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 694; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 525. 

Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; Honpuras (Dyson, mus. B.); Gua- 
TEMALA, Coban (Champion) ; British Honpuras (Blancaneaux); Honpuras; Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(2bbe).—Cotomp1a; Brazit. 


The specimen named by Walker as E. cunigunda, Cram., from Honduras, is identical 
with this species. I have only dealt with M. Oberthiir’s species so far as those from 
Central America are concerned, and of which I have specimens before me agreeing well 
with his figures. I cannot see the slightest reason for separating them ; neither can I 
find any characters of specific value whereby to distinguish one from the other. I 
believe L. albicollis, E. thiemei, and E. depauperata of Oberthiir also belong to this species; 
and I think that it is most likely when we receive specimens from Surinam they will 
prove to be the same, and that Hiibner’s name will have to give place to that of 
Cramer. Cramer’s figure being a very bad one, I have little doubt that such will 


prove to be the case; but without further material I cannot determine this point with 
absolute certainty. 


2. Ecpantheria caudata. 
Ecpantheria caudata, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 689'; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 523. 
Ecpantheria mexicana, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 109, t. 15. f.1, 3”. 


Hab. Mexico ! 2. | 
The type specimens in the British Museum agree well with M. C. Oberthiir’s figures. 


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3. Eepantheria trebula, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 3.) 


Primaries creamy white, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four bands of irregular greenish-brown 
spots, the first close to the base, the second very small, almost dots, the third about the middle much 
wider, the fourth nearer the outer margin much broken, widest at the apex and anal angle; secondaries 
pale yellow, darkest on the inner margin, with a black spot at the anal angle, which is much elongated : 
head and thorax white, spotted with black; abdomen yellow, with a central row of black spots extending 
from the base to the anus; antennw black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes (Champion). 


This may be the species described by Mr. H. Edwards; but the plate having been 
drawn, and the description not agreeing well with my specimens, I have ventured to 
name it. 


4. Ecpantheria decora. (Tab. X. fig. 6.) 
Ecpantheria decora, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 693'; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 525. 
Ecpantheria haitensis, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 109, t. 15. £. 5, 7. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége).—Santo Domineo |. 


The Mexican example agrees well with Walker’s type in the British Museum. I 
have not the slightest doubt that the Haitian insect named by M. Oberthiir is the 
same species. 


5. Ecpantheria leucarctioides. 
Ecpantheria leucarctioides, Grote & Robinson. 
Ecpantheria tenella, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 15. 41. 

Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus). 


6. Ecpantheria extrema. 
Ecpantheria extrema, Walk. Cat. iti. p. 691+; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 524. 
Ecpantheria chilensis, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 111, t. 20. f. 5”. 

Hab. Mexico (Becker, mus. B.)1, Oaxaca (ex coll. Sommer in mus. Staudinger) ; 
Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio, San Francisco 4500 feet (Rogers).— 
Cuiui ??. 

I feel certain that the locality given by M. Oberthiir is not correct. I have never seen 
a specimen of this species from any locality south of Costa Rica; the genus, being a 
tropical one, so far as I am at present aware, does not occur in Chili. 


7. Ecpantheria cotyora, sp.n. (Tab. X. figg. 49,52.) 

Male. Primaries creamy white, thickly covered with greenish-black bands and spots, better defined by the 
figure than by description; secondaries whitish hyaline, with the inner margin clothed with yellow hairs: 
head and front of the thorax creamy white ; thorax and abdomen black, shot with blue in some lights, a 
wide orange-coloured band on each side of the abdomen, the underside of which is white with a central 
black band, bordered on either side with a row of small black dots; antenne and palpi blue-black. 

Female. The primaries are the same as in the male, but much larger and with all the dark markings broader; 
secondaries brownish black, the outer margin rather widely bordered with cream-colour, in some specimens 


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98 HETEROCERA. 


a few indistinct spots cross the wings from the apex to near the anal angle, in others they are entirely 
wanting. Expanse, ¢ 2 inches, ¢ 22 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
This species seems to be most nearly allied to H. deta, but I think quite distinct. I 


have several specimens of both sexes before me, and they do not show much variation, 
excepting in the markings of the secondaries of the female. 


8. Ecpantheria ochreator. 
Ecpantheria ochreator, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 101. f. 2. 
Hab. Centrat America (Salvin, mus. Felder). 


This species is only known to me from Dr. Felder’s figure. 


9, Ecpantheria atra. 
Ecpantheria atra, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 109, t. 15. f. 4’. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca !. 


This insect is quite unknown to me excepting by the figure. I very much doubt if 
it belongs to this genus. 


ARACHNIS. 
Arachnis, Hiibn. Sammi. exot. Schmett. f. 913,914; Clems. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. xii. p. 525. 


1. Arachnis aula. 
Arachnis aulea, Hibn. loc. cit.; Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 300*; Clemens, loc. cit. p. 526. 
Ecpantheria aulea, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 111, t. 19. f. 4, 77. 
Ecpantheria incarnata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 690°; Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 524. 
Hab. Mexico !?%, Jalapa (Hége); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaut). 


This species varies to some extent in the markings of the secondaries; in some 
specimens they are almost black, the red bands being reduced to minute red spots. 


2. Arachnis picta. 
Arachnis picta, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 126"; Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1912. 
Ecpantheria picta, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 112, t. 19. f. 5, 8. 


Hab. Nort America, California |—Mexico, Milpas 5900 feet (Forrer). 

The single example of what I believe to be this species is rather darker in colour 
than M. Oberthiir’s figure, but the markings agree fairly well; in all other respects it 
is the same. 


3. Arachnis sanguinea. 
Ecpantheria sanguinea, Oberthiir, Etudes d’Entomologie, vi. p. 112, t. 20. f. 1, 2’. 
Hab. MExico }, near the city (Hége). 


A single example of this fine insect was received. 


ARACHNIS.—PELOCHYTA. 99 


4. Arachnis confusa, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries creamy white, the primaries crossed from the costal to the internal margin with 
very irregular bands of drab narrowly margined with black on both sides; the secondaries with a marginal 
row of very small spots near the apex and a submarginal band of larger spots from the apex to the anal 
angle; underside with the darker markings as above and with the costal margin and the base of both 
primaries and secondaries pale yellow: head and thorax white; abdomen yellow on the upperside and 
dirty white beneath, with a row of very minute black spots on each side; antennsz white, with black tips. 
Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


Only a single example of this very distinct species was obtained; it is nearest to 
A. picta, but differs from all the species of the genus with which I am acquainted in 
being white instead of brown and red. 


CARALES. 
Carales, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 729. 


Walker includes four species in this genus. 


1, Carales astur. 
Phalena astur, Cram. Pap. Exot. ui. t. 120. f. B’. 
Carales albicans, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 780°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge); GuaTemata, San Gerdnimo (Chame 
pion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Bugaba ( Champion). —VENE- 
ZUELA? ; GuIANA, Surinam !. 1 


Cramer’s figure of this species was overlooked by Walker, who has not included it in 
s ‘Catalogue ;’ he redescribed it as C. albicans. I have not the slightest doubt of 
their being identical. 


2. Carales obscurata, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 7.) 


Primaries pale drab brown, thickly speckled with minute ochreous scales, the nerves al! dark brown ; secon- 
daries uniform semihyaline pale brown, with a few yellowish scales at the apex and along the outer 
margin: head and thorax greyish brown with black markings; abdomen yellow, with a central row of 
spots and one on either side black; palpi black; antenne blackish brown, slightly yellow close to the 
base. Expanse 24 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 

This species is allied to C. phryganoides, but quite distinct. The Mexican example 
is smaller than the one from Costa Rica, from which the figure is taken; it also differs 
slightly in having several indistinct black spots at the end of. the cell of the primaries ; 
in other respects it is identical. 


PELOCHYTA. 
Pelochyta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 171. 


This genus is represented by a single species in our country. 
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100 HETEROCERA. 


1. Pelochyta specularis. 


Trichromia specularis, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 59°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 
feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet (Champion, Ribbe).—VeEnuzuz.a!; 
Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.) ; Souru-nast Braziu (mus. D.). 


This species is found over a very extended range of country. It does not vary to 
any extent; the figure given by Herrich-Schaffer is much too highly coloured. 


PURIUS. 
Purius, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 719. 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of a Venezuelan insect. 


1. Purius sordidus. 
Purius sordidus, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 719'. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Gabd, mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Riddé, mus. Stau- 
dinger).—VENEZUELA!; Amazons 1, Para. 


2. Purius punctatus, sp. n. 


Primaries pale yellowish brown, with several rows of indistinct spots near the apex, and extending along the 
outer margin ; secondaries dirty white, the margins pale yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish 
yellow; antenne brown, rather deeply pectinated. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes (Champion). 


The two examples of this species are in rather poor condition, being considerably 
stained with grease. 
PSEUDAPISTOSIA. 
Pseudapistosia, Méschler, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, p. 665. 


1. Pseudapistosia umber. 
Phalena umber, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. 15. f. F?. 
Apistosia umber, Hitbn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 164; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 479°. 
Pseudapistosia umber, Moschler, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, p. 666°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam ! 2, Paramaribo 8. 


The specimens from Panama agree well with Cramer’s figure. 


2. Pseudapistosia cinerea. 
Falesidota cinerea, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 7417. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guarmmaua, Cerro Zunil, San Gerénimo ( Champion).— 
VENEZUELA!; Braziu!. 


The specimen from Mexico differs from the others in being considerably darker in 
colour, but in other respects it is identical. 


PSEUDAPISTOSIA.—OPHARUS. 101 


3. Pseudapistosia lystra, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries pale brown, with a purple tinge, the veins all darker brown ; a yellow spot, and three 
very minute black dots, at the base of the primaries: head and front of thorax yellow, with small black 
dots; thorax and base of abdomen brown; abdomen yellow, banded with black; antenne brown; palpi 
yellow, the tips black ; legs pale yellowish brown. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 

This species is nearly allied to P. cinerea, from which it can easily be distinguished 
by its much darker colour. I believe there are two or three specimens of this species 
in the British Museum from Colombia. 


4. Pseudapistosia degenera. 
Halesidota degenera, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 7427. 
_ Hab. Guatemata, Torola (Champion); Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger).— VENEZUELA. 


The examples from our country agree well with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


PSYCHOPHASMA. 
Psychophasma, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 51. 


Mr. Butler founded this genus for the reception of Halesidota albidator, Walker 
(H. erosa, Herr.-Schaff.). Herrich-Schéaffer figured it some years before the publication 
of Walker’s description. 


1. Psychophasma, erosa. 
Halesidota erosa, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. t. 96. f. 550. 
Halesidota albidator, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 313°. 
Psychophasma albidator, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 52. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridbe).—Amazons!?2; Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.). 


The only evidence of the occurrence of this species in our country is the specimen 
obtained some years ago by Herr Ribbe. In Ecuador it is a rather common insect, and 
Mr. Buckley sent me a fine series of specimens from that country. 


OPHARUS. 
Opharus, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 728. 


This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of a Brazilian insect, which I 
have now received from Guatemala. 


1. Opharus procroides. 
Opharus procroides, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 7291. 
Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion)..—Braziu !. 


The specimens before me agree well with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


102 HETEROCERA. 


2. Opharus albipunctatus, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 11.) 


Primaries uniform pale drab brown; secondaries whitish hyaline, with the outer and inner margins bordered 
with the same colour as the primaries ; a very minute blue spot at the base of the primaries: head, palpi, 
antenne, and thorax black; the collar spotted with bright blue spots; the patagia yellowish white, with 
a minute bright blue spot at the extreme point; abdomen yellow, banded with black, also a narrow central 
black line from the anus to the base, where the abdomen is dusky brown; the underside brown; legs 
black. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneauxr) ; GuatremMata, Panzos, Las Mercedes 
3000 feet (Champion). 


This pretty species is very distinct from any other with which I am acquainted. 


3. Opharus mundatoy, sp. n. (Tab. X. fig. 10.) 

Primaries uniform semitransparent black; the secondaries similar, but slightly whitish near the base: head, 
palpi, and antenne black; thorax black, with two white spots in front, just behind the head; abdomen 
black, banded with yellowish lines on each segment; a row of white spots on each side; legs black. 
Expanse 24 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Only a single example of this species was sent. 


4, Opharus ruficollis, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 8.) 


Primaries uniform pale brown, with an indistinct broken darker brown band from the costal margin near the 
apex to close to the anal angle, the veins all darker; secondaries pale brown, pinkish yellow from the base 
to beyond the middle: head and front of thorax bright orange-red, with several very minute black spots ; 
thorax brown; abdomen pinkish yellow, spotted with black on the sides; legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Aibbe, mus. Staudinger). 


I have only seen a single example of this insect. 


ANAXITA. 
Anaxita, Walker, Cat. i. p. 748. 


Two species have been placed in this genus. 


1, Anaxita decorata. 
Anazxita decorata, Walk. Cat. ui. p. 748°; Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. f. 528. 


Hab. Mexico (Hartweg)'. 


The only specimens of this very fine species known to me are in the British Museum ; 
it is well figured by Herrich-Schaffer. 


Subfam. PERICOPIINA. 


ESTHEMA. 
Esthema, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 178. 


This genus is represented in our country by three species, two of them being common 
South-American forms. 


ESTHEMA.—EUCYANE. 103 


1. Esthema, bicolora. 
Phalena bicolora, Sulz. Ins. p. 161, t. 22. f£.6; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 143. f. A. 
Esthema bicolora, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 888’; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p.52; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 172. 
Hypocrita dichroa, Hiibn. Samm. exot. Schmett. i. t. 187. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.).—Amazons!; East Perv (mus. D.). 


This species appears to be very rare in Central America. I have only seen the single 
specimen sent some years ago in Dr. Van Patten’s first Costa-Rican collection. 


2. Esthema aletta. 

Phalena aletta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 396. f. C. 

Esthema aletta, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 388; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 52; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
4th ser. xvi. p. 178. 


Hab. Guatemata (Boucard, mus. D.); Panama, Veraguas (Arcé, mus. D.), Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Ribble and Arcé, mus. D.), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).—CoLoMBIA 
(mus. D.); Gutana, Surinam!; Ecuapor (mus. D.). 


This species is very common at Bugaba. Mr. Champion obtained a very fine series. 


3. Esthema eupleoides. (Tab. X. fig. 12.) 
Esthema eupleodes, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. viti. p. 285°; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, 
p- 52; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 178. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama (Salvin, mus. Oxford).—CoLomB1a |, 


This species is allied to £. aletta, from which it is readily distinguished by the 
— different position of the band of white spots on the primaries, and by the white streaks 
of the secondaries extending to the outer margin. It seems to be a scarce insect. 
Mr. Champion did not meet with it. I have seen five examples, all constant in their 
differences from L. aletta. 


EUCYANE. 
Eucyane, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 177. 


This genus is exceedingly well represented in Central America; the species are all 
large and very finely coloured, but none of them are common insects. 


1. Eucyane pylotes. 
Phalena pylotes, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ent. ii. t. 5. f. 3°. 
Callimorpha? pylotes, Westw. ed. Drury, ii. t. 5. f. 3. 
Eucyane pylotes, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 362°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 53°; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 178. 
Calepidos celina, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 89°. 
Hab. Muxtco? (Argent, mus. B.) ; Guatumaza °, Cubilguitz (Champion); Honpuras 1. 


Only a single example was obtained. I have compared the type of Boisduval’s 


104 HETEROCERA. 


Calepidos celina, and find without doubt that it is Drury’s species, the only difference 
being that the white band of the primaries is a little narrower. 


2. Hucyane anacharsis. (Tab. X. fig. 18.) 
Calepidos anacharsis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 89’; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 255; Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 178. 
Hab. Nicaracval. 


I am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the pleasure of figuring this fine species; it 
is not unlike Hsthema herrona, Butler, but the band and row of spots are differently 
placed. The type is the only specimen known to me. It is certainly distinct from 
E. celadon, Cramer, with which Mr. Butler places it with a query. 


3. Eucyane ninonia, sp. n. (Tab. X. fig. 13.) 


Primaries dark brownish black, with the veins all black, a semihyaline white band crossing the wing from the 
costal margin to near the anal angle, where it almost tapers to a point, the costal margin reddish close to 
the base; secondaries dark glossy blue, the inner and outer margin black without much gloss; a row of 
five semihyaline white spots nearest the apex: head and thorax dark brown, the collar red; antenne and 
palpi black ; abdomen dark glossy blue on the upperside; underside black, banded with white. Expanse 
2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 
This pretty species is allied to E. anacharsis. I have only seen the specimen in 
Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


4. Kucyane excellens, (Tab. X. figg. 16, 17.) 
Eucyane excellens, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 362"; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 173. 
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten). —Vunnzunua 
(Dyson) 1. 
This fine species appears to be very rare. Mr. Champion only obtained a single 
example; this and two others taken by Dr. Van Patten are the only specimens I have 
seen from our country. 


5. Hucyane arcei, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 14.) 


Primaries rich dark brown, the base shot with bright metallic green; a wide chrome-yellow band crossing the 
wing from about the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle, the fringe white at the apex; secon- 
daries brownish black, with the inner half from the base to near the anal angle brilliant morpho-blue ; a 
bright carmine spot on the costal margin nearest the apex; the fringe white at the apex and anal angle : 
head, thorax, and abdomen dark bluish black; tegule and three central spots on the abdomen black ; 
antenne and palpi black; tte legs black, banded with white; the underside of the abdomen bright scarlet, 
banded with black, edged with white. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Areé, mus. D.). 


I received a single example of this species some years ago, the only one that I have 
seen ; its nearest ally appears to be E. glauce from Para. 


EUCYANE.—PHALOESIA. 105 


6. Eucyane pheenicides, sp. n. (Tab. X. fig. 15.) 


Primaries deep black, crossed transversely near the apex by a narrow, bright carmine band, not quite reaching 
the costal margin; secondaries dark glossy blue, with the outer margins bordered with rich carmine: 
head and sides of the thorax bright red; thorax and abdomen bright bluish black; antenne black ; palpi 
red, with the first joint black; a spot at the base on the underside of the primaries also the underside of 
the thorax white; legs bluish black. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Coban (mus. Staudinger). 


This beautiful species is allied to E. amica, from which it is easily distinguished by 
the dark blue secondaries and narrow carmine band of the primaries. 


COMPOSIA. 
Composia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 179. 


This genus is represented by two species in our country. 


1. Composia olympia. (Tab. XI. fig. 1.) 
Phaloésia olympia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. viii. p. 290°; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, 
p- 54. . 
Composia olympia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 172. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Corrosal (J. Roe, mus. D.).—Braziut. 


This beautiful species is allied to C. sybaris from Jamaica. I have only seen two 
examples from our country. I think it very doubtful if it occurs in South America. 


2. Composia subcyanea. 
Euchromia subcyanea, Walk. Cat. i. p. 230°. 
Hab. Mexico}. 


I have not seen a specimen of this species from our country ; I possess one from the 
island of Dominica, 


PHALOESIA. 
Phaloésia, Walker, Cat. 1. p. 859. 


This genus contains a single species only. 


1. Phaloésia saucia. (Tab. XI. fig. 2.) 
Phaloésia saucia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 359*; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 54°. 
Cocastra gentilis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 88. 
Phaloésia flavicollis, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 171°. 
Phaloésia venezuele, Butl. ib.* 
Phaloésia chalybea, Butl. ib.’ / 
Hab. Mexico®, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Cham- 


pion) ; Nicaragua! 2\—- VENEZUELA? 4, 

I cannot see the slightest reason for separating from P. saucia the specimens placed 
under the above names in the British Museum; they are, without doubt, all the same 
species, and I cannot detect any difference that would even allow of their ranking as 

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slight varieties. In this view Mr. Butler now agrees with me. A Guatemala example 
is figured. 

ACRIBIA. 
Acribia, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. p. 1, t. ciii. f. 14. 


This genus is very close to Phaloésia, but I think distinct, on account of the shorter 
and broader wings of the female. 


1. Acribia melanchroia. 
Acribia melanchroia, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. ci. f. 14°. 
Phaloésia melanchroia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 171. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek)1; Guatemaua, El Jicaro, Cubilguitz (Champion). 


The male of this species is quite unknown to me. 


2. Acribia maculifrons. (Tab. XI. fig. 3.) 
Stenele maculifrons, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 157°. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Honpuras, Limas!; Costa Rica, 
Trazu (Rogers). 
The example from Costa Rica is much faded; I believe it to be afemale. In neura- 
tion it agrees well with A. melanchroia. 


HYALURGA. 
Hyalurga, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 174. 


1. Hyalurga fenestra. 
Hyalurga fenestra, Clerck, Icones, t. 55. f. 41; Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 872; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 340° ; 
Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 54; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 175°. 
Hyalurga fenestrigera, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 174. 
Sphing egeon, Cram. Pap. Exot. 1. t. 59. f. BY. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— VrnuzvELa1?; Gurana, 
Surinam 13; East Peru ( Whitely, mus. D.). 


The only specimen of this insect I have seen from our country is the one obtained by 
Mr. Champion. In South America it is common, and generally distributed over a wide 
range of country. ‘The specimens before me vary very considerably in the amount of 
the orange-coloured margins to the wings; and I feel pretty certain that several closely 
allied forms recently described will, upon sufficient material being obtained, prove to be 
nothing but very slight varieties of this insect. 


2. Hyalurga uria. 
Hyalurga uria, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. viii. p. 286’; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 54; 
Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 176. 
Hab, Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Ucayali 1. 


COBORISA.—PHALOE. 107 


A single example of this insect was sent; it agrees well with Mr. Butler’s type, the 
only difference being that the black band of the primaries is slightly narrower. This 
species is very close to H. fenestra. 


COBORISA. 
Coborisa, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 915. 


1. Coborisa fenestrata. 
Coborisa fenestrata, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 915°. 
Hab. Mexico }, 


PHALOE. 
Phaloé, Guérin, Voy. Duperrey, Zool. ii. p. 283. 


1. Phaloe lorze. | 
Phaloé lorze, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 90*; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 170°. 
Hab. GuateMALa!,—VENEZUELA? ; TRINIDAD (mus. D.). 


The only authority I have for including this species in our fauna is Boisduval’s; it 
therefore requires confirmation. 


2. Phaloe gaumeri, sp.n. (Tab. XI. figg. 4, 5.) 


Male. Primaries black, with a small spot at the base, two on the costal margin, and one in middle of the cell, 
bright carmine; a triangular patch extending from the base along the inner margin to near the middle 
and a wide central band from the costal margin to near the apex bright citron-yellow, beyond which 
nearer the apex are two hyaline bands, the first broken into spots extending to the anal angles; secon- 
daries bright citron-yellow, with the apex and outer margin broadly banded with black; a yellow spot 
at the apex and several minute spots on the outer margin near the anal angle: head and thorax black, 
thickly spotted with white and yellow dots, a yellowish band crosses the thorax near the base; abdomen 
dusky yellow, the last segment and the anus black; legs black and white; antennw black, slightly 
pectinated; palpi white, with the second joint black. The female differs from the male in its larger size, 
and by having all the yellow markings of the male creamy white, also in having a well-defined marginal 
row of whitish hyaline spots on the secondaries; the undersides of both male and female are the same as 
above. Expanse, 5 23, 9 232 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer). 


Of this very beautiful species I have received two males and one female ; its nearest 
ally is P. cruenta. 


3. Phaloe verania, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 7.) 


Male. Primaries deep black, a carmine spot on the costal margin, close to the base, a narrow semihyaline yellow 
band crosses from the middle of the costal margin to the inner margin near the apex; the band is almost 
white in the middle, beyond which near the apex is an elongated whitish spot crossed by a black nervule ; 
secondaries black, with a yellowish-white transverse band of three spots crossing near the apex from the costal 
to the outer margin, two white dots close to the anal angle ; the underside the same as above, except that 
the secondaries are streaked with bluish white from the base to nearly the middle: head and thorax black, 
thickly speckled with minute white spots; antenne black, rather deeply pectinated ; palpi black, white on 
the underside; abdomen black, banded with white; the anus, last segment, and the sides bright carmine 
on the underside, the white bands are much wider, and the last four segments are banded with carmine ; 


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108 HETEROCERA. 


the legs black above, white beneath. The female the same as the male, but slightly larger in size; the 
antenneg are not pectinated. Expanse, g 23, 9 24 inches. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, Zapote (Champion). 


Of this fine species Mr. Champion obtained but few examples; he only met with it 
in one locality. 


4. Phaloe schausi. 
Pericopis schausiti, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 597. 
Hab. Mrxico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus)!. 


From the description I believe this to be close to the preceding species. I have not 
seen a specimen. 


5. Phaloé helotes, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 8.) 


Female. Primaries deep black, crossed about the middle from the costal margin to near the anal angle by a 
wide primrose-coloured band, a square-shaped spot the same colour close to the apex; secondaries deep 
black, with a band of three primrose-coloured spots near the apex extending from the costal margin across 
the wing to near the outer margin ; the underside the same as above, only with one or two narrow yellow 
streaks at the base of the secondaries; head, thorax, and abdomen black; the anus and sides of the 
abdomen broadly banded with red; antenne and palpi black; legs black, streaked with white. Expanse 
27 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


This species is allied to P. verania, from which it is very distinct. I have only seen 
the example in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


6. Phaloe trotschi, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 9.) 


Female. Primaries deep black, crossed from the costal to the middle of the inner margin by a wide, deep 
yellow band, which is narrower in the middle; a bright yellow spot near the apex on the costal margin, a 
red streak from the base along the costal margin; secondaries brownish black, palest on the inner margin, 
a wide band of five yellow spots curved outwardly from the costal to the outer margin close to the apex ; 
underside the same as above, with white and yellow streaks from the base of both wings: head, antenne, 
and palpi black; thorax and abdomen black, with the sides and three last segments bright carmine; the 
underside of the abdomen pack, banded with white; legs black on the upperside, white on the underside. 
Expanse 24 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


I have named this after Herr Trétsch, who has sent so many fine species to 
Dr. Staudinger. PP. trétschi is closely allied to the preceding, but I think quite 
distinct; the yellow bands are differently placed. 


7. Phaloe cerealia, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 6.) 


Primaries bright golden yellow, with the costal outer and inner margins broadly banded with black, a narrow 
black band crosses the basal area from the costal to the inner margin, a wide black band from the costal 
to the middle of the outer margin, a small red spot on the costal margin close to the base; secondaries 
bright golden yellow, with the veins all darker yellow, the apex and outer margin broadly banded with 
glossy bluish black; underside the same as above, excepting that the primaries are red on the costal 
margin close to the base: head, thorax, and upperside of the abdomen black, banded with yellow; the 


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sides of the abdomen deep yellow, the underside yellowish white; antenne and palpi black, collar red ; 
legs black on the upperside, yellowish white beneath. Expanse 27 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


I have only seen a single example of this beautiful species; it is quite unlike any 
other known to me. 


PERICOPIS. 
Pericopis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 175. 


1. Pericopis jansoni. (Tab. XI. fig. 10, 3.) 

Pericopis jansonis 9, Butl. Lep. Exot. p. 46, t. xvii. figg. 4,5; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 56. 

Thebrone jansonis, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 164. 

Male. Primaries semitransparent, brownish black, with the lighter bands in the same position as in the female ; 
secondaries white, the outer margin and apex broadly banded with black, a red spot at the anal angle, 
the veins black: head and thorax black, yellow in front; abdomen black, striped with greyish white, 
anus yellow; palpi and antenne black. In some specimens of the male the secondaries are pale yellowish 
white, in every other respect they agree with what I consider to be the typical form. 


Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (¢, both forms 9, 
Arcé, mus. D.; and Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), Bugaba (6, both forms 2 , Champion). 


It is quite possible that the yellow form may prove to be a distinct species, but for 
the present I think it better to place it as a variety of the male of P. jansoni, the only 
difference being the pale yellow colour of the secondaries. Chetone arema, Boisd., 
placed with this species with doubt by Mr. Butler, is a very distinct species, and nearest 
allied to P. marginalis, Walker, but quite different from any other known to me. 


2. Pericopis leucophza. 
Pericopis leucophea, Walk. Cat. 1. p. 352". 
Aphisaon leucophea, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 165. 
Thebrone rubrimargo, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 86’. 
Aphisaon salvatoris, Boisd. loc. cit. p. 86°; Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 165. 
Pericopis flora, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 127; Lep. Exot. t. 61. f. 9°. 
Aphisaon flora, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 165. 

Hab. Mexico 12, Cordova (Hége); British Honpuras ? 3, Corrosal (J. Roe, mus. D.) ; 
GuateMaLa?4, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales 
(Belt). 

After carefully comparing the types of the above-mentioned species with the series of 
specimens before me, I see no reason for retaining Boisduval’s and Butler’s species as 
distinct, the chief differences being the width of the marginal band of red spots on the 
secondaries of the females. In some specimens of the males the light-coloured markings 
of the primaries are much whiter than in others; in these points they vary to a consi- 


derable extent, in fact no two specimens are exactly alike. 


110 HETEROCERA. 


8. Pericopis cerialis, sp.n. (Tab. XI. figg. 11, 12.) 


Male. Primaries whitish brown, the apex and a triangular patch near the anal angle, a spot at the end of the 
cell, and a band crossing the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin all brown, the inner 
margin widely banded with brown from the base to near the apex, a bright-red spot at the base, the 
veins all dark brown, and a marginal row of small white spots; secondaries white, broadly bordered with 
black, the veins all black, a submarginal row of bright-red spots from near the apex to the anal angle, 
and a marginal row of small white spots: head black, the front and sides of thorax pale yellow; the 
thorax blackish brown; the abdomen black, banded with greyish blue; the anus and the underside of the 
abdomen yellow; antennee black, with a white spot at the base; palpi black. Expanse 3 23 inches. 

Female. Primaries brownish black, crossed beyond the middle by two bands of yellowish white, the first from 
the costal margin to the anal angle, the second from the costal margin near the apex to the middle of the 
outer margin ; secondaries black, with a submarginal row of large red spots, and a marginal row of white 
dots: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black; the anus dark yellow, the anal segments of the abdo- 
men speckled with pale-yellow scales, a pale yellow band on each side; the underside black; antennx 
black. Expanse 9 22 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion; 2, Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger). 


This insect is allied to P. leucophea ; but is readily distinguished from that species by 
the white secondaries in the male and the bands across the primaries in the female. 
Mr. Champion did not meet with the female, although he obtained several males of 
this species. ‘The only female example that I have seen is the one in Dr. Staudinger’s 
collection. 


4. Pericopis lycaste. 
Euprepia lycaste, Klug, Neue Schmett. p. 6, t. iv. fig. 4°. 
Pericopis dissimulans, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 1557; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p.57; Ann. & Mag. 

Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 166. 
Chetone iscariotes, Bois. Lép. Guat. p. 91°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Deppe)!; Guatemata’, Cahabon (Champion); Honpuras?; 

Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Rica, Irazu (fogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion).—CoLoMB1A, Bogota ?. 


Klug’s figure appears to have been unknown to Walker, who has not included it in 
his catalogue. I have examined both Walker’s and Boisduval’s types, and have no 
doubt but that they are this species. 


5. Pericopis marginalis. 
Daritis marginalis, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 618°. 
Pericopis marginalis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 57°; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. 
p- 166. 
Dorimena magdola, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 98 °. 
Hab. Guaremata®; Costa Rica, Irazu (Logers).— VENEZUELA ! 2, 


I think it very doubtful whether this species occurs in Guatemala; the only authority 
for its being found there is Boisduval’s. 


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6. Pericopis lygdamis, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 17.) 

Male. Primaries dark brown, crossed beyond the middle by a semitransparent brownish-white, straight, forked 
band, inclosing a large dark-brown spot at the end of the cell, a small red-and-yellow spot at the base; 
secondaries whitish hyaline, with the veins and abdominal margins dusky, a wide submarginal band of 
orange-red extending from the base along the costal margin to the apex, and from the apex to the anal 
angle, it is edged with a narrow black line, the outer margin black with a marginal row of white spots: 
head, thorax, antenne, and palpi black, the thorax with two large yellow spots on each side; abdomen 
bright red, with a central black line from the base to the anus, also a black line on either side; the 
underside pale yellow. On the underside, both primaries and secondaries, all the markings are orange-red, 
excepting at the base of the primaries, where it is dark brown as above, the costal margin of both primaries 
and secondaries bright red at the base. Expanse 3 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This insect is allied to P. lycaste, in fact it may be the southern form of that species ; 
but at present I have not sufficient material to decide that point, only having two 
specimens, one of which is in very poor condition. 


7. Pericopis leda, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 13.) 


Primaries dark brown, but quite pale along the costal margin, the markings much the same as in P. lygdamiss 
but narrower and more distinct; secondaries white, with the veins all red, the submarginal and marginal 
bands of red and black much narrower, the spots bluish instead of white: head, antenne, and palpi black ; 
thorax black, with a row of yellow and white spots in front; abdomen black, with two rows of yellowish- 
white scales almost central; the anus bright red; on the underside the abdomen yellow. Expanse 
22 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 


8. Pericopis tibesis, sp.n. (Tab. XT. figg. 14, 15.) 


Male. Primaries dark brown, with the lighter markings very indistinct; secondaries reddish hyaline, with a 
marginal band of orange-red, bordered with black on both sides, and a marginal row of white spots 
extending from the apex to near the anal angle: head, antenne, and thorax dark brown, palpi black ; 
abdomen red, the sides and a central line brownish black; underside pale yellow. 

Female. Primaries dark brown, with a yellowish patch about the end of the cell; secondaries deep orange-red, 
broadly bordered with black; in other respects the female closely resembles the male, but it is a consi- 
derably larger insect. Expanse, ¢ 23 inches, Q 33 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Cordova (Riimeli); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon 
(Blancaneaux); Guatema.a, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Las Mercedes (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica (ex coll. Schenck in mus. Staudinger). 


This species varies to some extent in the colour, and also in the width of the black 
margins of the secondaries. ‘The specimen from Costa Rica appears to me to be an 
old one considerably faded, the secondaries being very much whiter than in any other 
specimen before me. In Mexico and Guatemala this species seems to be pretty common 
A male and female from Las Mercedes are figured. 


9. Pericopis arema. (Tab. XI. fig. 16.) 
Thebrone arema, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 85". 
Pericopis arema, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 57. 
Hab. Nicaracua.— VENEZUELA 1. 


112 HETEROCERA. 


I am indebted to M. C. Oberthiir for sending me Boisduval’s type; it is quite unlike 
any other species with which I am acquainted. 


10. Pericopis thetis. 
Euprepia thetis, Klug, Neve Schmett. p. 5, t. iv. figg. 1, 2°. 
Daritis thetis, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 6187; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 170°. 
Pericopis thetis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 57. 
Eucharia mariamne, Hiibn. Sammi. exot. Schmett. t. 999. figg. 1-4. 
Hab. Mexico? 3 (Deppe)1, Jalapa (Hoge) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


The Costa-Rican example differs slightly from those from Mexico, the semihyaline 
bands on the primaries being considerably wider in the male specimen before me, and 
the red marginal band of the secondaries narrower. ‘This species appears to be very 
rare; I have only received three specimens. 


11. Pericopis fenestrata. 

Pericopis fenestrata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 50. 

Daritis fenestrata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 170. 
Hab. GuatemMaLa, San Gerénimo (Salvin). 


Mr. Butler states that this is a local form of the Mexican P. thetis. I have not seen 
the type of P. fenestrata. 


12. Pericopis leonina. 
Pericopis leonina, Butl. Cist. Ent. p. 89*; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 58; Lep. Exot. t. Ixi. fig. 10; 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 167. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cartago (Van Patten) 1, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


13. Pericopis bivittata. 
Pericopis bivittata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 848°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 56; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 167. 
Pericopis disjuncta, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1655’. 
Chetone aorsa, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 90°. 
Pericopis lucretia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xv. p. 340°; ib. xvi. p. 167. 

Hab. GuatemMata?, Purula, Zapote (Champion); Panama (fibbe, mus. Staudinger), 

Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion ; and Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), Veraguas 
(Salvin, mus. D.)*.—CotomBiA 2, Manaure (Simons, mus. D.); VENEZUELA 1. 


This is a very variable insect. I have a fair series of specimens before me, but no 
two are quite alike; in some specimens the bands on the primaries are much wider 
and quite pale in colour, in others they are narrower and quite dusky; and the black 
band of the secondaries is (in some specimens) broad and well defined, in others it is 
almost obsolete and thus approaching very closely to P. amphissa from South Brazil. 


PERICOPIS. 113 


In fact I think it more than probable that P. divittata will prove to be identical 
with that species when we have received sufficient material for comparison. 


14. Pericopis daphne, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 1.) 


Primaries reddish-brown crossed by two white bands, the one nearest the base much shaded with brown and broken 
into two spots, a marginal row of small white spots from the apex to the anal angle ; secondaries yellowish- 
brown, almost orange at the base, with an indistinct central dusky black line across the middle, the outer 
margin broadly bordered with dark brown and with a marginal row of small white dots; on the underside 
the white bands on the primaries are much more distinct, and the secondaries have a white spot at the end 
of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen dusky brown, the underside of the abdomen creamy-white ; legs 
black. Expanse 22 inches. 


Hab. Panama (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


This species is very distinct, but is most nearly allied to P. bivittata, Walk. The 
only specimen known to me is in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


15. Pericopis umbra, sp. n. (Tab. XII. fig. 2.) 


Primaries brownish-black clouded with pale yellow, a short transverse band near the apex ; secondaries orange- 
yellow with the outer half brownish-black, a submarginal row of large orange-coloured spots and a 
marginal row of very minute white dots: head and thorax dusky brown; abdomen yellowish-brown,. 
lightest close to the base, a black line down the middle from the base to the anus, underside black. 
Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Satvapor (mus. Staudinger). 


Of this species I have only seen a single specimen, in poor condition. 


16. Pericopis histrio. 
Anthomyza histrio, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 103. fig. 5. 
Chetone histrio, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. viii. p. 290°; xvi. p. 168°; Boisd. Lép.. 
Guat. p. 91°. 
Pericopis histrio, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 58%. 
Hab. Guatrmata?; Honpuras?; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. Stau- 


dinger).— Amazons 124; Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.). 


The specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is the only one I have seen from our 
country; it agrees well with Dr. Felder’s figure, also with specimens in my own coliec- 
tion from Ecuador. 


17. Pericopis angulosa. 
Pericopis angulosa, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 345°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 55. 
Chetone angulosa, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 168. ; 
Chetone heliconides, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 91°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 257, 
Pericopis irenides, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 88°; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 58. 
Chetone irenides, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 169. 

Hab. Guatemata?, Panima (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, mus. Oxford) ; 
Costa Rica, Cartago? (Van Patten, mus. D.), Cache (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA }. 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1885. pp 


114 HETEROCERA. 


This species varies to a considerable extent, both in the brown bands of the primaries 
and also in colour. Having compared the types of the above-mentioned so-called species 
together, and with a good series of specimens, I do not hesitate to consider all to belong 
to one and the same species. The type specimen of Boisduval’s C. heliconides is labelled 
as from Colombia, although he gives Guatemala as the locality in his description. 


18. Pericopis felderi. (Tab. XII. fig. 4.) 
Chetone felderi, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p.91*; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 256; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 168. 


Hab. Nicaragua 1. 


I am indebted to the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir for sending me Boisduval’s type to 
figure ; it is the only specimen known to me. P. felderi is a very distinct species, and 
easily recognized from all its allies by the white bands and spots of the primaries and 
secondaries, 


19. Pericopis salvini. (Tab. XII. fig. 3.) 
Anthomyza salvini, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 108. £.8'; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 
vill. p. 290. 
Pericopis salvini, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 58. 
Chetone salvini, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 168. 
Hab. CentraL America (Salvin, mus. Felder)!; Guaremana, Polochic valley (Salvin, 
mus. Oxford); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger). 


I have figured what I believe to be the male of Dr. Felder’s species; it agrees in 
many respects with his figure, but the primaries are much blacker, reducing the fulvous 
area to two longitudinal bands. 


20. Pericopis ithomia. 
Anthomyza ithomia, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 108. f. 77. 
Chetone ithomia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 169; Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 92. 
Hab. Centra America (Salvin, mus. Felder)!; GUATEMALA, Chacoj in Vera Paz 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ride). 


I have received specimens of this insect as P. lycorea, Staud.; but I cannot find the 
description, and therefore take it to be a manuscript name. 


21. Pericopis pheba. 
Chetone pheba, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 90’. 
Phaloé pheba, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xvi. p. 169°. 
Pericopis isse, Walk. (nec Hiibn.) Cat. ii. p. 344, 


Hab. 1 Guatemaia 1—Amazons?; Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.). 


The occurrence of this species in our country is doubtful; the only authority I have 


ISOSTOLA.—GNOPH.ALA. 115 


for including it is Boisduval’s. I have compared the type with a fine series of speci- 
mens in my own collection, and find that it is in every respect similar to examples 
from Ecuador 


ISOSTOLA. 
Isostola, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 103. f. 15. 


This genus was founded by Dr. Felder for the reception of an insect (I. rhodobroncha) 
discovered by Mr. Bates on the Amazons. 


1. Isostola superba, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries and secondaries deep black with a brilliant dark blue gloss, the base of the former pale blue; a central 
whitish-hyaline band from the base to beyond the middle of the primaries, and a transverse band of the 
same colour beyond and nearer the apex; secondaries with a central hyaline streak, the inner margin 
also hyaline: head, thorax, and abdomen bright glossy blue; the abdomen with a narrow central white 
line; on the underside the abdomen is quite white ; antenne black, rather deeply pectinated ; legs black 
on the upper side, white beneath. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatumata, Teleman in the Polochic valley (Champion). 


Of this beautiful species Mr. Champion only obtained two examples, both of which 
are in the finest condition; it is allied to 7. rhodobroncha, Feld., but is easily distin- 
guished from that species by its more elegant form and more hyaline markings. 


GNOPHALA. 


Gnophela, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 330; Stretch, Illust. of the Zygenide and Bombycide of North 
America, p. 35 (1872-73). 

This genus was founded by the late Mr. Walker for the reception of a species said 
to come from South America; this locality appears to me to be very doubtful. The 
known species are all from North America and Mexico, one only having been recorded 
from as far south as Nicaragua. Gnophela has been placed in the Zygenide by several 
authors, but it appears to me to be much more nearly related to Pericopis; I have 
therefore ventured to place it near that genus. 


1. Gnophela zquinoctialis. 
Dioptis equinoctialis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 831°. 
Gnophela equinoctialis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 87”. 
Hab. Mexico, Milpas 5900 feet (Forrer), Esperanza, Jalapa (Hége); Nicaragua 2.— 
? Soura America 1, Venezuela 2. 


This species appears to be pretty common in Mexico ; the long series of specimens 
before me all agree well with Walker’s type in the British Museum ; the females are 
considerably larger than the males, in this respect differing from the other known 
species. 


pp 2 


116 HETEROCERA. 


2. Gnophela morrisoni*, sp. n. (Tab. XII. fig. 7.) 


Allied to and about the same size as G. hopfferi, but differs from that species in the ground colour of the wings 
being deep glossy blue-black, instead of dull black; the pale-coloured markings are much larger and more 
transparent, and the apical band consists of four distinct spots instead of three, as in G. hopfferi. 


Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 


This insect is very closely allied to G. hopfferi; in fact I think it is probably a 
southern form of that species, specimens of which, collected by Lord Walsingham in 
California, are before me, but it is always easily distinguished from G. hopfferi by the 
above-mentioned differences. Of G. morrisoni I have fifteen examples before me sent to 
Mr. Godman and myself by the late Mr. H. K. Morrison, after whom I have named it. 


Subfam. ARCTIINA. 


LEUCARCTIA. 
Leucarctia, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iu. p. 124. 


This genus is closely allied to Spilosoma; the species are, however, mostly larger in 
size, and possess a different style of coloration, besides which there are other important 
characters that warrant its separation from that genus. 


1, Leucarctia acrea. 

Bombyx acria, Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. 1. t. 3. £. 2. 

Bombyx caprotina, Drury, Il. Nat. Hist. i. t. 3. £.3; Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 287. f. C. 

Phalena acria, Smith, Lep. Ins. Georg. 11. p. 133, t. 67. 

Estigmene acria, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. t. 191; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 184. 

Arctia pseuderminea, Harris, Mass. Ag. Rep. p. 382, t. 1. 

Arctia acria, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass. p. 591. 

Spilosoma acrea, Walk. Cat. iil. p. 667; Duncan, Nat. Lib. xxxii. p. 171, t. 20. figg. 1, 2,3; Clem. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 531; Harris, 1. c. 3rd ed. t. 6. figg. 9, 10, fig. 169, larva; Morris, 
Syn. Lep. N. Am., Suppl. p. 342. 

Leucarctia acrea, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. in. p. 124; Stretch, Illust. of Zyg. and Bomb. 
N. Am. p. 99, t. 4. figg. 1, 2, 3, t. 10. f. 6, larva. 

Hab. Norru America.—MeExico, Presidio (Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge). 


This species is a very common one throughout North America, and its range extends 
as far south as Mexico. It appears to be a very variable insect: in some specimens 
before me the black spots are almost absent, in others they are exceedingly well defined ; 
but in a long series of specimens I find every grade from a white wing thickly spotted 
with black to a wing almost white and with exceedingly few spots; in fact I cannot 
detect any difference whereby to separate them, although if I took individual specimens 
I might easily describe them as distinct species, 


* The name of this species is erroneously given as Gonophela morrisont on the Plate. 


LEUCARCTIA.—SALLAA. 117 


2. Leucarctia albida. 
Leucarctia albida, Stretch, Ulust. of Zyg. and Bomb. N. Am. p. 208, t. 8. f. 22; Report upon 
Expl. West. 100th Mer. (Wheeler) V. Zool. p. 798, t. xl. figg. 4, 5. 

Hab. Norra America, California !—Britis Honpvras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaua) ; 
‘Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio, Cache (Rogers, Van Patten). 

The examples from Costa Rica agree well with Stretch’s figure. Stretch states 
that he has a specimen of the male from Costa Rica, sent to him by Van Patten, and 
that the female was then unknown. I have specimens of the female before me, and 
find that they are similar to the male, but considerably larger; in no other respect 


‘do they differ. 
SPILOSOMA. 


Spilosoma, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 74. 
This genus is represented in our country by one species only. 


1. Spilosoma mexicana. 
Sptlosoma mexicana, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 291°. 


Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé)}. 
ROBINSONIA. 
Robinsonia, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 241. 


This genus is closely allied to Sall@a, Felder, from which it is easily distinguished by 
‘its much longer and narrower wings. 


1. Robinsonia formula. 
Robinsonia formula, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 241, t. 4. f. 33. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. 


Staudinger).—Cusa | (Poey). 
I have received a single specimen of what I believe to be a female of this species ; it 
‘is in very bad condition. 


2. Robinsonia perfecta. 
Robinsonia perfecta, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 60’. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus)}. 
Mr. Edwards states that this species is closely allied to &. formula, Grote. I have 
not seen a specimen, but from the description I doubt its being distinct. 


. SALLZEA *. 
Sallea, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 101. f. 10 (Nov. 1874). 


This genus was founded by Dr. Felder for the reception of a species from Mexico. 


* The name Sallea has also been used by Chevrolat (Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 286) and Gorham (B.C. A. 
Col. iii. pt. 2, p. 164) for a genus of Cleride. 


118 HETEROCERA. 


1. Sallza ochrosterna. 
Sallea ochrosterna, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 101. f. 10°. 


Hab. Mexico !, Jalapa (Hége). 
This species is well figured by Dr. Felder. I have only seen two specimens, a male 
and a female ; it appears to be a very rare insect. 


ARCTIA. 


Arctia, Schrank, Faun. Boic. ii. part 2, p. 152 (1802). 
This genus is very widely distributed over the globe, species being found throughout 
Europe, Asia, and North America. 


1. Arctia docta. 
Euprepia docta, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 592°. 
Arctia mexicana, Grote and Robinson, Ann. Lyc. New York, viii. p. 367, t. 13. f. 3”. 
Chelonia autholea, Boisd. Lep. Calif. p. 76 *. 
Arctia autholea, Stretch, Illust. of Zyg. and Bomb. N. Am. p. 74, t. 3. figg. 3, 4°, 
Hab. Norta America, California *4.—Mexico!?3%, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata |, 
Panajachel 5000 feet, Purula, Balheu (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache, Irazu 6000 to 


7000 feet (Rogers, Van Patten). 

Upon comparing Mr. Grote’s type of A. mexicana with Walker’s specimen of A. docta 
in the British Museum, I find that they are identical. This species varies very much 
in both sexes: I have a very fine series of specimens before me; in some of them the 
dark markings of the primaries are quite small and almost obliterated, in others the 
primaries are almost black ; the secondaries of the females vary from red with a few 
black spots to having the outer half of the wing entirely black. In Mexico and Costa 
Rica this insect appears to be very common, but in Guatemala Mr. Champion obtained 
very few examples. 


2. Arctia eminens. 
Arctia eminens, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 59*. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) }. 


. HERACLIA. 
Heraclia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 180. 


One species of this genus occurs in our country. 


1. Heraclia fervida. 
Arctia fervida, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 6124. 
Heracha commizta, Butl. Ill. Lep. Het. p. 54, t. 19. f. 17. 
Hab. GuatTeMata 1 2, 


ANTARCTIA.—EUCHATES. 119 


Upon inquiring for the type of Walker’s A. fervida in the British Museum, I found 
that it had been redescribed by Mr. Butler through Walker having omitted to attach 
his name to the specimen; but upon reference to the registers I found that the 
individual named by Mr. Butler was the specimen upon which Walker founded his 
description. It is the only specimen I have seen. 


ANTARCTIA. 
Antarctia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 191. 


This genus now has seven or eight species placed in it, one of which inhabits Mexico. 


1. Antarctia expressa. 
Antarctia expressa, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 60°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) 1. 


EUCH ATES. 
Euchetes, Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 257. 


1. Kuchetes immanis. 
EHuchetes immanis, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 75°. 
Hab. Muxico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) }. 


2. Euchetes emendatus. 
Euchetes emendatus, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 61’. 
Hab. Muxico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) }. 


Mr. Edwards states that this species is allied to his E. inopinatus. It is quite 
unknown to me. 


3. Kuchaetes fumidus. 
Euchetes fumidus, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 61°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) 3. 


Fam. CHALCOSIID A. 


The family Chalcosiide, so far as it is known to me, is only represented in our 
country, or indeed in the whole of the Neotropical Region, by one genus, Gingla, now 
containing three species (two of which are described here as new) of great interest, all 
being mimics of insects belonging to widely different families and genera. This family 
has recently been placed by Mr. Butler next the Agaristide, and I think well placed 
for the time being, but it seems to me in many points to be very nearly allied to the 
Lithosiide. At the time of the publication of the species belonging to the family 
Agaristide I was not in possession of any specimens belonging to this family; but I 
think it better to include it in this place and describe the new species, than to allow 
it to remain till the publication of the Supplement. 


120 HETEROCERA. 


| GINGLA. 
Gingla, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 128. 
Gingla does not appear to be nearly allied to any described genus, and, as far as at 
present known to me, it is restricted to Mexico and Guatemala. 


1. Gingla radialis. (Tab. XII. fig. 26.) 
Gingla radialis, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 1287. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Stevens)'; Guatemaa, Calderas, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


The specimen from Calderas differs slightly from those from San Gerénimo in colour ; 
it is rather paler and the black marginal border of the secondaries is much narrower, 
but in all other respects it is identical. 


2. Gingla josialis, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries deep black, with the costal margin from the base to near the middle edged with chrome-yellow,, 
the inner margin broadly banded with chrome-yellow, a short black line from the base but not extending 
to the middle of the wing; secondaries black, the costal margin broadly bordered with yellow to the 
middle of the wing, the inner and half the outer margin narrowly bordered with yellow: head, 
thorax, and abdomen black, the sides streaked with bright yellow; antenne and legs black. Expanse 
1} inch. . 

Hab. GuatemaLa, Panima and Cubilguitz (Champion). 
This beautiful little species resembles, to some extent, the Colombian Josia ligata, 


Walk. 


8. Gingla tortricalis, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 28.) 


Primaries deep orange-yellow, with the costal and outer margins edged with black and white narrow streaks ; 
secondaries orange-yellow, streaked with bluish-black: antenne and head black; thorax black; tegule 
yellow ; abdomen blue-black, banded with yellow; legs black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Logers). 
This pretty little insect closely resembles Aterica rivularis, Butl.; but it has 
more black on the secondaries. 


Fam. LITHOSIIDZ. 
This family, as at present recognized, has been very considerably altered since the 
publication of Walker’s Catalogue, and many of the species included in it by that 
author have been removed into other families ; it is well represented in our country. 


CHRYSOCALE. 
Chrysocale, Walker, Cat. i. p. 208. 

This genus, as restricted by Mr. Butler, has now only one species placed in it. 
Mr. Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 325) says, “This generic name cannot be retained 
as originally applied; I have therefore adopted it for C. magnifica only, using Walker’s 
extension of the group.” 


CHRYSOCALE.—APISTOSIA. 121 


1. Chrysocale magnifica. (Tab. XII. fig. 10.) 
Chrysocale magnifica, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 96*; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 325, t. 8. figg. J, 2. 
Hab. Panama, Volean de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger).—Co.omBtA, Bogota? ; 
Ecuapor, Sarayacu (Buckley, mus. D.). 


I have only seen a single example of this fine insect from our country; it agrees in 
every respect with those sent me from Ecuador. For the pleasure of adding it to our 
fauna I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Staudinger, who forwarded me his example 
for determination. The figure is taken from his specimen. 


APISTOSIA. 
Apistosia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1638. 


This genus is closely allied to Antona, Walk. 


1. Apistosia judas. 


Apistosia judas, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 163. no. 1693; Zutr. erst. Hund. p. 13, figg. 51, 52; 
Walk. Cat. ii. p. 478‘; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 326 * 


Hab. Guaremata 2; Honpuras (Dyson)'?; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 
Bugaba (Champion). 

I have only received two examples of this insect; it differs from all the nearly allied 
forms in having the head and thorax bright red. 


2. Apistosia terminalis. 
Apistosia terminalis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 478°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 326’. 
Hab. Mexico (Doubleday) } *. 


I have not received any specimens from Mexico that quite agree with this species, 
though some are very nearly allied. 


3. Apistosia tenebrosa, sp. n. 


Closely allied to A. judas, Hiibn.; the primaries are browner and the secondaries have a dark blue gloss: head 
and front of thorax orange-yellow, as in A. judas, but the tegule are black instead of yellow; anus 
yellow ; abdomen blue-black ; antennz and legs black. Expanse 132 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


A specimen of this insect is in the British Museum collection under the name of 
A. tenebrosa, Walk. ; but I cannot find that it was ever described by that author. 
Although closely allied to A. judas it may at once be distinguished from that species by 
the tegule being black and the anus yellow, the reverse being the case in A. judas. 


4. Apistosia metella, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries glossy bronze-green ; secondaries dark bluish-black, with a central semihyaline streak: head and 
collar orange ; thorax, tegule, and abdomen greenish-black, the underside of the abdomen bright orange ; 
antenne and legs black. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Guaremaa, Capetillo (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 18385. 99 


122 HETEROCERA. 


This species is very like A. judas, from which it is at once distinguished by the 
tegule being black and also by the hyaline streak on the secondaries. 


5. Apistosia sylla, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 8.) 
Primaries greenish-black ; secondaries uniform deep black ; head and antenne black; collar and front of thorax 


brick-red ; thorax and abdomen black, the underside of the latter bright red; legs greenish-black. 
Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


This species appears to be very common on the Volcano of Chiriqui. 


6. Apistosia enna, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 9.) 


Primaries glossy greenish-black ; secondaries whitish hyaline, broadly bordered with black: head, collar, and 


tegule dark orange; thorax and abdomen black ; the abdomen on the underside close to the anus bright 
orange ; antenne and legs black. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


This species is quite unlike any other known to me. 


LERINA. 
Lerina, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 477. 


Walker founded this genus upon a Mexican insect. 


1. Lerina incarnata. 


Lerina incarnata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 477°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 326. 
Hab. Mexico (Doubleday) 1, Guanajuato (Boucard, mus. D.). 


TUINA *. 
Tuina=TItuna (Walker, nec Doubleday), Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 326. 
Ltuna, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 480. 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of a single species from Honduras; it 
appears to be closely allied to Apistosia. 


1. Tuina cingulata. (Tab. XII. fig. 11.) 
Ituna cingulata, Walk. Cat. u. p. 481°. 


Tuina cingulata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 326°. 
Hab. GuatEMaLa, San Gerénime (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson) 12. 


A single specimen of this species was taken by Mr. Champion; it agrees well with 
the type in every respect. 


2. Tuina sangala, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries greenish-black ; secondaries bright carmine, broadly bordered with deep black: head, thorax, and 


abdomen black ; tegule and sides of the abdomen orange-yellow ; antenne and legs black. Expanse 
1 inch. 


* The name of this genus is erroneously printed Tunia on the Plate. 


CQMENTA.—CISTHENE, 123 


Hab. Guatemata, Panima (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, mus. 
Staudinger). 

This pretty little species is allied to 7. cingulata, Walk., from which it is distin- 
guished by its bright carmine hind wings. 


CCEMENTA, n. g. 


Primaries long, rather narrow and much rounded at the anal angle; secondaries short and broad, not reaching 
the anal angle of the primaries: head small, palpi very minute ; antenne stout and slightly pectinated ; 
thorax broad and rather flat; abdomen short and thick, only just extending beyond the secondaries ; 
legs short and stout. 


This genus seems allied to Tuina, Walker, from which it differs in its narrower and 
more rounded wings, much smaller palpi, and more robust antenne. 


1. Comenta timon, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 1.) 
Primaries brownish-black ; secondaries bright red, the margins black: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish- 
black, a bluish line on each side of the abdomen; antennee and legs greenish-black. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
Only a single example of this species was obtained; it reminds one at first sight of 
a Zygcena, but the neuration differs very greatly from that genus. 


2. Cementa morio, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 2.) | 
Primaries uniform bluish-black ; secondaries very dark blue: head, thorax, and abdomen glossy black, the 
sides of the abdomen red; antenns, palpi, and legs black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 

This species seems to be rare: Mr. Champion only captured a single example in 
Guatemala; from Costa Rica two specimens in very poor condition were obtained by 
Mr. Rogers. 

CISTHENE. 

Cisthene, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 533. 

All the species of this genus seem to be rare; I have only received a very few 
examples from our country. The genus was founded by Walker for the reception of a 
species from Venezuela. 


1. Cisthene unifascia. 
Cisthene unifascia, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 187, t. 2. fig. 63'; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1877, p. 8277. 
Hab. Norra America, Texas (Belfrage) 12.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


A single example only of this species has been received from our country. 


2. Cisthene polyzona, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 
Primaries pale brown, with a creamy-white spot on the costal margin beyond the middle, and two creamy- 
white spots on the inner margin, the first close to the base, the second beyond and nearer the anal angle ; 


99 2 


124 HETEROCERA. 


secondaries pale pink, bordered with black at the apex: head and thorax creamy-white ; abdomen pink ; 
legs pinkish-white ; antenne black. Expanse 4 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer); Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 


This pretty little species is allied to C. unifascia, Grote; the example from the 
State of Panama is considerably smaller than the one from Mexico, but in all other 
respects they are alike. 


3. Cisthene citrina, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries pale glossy yellow, with two narrow black bands crossing from the costal to the inner margin, a 
small black streak from the middle of the second band to the outer margin; secondaries dark yellow, 
broadly bordered with black from the apex to the middle of the outer margin: head black ; thorax pale 
yellow ; abdomen dark yellow; antenne black, with the tips pale yellow ; legs black. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Only a single example of this beautiful little insect was obtained. 


4, Cisthene criton, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 16.) 


Primaries black ; secondaries very bright pale blue, broadly bordered with black: head, thorax, and antenne 
black ; abdomen bright greenish-blue; legs black. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Purula (Champion). 

I am doubtful if this species should be placed in the genus Cisthene, but only having 
a single example I am unable to determine that point with certainty; the primaries 
are considerably narrower and longer. 


ODOZANA. 
Odozana, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 109. 
This genus appears to me to be best included in the Lithosiide near Talara. 
Walker placed it in the Zygeenide before the genus Urodus, with which it does not 
seem to me to have any affinity. 


1. Odozana floccosa. (Tab. XII. fig. 18.) 
Odozana floccosa, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 110°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger), Bugaba between 800 
and 1500 feet (Champion).—AmMazons, Ega (Bates) }. 


Of this very curious little species I have only received a single example; the specimen 
in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is a very small one. 


2. Odozana hercyna, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 17.) 


Primaries brownish-black, lightest near the apex; secondaries bright carmine, with the costal margin and 
apex brown: head, thorax, antenne, and legs black; abdomen red, with the anal tuft orange-red. 
Expanse 4 inch. 


Hab. GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


This species is allied to 0. floccosa, Walker; the red secondaries, however, at once 
distinguish it from that species. 


ODOZANA.—TALARA. 125 


8. Odozana elis, sp. n. (Tab. XII. fig. 19.) 


Primaries uniform glossy greenish-brown ; secondaries similar but paler in colour: head, thorax, and abdomen 
brownish-black, the anal tuft yellow and black; legs black ; (antenne wanting ;) underside uniform pale 
brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuaveMaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion). 


I have only received a single example of this dull-coloured little species; it is quite 
different from all others known to me. 


4. Odozana cordatula, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 20.) 


Primaries uniform glossy brown; secondaries yellow, broadly banded with brown at the apex: head, thorax, 
and abdomen brownish-black, the abdomen banded in the middle with reddish-yellow ; antenne and legs 
black. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Las Mercedes (Champion). 
In O. cordatula the hind wing is more produced at the anal angle than in any other 
species of the genus known to me. 


5. Odozana hippona, sp. n. (Tab. XII. fig. 15.) 


Primaries uniform golden-brown, with a greenish shot in some lights ; secondaries bright red: head, thorax, 
and antenne brownish-black ; abdomen and anal tuft yellowish-red; underside the same as above, but 
paler in colour. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. GuateMaa, Cubilguitz and Panima (Champion). 
Of this pretty little species Mr. Champion only obtained two specimens. 


TALARA. 
Talara, Walker, Cat. xxxv. p. 1891. 


Walker founded this genus for a small Amazonian insect, and states that it has an 
affinity with the Zygenide. This I fail to see, as it is most certainly one of the 
Lithosiide, in which family Mr. Butler has lately placed it. 


1. Talara coccinea. 
Talara coccinea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 329°. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion).— Amazons, Villa Nova}. 


The example from the State of Panama agrees well in all respects with Mr. Butler’s 
type in the British Museum. The specimen taken by Mr. Champion is the only one 
that I have seen from our country. | 


2. Talara pelopia, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 21.) 
Primaries dark orange-yellow, except the apex and outer margin, which is broadly bordered with black ; 
secondaries dark yellow, broadly bordered with black: head, thorax, and abdomen black ; tegule orange- 
yellow; antennée and legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to 7. coccinea, Butl., from which it is readily distinguished by 
the wide black outer margin of the primaries and by the yellow on the secondaries. 


126 HETEROCERA. 


PSEUDOTALARA, n. g. 


Allied to Talara, but the primaries and secondaries longer and not quite so broad ; the costal margin of the 
former rather more arched and rounder at the apex ; the secondaries very much rounded from the apex 
to the anal angle: head small, palpi very minute; antenne long and slender; thorax and abdomen 
rather slender, the abdomen extending slightly beyond the wings; legs long. 


1. Pseudotalara chrysippa, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 22.) 


Primaries black, with two streaks of yellow, the first extending from the base to near the anal angle, the second 
starting from the middle and nearly reaching the apex; secondaries orange-yellow, bordered with black 
at the apex and along part of the outer margin: head, thorax, and abdomen black; antenne and legs 
black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GvuaTEMALA, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet (Champion). 


This pretty little species is very distinct from any other known to me. 


BRYCEA. 
Brycea, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 568. 


Walker founded this genus upon a Brazilian insect. 


1. Brycea disjuncta. (Tab. XII. fig. 23.) 
Brycea disjuncta, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 5631; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 330’. 
Euchelia jenna, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 96°. 

Hab. Mexico®?; Guatemaua ?.—Braziu ! 2. 

Through the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir I have been enabled to see Boisduval’s 
type, and upon comparing it with Walker’s I find them in all respects similar. I very 
much doubt the occurrence of the species in our country, not having received a single 
specimen in any of the larger collections that have come into my hands during the 
last few years. I have specimens in my own collection from South-east Brazil. 


GERBA. 
Gerba, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 270. 


This genus is scarcely distinct from Ruscino, Walk. 


1. Gerba quadrifasciata. 
Gerba quadrifasciata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 270°. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé) 1, 


The only example of this species known to me is the type in the British Museum. 


RUSCINO. 
Ruscino, Walker, Cat. 11. p. 5638. 


In our country this genus is represented, as far as I know, by five species of very 
doubtful value ; in fact I believe that when we have sufficient material we shall find 
that they are nothing but slight varieties of one or at most two species. 


RUSCINO.—PYRALOPSIS. 127 


1, Ruscino arctifascia. 
Ruscino arctifascia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 3301. 
Ruscino menea, Walker (nec Drury), Cat. ii. p. 564 2. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson)! 2. 


This species appears to be scarce ; I have not received any specimens. 


2. Ruscino latifasciata. (Tab. XII. fig. 24.) 
Ruscino latifasciatus, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 341; Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, 
p. 330. 
Hab. GuateMaua, Cubulco, Teleman, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Veraguas 
(Arcé). 
This species differs from all the other described forms by having all the markings a 
much deeper black, and by the very much wider black borders of the secondaries; at 
the same time I think it is more than probable that it is only a seasonal form of 


Li. letifera. 


3. Ruscino letifera. 
Ruscino letifera, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 264+; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 330. 
Hab. Mexico’, Jalapa (Hége); Guaremata, Zapote (Champion); Nicaracua, 
Chontales (Belt). 


4. Ruscino lunaris. 
Cisthene lunaris, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 2417. 
Ruscino lunaris, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 880. 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan ?.—CotomBi, Bogota }. 
I include this species in our fauna upon the authority of the specimen in the British 
Museum. I have not received any specimens of it. 


5. Ruscino menea. 
Phalena (Noctua) menea, Drury, I. Nat. Hist. i. t. 3. f. 2; Walk. Cat. vii. p. 17791. 
Ruscino menea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 3307. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.). 


—Braziu } 2. _ 
The example from Colon is rather paler in colour than the others, but in all respects 
it agrees well with them. 
PYRALOPSIS. 
Pyralopsis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 18, Index, p. 8; Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 94. 


This genus was founded by Dr. Felder upon an insect from GQuatemala*. 


* Pyralopsis divisa, Boisd. (= Mapeta wanthomelas, Walk.), belongs to the Pyralids. 
yratop up yr 


128 HETEROCERA. 


1. Pyralopsis homalochroa. 
Pyralopsis homalochroa, Feld. loc. cit.1; Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 94’. 


Hab. GuateMata ! 2, 


I have not seen an example of this species, said to be rather common in Guatemala. 


MESENOCHROA*. 
Mesenochroa, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. fig. 80, Index, p. 6. 


This genus is very closely allied to Pyralopsis, and is figured by Dr. Felder on the 
same plate; in fact I think it is exceedingly doubtful if they are distinct. 


1. Mesenochroa guatemalteca. 
Mesenochroa guatemalteca, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 30°. 
Pyralopsis guatemalteca, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 94:?. 
Hab. Guatemata! 2, Purula (Champion). 


Of this pretty little species Mr. Champion obtained but few examples; he only met 
with it at Purula. Boisduval states it to be common in Guatemala. 


2. Mesenochroa rogersi, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 25.) 

Allied to M. guatemalteca, Feld. Primaries orange-red, the black spots and streaks very similar, but the spots 
are considerably larger, an indistinct band of black spots crossing the middle of the wing from the costal 
to the inner margin ; secondaries orange-red, with a wide bluish-black streak from the base along the 
abdominal margin, the outer row of black streaks larger than they are in M. guatemalteca: head, 
antenne, and palpi black ; thorax orange; abdomen black, banded with orange; legs black. Expanse 
1} inch. 

Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 

This beautiful species is closely allied to WM. guatemalteca, Feld., from which it is 
readily distinguished by its much duller colour and blacker markings on both wings. 
It seems to be confined to Costa Rica, as I have no evidence of its occurrence in any 
other locality. 


JOSIODES. 


Josiodes, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 106. f. 28, Index, p. 5. 
Josioides, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 331. 


Dr. Felder founded this genus upon an Amazonian species (J. batest). 


1. Josiodes distincta. 
Josiodes distincta, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 14°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus)}. 


This species is quite unknown to me. 


* The name of this genus is erroneously given as Mesenochia on the Plate. 


JOSIODES.—PTYCHOGLENE. 129 


2. Josiodes inversa. 
Josiodes inversa, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 14’. 
Hab. Mxxico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus)!. 


** Closely allied to the preceding species, and possibly only the other sex” (Edwards). 


PTYCHOGLENE. 
Ptychoglene, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. f. 26, Index, p. 8. 


Dr. Felder founded this genus for the reception of a Mexican insect. Two species 
described by Walker, and placed by him in the genus Lithosia, evidently belong to this 
genus, and have been so placed by Mr. Butler in his paper on the Lithosiide (Trans. 
Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 325). 


1. Ptychoglene erythrophora. 
Ptychoglene erythrophora, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. f. 26, Index, p. 8'; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1877, p. 346. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet (Forrer). 


Two examples of this species were sent ; they agree perfectly with Felder’s figure. 


2. Ptychoglene sxqualis. 
Inthosia equalis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 511°. 
Ptychoglene equalis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 346’. 
Hab. Mzxico, Cordova (Riimelt); Guatemata!?, Cachil, El] Jicaro, San Gerénimo 
(Champion). 
The specimens sent agree well with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


3. Ptychoglene sanguineola. 
Lithosia sanguineola, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 95°. 
Ptychoglene sanguineola, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 346°. 
Hab. Mexico! 2, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemaa!, Cachil (Champion). 


This is the largest species in the genus. 


4. Ptychoglene xylophila, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 1.) 
Primaries bright red, broadly bordered with black from the apex to the inner margin ; secondaries deep black, 
the costal margin streaked with red: head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen deep black; tegule bright 
red; legs and palpi black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Ventanas 2000 feet (Forrer); GuatemaLa, Cahabon, Cubilguitz, San 
Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 

This species is allied to P. equalis, Walk., from which it can at once be distin- 
guished by the entirely different black margin to the primaries. 
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130 | HETEROCERA. 


5. Ptychoglene rubromarginata, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries uniform dull brownish black, the costal margin of the former narrowly bordered 
from the base to the apex with bright carmine: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black ; tegulee 
carmine ; antennez and legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


‘ Hab. Costa Rica (Boucard, mus. D.). 
A small species very distinct from all that I am acquainted with. 


INOPSIS. 
Inopsis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. £. 6, Index, p. 5. 


This is one of many genera figured by Felder without any description; it was 
founded upon a single species, I. catoxantha, from Mexico. 


1. Inopsis catoxantha. 
Inopsis catoxantha, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. f. 67. 
Hab. Mexico! (Bilimek). 


I have not seen any specimens of this species. 


ARDONEA. 
Ardonea, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 482. 


Walker founded Ardonea upon a Venezuelan insect, and afterwards placed another 
species belonging to a very different genus with it; the insect described by Walker is 
very common, and found throughout Tropical America. 


1. Ardonea morio. 
Ardonea morio, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 4827; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 348°. 
Doracis coracina, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 96°. 

Hab. Mexico*?, State of Durango (Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli, Boucard, mus. D.); 
British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneauxr); GuateMaLa, San Gerénimo, Perula 
(Champion) ; Honpuras?; Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.), San Francisco 4500 feet, 
Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, David, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion).—CotomBt1a, Bogota (mus. D.); VENEZUELA! 2, 


This species appears to be very common in Guatemala and Costa Rica, but from the 
State of Panama I have only seen two examples; it also occurs sparingly in Colombia 
and Venezuela. It varies considerably in colour and size: some specimens are dark 
bluish black, others are shaded with green, and others almost dull black. 


LITHOSIA. 
Lithosia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 419 (1798). 


This genus is very widely distributed over the globe, a large number of species 
having been described. In our country it is represented by about five species. 


LITHOSIA. 131 


1. Lithosia mexicana, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. figg. 23, 32.) 

Male. Primaries grey, the costal and inner margins narrowly edged with light yellow, a central narrow yellow 
band extends from the base to the outer margin near the apex, and a second yellow streak from the anal 
angle to about the middle of the wing; secondaries cream-colour, with the costal margin streaked with 
grey: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey; antenne black; the tegule pale red; legs brown. 
The female differs from the male in its larger size and grey hind wings. Expanse, ¢ #, 91 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), State of Durango (forrer); GuatTemMaLa, San Ger6é- 
nimo, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion). 


In Mexico and Guatemala this little species appears to be pretty common; from the 
former country I have received a considerable number of specimens, but all in poor 
condition. The figures are from Guatemalan examples. 


2. Lithosia laudamia, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 4, 2.) 


Male. Primaries brownish grey, with a narrow central streak and the inner margin pale yellow; secondaries 
yellow, broadly banded with greyish brown at the apex: head and front of the thorax pale yellow, the 
thorax pinkish yellow; abdomen yellow; antennz black; legs brownish yellow. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuatuMa.a, Senahu (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Cache 
(Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


3. Lithosia alba, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries uniform silky white, slightly tinged with pale yellow on the costal margin of the 
primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white; antenne white from the base to about the 
middle, from the middle to the tip black; legs pale brown. Expanse # inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Mr. Champion only obtained a single example of this little species, differing from all 
others that I have seen. 


4, Lithosia lutea, sp. n. 


Primaries yellowish white; secondaries pale brownish drab, the fringe rather lighter: head, thorax, and 
abdomen brownish yellow; antenne black; the legs brown; the underside of both wings dark brown. 
Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Only two examples of this distinct species were obtained by Mr. Champion. 


5. Lithosia intermedia, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform glossy cream-colour, slightly darker at the base of both wings: head, 
thorax, and abdomen dark cream-colour; antenne black; legs brownish white; the underside of both 
wings pale brownish yellow. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Mxxico, Cordova (Riimelt). 


This insect is allied to the preceding species, from which it is easily distinguished 
by its much paler and more glossy primaries, and the secondaries being cream-colour 
instead of brownish drab. Only a single example was sent. 


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132 HETEROCERA. 


ATOLMIS. 
Atolmis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 164. 

Hibner places two species in this genus, but I think it very doubtful if the second 
of them should be included. Judging from his figure of it I do not consider it to belong 
to this genus: at the same time I have no specimens of the species before me; I there- 
fore cannot be certain upon this point. 


1. Atolmis flavicollis, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries uniform silky greyish black; secondaries dull black: head, collar, and anus light yellow; thorax 
and abdomen dull black; antenn and legs black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5000 feet (Forrer). 

This species is most nearly allied to the European A. rubricollis, but differs from 
that insect in having the head yellow instead of black, and only the anal segments 
yellow instead of half the abdomen; in colour it is more grey. 


CRAMBOMORPHA. 
Crambomorpha, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. ff. 9, 10, Index, p. 3. 


This genus was founded by Dr. Felder for a Colombian species closely resembling 
the genus Crambus, although belonging to the family Lithosiide. 


1. Crambomorpha argentea. 
Crambomorpha argentea, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106.f. 10*; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 ?. 
Hab. Guatemana, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—CotomBia, Bogota!; Sovru-nast Brazin (mus. D.), 
Espiritu Santo 2. 
In our country this insect appears to be very scarce; from Rio Janeiro I have received 
a large number of specimens agreeing well with the examples before me from Guatemala. 


2. Crambomorpha umbrifera. 
Crambomorpha umbrifera, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 106. f. 9°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion).—Co.omB1A, Bogota}. 


The examples from our country agree fairly well with Dr. Felder’s figure, but are 
rather smaller and not quite so much coloured. The species appears to be rare; I have 
only received two specimens. 


3. Crambomorpha sericea, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform silky white, the inner margin of the primaries slightly shaded with yellow: 
head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white; antenne yellow. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); GuaremaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion). 


This species is closely allied to C. argentea, Felder, from which it is easily distin- 


AREVA.—EURYLOMIA. 133 


guished by the absence of the yellow costal margin of the primaries. The examples 
from Guatemala are considerably smaller than those from Mexico. 


AREVA. 
Areva, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 525. 

This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of an insect from Venezuela; it 
is most nearly allied to the preceding genus. The species are by no means common in 
our country; but from South-east Brazil I have long series of several undescribed 
forms that seem to occur most abundantly, judging from the numbers received. 


1. Areva laticilia. 
Areva laticilia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 526"; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 358. 
Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, 


San Gerénimo, Cubilguitz (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA }, 


This species appears to be very widely distributed, but by no means common. 
It is frequently to be found at Bugaba in the early moming, sitting upon the leaves of 
growing rice cultivated in the forest-clearings of the “tierra caliente” (Champion). 


2. Areva leptalina, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries dusky white, shaded along the inner margin and across the middle with pale brown; secondaries 


brownish white, shaded with brown on the outer margin: head and thorax brown; abdomen wanting ; 
legs brownish white. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers). 


A single specimen, in poor condition. It is a very distinct species, allied to A 
laticilia, Walker. 


3. Areva marginata, sp. n. 


Primaries silky white, the inner margin from the base to the anal angle streaked with brownish black ; secon- 
daries dusky white, almost white at the base, but darker in the female than they are in the male: head, 
thorax, and abdomen brownish black, the anal tufts of the male black; antenne and legs brownish black. 
Expanse, ¢ 1 inch, 9 14 inch. 


Hab. GUATEMALA, Cubilguity, Chiacam, Cerro Zunil (Champion); Costa Rica, Trazu 
6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This species resembles Crambomorpha umbrifera, Feld. 


EURYLOMIA. 
Eurylomia, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 26, Index, p. 5. 


Eurylomia was founded by Dr. Felder for the reception of a species from Mexico; it 
seems to be most nearly allied to the preceding genus, but very distinct. 


134 HETEROCERA. 


1. Eurylomia curvinervis. 
Eurylomia curvinervis, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 26, Index, p. 5°. 
Lithosia cordula, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 95°. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé) 12, Jalapa (Hége), Cordova (Riimelt) ; Honpuras?. 


This species appears to be peculiar to Honduras and Mexico. Through the kindness 
of Mons. C. Oberthiir I have been enabled to examine the type of Boisduval’s Lithosia 
corduia, and find that it agrees in every way with Felder’s species. 


2. Kurylomia ochreata, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 7.) 

Primaries and secondaries uniform ochreous yellow, the costal margin of the primaries narrowly bordered with 
brownish black, the apex and anal angle broadly bordered with glossy brownish black; secondaries 
bordered with brownish black, broadly at the apex, but quite narrowly along the outer margin to the 
anal angle: head, thorax, and abdomen dark chrome-yellow; antenne and legs black. HExpanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Brivish Honpvras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneauz). 


A single female specimen of this species was sent; I at first thought that it might be 
the female of E. curvinervis, Feld., but I have since received the female of that species 
and find that it agrees in all respects with the male, except that the primaries are 
straight, as in the species now described. 


DEIOPEIA. 
Deiopeia, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent. Haust. 11. .p. 92. 


This genus now has eight or ten very widely distributed species placed in it; in our 
country three species occur—one extremely common, one of which I have only seen a 
few examples, and one only known to me as occurring in our country by a single 
example from British Honduras. 


1. Deiopeia ornatrix. 

Noctua ornatriz, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 839; Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. t. 24. f. 2. 

Bombyz ornatriz, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 587; Sp. In. ii. p. 203; Mant. Ins. 11. p. 181. 

Phalena ornatriz, Cram. Papil. Exot. ii. t. 166. f. C, D. 

Utethesia ornatrix, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 168; Samml. exot. Schmett. i. t. 181; Stretch, 
Zygenide & Bombycide of North America, p. 58, t. 2. f.18’. 

Deiopeia ornatrix, Westw. ed. Drury, i. p. 46, t. 24. f. 2; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 567; Grote, Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phil. v. p. 234; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361. 

Deiopeia pura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 860°. 

Hab. Norra America—Mexico, Mazatlan}, Presidio, Milpas 5900 feet (Forrer), 
Jalapa (Hoge), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon 
(Blancaneaux); Guatemata®, San Gerénimo, Zapote, Duefias, Pantaleon 1700 feet 
(Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; Costa Rica, Cartago (Van Patten, mus. D.), 
San Francisco 4500 feet, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, 
Caldera, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, Arcé, mus. D.)—ANTILLES, Dominica (Angas: 


DEIOPEIA.—MANOLENEURA. 135 


mus. D.); Cotompia ; Ecuapor, Sarayacu; GaLapacos Isuanps2; British Guiana, De- 
merara, Roraima; Soutu-East Braziu?, Rio Janeiro; ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, Tucuman ; 
CHILI. 


This species has an uninterrupted range from the southern part of North America to 
the Argentine Republic. Ihave had many hundreds of specimens of this very common 
insect in my possession. It varies very considerably both in the colour of the primaries 
and the width of the black margins of the secondaries; in fact, in no single instance, 
.from any locality, do I find a constant form. D. pura, Butler, cannot, in my opinion, 
be separated from the others. I have before me a very large series of specimens from 
our country, which show variations in colour of the primaries from almost pure white 
to bright red; in a specimen from Chiriqui, in my own collection, the veins of the 
primaries are bright red on a rich cream ground-colour, giving the insect a very distinct 
appearance. In South America the species is subject to the same variation. 

Common in open grassy places from the sea-level to an altitude of about 5000 feet 
(Champion). | 


2. Deiopeia bella. 
Tinea bella, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 885. 
Noctua bella, Drury, Exot. In. i. p. 51, t. 24. f. 3. 
Bombyx bella, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 585. 
Phalena bella, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 109. f. C, D. 
Utetheisa bella, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 168; Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. p. 105; Stretch, 
Zygenide & Bombycide of North America, p. 56, t. 2. f. 15. 
Deiopeia bella, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 568; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 3617. 
Hab. Norta Ameurtca, Nova Scotia!, United States 1 2.—Mexico, Valladolid ; in 
Yucatan (Gawmer).—Cotomsia (Birchall, mus. D.). 


The Mexican examples of this species are pale in colour, but in other respects they 
do not differ from North-American specimens before me. 


3. Deiopeia speciosa. 
Deiopeia speciosa, Walk. Cat. i. p. 568*; Clem. Syn. Lep. N. Am. App. p. 814. 
Utetheisa speciosa, Stretch, Zygenide & Bombycide of North America, p. 57, t. 2. £.167. 
Hab. Norta America, Atlantic States 2.—British Honpuras, Corosal (Roe, mus. D.). 
—Hartt; Cusa; Jamaica! (mus. D.). 


The single specimen before me from British Honduras agrees well in all respects 
with those from the Antilles. 


MANOLENEURA. 
Menoleneura, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 56. 


Mr. Butler founded this genus upon a species discovered on the Amazons by Dr. Trail. 
The specimens from our country agree fairly well with the types. I believe Manole- 


136 HETEROCERA, 


neura to be identical with Méschler’s genus Tricypha; if this should prove to be the 
case, the latter name will take precedence, the description having been published in the 
Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877. 


1. Menoleneura anomala. 
Menoleneura anomala, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 57°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet: 
(Champion).— Amazons 1. 


Only two specimens of this species were obtained; I believe it to be identical with 
that described by Mr. Butler from the Amazons. 


EUBAPHE. 
Eubaphe, Hibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 20. no. 150. 


This genus now has six or seven species placed in it. In our country it is well 
represented by three species. 


1. Eubaphe brevicornis. 
Crocota brevicornis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 5867. 
Eubaphe brevicornis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 367. 
Hab. Norta America, United States 1—Muxico, State of Durango (Forrer), Cordova. 
(Riimelt). 


This species appears to be pretty common near Cordova; but I have only seen a 
few specimens from elsewhere in Mexico. 


2. Kubaphe rogersi, sp. n. 


Primaries uniform brownish chrome-yellow, thickly speckled with very minute brown scales; secondaries red,. 
a large black spot at the anal angle, beyond which and nearer the apex a small black dot; the margin 
narrowly bordered with black: head, antenne, and palpi black ; thorax brownish yellow ; abdomen red ;. 
legs black; the underside of the thorax and abdomen black. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
This species is allied to E. opella, Grote. 


3. Eubaphe marginata, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 8.) 


Primaries reddish brown, shaded with darker brown bands, which are in some specimens almost invisible ; 
secondaries yellow slightly tinted with pink, a small round black spot at the end of the cell, the outer: 
margin from the apex to the anal angle broadly bordered with black: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish 
brown ; antenne and palpi black; legs reddish brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. GuatEMALA, Duefias (Champion). 


THYONE. 
Thyone, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 552. 


This genus was founded by Walker upon a single species from Honduras. 


THYONE.—EUDULE. 137 


1. Thyone simplex. 
Thyone simplex, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 553+. 
Hab. Honpvuras 1. 


This species is unknown to me. 


EUDULE. 
Hudule, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 14. no. 127. 


This genus was founded by Hiibner for the reception of a South-American insect. 


1. Hudule invaria. 
Ameria invaria, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 555°. 
Eudule invaria, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 368. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Cordova (Riimeli); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon 


(Blancaneaux); Guatemata, Zapote, Senahu, Cubilguitz, Panima in Vera Paz (Cham- 
pion); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Cache (Rogers), Cartago (Van Patten, 
mus. D.); PanaMa, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Bugaba (Champion), Emperador 
(J. J. Walker).—Cotomsia (mus. D.); VENEZUELA 1. 


This species is found over a very wide range of country. It varies to some slight 
extent; in some of the specimens before me the colour is much more yellow than in 
others, and in some examples the outer margins of the secondaries are narrowly 
bordered with black. Judging from the number of specimens I have seen, it must be 
a very common insect throughout its entire range. 


2. Hudule conformis. (Tab. XIII. fig. 9.) 
Ameria conformis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 5557. 
Eudule conformis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 368. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio, Ventanas 2000 feet (forrer), Jalapa (Hoge); GuatTEMALa, 


Calderas, San Gerénimo, Panzos (Champion); Panama, Emperador (J. J. Walker). 

In Guatemala this species is pretty common; but generally it does not appear to 
occur much further south. The only specimens I have seen from the State of Panama 
were taken by Mr. Walker on the Isthmus. Soe 


_ 8. Eudule nigricosta. 

Ameria (Eudule) nigricosta, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 14°. 

Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus) 1. 

Mr. H. Edwards states that this insect is close to KH. invaria, Walker. Examples 
before me of the latter from Cordova and Jalapa belong, without doubt, to Walker’s 
species. 

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138 . HETEROCERA. 


4, Kudule tripunctata, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 10.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform deep chrome-yellow, with rather a silky gloss in certain lights ; three small 
spots on the costal margin of the primaries, the apex, and a central streak from the outer margin to the 
end of the cell greenish black: head, thorax, and abdomen chrome-yellow ; palpi black, very minute; 
antenne black; legs brownish black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 
A very pretty little species, allied to E. conformis, Walk., from which it is easily 
distinguished by the black markings of the primaries. 


5. Eudule lineata, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 11.) 


Primaries and secondaries chrome-yellow, slightly hyaline, the nerves on the primaries black, in some specimens 
more so than in others: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish brown; palpi and antenne black; legs 
brown. Expanse 1), inch. 


Hab. GuatEMALa, Calderas 7000 feet, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet, Totoni 
capam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 


This species varies considerably in colour. Some of the specimens from Totonicapam 
are very pale, almost dirty white, and taken by themselves would appear to belong to a 
different species; butin the series before me I have specimens showing every gradation 
of colour, but in all other respects agreeing well with the typical form. In Guatemala 


the species seems to be fairly common; but I have not seen specimens from any other 
locality. 


6. Eudule unicolor. 
Eudule unicolor, Méschler, Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, p. 6607. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui }.—G@utana, Surinam 1. 


This species is unknown to me. 


LEPTIDULE*. 
Leptidule, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 368, t. 8. f. 11. 


Mr. Butler founded this genus upon Ameria integra, Walk., from Santa Marta, 
Colombia. In our country two species occur. 


1. Leptidule sordida. 


Leptidule sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 369°. 


Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
—CoLoMBIA, Santa Marta 1, 


The specimens received from the State of Panama agree well with Mr. Butler’s type 
in the British Museum. 


* The name of this genus is erroneously given as Lepidule on the Plate. 


LEPTIDULE.—NOLA. 139 


2. Leptidule medea, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries pale ochreous, with a large dark central spot of the same colour; secondaries yellowish hyaline, 
darkest round the outer margins: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale yellow; antenne black; palpi 
yellow, very minute. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos, Teleman (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 
The specimen from Costa Rica is rather smaller than those from Guatemala, the 
size of the dark-coloured spot on the primaries being considerably less. 


AUTOCERAS. 


Melania, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatschr. xii. p. 146 (1863) (nom. preocc.). 
Autoceras, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep., Index, p. 2. 


1. Autoceras (?) phelina, sp. n. (Melania phelina, Tab. XIII. fig. 13.) 


Primaries creamy white, thickly covered with black dots, one row along the costal margin, one in the middle,. 
and a third along the inner margin, the fringe from the apex to the anal angle pale yellow; secondaries 
pale yellow, a black spot on the costal margin close to the apex: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish 
white; antenne and legs black. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species closely resembles Autoceras punctigera, Felder. I do not feel quite sure 
that it belongs to that genus, not having any specimens for comparison. Only a single 
example was obtained by Mr. Champion. 


NOLA. 
Nola, Leach in Samouelle, Ent. Comp. p. 254 (1819). 


The species of this genus are very widely distributed over the globe, but they are 
difficult to obtain. I have very little doubt that when sufficient material has been 
received, it will be possible to arrange them more satisfactorily than at present. 


1. Nola patella, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries greyish white, shaded with brown, and thickly spotted with dark brown patches and markings of a 
very uneven character, more easily figured than described; secondaries brownish white, the margin 
narrowly bordered with brown near the apex : head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white ; antenne brown. 
Expanse ? inch. 

Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge), Cordova (Rimeli). 


This insect seems to be rather common in Mexico. It varies slightly in the ground- 
colour of the primaries, some specimens being much browner than others. 


2. Nola philodina, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 15.) 


Primaries brownish white, thickly banded with brown spots and indistinct lines ; secondaries creamy white 
head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white; antennse brown. Expanse 7 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
83 2 


140 - HETEROCERA. 


Only two specimens of this species were obtained. It is allied to MW. patella, but 
quite distinct. 


3. Nola ophrydina, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 16.) 


Primaries creamy white, irregularly spotted and dotted with black; secondaries greyish white, with the 
fringe white: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white; antenne dark brown; legs greyish brown. 
Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, San Gerénimo, Calderas (Champion). 


The examples from Guatemala are rather whiter than the one from Mexico, but in 
all other respects they are alike. 


4. Nola minuta, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 17.) 
Primaries silky white, crossed at the middle by a pale brown band, which is bordered on each side by a narrow 
zigzag black line, the base of the wing pale brown ; secondaries uniform greyish white: head, thorax, and 
abdomen white ; antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Only two specimens of this pretty little species were obtained. 


5. Nola melicerta, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 18.) 


Primaries silvery white, with three black V-shaped marks along the costal margin, the first close to the base 
and quite small, the second about the middle, large, and extending about one third the width of the wing, 
the third near the apex, quite small, a large patch of pale brown near the anal angle extending along the 
outer margin, above which are two small black dots, a brown patch, and several indistinct black lines ; 
secondaries silky white, rather dusky round the outer margins: head and front of the thorax white, thorax 
and abdomen brownish white; antennz and legs brown; on the underside the primaries are brown, with 
two whitish spots near the apex. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This species is very distinct from any other known to me. 


6. Nola intermedia, sp. n. 


Primaries brownish white, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two waved brown bands; secondaries 
uniform brownish white: head and thorax white; abdomen and antenne brown; legs brownish white. 
Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This species is allied to WV. melicerta. 


7. Nola patina, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 19.) 

Primaries brownish white, with a dark brown square-shaped spot on the costal margin about the middle, and 
also a small streak of dark brown close to the base, between the dark spot and the outer margin the wing 
is crossed by several indistinct brownish-white lines; secondaries uniform greyish white: head, thorax, 
and abdomen white ; antennz brown ; legs brownish white. Expanse # inch. m, 


Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


Only a single example of this insect was sent; it is allied to NV. intermedia. 


NOLA.—DELPHYRE. 141 


8. Nola terulosa, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 21.) 


Primaries silky greyish white, shaded with brown from the base.to about the middle, beyond which several 
waved narrow black lines cross the wing from the costal to the inner margin; secondaries uniform white, 
slightly dusky near the apex: head, thorax, and abdomen white; antenne pale brown; legs brownish 
white. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Sovutu-East Brazit, Rio Janeiro (mus. D.). Oe 


In our country this species seems to be very rare, but from Rio Janeiro I have 
received a fine series of specimens. | 


9. Nola vulgaris, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 22.) 


Primaries very pale brown, with several indistinct darker brown bands and spots crossing from the costa to 
the inner margin; secondaries dusky white, slightly darker round the outer margin: head, thorax, and 
abdomen pale brown ; antennez darker brown ; legs almost white. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This species seems to be rare; only two specimens have been received by me. 


JEMENE. 
Aimene, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 541. 


This genus was founded by Walker for a species from Ceylon ; several others have 
subsequently been described from various localities. 


1. Amene plumatella, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 20.) 


Primaries greyish white, crossed by two broken bands of dark brown, a dark brown spot close to the base, and 
a submarginal row of very minute black dots from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries uniform 
greyish white: head and thorax white; abdomen dark grey; antennz pale brown; legs brown. Ex- 
panse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuateMata, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,000 feet, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 
feet (Champion). | 
Of this species Mr. Champion only obtained a single example in each locality. 


DELPHYRE. 
Delphyre, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 537. 


This species was founded by Walker for a species from Honduras. I have not as 
yet received any specimens. 


1. Delphyre hebes. 
Delphyre hebes, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 587°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 371. 
Hab. Honpvuras }. 


142 HETEROCERA. 


PTEROODES. 
Pteroodes, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 376, t. 8. f. 20. 
Mr. Butler has founded this genus upon a curious long-winged insect, in form 
much resembling the genus Heliconius of the Rhopalocera, described by Walker as 
Lithosia longipennis; but with Lithosia it has nothing in common. 


1. Pteroodes longipennis. 
Lithosia longipennis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 510°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 376. 


Hab. Mexico }. 
The only specimen of this species known to me is the type in the British Museum. 


Fam, MELAMERIDE. 


ORICIA. 
Oricia, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 476. 
This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of an insect from Honduras, a 
species that seems to be peculiar to that country and Guatemala. 


1. Oricia truncata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 23.) 
Oricia truncata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 476°. 
Hab. Honvvras (Dyson)1; Guatemaat, Cubilguitz 1000 feet, Teleman in the Polochic 
valley (Champion). 
This pretty species was captured in large numbers at Cubilguitz, sparingly at 
Teleman ; from no other locality have I seen a specimen, 
Mr. Champion only met with it in the forest-region of the low country. 


HIERA, gen. nov. 


Allied to Oricia. Head small; palpi very small; antenne long, slender, and slightly pectinated. Primaries 
rather long and narrow, more rounded at the apex than in Oricia; secondaries broad and rounded from 
the apex to the anal angle. Legs smooth, rather short and slender. Abdomen rather short and stout. 


1. Hiera gyge, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 10.) 

Primaries uniform chrome-yellow, the costal margin narrowly streaked with brownish black, the apical third 
pale brownish black; secondaries chrome-yellow, slightly darker near the base, the outer margin from 
the apex to the anal angle broadly bordered with brownish-black: head, thorax, and abdomen chrome- 
yellow ; antenne and legs black. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


One example. 


TERNA.—VIRBIA. 143 


TERNA. 
Terna, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 267, 
Walker included two species in this genus, one of these being from our country, the 
other from the Amazons. 


1. Terna ampla. 
Terna ampla, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 267°. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Botterz) 1. 
The type is the only specimen known to me. 


2. Terna zonata. 
Terna zonata, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 104. f. 18, Index, p. 9°. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek), Orizaba (Hedemann) |. 


I have not received any specimens of this species. 


VIRBIA. 
Virbia, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 470. 


This genus was founded by Walker for a few species from Central and South America ; 
it now has about six species placed in it, all of which are very similar in colour. 


1. Virbia luteilinea. 
Virbia luteilinea, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 471°. 
Hab. Mexico (Hartweg)}; Guatzmata, Cahabon (Champion) ; Nicaracva, Chontales 


(Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ibbe, mus. Staudinger).—CoLoMBIa (mus. D.). 
This appears to be a very scarce species. I have only received a few examples, 
mostly in poor condition. 
2. Virbia mentiens. 
Virbia mentiens, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 471°. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—VENEZUELA (Dyson) *. 
The Costa-Rican examples agree well with the Venezuelan type in the British 
Museum. 
8. Virbia medarda. 
Phalena medarda, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 345. f. F’. 
Pheochlena medarda, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 176; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 470°. 


Virbia medarda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 62. 
Hab. Guatemata, Panzos (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), 


near the city (J. J. Walker).—Venuzunta (Dyson)? ; GUIANA, Surinam !}, Roraima 
(Whitely, mus. D.). | | 


This is the largest species of the genus; it occurs sparingly over a wide range of 
country. The example before me from Roraima is rather darker in colour than those 


‘from our country. 


144 HETEROCERA. 


4. Virbia minuta. 
Terna minuta, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 105. f. 8, Index, p.9'. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Réimeli).— Amazons (Bates) 1, 
The Mexican specimens are larger than Dr. Felder’s figure, and the primaries are of 
a lighter brown colour; but in all other respects they are similar. Ido not agree with 
Mr. Stretch in considering this insect to be identical with V. mentiens, Walk., of which 
I have a long series of specimens before me from Costa Rica. 


5. Virbia thersites, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 24.) 


Primaries pale brown, with a cream-coloured elongated spot at the base of each wing, and a round spot of the 
same colour close to the inner margin beyond the middle, but nearer the apex; secondaries light orange- 
yellow, broadly bordered with black from the apex to the anal angle, the costal margin narrowly streaked 
with black: head, antenne, palpi, and thorax dark brown; collar bright red; abdomen black, orange- 
yellow at the sides; legs dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This species appears to be very distinct, its nearest ally being V. medarda, Cram. 


SAGARIS. 
Sagaris, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 8138. 
This genus was founded for the reception of a species captured by Mr. Bates on the 
Amazons. 


1. Sagaris hore, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 25.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform deep black glossed with dark blue, the primaries crossed from the middle 
of the costal margin to the anal angle by a bright chrome-yellow band: head, thorax, antenne, and 
palpi black ; abdomen black glossed with dark blue; legs black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (£1b0é, 
mus. Staudinger). 


I have only received two examples of this pretty species. 


SCEDROS. 
Scedros, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 316. 
This is another genus founded by Walker for the reception of a Brazilian insect 
discovered by Mr. Bates. I include it in our list upon the authority of Boisduval, who 
redescribed Walker’s species as Milodora agis. 


1. Scedros dilatata. 
Scedros (Josia) dilatata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 316°. 
Milodora agis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 85’. 


Hab. Nicaracva 2,—Ecvapor (Buckley, mus. D.).; Braziu (Bates) }. 
Upon comparing Boisduval’s type with that of Walker, I find they are identical. 


PHALCIDONA.—EPHIALTIAS. 145 


I have never seen any examples from our country; from Ecuador I possess a good 
series of specimens agreeing well with Walker’s type, which most likely came from the 
Amazons region, it having been collected by Mr. Bates. 


PHALCIDONA. 
Phaleidona, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 185 (descr. nulla). 


Two species (one of which is recorded from our country and Colombia, the other inha- 
biting the Amazons region) were placed in this genus by Walker. 


1. Phalcidona vespertina. 
Phalcidona vespertina, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 1857. 
Xanthyris osera, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 98 ?. 
Hab. * Mextco?; ? Honpuras 2.—Co.omBiA, Bogota !. 


Through the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir, I have been enabled to compare the type 
of Boisduval’s species with that of Walker; I find they agree in all respects. The 
occurrence of this species in our country is very doubtful, my only authority for inclu- 
ding it being Boisduval’s, which most certainly requires confirmation. 


ACTEA. 
Actea, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 807. 
This genus contains but few species, all of which are peculiar to Tropical South 
America. One species only (4. monilis, Hiibn.), from the Amazons, was placed in it 


by Walker. 


1. Actea, (2?) draconis, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 6.) 


Primaries brownish black, the veins rather lighter in colour, a wide yellow band crossing the wing from the 
costal margin to near the apex; secondaries bright carmine, very broadly bordered with black on the inner 
and outer margins, the costal margin and apex narrowly edged with black: head, thorax, and abdomen 
black streaked with yellow; the underside of the abdomen and legs dusky white; antenne and palpi 
black. Expanse 1/ inch. 


Hab. Panama, San Juan (Ridée, mus. Staudinger). 


I have placed this species in the genus Actea with considerable doubt, only having a 
single example, belonging to Dr. Staudinger, before me. | 


EPHIALTIAS. 
Ephialtias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 176. 


This genus now has a large number of species placed in it, many of them being 
black with yellow bands across the primaries; the different species are very closely 
allied. | 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., November 1885. tt 


146 HETEROCERA. 


1. Ephialtias pseudena. 
Retila pseudena, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 94’. 
Ephialtias pseudena?, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 59’. 
Hab. Muxico!; Honpuras!; Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Emperador 
(J. J. Walker).—CotomBia (mus. D); Amazons 2. 


Through the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir I have been enabled to compare Boisduval’s 
type with my long series of specimens. . pseudena is a very common insect at 
Bugaba, but is apparently rare elsewhere. 


2. Ephialtias ceenea. 
Phalena Noctua cenea, Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 27, t. 21. f. 3. 
Epidesma cenea, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 177. 
Callmorpha cenea, Westw. ed. Drury, iii. t. 21. f. 3. 
Laurion cenia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 426. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Ecuapor 
(mus. D.). 


Of this species I have only seen two examples from our country. 


3. Ephialtias hyperia. 
Phintia (Josia) hyperia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 806°. 
Hab. Honpvuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely, mus. D.).—Amazons, Para (Bates 1), 


My specimen from Honduras agrees perfectly with Walker’s type. 


4. Ephialtias lindigii. 
Phelloe lindigii, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 19, Index, p. 8°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Cotoms1a, Bogota }. 


A single example of this fine species was received from Chiriqui. 


5. Ephialtias enoides. (Tab. XIV. fig. 1.) 
Retila enoides, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 94°. . 
Hab. Mexico!; Honpvuras 1. 


I am indebted to M. C. Oberthiir for the loan of the type of this species to figure; 
I have not seen any other specimens. 


6. Ephialtias 2 a 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


One example in too poor a condition to describe. The primaries are dull black with 
a small round central yellow spot. 


EPHIALTIAS.—DARNA. 147 


7. Ephialtias ilaire, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 26.) 

Primaries black, shot with dark blue near the base, and crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to 
near the apex by a wide orange-yellow band; secondaries glossy dark blue, almost black near the apex: 
head, antenne, and palpi black; thorax and abdomen glossy blue, the abdomen dusky white on the 
underside ; legs bluish black; antennae of the male deeply pectinated, of the female simple, Expanse 
13 inch. 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe and 

Tréisch, mus. Staudinger). 


Mr. Champion informs me that he met with this species in abundance in the forests 
near the banks of the streams; it varies considerably in size, some specimens being 
much larger than others, but as a rule the male is generally the smallest. The figure is 
taken from a female specimen obtained by Mr. Champion. 


8. Ephialtias ariaca, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform dull black, the primaries crossed from the middle of the costal margin to the 
anal angle by a pale yellow band; secondaries with a narrow central transverse yellow band: antenna, 
palpi, head, thorax, abdomen, and legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Haé. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer). 
Two worn examples. 
PHALCIDON. 
Phaleidon, Walker, Cat. i. p. 301. 
I include this genus in our fauna upon the authority of the specimen in the British 
Museum; Walker included three species in it, one from Honduras and two from South 


~ America. 


1, Phalcidon integra. 
Phalcidon (Josia) integra, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 301°. 
Hab. Honvvuras (Dyson 1). 
Walker states that this insect may prove to be a variety of P. megera. 


DARNA. 
Darna, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 184. . 
This genus was founded by Walker for the reception of an insect from Bogota; in 


our country it is represented by a very fine new species. 


1. Darna splendens, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 2.) 

Primaries black, glossed with bright blue at the base, a wide semihyaline yellow band crossing from the costal 
margin to near the anal angle, where it is much the widest and darkest in colour ; secondaries rich glossy 
blue, with a large triangular yellow patch near the apex: head, thorax, antenne, and palpi black; thorax 
striped with greenish blue; abdomen glossy greenish blue; legs black. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


One example. 
tt 2 


148 HETEROCERA. 


HAGNAGORA, gen. nov. 


Allied to Darna ; the primaries shorter and broader, and also more pointed at the apex, the costal margin 
almost straight; secondaries longer and less rounded at the anal angle: head small, clothed with short 
hairs; palpi stout, but very short; antennz smooth; thorax rather broad; abdomen smooth, rather 
slender, and not extending beyond the hind wings ; legs slender. 

The above description has been drawn up to receive one species from Central 


America. 


1. Hagnagora catagrammina, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 3, 4.) 


Primaries dark brown, slightly reddish, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to the anal angle 
by a wide orange-yellow band; secondaries dark brown, with a wide central brilliant blue streak 
extending from the base to beyond the middle ; underside of the primaries the same as above, but slightly 
paler in colour, of the secondaries with the basal half bright glossy blue, broken into spots by the nervures : 
head, palpi, and antennw dark brown; thorax and abdomen reddish brown ; underside of the head and 
thorax dusky yellow; legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, Trétsch, mus. 
Staudinger), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This beautiful insect is allied to two species I have recently described from Ecuador. 


JOSTA. 
Josia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 176; Walker. Cat. ii. p. 288. 


This Neotropical genus now has a large number of species placed in it; in our 
country it is well represented by about six species. 


1. Josia fulvia. 
Phalena Noctua fulvia, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 886 ; Mus. Lud. Ul. p. 383; Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 217; 
Mant. Ins. ii. p. 142; Seba, Locup. Rerum Nat. Thesaurus, iv. t. 31. figs. 11 &12, and t. 43. 
figs. 27, 28; Clerck, Icon. t. 55. f.6; Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 251. f. F?. 
Josia fulvia, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 19. no. 145, figs. 289, 290; Walk. Cat. ii. 
p. 291’. 
Hab. Muxtco?, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hége), near the city (Boucard, mus. D.) ; 
British Honpuras (Dyson ?), Corosal (Roe, mus. D.), R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux).— 
VENEZUELA (Dyson 2); Guiana, Surinam ! 2, 


All the Central-American specimens I have seen as yet of this species are from Mexico 
and British Honduras. 


2. Josia ligata. 
Josia ligata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 1817. 
Hab. GuateMata, Panima, San Gerdnimo (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 
1500 feet (Champion).—Cotomeia, Bogota 1. 


This species was captured in large numbers at San Ger6nimo; it is very closely allied 


to J. fulvia. 


JOSIA.—JOSIOMORPHA. 149 


3. Josia cruciata. 
Josia cruciata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 3407. 
Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Costa Rica (Boucard, mus. 
D.); Panama, Veragua', Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.). 


This species can easily be distinguished from all others of the genus occurring in 
our country by the yellow band across the base of the abdomen, its nearest ally being 
J. ligata, Walk. 


4. Josia frigida, sp. n. 

Male. Primaries black, with a narrow central yellow band extending from the base to near the outer margin, 
where it terminates in a fine point, the basal half of the costal margin yellow; secondaries black, with a 
rather wider central yellow band extending from the base to near the apex, the cilia on the inner margin 
yellow: head, tegule, and side of the abdomen bright yellow; antenne, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs 
black. The female only differs from the male by being slightly larger, and by the yellow band of both 
primaries and secondaries being a little wider. Expanse, g 13 inch, 2 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Zapote (Champion). 

This species is at once distinguished from its allies by the very narrow yellow streaks 
of the wings; it is most nearly allied to J. aurimutua, Walk. This and the three 
preceding species are all closely allied, but with a good series of specimens they are 
easily distinguished from each other. 

Apparently common in Guatemala. 


5. Josia fusifera. 
Josia fusifera, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1647 *. 
Hab. Brivish Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); GuatemaLa, Purula (Cham- 


pion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, mus. D.).—CoLoMBIa '. 
This species is easily distinguished from its allies by the very wide yellow bands of 
the primaries and secondaries. Four examples only have been received from our 


country. 


6. Josia decorata, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 5.) 


Primaries bright orange-yellow, a curved black band crossing the wing from the base on the costal margin to 
near the anal angle, the apex and the outer and inner margins narrowly bordered with black ; secondaries 
deep black, rather broadly bordered with yellow on the inner margin and at the anal angle: head, front 
of thorax, and tegule bright yellow; palpi yellow; antenne black; thorax and abdomen black, with a 
narrow yellow line on each side; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo (Cham- 
pron). | 
A pretty little species, very distinct from any other known to me. 
JOSIOMORPHA. 


Josiomorpha, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 104. f. 12, Index, p. 6. 
This genus is closely allied to Josia, from which it is readily distinguished by the 


150 HETEROCERA. 


much longer and broader primaries, and its altogether more robust appearance; the 
species described by Walker as Josia penetrata (=Josiomorpha longivitta, Feld.) is the 
type of the genus. 


1. Josiomorpha penetrata. 
Josia penetrata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 184. 
Josiomorpha longwitta, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 104. f. 12, Index, p. 6°; Stretch, Cist. Ent. ii. 
p. 17. ; 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé), Orizaba (Hedemann?), Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemana }, 
Calderas, San Gerénimo, Senahu (Champion). 


In Guatemala this, species appears to be pretty common ; from Mexico only a single 
male specimen has been received. 


| 2. Josiomorpha gigantea, sp. n. 

Closely allied to J. penetrata, Walk., but distinguished as follows:—the primaries have the yellow band 
starting from the middle of the wing close to the base instead of from the costal margin as in J. penetrata, 
and the edge of the costal margin is dark yellow instead of black; the secondaries have the costal margin 
widely banded with black instead of yellow; the head, collar, and tegule are bright orange instead of 
black ; abdomen black with a yellow line on each side; legs black. Expanse, ¢ and 9, 2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This very distinct species seems to be peculiar to Costa Rica. 


FLAVINIA. 
Flavinia, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 869. 


This genus now has a large number of species placed in it, all of which are from the 
Neotropical Region ; it is well represented in our country. 


1. Flavinia osiris. 
Phalena osiris, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 115. f. E’. 
Flavinia (Chrysauge) osiris, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 370”. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.).—CoLomBta (mus. D.) ; Gutana, Surinam 12. 
The single individual received from Costa Rica agrees well with Cramer’s figure, and 
also with other specimens from Colombia in my own collection. 


2. Flavinia leta. 
Flavinia leta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 179’. 
Aanthyris pseudisis, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 93’. 

Hab. Mexico! (Sallé, Boucard, mus. D.), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Panzos, Senahu, Panima, Cahabon, San Gerdnimo, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua *, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.), Irazu 6000 to: 
7000 feet, Cache (Rogers); Panama,Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Bugaba 800 
to 1500 feet (Champion, Ribbe).—CoLomB1A, Bogota!; VENEZUELA ?. 


FLAVINIA.—SCAPTIA. . 151 


This common species varies very considerably, both in size and in the width of the 
black band crossing the primaries ; in several female examples this band is quite narrow, 
notched in the middle, and does not reach the black outer margin. 


3. Flavinia intercepta. (Tab. XIV. fig. 8.) 
Flavinia (Chrysauge) intercepta, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 3727. 
Xanthyris adunca, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 93 *. 


Hab. Mexico; British Honpuras!, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux), Corosal (Roe, 
amus. D.); ? Nicaraaua 2.—? Cotomsta, Bogota 2. 


Through the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir I have been enabled to compare the type of 
Boisduval’s Xanthyris adunca with that of Walker's species; without doubt they 
Tepresent one and the same species. Boisduval’s type is labelled “ Mexico,” although 
he gives “ Nicaragua and Colombia” in his description. 


4. Flavinia postica. 
Chrysauge postica, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 371°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—VEnEZUELA 1. — 


Only a single specimen of this species was obtained in Nicaragua; it agrees well 
‘with Walker’s type from Venezuela. 


5. Flavinia velata, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 9.) 


Primaries citron-yellow, the costal, outer, and inner margins broadly bordered with black, an almost central 
black band crosses the wing from the costal margin to the anal angle; secondaries citron-yellow, all the 
margins narrowly bordered with black: head, thorax, and abdomen black on the upper side, yellowish 
beneath ; antenne and legs black. Expanse 1,8, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 
This species is allied to F. postica, Walk. 


6. Flavinia basina. 
Xanthyris basina, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 93 *. 
Hab. ? GUATEMALA }.— VENEZUELA }, 


I have seen the type of this species; it is very much faded, and is labelled “ Colombia 
‘and Venezuela.” , | 


SCAPTIA. 
Scaptia, Walker, Cat. 11. p. 376. 
Walker includes two species, one of which is from Nicaragua, in this genus ; I think 
‘it very doubtful if it is distinct from Flavinia. 


1. Scaptia antholia. 
Scaptia (Chrysauge) antholia, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 3767. 
Hab. Nicaracva }. 


152 HETEROCERA. 


DIALEPHTIS. 
Dialephtis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 14, Index, p. 4. 


This genus at present only contains a single species; it seems to be allied to 
Flavinia. 


1. Dialephtis salvini. 
Dialephtis salvini, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 14°. 
Hab. Guatemaa (Salvin 1); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 


I have only seen a single example of this species. 


PSEUDOMENNIS, gen. nov. 


Allied to Mennis ; the primaries very much longer and narrower, the costal margin quite straight from the 
base to the apex, the outer margin much rounded; secondaries rather long, rounded at the apex, but the 
hind margin straight to the anal angle: head small, palpi slender and rather long, the antenne simple ; 
thorax small; abdomen slender and extending about one third of its length beyond the wings; legs long. 
and slender. . 


Type Ludule bipennis, Walk. 
This genus will include two species from Central America, one of which also extends. 
into Venezuela and Ecuador. 


1. Pseudomennis bipennis. 
Eudule bipennis, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 381°. 

Hab. British Honpuras (Dyson), Corosal (Roe, mus. D.) ; Nicaracua, ( Chontales. © 

(Belt).— VenezveLa!; Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.). 


This species has a very wide range, but all the specimens agree well with the type. 


2. Pseudomennis coccinea, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 11.) 


Primaries dusky hyaline, all the veins broadly margined with brownish black, slightly shaded with red at the 
base; secondaries bright red, the apex bordered with black: head, palpi, and antenne brownish black ; 
thorax brown; tegule bright red; abdomen orange-red, with a central line and the anus brown; legs. 
brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. British Honpvras, Rio Sarstoon (Blancaneaur). 
This species is allied to P. bipennis, Walk., from which it is at once distinguished by 
the dark-coloured primaries. 


NELO. 
Nelo, Walker, Cat. i. p. 385. 
This genus is allied to Sangala ; it now has a large number of species, mostly from 
Tropical South America, placed in it. In our country it is represented by a single 


species. 


NELO.—SANGALA. 153 


1. Nelo chrysomela. (Tab. XIV. fig. 7.) 
Nelo chrysomela, Butl. & Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 117°. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten 1, mus. D.), Cache, San Francisco (Rogers) ; PANAMA, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Mr. Champion met with WV. chrysomela locally in great abundance in Chiriqui about 
the banks of rocky mountain-streams, the species being fond of settling on the partially 
submerged rocks and stones within reach of the wet spray; it appears to be equally 
common in Costa Rica. These specimens do not show any variation of importance. 


EV AGRA. 
Evagra, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 87. 


Numerous species of this genus are known from Tropical America. 


1. Evagra jalifa. (Tab. XIV. fig. 15.) 
Evagra jalifa, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 88°. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé!); Honpuras 1. 
Through the kindness of M. C. Oberthiir I have been enabled to see the type of this 
species ; it is the only specimen known to me, and I do not feel at all certain that it 
should be placed near the genus Sangala. 


2. Evagra ribbei, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 14.) 


Primaries dark blue-black, glossed with very dark blue, crossed near the apex by a wide semihyaline whitish 
band; secondaries dark glossy blue, with four whitish streaks between the veins on the outer margin; 
the underside almost the same as above, the white markings rather more distinct: head, thorax, and 
tegule black; the collar and underside of the head orange; antenne and palpi black; abdomen above 
bright glossy dark blue, beneath and the thorax dusky white ; legs dusky white. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde, mus. Staudinger). 
One example. This beautiful species is contained in the rich collection of Dr. Stau- 
dinger, who has kindly lent me the specimen for description in this work. 


SANGALA. 
Sangala, Walker, Cat. i. p. 384. 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of two species from Colombia. The 
species of Sangala are most beautiful insects, but I think it extremely doubtful whether 
the genus is represented in our country; I include it on the authority of Boisduval, 
never having seen or received any specimens from any locality north of the Isthmus of 
Panama. 

1. Sangala celisigna. 
Sangala celisigna, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 384’. 


Letocles alcera, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 84°. 
Hab. UNicaracua?.—CotomB1a, Bogota! (Birchell, mus. D.), Villavicencio (Chapman, 


mus. D.). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., November 1885. uu 


154 HETEROCERA. 


2. Sangala beata. 
Sangala beata, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1661". 
Letocles decia, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 84”. 
Hab. 1 Muxico?; ?Honpuras 2.—CotomBia, Bogota}, Antioquia (Salmon, mus. D.), 
Manaure (Simons, mus. D.); East Peru (Whitely, mus. D.) ; Ecuapor (Buckley, mus. D.). 


A common species in Tropical South America. 


CENOTRUS, gen. nov. 


Primaries moderately long and narrow at the base, very broad near the outer margin, which is much rounded 
from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries rather long, extending the length of the abdomen, rounded 
at the anal angle: the head small, palpi very small; antenne short, simple, and slightly thickened ; 
thorax broad ; abdomen rather short and stout; legs long and slender. 

Type Josia dispar, Walk. This genus will contain four species from Central 


America. 


1. Gnotrus dispar. 
Josia dispar, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 298. 
Kithosia rubriplaga, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 96’. 
Melanchrea rubriplaga, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 18 ?. 
Hab. Muxico*, Jalapa (Hége); Honpvras!; Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; 
Nicaraeva }, 


The examples from Guatemala are much larger than those from Mexico, though 
otherwise agreeing perfectly with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


2. @notrus striatus, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 12, 13.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform dull black; underside of the primaries dull black, crossed near the apex 
from the costal margin to the outer margin by a narrow greyish line; of the secondaries black, with all 
the nerves greyish: head, collar, tegule, and the thorax beneath orange-yellow ; thorax above, abdomen, 
antenne, and legs, black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Purula, Duefias (Champion). 


This species is also represented in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, without any exact 
locality. | 


8. Ginotrus secretus. 
Ardonea secreta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 2227. 
Melanchroia spuria, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 15’. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé)1, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus); GuatTeMaa, Quiche 
Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 


I have no doubt that the species lately described by Mr. H. Edwards is the same as 
‘Walker’s, his description agreeing well with the specimens before me. 
Mr. Champion’s examples were captured in the pine-forests at a high elevation. 


CNOTRUS.—MELANCHROIA. 155 


4, (notrus pacilius, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries above and beneath uniform dull black ; thorax, abdomen, and legs black. Expanse 
13 inch. 
Hab. GuateMa.a, Duefias (Champion). 
Only a single specimen of this dull-coloured species was obtained; it is allied to 
G. secretus, from which it is at once distinguished by its entirely black colour. 


NYCTOCHROA. 
Nyctochroa, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 106. f£. 27. 


Dr. Felder places a single species from Mexico in this genus. 


1. Nyctochroa basiplaga. 
Nyctochroa basiplaga, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 106. £. 277, Index, p. 7. 
Hab. Mexico ! (Bilimek). 


Unknown to me. 
MELANCHROIA. 
Melanchroia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 173 ; Walker, Cat. ii. p. 387. 


This genus now has about eight species placed in it. 


1. Melanchroia cephise. 
Phalena Geometra chephise, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 182, t. 381. f. E. 
Melanchroia cephise, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 17. figg. 1-4; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 387°. 
Tanagra expositata, Walk. Cat. xxv. p. 1461. 

Hab. Mexico }, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet, Milpas 5900 feet, Tres Marias Islands 
(Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli), Acapulco (J. J. Walker); Guatemata, San Gerénimo, 
San Joaquin, Zapote, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Honpuras!, San Pedro 
(G. M. Whitely, mus. D.); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Cache, San Francisco 
4500 feet (Rogers), Cartago (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Areé, mus. D.), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).—CotomBia to the ARGENTINE 
Repvusuic (mus. D.); Jamaica 1. 


This species is very abundant throughout the greater part of our country, excepting 
perhaps the State of Panama, where it appears to be scarce, Mr. Champion only 
obtaining two specimens from thence; in South America it is very common in most 
localities. 


2. Melanchroia (?) inconstans. 
Melanchroia inconstans, Geyer, in Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. v. p. 17. no. 431, figg. 861, 
862; Walk. Cat. ii. p. 389°. 
Hab. Mexico}. 


Unknown to me. 
wu 2 


156 HETEROCERA. 


Fam. DIOPTIDZ. 


LAURONA. 
Lauron, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 333. 
Laurona, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 148; Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 118. 


Walker placed six species from Tropical America in this genus ; it is well represented 
in our country. 


1, Laurona rica. 
Dioptis rica, Hubn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. p. 31. no. 266, figg. 531, 532, 
Lauron (Dioptis) rica, Walk. Cat. i. p. 333°. 
Ditaxis sora, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 79”. 
Laurona rica, Buti. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 118°. 
Laurona panamensis, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 118 *. 

Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Rétimeli); Britis Honpuras (Dyson), Rio Sarstoon (Blan- 
caneaux) ; GUATEMALA”, San Isidro 1600 feet, Zapote, Chiacam, Panima, San Juan in 
Vera Paz, Panzos (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers), Cartago (Van Patten, 
mus. D.); Panama, Veraguas (Salvin *), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Cham- 
pion, Ribbe), Bugaba (Champion).—Soutn America !; ConomBia (mus. D.), Santa Marta 
(Boucard*); VENEZUELA! ?; East Perv ( Whitely, mus. D.). 


In our country this is a very widely distributed species, and found from Mexico to 
Panama., I have not the slightest doubt about Boisduval’s and Butler’s species being 
identical with L. rica, Hiibn. 


2. Laurona syma. 
Lauron (Dioptis) syma, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 334. 
Laurona syma, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 119°. 
Laurona subafflicta, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 148. 
Epilais zetila, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 78°. 
Hab. 4 GuatEMaLa °.—Cotomsia, Bogota ! 2, 


I include this species in our fauna upon the authority of Boisduval, who described it 
as Epilais zetila in his paper on Guatemalan Lepidoptera. 


8. Laurona chthonophyle, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 17.) 


Primaries uniform dull black, crossed close to the apex by a narrow white band ; secondaries uniform dul 


black: head, antenne, and palpi black; thorax, tegule, and anus orange-red ; abdomen black above, 
dusky white beneath; legs black. LExpanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico ’(Staudinger), Presidio (Forrer). 


This dull-coloured species appears to be peculiar to Mexico; it is most nearly allied 
to L, vinosa, Walk., a species found in the Antilles. 


DIOPTIS.—ASTYOCHIA. 157 


DIOPTIS. 


Dioptis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p- 174, 
Hyrmina, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 831. 


_ This genus is well represented in our country, but its headquarters appear to be the 
Amazons regions. 


1. Dioptis areolata. 
Hyrmina (Dioptis) areolata, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 332*; Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 116°. 
Epilais melda, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 78°. 
Hab. Nicaragua *.—Sovuta America !, ? Ecuador 3, Brazil 1 2. 


2. Dioptis noctiluces. 
Dioptis noctiluces, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 88°; Lep. Exot. p. 176, t. 61. f. 7”. 
Dioptis salvini, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 5°. 
Hyrmina noctiluces, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 116 *. 
Hab. Costa Rica}, Cartago (Van Patten? 4, mus. D.); Panama (Salvin, mus. Felder®), 


3. Dioptis ithomeina. 
Dioptis ithomeina, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 877; Lep. Exot. p. 175, t. 61. f. 82. 
Dioptis erycinoides, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. fig. 4°. 
Hyrmina ithomeina, But]. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 116+. 
Hab. Costa Rica !, Cartago (Van Patten? +, mus. Brit.); Panama (Salvin, mus. 


Felder *), Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.). 
This and the preceding species appear to be very rare; I have only seen two or three 


specimens. 


4. Dioptis candelaria, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 16.) 

Primaries and secondaries dusky hyaline, all the veins black ; the primaries with a whitish band crossing near 
the apex and two white spots close to the anal angle, the costal, outer, and inner margins bordered with 
black ; secondaries broadly bordered with black on the outer margin: head, antennz, thorax, and abdomen 
black above, the latter dusky white beneath; collar orange-red; legs black. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Rio Candelaria (ibbe, mus. Staudinger). 
One example. This distinct species is allied to D. phelina, Feld., from Bogota. 


5. Dioptis nervosa. 
Dioptis nervosa, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 15°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 


ASTYOCHIA, gen. nov. 


‘Head small, palpi very minute; antenne of the male closely pectinated and rather long, of the female simple 
and shorter; thorax and abdomen slender, the abdomen not extending beyond the wings; legs very 
slender and rather long; primaries short and broad; secondaries rather long, always more or less hyaline, 
a slight tuft of hair close to the base on the anal fold in the male, of the female more rounded than those 


of the male. 


158 HETEROCERA. 


This genus will include three species from the southern parts of Central America and 


Colombia. 


1. Astyochia crane, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 18,192.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform silky whitish hyaline, the costal apex, and the outer and part of the 
inner margins, bordered with black, the secondaries bordered with black from the apex round the outer 
margin to near the base, a black band at the end of the cell on the primaries, in some specimens the discotdal 
nervules black: head, antenne, and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen dusky white ; legs brownish black. 
The female differs from the male in not having the black band at the end of the cell on the primaries, and 
in the black margins being narrower. Expanse, ¢ 1 inch, 9 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


On the volcano of Chiriqui this is a common insect; it is found in the denser parts 
of the forest. I have a very large series of specimens before me showing but very little 


variation. 


2. Astyochia fessonia, sp. n. 

Male. Form of A. crane; primaries and secondaries bluish hyaline, the veins and margins of the wings black, 
the black band at the end of the cell crosses from the costal to the outer margin: head, thorax, and 
abdomen greyish black ; antenne, palpi, and legs black. The female only differs from the male in not 
having the veins so deeply marked with black. Expanse ¢ 9 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—Cotomsta, Bogota (Birchell, 
mus. D.). : 


3. Astyochia faula, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 28.) 


Primaries pale brownish drab, the veins slightly darker in colour and somewhat hyaline near the base, the 
costal margin and a spot at the end of the cell darker brown; secondaries uniform pale brownish drab, 
the veins darker, the underside the same as above: head, thorax, and abdomen silky brown; antenne 
and palpi black ; legs brownish black. The female similar to the male, but paler in colour. Expanse 
13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


A common species in the State of Panama. 


TITHRAUSTES, gen. nov. 


Head moderately large; palpi erect, rather long and slender; antennez long, deeply pectinated ; eyes large 
and prominent; proboscis short; thorax and abdomen stout, the abdomen extending beyond the wings ; 
legs long, slender, and not clothed with hair; primaries long and rather broad; secondaries long and 
much rounded at the apex. 


This genus is allied to Astyochia; it will contain four species from Central America. 


1. Tithraustes hemon, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 20.) 


Primaries pale brown, slightly hyaline near the base, a large round spot at the end of the cell, and two small 
spots beyond close to the outer margin, dusky white; secondaries pale blackish brown, with a large central 
dusky white spot: head, thorax, and upper side of the abdomen dark brown, the abdomen dusky white 
beneath ; antenne black ; palpi brown; tegule bright orange; legs brownish black on the outer fside, 
whitish beneath. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


TITHRAUSTES.—POLYPCTES. 159 


2. Tithraustes deiphon, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 25.) 


Primaries pale brown, a large round white spot at the end of the cell and two minute white dots on the outer 
margin, a transverse hyaline streak extending from the base about halfway across the wing ; secondaries 
pure white, bordered with black along the abdominal and outer margins, and also very broadly at the 
apex: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black above, dusky white beneath; antenne black ; palpi 

» brown ; legs very pale brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This species is allied to 7. hemon, from which it is easily distinguished by its white 
hind wings. 


3. Tithraustes eteocles, sp. n. 

Primaries dark brown, clouded with black and shaded with white on the outer margin close to the apex, the veins 
all pale brown, a large round white spot at the end of the cell, a small spot below close to the anal angle, 
and a narrow longitudinal hyaline band extending from the base to about the middle ; secondaries black, 
with a wide central hyaline streak extending from the base to near the outer margin: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown above, dusky white beneath; palpi and antenne black; tegule orange; legs 
brownish white. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cubilguitz 1000 feet (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 

This species is allied to 7. deiphon, from which it is at once distinguished by its much 
larger size, the different position of the white spots on the primaries, and the very much 
blacker secondaries. I have only received two examples of this insect ; the one taken 
by Mr. Champion in Guatemala is considerably larger than that from Nicaragua, but 
in other respects they are identical. 


4. Tithraustes butes, sp. n. 

Primaries deep black, with a narrow longitudinal hyaline streak extending from the base almost to the middle, 
a transverse hyaline white band crossing from the costal margin to the anal angle, but not reaching the 
margin; secondaries hyaline, broadly bordered with black: head, thorax, and abdomen black above, dusky 
white beneath; antenne and palpi black; tegule bright orange-red ; legs brownish black. Male and 
female similar. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cubilguitz (Champion). 


I have only received a male and female of this distinct species. 


POLYPCETES, gen. nov. 


Head quite small; palpi rather long, slender, and curved back on to the head; antenne long and deeply 
pectinated in the male, simple in the female ; thorax and abdomen rather stout, the abdomen not extending 
beyond the wings; legs short and slightly stout ; primaries short and broad, the costal margin straight 
secondaries broad and much rounded at the apex. 

_ This genus is allied to Tithraustes, from which it differs greatly in the much shorter 
primaries and the wider and more rounded secondaries; I include in it nine new species, 
all from Central America, the genus ranging from Guatemala southwards to Panama 


and probably beyond. 


160 HETEROCERA. 


1. Polypetes deldon, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 24.) 


Primaries brownish black, all the veins pale brown, almost yellow, an indistinct whitish spot at the end of the 
cell; secondaries uniform dull black, with a white spot beyond the middle, slightly nearest the costal 
margin ; the secondaries silky white beneath, except at the apex, which is broadly bordered with black: 
head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black above, dusky white beneath ; antenne and palpi black ; tegule 
streaked with yellowish brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Pantaleon 
1700 feet (Champion). 
Beaten from the dead hanging leaves of growing bananas (Champion). 


2. Polypetes etearchus, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 23.) 

Primaries sooty black, slightly hyaline near the base, with all the veins pale yellowish brown, a dusky hyaline 
white spot at the end of the cell; secondaries pure white, broadly banded with black on the abdominal 
and outer margins: head, thorax, and abdomen black above, dusky white beneath; palpi and tegule: 
orange; antenne black; legs black above, dusky white beneath. The female similar to the male. 
Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Cubilguitz (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu 7000 feet, Cache ( Rogers); 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This species is very constant ; the specimens before me do not vary in the least degree. 


3. Polypetes demades, sp. n. 

Primaries pale brown, the veins all paler in colour, crossed by three indistinct dark brown bands and three 
dusky white streaks near the apex ; secondaries uniform pale brown, slightly hyaline near the base: head,. 
thorax, and abdomen dark brown; antenne and palpi black ; tegule bright orange ; legs black. Female 
similar to the male, but the secondaries are blacker. Expanse, ¢ 1} inch, ? 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Aceituno (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 
4000 feet (Champion). 
This species is very distinct from all the others described here; it comes nearest 


P. eriphus. 
4. Polypetes eriphus, sp. n. 


Primaries dark brown, all the veins pale yellowish brown, a semihyaline oval white spot at the end of the cell, 
and a narrow submarginal brownish yellow band extending from the apex to the anal angle ; secondaries 
hyaline white, the abdominal half and the outer margin broadly bordered with black: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dusky black ; antenne and palpi black; legs brownish black. The female similar to the male, 
but brighter in colour, and the black margins on the secondaries not quite so broad. Expanse, ¢ 1,3, inch, 
@ 12 inch. 

Had. Guatemata, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). 


One example only was received of this distinct species, 


5. Polypetes esernius, sp. n. 

Primaries dark brown, the base, a round spot at the end of the cell, three small streaks close to the apex, and 
a spot near the anal angle hyaline; secondaries white, the apex and outer margin bordered with black : 
head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black ; antenne and palpi black ; tegule tipped with orange ; legs 
black. The female similar to the male, but rather larger. Expanse, ¢ 1 inch, @ 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This species is not very closely allied to any other known to me. 


POLYPTES.—PHANOPTIS, 161 


6. Polypetes halesius, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries very pale brown, clouded with darker brown, all the veins pale yellow, a large yellowish- 
white spot at the end of the cell; secondaries pure white, edged with black at the apex: head and thorax 
dark brown ; antenne black ; palpi and tegule yellow; abdomen dusky white ; legs white——Female. The 
primaries much darker brown and almost without the white spot at the end of the cell; the secondaries 
with the black margin extending round to the anal angle. Expanse, g 1,5 inch, 2 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This species is allied to P. eriphus, but at once distinguished from that insect by its 
_ white hind wings. 


7. Polypetes haruspex, sp. n. 


Primaries dark brown, slightly paler at the base and at the end of the cell, all the veins pale yellow, a small 
round yellow spot close to the apex; secondaries pure creamy white, bordered evenly with deep black : 
head and thorax black; abdomen brownish black above, dusky white beneath ; antenne and palpi black ; 
legs brownish black ; tegule yellow. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
A pretty little species, very distinct from all the others described here. 


8. Polypetes creon, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 22.) 


Primaries very pale brown, whitish close to the base, the veins almost white, a white band crossing the wing 
from the costal margin to near the anal angle, the anal half almost divided into a round spot ; secondaries 
pure white, slightly bordered with pale brown at the apex and round the outer margin: head white ; 
palpi and antenne black; thorax and abdomen brownish white; legs black; tegule yellow. Female 
similar to the male. Expanse 1,1, inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Several examples. 


9. Polypetes erymas, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 21.) 


Male. Primaries pale brown, crossed about the middle by a white band, which does not reach the inner 
margin, a round yellow spot close to the apex; secondaries pure white, bordered with black : head, thorax, 
and abdomen brownish black, the abdomen dusky white beneath; antenne black; palpi yellow, tipped 
with black ; tegule yellow; legs brownish white. The female similar to the male. LExpanse, ¢ 1 inch, 
Q@ 1,4 inch. 

Hab. Guatemata, Purula, San Gerénimo, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion) ; 

Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 70006 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 


3000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to P. creon, from which it is at once distinguished by having 
the small yellow spot close to the apex of the primaries, and the margins of the 
secondaries black. P. erymas appears to be the most common species of the genus, 
many examples having been received from the above-mentioned localities. 


PHANOPTIS. 
Phanoptis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 104. f. 10, Index, p. 8. 


I cannot find that this genus, established by Felder for a Colombian insect, P. cyano- 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., April 1886. LE 


162 HETEROCERA. 


melas, Feld., has been described; it has nothing to do with Gnophela, Walk. One 
species is found in our country. 


1. Phanoptis vitrina, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 26.) 


Primaries hyaline, broadly black at the apex, a wide whitish hyaline band crossing beyond the middle from the 
costal margin almost to the anal angle (but not reaching the margin), two small hyaline spots close to the 
apex, the veins are all black, except where the white band crosses the wing; secondaries hyaline, the 
costal apex and: outer margins bordered with black, the veins black: head and antenne black; palpi 
orange, tipped with black; tegule black ; thorax and abdomen black above, dusky white beneath ; a white 
spot at the back of the head and one on each side of the thorax ; legs brownish black. The female is 
similar to the male but rather browner in colour, and the antenne are not nearly so deeply pectinated. 
Expanse, ¢ 2 inches, 9 2} inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Bugaba (Champion). 

This fine species is allied to P. cyanomelas, Feld., from which it is at once distin- 
guished by its much larger size, the entire absence of any blue gloss on the wings, and 
by the white band across the primaries. P. vitrina appears to be confined to Chiriqui ; 
T have not seen it from any other locality. 


LOCHA. 
Locha, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 335; Butler, Cist. Ent. 1. p. 120. 
Walker founded this genus upon two Tropical American insects, one of which is, so 
far as at present known to me, only found in our country, Colombia, and Ecuador; I 
have no evidence of its occurrence further south. 


1. Locha hyalina. 
@. Locha (Dioptis) hyalina, Walk. Cat. ii. p. 836°; Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 120’. 
&. Erycinopsis diaphana, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 105. f. 9°. 
&. Locha perspicua, Butl. Cist. Ent. 1. p. 120%. | 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales4 (Belt, Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, 


mus. D.).—Souta AMERICA!?; CoLoMBIA, Bogota?; Ecuapor (mus. D.). 

I cannot see that the insect described as L. perspicua by Mr. Butler is in any way 
distinct from Z. hyalina, Walk. In a long series of specimens the black margin of 
the wings proves to be a variable character. Walker’s type is a female; Mr. Butler’s 
a male. 

STENELE. 
Stenele, Walker, Cat. ii. p. 356. 


A genus founded by Walker upon an insect from the Amazon region. One species 
is also found in our country. 


1. Stenele lutescens. (Tab. XIV. fig. 27.) 
Chrysauge lutescens, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 88'; Lep. Exot. p. 176, t. 61. f. 14. 
Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.) ; Guatemaua, Sinanja, Chiacam, Panima (Champion) ; 


STENELE.—PENORA. 163 


Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rrca!, Cartago2 (Van Patten, mus. D.); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D., Champion), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to S. repanda, Walk.; it also closely resembles Aletis forbest 
from West Africa. Mr. Champion reared a specimen from a pupa, of a pale yellow colour 
and spotted with black, enclosed in a pretty open network cocoon attached to a leaf. 
S. lutescens frequents the second-growth woods (rastrojos), and is usually found flying 
over the tops of low trees or bushes in the hot sunshine; it is a common species of the 
low country. 


Fam. LIPARIDZ. 


| GENUSSA. 
Genussa, Walker, Cat. xxxi. p. 171. 


Walker founded Genussa for the reception of an insect (G. celerenaria) collected by 
Mr. Bates on the Amazons, and states that it is allied to Celerena, a genus now placed 
in the Euschemide. 


1. Genussa (?) dioptis. 
Genussa (?) dioptis, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 180. f. 21°. 
Hab. Panama, Veragua }. 


This species is only known to me from Felder’s figure. 


AGARAA. 
Agarea, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 21. 


This genus contains only one species, which is not uncommon in our country. 


1. Agarza longicornis. 
Agarea longicornis, Herr.-Schiiffer, loc. cit. p. 21, t. 76. 1. 442°; Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 260°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, 
Cubilguitz, Coban, Senahu (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).—Brazit ! 2, 


This species is common in Guatemala and the State of Panama, but I have never seen 
it from any locality south of the isthmus. 

Mr. Champion captured many examples by beating the withered | hanging leaves of 
cultivated Musacee. 


PENORA. 
Penora, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 821. 


Eloria, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 813 ; ibid. xxxii. p. 339. 

Walker includes several Indian species in this genus, but I think it doubtful if these 
are congeneric with the species inhabiting the Neotropical Region. In our country 
Penora is well represented by six species. 

rx 2 


164 _ HETEROCERA. 


1. Penora remota. 
Penora remota, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 821°. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.).—West coast of America! (Wood, in coll. 
Brit. Mus.). 
One example, not in good condition. P. remota seems to differ from all the other 
species of the genus by having the wings much more hyaline. 


2. Penora festiva. 
Phalena festiva, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 112. t. 71. f. c." 
Penora festiva, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 821°. 

Hab. Mexico (Boucard, in mus. D.); GUATEMALA, -Teleman (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (4rcé, mus. D.), Bugaba (Champion).—CotomBia, Bogota ; GUIANA, 
Surinam !, Roraima; Ecuapor; Brazi 2. 

This species is found over a very extended range of country. In Mexico and 
Guatemala it is very rare; I have only seen one specimen from each country. In the 
State of Panama and in Colombia it is very common; in Ecuador it again becomes 
scarce, Buckley aving only obtained a few specimens. 


3. Penora spectra. | 
Liparis spectra, Hiibn. Sammi. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 177. figg. 1, 2¢, 3,49; Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 158. 
Eloria intacta, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 814°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guaremata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Senahu, 
Cubulco (Champion).—Amazons, Para (Bates '). 
P. diaphana, Cramer, is probably identical with this species, but not having specimens 
for comparison I cannot speak positively. 


4. Penora subnuda. 
Eloria subnuda, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 814°. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson +); Costa Rica (Boucard, mus. D.).—Braziu!. 


This species is very close to P. spectra; the only difference that I can detect is that 
the wings are much more cream-coloured and not so hyaline as in that species. 


5. Penora onaba, sp.n. (Tab. XV. figg. 22,3.) 

Primaries and secondaries pure white, slightly hyaline, the costal margin of the primaries dusky, the ends of 
the nerves along the outer margins of both primaries and secondaries black: head and front of thorax 
yellowish ; antennz brownish black; palpi yellow, tipped with black ; hind part of the thorax and the 
abdomen yellowish-white, the latter with a central brown line on the upper side; legs brownish-white. 
The female differs from the male in having the apex of the primaries broadly margined with dusky black. 
Expanse, ¢ 13 inch, Q 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan ‘de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet ( Champion, Arcé, mus. D.). 


PENORA.—XENOSOMA. 165 


This delicate species is quite distinct from any other known to me. It appears to be 
scarce, Mr. Champion having met with very few examples; from Arcé I only received 
a single specimen. 


6. Penora ombrea, sp. n. (Tab. XV. fig. 8.) 
Primaries and secondaries uniform dusky brown, rather lighter from the base to about the middle: head, 
thorax, and abdomen pale dusky brown; antenne and palpi pale brown; underside of the abdomen and 
the legs whitish-brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.). 
This species is allied to P. discifera, Walker, from Brazil. 


| XENOSOMA. 


Xenosoma, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 99. f. 9. 
Eloria, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 813; ibid. xxxii. p. 339 (=Penora, Walker, ante, p. 168). 
This genus is allied to Penora, Walker, from which it differs in many respects. 
Eloria, Walker, being identical with Penora, Walker, I adopt Felder’s name. 
Several species of the genus are known from Tropical America; we have to record 


three from our region. 


1. Xenosoma flaviceps. 
Eloria flaviceps, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 339’. 
Xenosoma nigricosta, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 99. f. 9’; Stretch, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 16. 


Hab. Mexico!; Guatema.a?, Zapote, Panzos (Champion). 
I have not received any specimens of this species from Mexico, and in Guatemala it 


is far from common. 


2. Xenosoma nigromarginatum, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 4.) 

Primaries and secondaries hyaline-white, the primaries with the costal and outer margins and all the nerves 
brownish-black ; secondaries margined with brownish-black from the apex to near the anal angle: head 
yellow ; antenne and palpi black ; thorax brown, speckled with white scales ; tegule white, with a small 
yellow spot at the base; abdomen brownish-white, the anal segments bright yellow ; legs brown. 
Expanse, ¢ 2 inches, 9 23 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Mr. Rogers only obtained two specimens of this very distinct species. 

X. nigromarginatum is most nearly allied to X. flaviceps, but from that species it is 
at once distinguished by the black nerves and margins of the primaries, also by its 
larger size and much more robust appearance. | 


3. Xenosoma nicander, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 6.) 
Primaries whitish-hyaline, the costal margin and apex smoky black (more so in the female than in the male); 
secondaries whitish-hyaline, narrowly margined with black from the apex to near the anal angle: head, 
thorax, and tegule bright yellow; antenne and palpi black; abdomen brownish-white, the anus bright 


yellow ; legs pale brown.. Expanse 14 inch. 


166 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, 
Bugaba (Champion). 
This species is allied to X. nigromarginatum. 


| CAVIRIA. 
Caviria, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 824. 


This genus was founded by Walker upon a Brazilian insect (C. sudstrigosa) ; I now 
trace this species as far north as Costa Rica. Caviria to some extent resembles the 
genus Ledoa. 


1. Caviria substrigosa. (Tab. XV. fig. 1.) 
Caviria substrigosa, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 825). . 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, Champion), 
Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor ; Braziu 1. 


This beautiful species resembles Redoa clara, Walker. In Costa Rica and the State 
of Panama it appears to be fairly common, but from South America I have only seen a 
few specimens. Inhabits the humid forest region up to an elevation of 3000 feet 
(Champion). 


SARSINA. 
Sarsina, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 800. 


This genus was founded upon a single species from Yucatan; and according to the 
describer is said to be somewhat allied to the “‘ Drepanulide.” I include it here with 
considerable doubt, as belonging to this family; it is quite unknown to me. 


1. Sarsina purpurascens. 
Sarsina purpurascens, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 800°. 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan! (in mus. Oxford). 


ARCHYLUS. 
Archylus, Walker, Cat. vil. p. 1718. 


Archylus was founded upon a small species, specimens of which were captured on 


the banks of Tapajos, Brazil, by Mr. Bates; I now trace it northwards to the State of 
Panama. 


1. Archylus guttifascia, (Tab. XV. fig. 14.) 
Archylus guttifascia, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1719'. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Brazit, R. Tapa- 
jos (Bates) 1, 


The single specimen sent by Mr. Champion agrees well with the type in the British 
Museum. 


STILPNOTIA.—CARAMA,. - 167 


STILPNOTIA. 
Stilpnotia, Westwood and Humphry, Brit. Moths, i. p. 90; Walker, Cat. iv. p. 841. 


Several species of this genus are known from both the Old and the New Worlds, the 
genus inhabiting tropical as well as temperate regions. 


1. Stilpnotia tibialis. 
Stilpnotia tibialis, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 842". 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, Panima (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson 1); Panama, Bugaba 800 
to 1000 feet, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 


The specimens from Guatemala and the State of Panama are smaller than the type, 
but in other respects they agree. I believe that this species will represent a distinct 
genus; but at present the available material is insufficient to be able to form a decided 
opinion, the three specimens before me being from different localities. 


2. Stilpnotia pura. 
Stilpnotia pura, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 17327. 


Hab. Panama, David (Champion).—Amazons, Santarem (Bates 1). 


A single specimen of this species was obtained by Mr. Champion; it agrees well 
with the type in the British Museum. 


CARAMA. 
Carama, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 843. 


Carama was founded by Walker upon a single species (C. sparshalli) from Brazil. 


The genus now has about seven species placed in it, all from the Neotropical Region ; 
in our country it is represented by four species. 


1, Carama walkeri. 
Carama walkeri, Butl. Cist. Ent. 11. p. 203°. 
Carama sparshalli, Walk. (nec Curtis), Cat. iv. p. 8447. 
Hab. Mexico! (coll. Brit. Mus.).—Ecuapor ; Amazons, Para ?, Santarem 2. 


This beautiful species appears to be very rare. The only specimen known to me- 
from our country is the one from Mexico in the British Museum ; from Ecuador I have 
_ specimens of both sexes, which were captured by the late Mr. Buckley. 


2. Carama ovina. 
Phalena-bombyx ovina, Sepp, Surinaam Vlinders, iii. p. 233, t. 105°. 
Euproctis (?) ovina, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 834’. 
Carama ovina, Butl. Cist. Ent. 11. p. 203°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Capetillo 
(Champion); Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA 3 ; 
Guiana, Surinam 12; Bo.ivia 3. 


168 HETEROCERA. 


This species appears to be rare, I have only seen a very few specimens. Sepp’s figure 
is not a good one, but I have little doubt that it represents our species. 


8. Carama plumosa. (Tab. XV. fig. 7.) 
Carama plumosa, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 204°. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan 


de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David (Champion).—BraziL, Santarem 1. 


This species appears to be pretty common: both in Costa Rica and the State of 
Panama; it is closely allied to C. ovina. Thecolour of the antenne of the males varies 
greatly; in fresh specimens it is bright yellow, but the colour soon seems to fade. 


4, Carama minuta, sp. n. 
Primaries and secondaries uniform silky white, slightly shaded with cream-colour on the costal margin and 
apex of the primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; antennz and legs cream-colour. Expanse 
4 inch. 
Hab, Panama, Obispo (Salvin, in mus. D.). 
Mr. Salvin obtained a single specimen of this beautiful little species at Obispo, in 


the vicinity of the line of the Panama railroad, in 1873; it is the smallest of the genus. 


ORGYIA, 
Orgyia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. von Eur. 11. p. 208 (1810). 


This well-known genus is represented in our country by one or at most two species ; 
from North America seven species have been described, and it is more than probable 
that some of them will eventually be found in the northern part of Mexico ; others 


inhabit Europe. 


1. Orgyia leucostigma. 
Phalena leucostigma, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 157, t. 79°. 
Orgyia leucostigma, Walk. Cat. iv. p. 786. 
Hab. Nort America, Georgia '!, Nova Scotia 2,—Muexico, Presidio (Forrer), Jalapa 


(Hoge). 

The two Mexican specimens before me are almost identical with others in my collec- 
tion from North America. The example from Presidio is somewhat paler in colour 
and the markings are less distinct, but it has the appearance of being rather a worn 
example ; at the same time it may possibly prove to belong to another species. The 
larva and pupa, as well as the imago, of O. leucostigma are figured by Abbot and Smith ; 
the larva feeds upon various kinds of oak 1. 


EACLES. 169 


EACLES. 
Eacles, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 153; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1370. 


Numerous species of.this genus are known from North and South America; in our 
country it is represented by three species, one of which is now described as new. — 


1. Eacles magnifica. (Tab. XV. fig. 13.) 
Eacles magnifica, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1873'. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Hoge); GuateMaua, Joyabaj (Champion); Nicaraaua, Chon- 
tales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé).—Braz, Para}, Rio Janeiro ; 
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC; PARAGUAY. 


This species is found over a very wide range of country; I have a good series of 
specimens before me which show a considerable amount of variation in the females; 
the Mexican and Guatemalan examples are most like those from the Argentine 
Republic, being more strongly spotted and banded than the examples from Nicaragua, 
the State of Panama, and Brazil. A specimen from Nicaragua is the palest I have 
seen, and also the largest, measuring fully seven inches from tip to tip of the primaries. 
An individual, a female, from Paraguay, in my collection, is of a dull dirty yellow colour 
with all the spots and bands considerably larger than they are in any other example 
before me; but without seeing a male I do not feel justified in considering it as 
distinct from EF. magnifica, at the same time it may belong to a different species. 

The example sent from Joyabaj Mr. Champion reports as having dropped from the 
mouth of a bird on the wing and was picked up (comparatively uninjured) by him, 
while crossing the lofty range of mountains between Cubulco and Joyabaj. 

E. magnifica closely resembles the North-American E. imperialis. Our figure is 
taken from a specimen from the Volcan de Chiriqui. 


2. Eacles mexicana. (Tab. XV. fig. 11, ¢.) 
Citheronia mexicana, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyc. New York, viii. p. 382, t. 18. fig. 1 ( 2)’. 


Hab. Mexico (Ldwards'), Jalapa (Hoge). 


A single specimen sent by Herr Hoge from Jalapa is, I have very little doubt, the 
male of E. mexicana; it is rather smaller, but in all other respects it agrees fairly well 
with the female figured by Grote and Robinson. 


8. Eacles splendens, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 12.) 

Male. Primaries slaty-brown, with all the veins reddish-brown, a transverse band of nine primrose-coloured 
spots extending from the costal margin near the apex to the middle of the inner margin, a square-shaped | 
spot at the end of the cell, and an elongated spot at the base, both pale primrose-colour, the underside the 
same as above, excepting the inner margin which is broadly banded with primrose-colour from the base to 
near the anal angle; secondaries from the base to beyond the cell pale primrose-colour clouded with slaty- 
brown, from just below the cell to the outer margin dark slaty-brown, the veins reddish-brown, the 
underside pale primrose-colour, except at the apex which is rather broadly banded with slaty-brown, a 


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170 HETEROCERA. 


well-defined red spot at the end of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown, the underside of 
the abdomen pale yellow ; legs brown; the front of the thorax and five lines extending from the collar 
to near the base pale primrose-colour ; antenne reddish-brown. Expanse 44 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Boucard, in mus. D.). 


This species is closely allied to the North-American E. regalis (Fabr.) well figured by 
Grote and Robinson (Ann. Lyc. New York, viii. t. 12), from which it differs in the 
entirely different coloration of the secondaries; in having the thorax striped, and the 
yellow marks at the base entirely absent ; and also in the general greyer colour of all the 
wings. . splendens appears to be very rare, I have only seen a single male example 
which was brought home by Boucard upon his return from Mexico some years ago. 


DRYOCAMPA. > 


Dryocampa, Harris, in Hitchcock’s Report on the Geology &c. of Massachusetts, p. 591 (1834) ; 
Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1495. 

The name Dryocampa was first used by Harris for Phalena senatoria, Abbot and 
Smith, and Bombyx rubicunda, Fabr., but without definition ; characters were given it 
by Walker (loc. cit.), who included in it six species, all of them from America. The 
range of the genus extends from the United States to Brazil. 


1. Dryocampa dissimilis. (Tab. XV. figg. 93,109.) 
Adelocephala dissimilis, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 93". 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca ', Jalapa (Hoge). 


I am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for his kindness in sending me Boisduval’s type 
of this species for comparison. ‘The figures are taken from fresh specimens from Jalapa, 
where it appears to be common. I have only seen specimens from the above-mentioned 
localities. 


2. Dryocampa assimilis, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 5.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform reddish-brown, the secondaries a shade the darkest; the underside slightly 
pinkish brown; a small white dot at the end of the cell of the primaries: head, antenne, thorax, and 
abdomen reddish-brown, exactly the same colour as the wings. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Santa Ana in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn). 
“In Oak Woods” (Buchan-Hepburn). This species is most nearly allied to D. 
dissimilis, from which it is at once distinguished by its uniform colour. 


ADELOCEPHALA. — 


Adelocephala, Herrich-Schaffer, Sammlung aussereur. Schmett. p. 78, t. 17. figg. 77, 78. 

Othorene, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 82. 

' This genus now contains about fifteen species, all from Tropical America ; seven have 
been recorded from our country, four of which are only known to me by description. 
Boisduval’s genus Othorene will not stand, he having founded it upon Adelocephala 


ADELOCEPHALA. 171 


cadmus, Herrich-Schaffer, and also including in it A. jason, from Mexico, A. fallaz, 
from Brazil, A. mexicana, from Oaxaca, and A. wardi, from Brazil. Adelocephala I 
think will have to be divided, the typical species having pectinated antenne in both 
sexes, those of the 4. albolineata group being only pectinated in the males; I have 
not sufficient material, however, to be certain how far this character holds good. 


1. Adelocephala leucostigma. 
Adelocephala leucostigma, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 85°. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca!; GuaTEMALA 1}. 


I include this species on the authority of Boisduval; I have not seen the insect, 
neither have I received any specimens from our country that answer to his description. 


2. Adelocephala isias. 
Adelocephala isias, Boisd. Ann. Soe. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 92°. 
Hab. Mexico 1. 


Unknown to me. 


3. Adelocephala albolineata. 
Adelocephala albolineata, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 7, t. 1. fig. 7 (g) *. 
Adelocephala ruspa, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 93, t. 3. fig. 1”. 


Hab. Mexico !, Oaxaca 2, Mexico city (Hége). 

Of this beautiful species I have examples of both sexes before me; the female is 
considerably the larger, but in other respects identical with the male. Apparently 
rare, | have only seen a very few specimens. 


4, Adelocephala quadrilineata. 
Adelocephala quadrilineata, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 11, t. 1. fig.2 (2)*. 


Hab. Mexico }. 


5. Adelocephala boisduvali. (Tab. XVI. figg. 12,26.) 

Adelocephala boisduvalii, Doumet, Revue et Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 266 (3)*; Walk. Cat. xxxil. 
p- 574”. 

Othorene mexicana, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 84°. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Oaxaca *,—Amazons, Para 1 ®. 
Iam indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of the type of Boisduval’s Othorene 
mexicana (fig. 1); Ihave very little doubt that it is the female of Adelocephala boisdwvalt, 
first described from a Para specirnen. The male specimen figured is from Presidio. 


6. Adelocephala jason. 
Othorene jason, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 83°. 
Hab. Mexico 1. 


Unknown to me. 


yy 2 


172 HETEROCERA. 


7. Adelocephala hogei, n. sp. (Tab. XVI. fig. 9, ¢.) 


Primaries yellowish-brown, speckled with dark brown, crossed by two transverse dark brown lines (the first 
midway between the base and the end of the cell, the second beyond from the apex to the middle of the 
inner margin), the outer margin slightly shaded with pink, two silvery-white spots at the end of the cell 
(the first round, nearest the costal margin, the second triangular) ; secondaries rose-pink, darkest from the 
inner margin to beyond the middle: head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen yellowish-brown ; legs brown. 
Expanse 23 inches. 

Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer), Jalapa (Hoge). 
This beautiful species is allied to A. subangulata, Herr.-Schaff., from South 


Brazil. 


SYSSPHINX. 


Syssphinz, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 143. 
Syssisphinx, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1503. 
Psephophectes, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 5. 
This genus only contains a single species. The sexes differ greatly, the males to 
some extent resembling certain Sphingide (Smerinthus). 


1. Syssphinx molina. 

Phalena-Bombyx molina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pp. 25, 221, t. 302. figg. EH. F. (9), t. 396. 
fig. B.(¢)?. 

Syssphine molina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1437. 

Syssisphing molina, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1503 °. 

Psephophectes simulatilis, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 6, t. 1. fig. 1 (4) ‘4. 

Adelocephala grandis, Grote & Robinson, loc. cit. p. 8, t. 1. fig. 7 (2) °. 

Ceroderes molina, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xv. p. 84°. 


Hab. Muxico*® (W. H. Edwards); Costa Rica (Van Patten, Gabb, mus. D.) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.).—Gutana, 
Surinam !23; Braziu?®; West Inpres, Trinidad. 


This species is found over a very extended range of country. I have a fair series of 
specimens before me showing a considerable amount of variation in colour; the 
examples from Costa Rica are the darkest and agree fairly well with Cramer's figure, 
in which the costal portion of the primaries is far too highly coloured, but in all other 
respects they are identical. The specimens from the State of Panama agree well 
with Psephophectes simulatilis and Adelocephala grandis of Grote & Robinson; I have 
not the slightest doubt that they are sexes and should be referred to Cramer's species, 
an insect that appears to have been quite overlooked by Messrs. Grote & Robinson. 


COLORADIA. 
Coloradia, Blake, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 279, t. 7 (1868). 


This genus was described upon a single species (C. pandora, Blake) found at Pike’s 
Peak, Colorado ; we now add two others from Central America. 


COLORADIA.—COPAXA. 173 


1. Coloradia clazomenia, sp. n. (Tab. XVI. fig. 5.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform brownish-black, the veins rather darker, the primaries with an indistinct 
greyish marginal band extending from the apex to the anal angle: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and 
antenne brownish-black. Expanse 33 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 
2. Coloradia marathusa, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. figg. 33,42.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark reddish-brown, lightest near the base of the primaries; the primaries 
with a slightly greyish transverse line crossing from the costal margin to the anal angle, and with 
several obscure dark markings between if and the outer margin; the secondaries rather darker; the 
underside of both primaries and secondaries much lighter: head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen dark 
reddish-brown above, much paler beneath ; antenne and legs dark brown. 

Female. Primaries and secondaries uniform pale brown, the wings thinly clothed with scales: head and thorax 
dark brown; abdomen pale yellowish-brown; antennew and legs brown. Expanse, ¢, 24 inches; 
@ , 3¢ inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


I am a little doubtful if this species should be placed in the genus Coloradia; the 
neuration is very similar, the only difference being, so far as I am able to see, a rather 
shorter cell in the secondaries. The primaries are somewhat shorter than in the other 
species. I have only seen two examples, one of each sex. 


Fam. SATURNIIDA. 


COPAXA. 
Copaxa, Walker, Cat. v. p. 12385. 


This genus was formed by Walker upon three species (C. canella, C. decrescens, and 
C. expandens), from Tropical South America. Six species, including the two last named, 
inhabit our country; several others, one of which is very closely allied to C. expandens, 
are also known from West Africa. 


1. Copaxa decrescens. 
Copaxa decrescens, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1287'; Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. ff. 44, 45. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, mus. Staudinger), Bugaba (Champion).—Cotomsia, Bogota (mus. D.); Brazit, 
Rio Janeiro 1. 


This insect appears to be rare in our country; I have only seen a very few examples. 
The coloured figures of Maassen and Weymer are poor, and show the light markings 
very much more distinctly than they are in the examples before me. 


2. Copaxa multifenestrata. 
Euphranor multifenestrata, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 61, 84, t. 96. f. 551°. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Cordova (Riimeli); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 


174 HETEROCERA. 


This species is common in Mexico. Walker, in his Catalogue, erroneously places 
C. multifenestrata as a synonym of Cicula trifenestrata, an Indian species, with which 
it has nothing whatever to do. 

The long series of specimens before me show considerable variation in colour, as well 
as in the number of clear spots; as a rule the males are always darker than the females; 
some of the females are identical with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure. Herrich-Schiffer gives 
“ Africa ?” 1 as the locality of his specimen. 

Examples of this species from Mexico are labelled “ Saturnia polythyris, Boisd.,” in 
the Paris Museum ; but I cannot find that Boisduval described it under this name. 


3. Copaxa simson. 
Copaxa simson, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f. 77 (¢)*. 
Hab. Panama}. 


This fine species is only known to me from Maassen and Weymer’s figure. 


4, Copaxa trotschi, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. fig. 3, g.) 


Primaries and secondaries reddish-brown, shaded with pinkish-grey scales; the costal margin of the primaries 
from the base to about the middle black, the black extending in the form of a band, and, crossing by the 
end of the cell, reaches the outer margin, a black transverse band from the extreme apex to the inner 
margin and nearest to the anal angle, all the veins dusky, a transparent spot at the end of the cell ; 
secondaries crossed by three blackish bands, the first near the base, the second beyond the cell, and the 
third submarginal, a transparent spot at the end of the cell: head and thorax greyish; antenne very 
light brown; abdomen pale reddish-brown, the anal segments greyish ; legs pale reddish-brown. Expanse 
44 inches. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

This species is allied to Copaxa simson, Maass., from which it is easily distinguished 
by its much smaller size and duller colour, and by its not possessing the feathery black 
markings on the primaries, as shown in the figure of that species. A second specimen 
in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is considerably duller in colour than the specimen 
figured. 

Both examples are much rubbed and in very poor condition. 


5. Copaxa expandens. 
Copaxa expandens, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1238* ; Maassen and Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f.79 (¢)’. . 
Hab. Panama’, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA 
(Dyson) }. 
Only a single specimen of this fine species was obtained by Mr. Champion. 


6. Copaxa lavendera. 
Saturnia lavendera, Westw. P. Z.S. 1853, p. 160, t. 82. f£.38(2)°; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd 
ser. xv. p. 297°; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1274°. 
Copaxa plenkeri, Feld. Wien Ent. Monats. iv. p. 112, t.1. f. 34; Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 527°. 
Copazxa lavendera, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f. 78°. 


. COPAXA.—AUTOMERIS. 175 


Hab, Mexico? 45° (Coffin 1*), Cordova (Hoge). 


All the specimens that I have seen and that have been described of this species are 
females. There is no doubt that the insect described as Copaxa plenkeri by Dr. Felder 
is referable to this species; a comparison of his figure with those of Professor West- 
wood and Maassen and Weymer proves that they are almost identical. The single 
Mexican example before me differs from all of them in having a wide brownish-black 
band on the secondaries from the inner margin to the ocellus. In the Paris Museum 
there is a specimen of a species of this genus labelled “ Saturnia canelle, Boisd.” (a 
description of which I am unable to find) from Mexico, which may possibly be the 
male of C. lavendera. In my notes, made in 1881, I find :—* Very like 8. lavendera, 
Westw., in markings, but a rich reddish-brown colour.” 

Professor Westwood (oc. cit.) states that a female example of this insect was reared 
from a large green spiny larva, found on a poplar trunk. 


.SAGANA. 
Sagana, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1234. 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of Saturnia sapatoza, Westw., an insect | 
inhabiting Colombia, and which, on the authority of two specimens in the Oxford 
Museum labelled “ Mexico,” we somewhat doubtfully include in our fauna. 


1. Sagana sapatoza. — 
Saturnia sapatoza, Westw. P. Z.S. 1853, p. 163, t. 33. f. 1 (¢)*; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd 
ser. Xv. p. 299°. 
Sagana sapatoza, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1235 °. 
Hab. Mzxico (mus. Oxford).—Cotomsia, Bogota 12%. 


This curious little insect does not seem closely allied to any described species. 


AUTOMERIS. 


Automeris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 154. 
Io, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 206 (partim). 

Nine species were placed under this generic name by Hiibner. The genus now con- 
tains a very large number of species ; in our country it is well represented by upwards 
of twenty species; but Tropical South America seems to be its head-quarters. I have 
described as new six species, all of which are figured. It is quite possible, however, 
that one or more of these may have been named by Walker ; but, owing to the types of 
several species (A. memuse, A. cinerea, A. pyrrhomelas, A. vagrans, and A. submacula) 
having been lost from the late Mr. Saunders’s collection, now in the Oxford Museum, I 
am unable to speak positively. As it is quite impossible to make out the species with 
any certainty from Walker’s descriptions, I have thought it advisable to describe and 
name all the undetermined species from our country. As Boisduval, in his monograph 


176 HETEROCERA. 


of the genus fo, does not include any of Walker’s species, in all probability many of 
those he described as new had previously been named by Walker. The range of the 
genus is from the United States to South Brazil. 

The larva is known of many of the species; most of them are described as being 
furnished with branching spiny hairs, which, owing to their poisonous or urticating 
nature, cause considerable irritation or even wounds when handled. ‘The larve appear 
to be gregarious in their earlier stages and easy to rear. These large species of 
Saturniide are comparatively seldom captured in the perfect state; it is only by rearing 
the larve that many examples can be obtained. 


1. Automeris janus. 

Phalena Attacus janus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 100, t. 64. ff. a, B’. 
Bombyx janus, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 169; Oliv. Enc. Méth., Ins. v. p. 27, 14, t. 69. f. 7. 
Automeris janus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 154. 
Saturnia metzli, Sallé, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 171, t. 5. £. 17. 
Hyperchiria metzli, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1280°. 
Hyperchiria janus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 1284‘. 
Io janus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 208°. 
fo mesili, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 208 °. 

Hab. Mexico *®, Orizaba’, Jalapa (Hoége); Guatemata*; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam 145, Cayenne, 


T am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of the type of Saturnia metzlit ; 
I have compared it with a long series of specimens of A. janus, and cannot see any 
reason for separating it from that species. .4. janus varies to some extent in colour, 
but in no other respect, the Mexican specimens, as a rule, being much the palest.. The 
example from the State of Panama has the primaries a darker brown than the Mexican 
specimens, and agrees well with Cramer’s figure. 

M. Sallé? describes and figures the larva, and remarks upon the poisonous urticating 


nature of the branching spiny hairs with which it is furnished; he gives Platanus 
occidentalis and Erythrina rubra as food-plants. . 


2. Automeris junonia. 
Hyperchiria gunonia, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1944 (¢)*. 
Hyperchiria titania, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 85. f. 8, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 5 ()*. 
Hab. Centrat America (Salvin, mus. Felder) 2—Cotomsta, Bogota }. 


Walker’s type, now in my own collection, agrees well with Felder’s figure. 


3. Automeris rubrescens. 
Hyperchiria rubrescens, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1281). 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guaremata!; Honpuras (Dyson)1; Nicaragua, Chon- 


AUTOMERIS. 177 


tales (Belt); Costa Rica (Boucard, in mus. D., Van Patten); Panama (mus. 
Oxford). 
The Mexican specimens are larger and brighter in colour than the type from Guate- 
mala. In our country this species appears to be common and widely distributed. 
Walker records a large dark variety from Honduras and Venezuela!, in which 
the exterior band is undulating and more remote from the ocellus: the Honduras 
specimen is, I believe, A. arminia, Cram.; the one from Venezuela is a distinct species. 


4. Automeris banus. (Tab. XVI. fig. 8, 9; Tab. XVII. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Io banus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 212(?)’. 
_ Hab. Mexico! ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Arcé, in mus. D., 3; 
Champion, ¢ ). 

IT am much indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of Boisduval’s type. I have 
not the slightest doubt that the specimen sent by Arcé from Chiriqui is the male of 
A. banus, the underside of the two insects being identical. The female specimen sent 
by Mr. Champion is considerably darker brown in colour, owing to its being in very 
fresh condition ; in other respects it does not differ from Boisduval’s type. This species 
is allied to A. rubrescens, Walker. 


5. Automeris cinctistriga. 
Hyperchiria cinctistriga, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 89. f. 4, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p.5 (¢)'. 
fo cinctistriga, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 216 ?. 
Hab. GuatEMaLa, Chiacam, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache 
(Rogers).—Co.tomBia !, Bogota; AMAZONS. 


This species is allied to A. salmone, Cram., but I think distinct ; from Guatemala I 
have only seen female specimens. 

Boisduval ? says he has not seen a specimen of this species, and describes it from 
Felder’s figure; he gives Central America as the locality. Felder, however, gives 
Bogota. 


6. Automeris zurobara, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. fig. 2, 2.) 


Female. Brown, the primaries crossed by two narrow yellowish lines (the first near the base, the ‘second 
extending from the apex to the inner margin), and with a darker brown spot at the end of the cell; the 
underside reddish-brown, with a large black discal spot (in the centre of which is a small white dot), and 
a brown line (bordered on the outer side with dark brown) extending from the apex to the inner margin 
near the middle; secondaries reddish-brown, fawn-colour along the exterior border, near which is a 
slender undulating black yellow-bordered band, the ocellus is large, round, bordered with black, the 
centre black with a white streak through the middle ; the underside reddish brown, with a small white 
discal spot and a brown line extending from the apex to the inner margin: head and thorax dark 
brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown ; antennse and legs brown. Expanse 3 inches. 


Hab. Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This species is quite distinct; it is allied to A. cinetistriga, Felder. 
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178 HETEROCERA. 


7. Automeris cecrops, (Tab. XVI. fig. 7, 3.) 
Io cecrops, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 2247 (¢ ¢). 
Hab. Muxico ! (mus. Staudinger), 


I am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of Boisduval’s type to figure. A. 
single male example from Mexico, in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, agrees fairly well 
with the type, only differing in being paler and yellower in colour. 


8. Automeris montezuma. 
Io montezuma, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 224. 
Hab. Mexico 1, 


_ This species is quite unknown to me. The following is the description :—“ Taille 
et port de Cecrops male. Ailes supérieures grises avec la base un peu plus foncée; la- 
raie extra-basilaire un peu sinuée; la marque sous-costale indiquée par des points 
noiratres, la ligne ordinaire brune se terminant assez loin de la point apicale. Ailes 
inférieures avec le disque rosé, la base et le bord abdominal garnis d’une villosité rose: 
un ceil discoidal noir coupé par un croissant blanc; en arriére de lil, une raie noire, 
semi-circulaire ; tout le bord extérieur gris, divisé par une raie obsoléte un peu plus 
obscure. Dessous des ailes grisdtre; celui des supérieures avec un trés petit ceil 
obsoléte pupillé de blanc; celui des inférieures avec un ceil semblable, mais un peu 
plus grand; une raie brunatre, commune sur le tiers postérieur des quatre ailes. 
Corselet brun. Abdomen d’un brun rose.—Mexique. Mus. nation.” 


9. Automeris averna, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. fig. 4, 2.) 


Female. Primaries pinkish-brown, shaded with dark brown, an indistinct brown line near the base, a narrow 
brown line, margined with yellow, extending from the apex across the middle of the wing to the inner 
margin ; the underside pale brown, with a central dark brown band extending from the apex to the 
inner margin, anda large discal black spot (visible from above) in the centre of which is a very small white 
spot; secondaries pale pinkish-brown from the base to the middle and along the costal and outer margins, 
from the middle to the black line bright chrome-yellow, the ocellus large, fawn-coloured, bordered with 
black, the centre black, thickly speckled with white, a wide dark brown submarginal band extending 
from the apex to the anal angle; the underside pale brown, shaded with darker brown near the apex: 
head and thorax dark brown, the sides of the latter with a tuft of white hairs; abdomen reddish-brown; - 
antenne and legs brown. Expanse 34 inches. 


Hab. Mexico (Boucard, in mus. D.). 


This species differs from all others known to me in the form of the ocelli on the 
secondaries ; I have only seen a single example, a female. 


10. Automeris boucardi, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. figg.5¢, 69.) 


Male. Reddish-brown, the primaries with a white tuft at the base, an irregular narrow line crossing the wing 
from the costal to the inner margin, the discal spot indistinct, a reddish line, bordered on the outer side 
with pale fawn-colour, extending from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, beyond which, and 
nearer the outer margin, is a pale band; the underside uniform reddish-brown, the discal spot large, black, 
with a white spot in the centre; secondaries pinkish-brown, from the middle to the black submarginal 
line bright yellow, the ocellus black, the centre slightly shaded with fawn-colour and thickly irrorated 


AUTOMERIS. 179 


with white scales, the outer margin banded with two shades of reddish-brown; the underside uniform 
reddish-brown, with a small white discal spot: head and thorax dark brown; abdomen black above, 
the underside and anus reddish-brown ; antenne pale yellowish-brown ; legs brown. The female similar 


to the male, but larger, and considerably (the primaries especially) paler in colour. Expanse, 3 , 23 inches ; 
© , 34 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Boucard, in mus. D., Van Patten). 


The figures are from Costa-Rican specimens obtained by M. Boucard, and contained 
in my own collection. Van Patten found this species pretty commonly, but all the 
specimens he obtained are in very bad condition. 


11. Automeris zugana, sp. n. (Tab. XVII. fig. 7,  .) 


Male, Pale fawn-colour, the primaries slightly darker at the base and along the costal margin, the discal spot 
very indistinct, a central narrow brown line extending from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, 
a whitish tuft at the base; secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, pale yellow round the ocelli, the black sub- 
marginal line very narrow, the ocelli small, black, with a few white scales in the centre; the underside 
of both wings uniform pale brown, the discal black spot on the primaries small, and with a white dot in 
the centre: head, thorax, antenne, and legs brown; abdomen above black, banded with pale fawn- 
colour, the anus and underside pale brown. LExpanse 2? inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion). 


This species is allied to 4. boucardi. I have only seen four specimens, all of which 
are males. 


12. Automeris zozine. (Tab. XVII. fig. 8, 9.) 


Female. Primaries reddish-brown, shaded with darker brown and pale rose-colour, an indistinct transverse 
brown line near the base, the discal spot dark brown, edged with black, a transverse brown line, edged 
with paler brown on the outer side, extending from the apex to the middle of the hind margin; secon- 
daries bright yellow, the costal and outer margins pale brown banded with darker brown, the abdominal 
margin pinkish-brown, and with a waved submarginal black line, the ocelli large, black, with a few 
bluish-white spots in the centre; the underside of both wings reddish-brown, the discal spot on the 
primaries large, black, with a very small white dot in the centre, two indistinct waved brown lines cross 
both primaries and secondaries: head, thorax, and legs dark brown; abdomen black, banded with pale 
brown above, with a few reddish hairs about the base; the underside and anus pale brown, thickly 
covered with short pale brown hairs; antennew yellowish-brown. Expanse 33 inches. 


- Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


I have only received a single example, a female, of this fine distinct species. 


13. Automeris saturata. (Tab. XVII. fig. 9, ¢.) 
Hyperchiria saturata, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1282 (¢)*. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Jalapa (Hoge). 


This beautiful species appears to be very rare. I have only received two specimens, 
one of each sex; the two examples in the British Museum are both males. 


14. Automeris leucane. 
Gamelia leucane, Hibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. t. —. 
Hyperchiria acutissima, Walk. Cat. xxxil. p. 533 (¢)’. 
Io leucane, Boisd: Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 234’. ; 
; ee 


180 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Mexico ! (Sailé), Vera Cruz”, Jalapa (Hége, Morrison) ; Panama, Bugaba 800 
to 1000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor. 


Walker appears to have overlooked Hiibner’s figures, and described the insect as 
Hyperchiria acutissima, and does not mention A. leucane in his catalogue. 

I have before me a large series of specimens, many of which agree perfectly with 
Hiibner’s figures, and also with Walker’s type in the British Museum. These indivi- 
duals vary considerably in colour, some examples being very pale, others quite dark 
brown ; in some the ocelli and the submarginal band on the secondaries are reddish- 
brown, but more generally dark blackish-brown. In Mexico this species appears to be 
very common, but from other localities I have only seen a few specimens. 


15. Automeris metea. 

Phalana-Bombyx Attacus metea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 27, t. 804. f. A’. 
Automeris metea, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155. 
Attacus irene, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 96, t. 249. figg. B,C *. 
Automeris irene, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 155. 
Io irene, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 235 °. 
Hyperchiria metea, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1291 (¢)*. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).— Guiana, Surinam 123; 
Bouivia*; Braziu 4. | 


A single male example of what I believe to be this species was sent by Arcé; it 
agrees well with Cramer’s figure, but is brighter in colour. 

The larva is described as “ Verte, garnie d’épines palmées, marquée le long des 
pattes, 4 partir du troisiéme segment, d’une raie jaune bordée de pourpre en dessus,” 
and is said to feed upon the pomegranate (Punica granatum). 


16. Automeris larra. (Tab. XVII. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Hyperchiria larra, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1293 (¢ ?)'. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).—CotomBia; Brazit, Rio Janeiro !. 


This fine species is allied to A. doops, Felder, and A. zelleri, Grote and Robinson. 
From our country I have only received one example, a male, which, apart from its 
larger size, agrees well with the type and the specimen before me from Bogota. 


17. Automeris belti, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 3,3; 2,2.) 


Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, shaded near the base and beyond the middle with darker brown, the discal 
spot indistinct, a curved brown line, bordered inwardly with paler brown, crossing the wing from the 
apex to the middle of the inner margin ; the underside pinkish-brown, with a small black discal spot (in 
the centre of which is a white dot), and an indistinct black line from the apex to near the anal angle ; 
secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, almost pink at the base and along the inner margin, the black line wide 
and bordered on the outer edge with yellow, the disc pale yellow, the ocelli large, dark brown, broadly 
bordered with black, the centre thickly speckled with bluish-white scales; the underside pinkish-brown, 
with two submarginal indistinct black lines, the discal spot white: head and thorax dark brown; abdo- 
men pinkish-brown ; antenne pale yellowish-brown; legs dark brown. The female agrees well with the 


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male in all the markings, but is considerably darker in colour and very much larger. Expanse, 3, 33 
inches ; 2 , 5} inches. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama (mus. Oxford). 
This fine species was first received from the late Mr. Belt, after whom I have named 
it. The Panama specimens in the Oxford Museum are identical. Four individuals 


are all I have seen of the species. 


18. Automeris arminia. 
Phalena-Bombyx Attacus arminia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 126, t. 356. f. A’. 
Bombyx arminia, Oliv. Enc. Méth., Ins. v. pp. 35, 41. 
Automeris arminia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155. 
Automeris arminia, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 155. 
Hyperchiria arminia, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1807. 
Io arminia, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 219 (¢ 2)’. 

Hab. Honpvvuras (Dyson, mus. B.).—Gutana, Surinam !?3, Cayenne 3. 

The specimen of this species, from Honduras, in the British Museum collection, is in 
very poor condition. Walker, in his Catalogue, included it with A. rubrescens, from 
which it is clearly distinct. I have not any further evidence of its occurrence in our 
country. The larva is described as entirely brown in colour, with brownish-ferruginous 
branched spines; it is said to feed upon species of Citrus, and on Punica granatum. 


19. Automeris hebe. 
Hyperchiria hebe, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 536 (¢)’. 


Hyperchiria iris, Walk. loc. cit. p. 5387 (3 )?. 
Io orestes, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 220°; Méschler, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxvii. 


p. 677’. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé1°, in mus. B.)1?.—Gutana, Cayenne*®; BraziL, Para- 
maribo 2. | 
The only specimens I have seen of this species are the types in the British Museum. 


20. Automeris crudelis. 
Hyperchiria crudelis, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f. 117’. 
Hab. Mexico!; Guatnmata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales 


(Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten). 
A dull-coloured species, the dullest in the genus. 


21. Automeris schausi. 
Hyperchiria schausii, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 16 (¢ 2)’. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus *). 


This species is unknown to me. Mr. Edwards does not state, in his description, to 


what species it is allied. 


182 HETEROCERA. 


22. Automeris eogena. 
Hyperchiria eogena, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 89. f. 8, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 5 (9)'. 
Io eogena, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 225 (¢ 7)’. 


Hab. Mexico !?, 


This comparatively small species is only known to me from Dr. Felder’s figure. 
Boisduval states (loc. cit.) that many examples were reared by M. E. Deyrolle, from 
whom he received specimens of both sexes. 


23, Automeris io. 
Bombyx io, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 560; Sp. Ins. ii. p. 178; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 110; Ent. Syst. i. 1, 
p. 419 (nec Cramer). 
Phalena io, Abbot & Smith, Nat. Hist. Lepid. Ins. of Georgia, i. p. 97, t. 49. ff. 1,2 (¢9)?. 
Hyperchiria varia, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 12787; Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Heter. p. 188, t. 15. ff. 15 


(gd), 16(¢)°. 
Hyperchiria tilth, Strecker, loc. cit. p. 189, t. 15. f. 17 (2)*; Grote, List of North-American 


Moths, 1882, p. 20. no. 304. 
Hab. Norta America? %, Georgia! 4.—Muxico, Presidio (Forrer).—Cotomst1a ; GUIANA, 
Surinam. 


Bombyx-Attacus io, Cramer, is quite distinct from Bombyz io, Fabr., and is, I believe, 
correctly placed in the genus Hyperchiria by Hiibner. 

This common species ranges over a very wide extent of country. I have a good series 
before me, the examples from Mexico being very much smaller than those from North 
America. A specimen from Bogota in my own collection agrees perfectly with others 
from North America. | 

The larva is figured by Abbot and Smith (Joc. cit.); it is said to feed on maize, 
dogwood (Cornus), sassafras, &c. 


As the two following species possibly inhabit our country, I think it best to include 
them :— 


24. Automeris godarti. 
lo godartii, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 2197. 
Hab. * Mexico 1.—? Cotomsta 1. 
Unknown to me. Described from a single male individual of uncertain origin, but 
supposed to be from Mexico or Colombia. 


25. Automeris mendosa. (Tab. XVI. fig. 6, ¢.) 
fo mendosa, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviti. p. 2257. 
Hab. * Mexico! .—? CoLomsia }. 


AUTOMERIS.—GAMELIA. 183 


Iam indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of Boisduval’s type of this very 
distinct species. Our figure is taken from this specimen. 

A. mendosa, like A. godarti, is described from a single specimen, a female, of uncer- 
tain origin, and also supposed to be from Mexico or Colombia. 


GAMELTA. 


Gamelia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155. 
Zo, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 206 (partim). 

Hiibner placed three Tropical-American species (G. abasia, G. abas, and G. irmina) 
under this generic name; the first two are known from our country. Boisduval 
does not retain Gamelia as distinct from his genus Jo. Three other species are now 
placed in the genus. . | 

Gamelia is easily distinguished from Automeris by the shorter and broader primaries, 
the apices of which are very sharply pointed, and by the secondaries being considerably 
longer and not so much rounded at the anal angle. 


1. Gamelia abasia. 
Phalena-Bombyx Attacus abasia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 103, t. 344. ff. A, B, C’. 
Io abasia, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 242”. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion}.—Gutana, Surinam 12, Cayenne ”. 


A single female specimen of this species was obtained in the State of Panama by 
Mr. Champion. The insect figured by Hiibner as G. abasia is quite distinct from 
G. abas, Cramer. Walker, in his Catalogue, has placed these and two other species 
under Hyperchiria abas, but upon comparison of the figures it will be seen that they 
belong to distinct species. 

The larva and pupa are figured by Stoll (Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Exot. p. 79, t. 17. 
figg. 1, 2); the former is described as follows :—“ D’un beau violet avec une raie 
laterale d’un jaune d’or prés des pattes. Tout son corps est garni d’épines rameuses, 
trés longues sur les trois premiers anneaux et sur le dernier, et assez courtes sur le 
reste du corps.” It is said to feed on the guava (Psidium pyriferum). 


2. Gamelia anableps. 

Phalena-Bombyx Attacus abas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 121, t.77.f.B(¢)'. (Necf. A, 3g.) 
Hyperchiria anableps, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 89. f. 7, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p.5 (¢)’. 
To anableps, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 244°. 
Io episcopus, Boisd. loc. cit. p. 243+. 

Hab. Mexico*®.—Cotomsia, Bogota; Ecvapor ; Guiana, Surinam!*; Amazons}. 

I include this species solely on the authority of Boisduval: I have no other evidence 
of its occurrence in our country. I believe Cramer has figured two distinct species as 
the sexes of Bombyx abas, Fabr. 


184 HETEROCERA. 


Boisduval has renamed the species figured by Cramer (loc. cit. t. 77. f. B, 2) as 
Jo episcopus; but, upon comparison with my specimens from Bogota and Ecuador, I 
feel certain that the species is distinct from G. abas, Fabr., and should stand under 
Dr. Felder’s name. Cramer’s figure is not very good. 


HYPERCHIRIA. 


Hyperchiria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155 (1816). 
Io, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 206 (partim). 


Two species (H. nausica and H. io, from Surinam) were placed under this generic 
name by Hiibner. I take Attacus nausica, Cram., as the type of Hyperchiria ; it 
differs greatly both from Automeris and Gamelia. 

Walker, in my opinion, erroneously placed these two last-named genera aS synonyms 
of Hyperchiria. In our country the genus is represented by a single species, which we 
now trace northwards to Mexico. 


1. Hyperchiria nausica. 
Phalena-Bombyx Attacus nausica, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 97, t. 249. ff. D, E(¢?), et t. 3038. ff. B, 


C (gy). 
Hyperchiria nausica, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 18097. 
Io nausica, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xviii. p. 229°. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova! (Hége).—Gu1ana, Surinam !?3, Cayenne®; Braz ?. 


The specimen before me from Cordova agrees well with Cramer’s figures D, E, 
excepting that the abdomen is banded with black on each segment and that the black 
markings are not quite so distinct; on the underside it is almost identical. The larva, 
according to Stoll, lives upon Anacardium giganteum, and is described as “‘ Verte ou 
d’un vert pale, garnie de quatre rangées d’épines rameuses de la méme couleur. L 
dernier segment est marqué d’une petite raie noire et d’une autre incarnate, plus grande, 
de forme semilunaire.” | 


ANTHERZEA. 
Antherea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p.152; Walk. Cat. v. p. 1239. 


This genus now contains a large number of Eastern species; but from the New 
World I only know of one (A. chapata), from Mexico, that I can with certainty refer 
to it. This last-named species agrees very well generically with the male of A. mylitta 
from Ceylon; the neuration appears to be identical. 

Hubner placed three species (A. mylitta, A. paphia, and A. jana) under this generic 
name, and Walker twenty-one, all Asiaticand African forms. The American species I 
include in it was placed doubtfully in Attacus by Walker. 


ANTHERZA.—ARSENURA. 185 


1. Antherza chapata. (Tab. XIX. fig. 1,3.) 
Saturnia chapata, Westwood, P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 162 ($)'; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xv. 
p-. 298. 
Attacus (?) chapata, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1202’. 
Hab. Mexico (Coffin'?; Boucard, mus. Oxford), Mexico city (Hége). 


This species varies greatly in colour; as yet it is only known from Mexico. 


ARSENURA. 
Arsenura, Duncan, in Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, vii. p. 125 (1841) ; ibid. 2nd edit. xxxii. (Ins. 
vii.) p. 125 (1852). 
Rhescyntis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156 (partim) ; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1321. 
Aricia, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 78, t. 51 (nomen przoc.). 

Several species are known of this genus, which is widely distributed over the tropical 
regions of America. The type of Arsenura is A. erythrine. We now record two 
species from our country ; I also place in it, provisionally, a third species (A. championi) ; 
this latter, when more specimens are obtained, will most probably have to be separated. 


1. Arsenura erythrinz. 
Arsenura erythrine, Merian, Ins. Surin. ii. t. 11; Seba, Mus. iv. t. 21. ff. 1, 2, 5, 6. 
Bombyx erythrine, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 169; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 108; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 411; Oliv. 
Enc. Méth., Ins. v. p. 27. 
Phalena Attacus erythrine, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5. 
Phalena Attacus armida, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 6, t. 197. f. A (¢)'. 
Phalena Attacus cassandra, Cram. |. c. p. 7, t. 197. f. B (2). 
Arsenura erythrine, Duncan, loc. cit. p. 125. 
Rhescyntis cassandra, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156. 
Rhescyntis erythrine, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 156; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1824**. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (iimeli, Hoge); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 6000 feet (Champion).— 
CoLoMBIA; VENEZUELA ?; Guiana, Surinam !?; Brazin?. 


This species is found over a very wide range of country. It varies very considerably 
in colour; Mexican specimens are mostly smaller and darker than those from Colombia, 
but in other respects they are identical, those from Costa Rica and the State of Panama 
being more like the Brazilian examples before me. 

From Mexico we have received a fine series of specimens, but Mr. Champion only 
met with a single male example on the Volcan de Chiriqui. 


2. Arsenura arcei, sp.n. (Tab. XIX. figg. 2 ¢, 3 2.) 


Male. Primaries reddish-brown, pale along the costal margin to beyond the middle, the pale brown colour 
extending from the base over the disc, with three narrow submarginal waved lines which extend from 


* The synonymy given is mostly taken from Walker’s Catalogue (Joc. cit.). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1886. 2 aa 


186 HETEROCERA. 


near the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle (the first dark brown with fine angular-shaped 
white dots on the outer edge, the second a whitish line, and the third a bluish-grey band which joins the 
narrow white line), a black dot on the costal margin near the apex, and several reddish marks close to the 
apex ; secondaries reddish-brown, palest from the base to the middle, the submarginal lines placed as on 
the primaries ; underside of both wings uniform pale drab colour, thickly speckled with minute brown 
dots, an almost central brown band crossing both primaries and secondaries, the discal spots dark brown, 
the submarginal white line much more distinct than above, with two small reddish spots in each half- 
circle of the waved line: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs pale brown. The female is 
considerably larger than the male, much darker in colour, with all the bands and markings very much 
more distinct (both on the upper and under sides), and the antenne not so deeply pectinated. Expanse, 
3, 6¢ inches; 92, 77 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, 3, in mus. D. ; Champion, ° ). 

I have named this fine species after Arcé, who discovered it some years ago, and sent 
me two male examples; from that time till Mr. Champion was fortunate enough to 
find a specimen of the female, I had not seen any other than the two original males. 
A. arcet is allied to A. erythrine and A. batesii, and the female closely resembles the 
insect figured by Herrich-Schaffer as Aricia aspasia, but is, I believe, quite distinct 
from either of these species. In the description I have not noticed the very great 
difference in the shape of the hind wings in the two sexes, it is best expressed by the 
figures given. 

Found at rest on a tree-trunk (Persea) in the dense humid forest west of the Volcan 
de Chiriqui, at an elevation of about 4000 feet (Champion). 


3. Arsenura (?) championi, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 4.) 

Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, shaded and banded with darker brown; the primaries thickly 
speckled with dark brown dots, a brown line near the base crossing from the costal to the inner 
margin, two narrow dark brown lines at the end of the cell, beyond which the wing is darker brown, a 
submarginal dark brown band bordered on the outer edge with pale fawn-colour and brownish-purple, a 
long black streak on the costal margin near the apex, below which is a large reddish-brown mark ; 
secondaries banded with dark brown, corresponding with the primaries, but much darker in colour; 
underside pale fawn-colour, speckled with dark brown spots, both primaries and secondaries crossed by 
three or four very indistinct narrow brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour; legs dark 
brown; antenne pale yellowish-brown. Expanse 6 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Schenck, in mus. Staudinger); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 
feet (Champion). | 

Our figure is taken from the Costa-Rican specimen, which is in fresher condition 
than the one found by Mr. Champion. The figure will better express the shape of the 
wings than a description. ‘The two specimens before me are the only examples I have 
seen of this grand insect ; it is not nearly allied to any described species, Dense 
humid forest west of the Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


DRACONIPTERIS. 
Draconipteris, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 150; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1185. 


Walker places this remarkable genus in the Drepanulide, at the same time stating 


DRACONIPTERIS.—EUDAMONTIA. 187 


that it has some affinities with the “ Saturniide” and the “ Geometrites.” It appears 
to me much better placed in the Saturniide, near the genus Arsenura. 

A single species only, from Surinam, has been described ; this we now trace north- 
wards to Nicaragua. 


1. Draconipteris mirabilis. 
Phalena Attacus mirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 148, t. 272. f. B’. 
Draconipteris mirabilis, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 150; Walk. loc. cit. p. 1186°. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D. ; 
Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam 1, Demerara ?. 


The specimen sent by the late Mr. Belt is, I have little doubt, a female ; it agrees 
fairly well with Cramer’s figure, but is not quite so dark in colour; the one received 
from Arcé isa male. The example in Dr. Staudinger’s collection (a male) is in very 
poor condition ; it is darker in colour than either of the other specimens before me. 


EUDAIMONITA. 
' Hudemonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 151; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1265. 


Two species were placed under the above name by Hiibner; Walker later on 
describing the genus, and also making it to include the same species, EL. semiramis, 
from Honduras, and £. argus, from Ashanti and Sierra Leone; a third, E. jehovah, 
from Brazil, has since been added by Mr. Strecker. The species all appear to be very 
rare and little known ; and of E. jehovah Mr. Strecker states that he knows of but one 
example. The very poor specimen of E. semiramis, from Honduras, in the British 
Museum is the only representative I have seen of this genus, remarkable for the 
enormously long-tailed hind wings. 


1. Hudemonia semiramis. 
Bombyx semiramis, Fabr. Gen. Ins. p. 277; Sp. Ins. ii. p. 170; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 109; Ent. Syst. 
iii. 1, p. 413. 
Phalena Atiacus semiramis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 19, t. 18. f. A’; Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5. 
Eudemonia semiramis, Hiibn. loc. cit. p. 151; Walk. loc. cit. p. 1265 ?. 
Copiopteryx semiramis, Duncan, in Jardine’s Nat. Lib. vii. p. 125 (1841); ibid. 2nd edit. xxxii. 
(Ins. vii.) p. 125 (1852). 
Saturnia pheniz, Deyr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, 1869, xii. p. 257, t. 1°. 
Eudemonia pheniz, Maassen and Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. ff. 5 (2), 6,7(¢)*. 
Aricia pheniz, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 92. f. 1, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 2 ( 2)’. 
Eudemonia semiramis, Strecker, Lepid. Rhop. & Het. pp. 98, 101. 
Hab. Honpuras ? (Miller, mus. B.).—Cotomsia ?°; Guiana, Surinam! 4; Brazit 4. 


I include this species upon the authority of the specimen from Honduras in the 
British Museum. It seems a little doubtful to me if the species named by Deyrolle is 
2 aa 2 


188 HETEROCERA. 


identical with that of Cramer. Maassen and Weymer’s, and also Felder’s, figures are 
coloured dark at the base of the primaries and along the costal margin, in Cramer’s 
figures these parts are quite pale. 


ACTIAS. 
Actias, Leach, Miscell. ii. p. 25 (1815). 
Tropea, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1259 (partim). 


Leach founded this genus upon two species, 4. luna, Linn., from North America, 
and A. selene, from India. Three species, including A. luna, are known to inhabit our 
country; others are found in the Old World. The African species seem to me to 
require separating ; the genus Tropwa, (Hiibn.) Walk., might be retained for these. 


1. Actias luna. 

Phalena Attacus luna, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 810; Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 370; Clerck, Icon. t. 52. 
f. 2; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 3, t. 2. f. A; Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5; Abbot and Smith, Ins. — 
Georg. i. pp. 95, 96, t. 48*; Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 49, t. 4. f. 1. 

Bombiz luna, Palis. de Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Am. pp. 183, 184, t. 22. f. 3. 

Bombyx luna, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 170; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 109; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 414. 

Tropea luna, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 152; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1260°*. 

Hab. Nortu America ! ? 3,—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


This common North-American species occurs sparingly in Mexico, but I have not 
seen it from any locality further south. The specimen from Mexico in the British 
Museum included by Walker with A. Juna is quite distinct, and agrees well with his 
description of Tropewa dictynna. The larve and pupa of A. luna are well figured by 
Abbot and Smith; the larva is said to feed upon Liguidambar, Diospyros virginiana, 
and different kinds of walnut. 


2. Actias azteca. 
Actias azteca, Packard, Guide to the Study of Insects, sixth edition, p- 298°. 
Hab. GuatuMata, West Coast ! (mus. Peabody Academy). 


Mr. A. 8. Packard (doc. cit.) states that this species differs from A. luna in its much 
smaller size, expanding only 34 inches, shorter fore wings, the apex being much rounded, 
and with shorter veins, while the “tails” on the hind wings are only half as long as 
those of A. luna. It also differs in having the origin of the first subcostal venule much 
nearer the discal spot than in A. Jwna, being very near that of the second subcostal 
venule. It is whitish-green, with markings not essentially differing from those of 
A, luna. 

I have not seen this species, but think it quite likely that it is nothing but a dwarf 
form of A. Juma. I have in my collection several specimens of A. luna, reared in this 
country, that correspond well with the above description. 


* The synonymy given is taken from Walker’s Catalogue. 


ACTIAS.—ATTACUS. 189 


3. Actias dictynna. 
Tropea dictynna, Walk, Cat. vi. p. 1264' (nec Maassen & Weymer). 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sallé, mus. Brit.).—Locality ?} 


The insect figured by Maassen and Weymer under the above name represents another 
species, China being given as its locality. I have not the slightest doubt that the species 
described by Walker (the type of which is in the Oxford Museum) is identical with the 
Mexican insect in the British Museum, and in all probability came from the same 
collection. 


ATTACUS. 
Attacus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 155; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1200. 


Four species were placed under this name by Hiibner; Walker on describing the genus 
included in it no less than twenty species, some of which are, however, now eliminated. 
Atiacus is very widely distributed. various species being found throughout Asia, Africa, 
and Tropical America; the Old and the New World species resemble each other very 
closely. In our country the genus is well represented by seven species, sever] of which 
are also common to Tropical South America. 


1. Attacus hesperus. 
Phalena Attacus hesperus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 809; Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 367; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 
p. 105, t. 68. f. A*; Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 5, p. 2401. 
Bombyx hesperus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 557; Sp. Ins. ii. p. 167; Mant. Ins. 11. p. 108; Ent. Syst. 
ili. p. 408; Oliv. Enc. Méth., Ins. v. p. 24. 
Bombyzx splendida, Pal. de Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amér. p. 133, t. 22. ff. 1, 2”. 
Attacus hesperus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156; Walk. Cat. v. p. 1209°. 
Atiacus splendidus, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 160*; Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 524”. 
Hab. Norru America, Texas ‘**.—Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet 
(Rogers).—Gutana, Roraima, Surinam'; Amazons, Santarem (Bates*); SouTH-East 
Brazin*.—Santo Domingo’. 


This species has a very extended range, but does not appear to be common anywhere. 
I have not seen a specimen from North America. The insect figured by Palisct de 
Beauvois as Bombyx splendida is, without doubt, the female of Attacus hesperus. I 
have before me specimens of both sexes, agreeing perfectly with Cramer’s and the 
above-mentioned figures. 


2. Attacus orizaba. 
Saturnia orizaba, Westw. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 158, t. 32. f. 2*; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xv. 
p- 2947. 
Attacus orizaba, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1201°. 
Hab. Muxico? (Coffin 12), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge, Morrison), Guanajuato 


190 HETEROCERA. 


(Boucard, in mus. D.); GuatEMaua, Polochic valley (Salvin, mus. Oxford); Costa Rica 
(Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion; Arcé, in 
mus. D.). 

This species is not uncommon in Mexico, but becomes rarer southwards. From the 
State of Panama I have only seen two specimens, one sent some years ago by Arcé and 
the other quite recently by Mr. Champion; I have no evidence of its occurrence 
further south. A. orizaba varies considerably in colour ; the examples from the Volcan 
de Chiriqui are very much darker and larger in size than those from more northern 
localities. 


3. Attacus lebeaui. 
Aittacus lebeaui, Guérin-Méneville, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1868, p- 820°. 
Attacus bolivar, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f. 27. 
Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hoge), Cordova (Riimeli); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 
feet (Champion ; Ribbe, in mus, Staudinger).— VENEZUELA, Caracas !. 


We have received a number of specimens of this species from Mexico, where the 
insect appears to be common. An allied insect, A. cinctus, Tepper (Bull. Brooklyn 
Ent. Soc. v. p. 65, figg. 1, 2), is found near our northern boundary, in Southern 
Arizona ; this species, judging from the figure, is close to A. lebeaui, but differs in 
having the transparent spots nearer the base of the wings. 

Very rarely on tree-trunks in the humid forest-region west of the Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion). 


4, Attacus jorulla. 
Saturnia jorulla, Westw. P.Z. S. 1858, p. 159, t. 82. f.1(g 9)'; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. 
Xv. p. 296°. 
Attacus jorulla, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1202°; ibid. xxxii. p. 5244. 
Hab. Mexico ®, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer), Cuantla (Coffin !2), Orizaba4 (Sallé, 


in mus. Brit.). 


We have only received a single specimen of this insect from Yucatan. It agrees 
well with Westwood’s figure. 


5. Attacus speculifera. 
Attacus speculifera, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1206 (¢)*. 
Hab. Mexico * (Glennie); ?Guaremata (Sallé); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—East Perv; Brazit!. 


This species is found over a very wide range of country. The specimens from 
Central America are smaller and brighter in colour than those from Brazil. The 
Guatemalan insect referred by Walker (Cat. v. p. 1204) to Attacus aurota, Fabr., is, 
I have little doubt, identical with this species ; so far as I have been able to ascertain, 
this specimen is not now in the British Museum. 


ATTACUS.—RHESCYNTIS., 191 


6. Attacus arethusa. 
Attacus arethusa, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1204'. 
Hab. Panama, David (Champion).—CotomBia!; Braziu}, 


A single specimen from the State of Panama, in very bad condition, is apparently 
referable to this species. 


SAMITA. 
Samia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156; Walk. Cat. v. p. 1222. 


Walker, using Hitibner’s generic name, included four species in this genus. Samia 
is as yet only known from North and Central America. The genus is represented in 
our country by two species. 


1. Samia calleta. 
Saturnia calleta, Westw. P. Z.S. 1853, p. 161, t. 33. f 2 (g ¢)*; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. 
XV. p. 297°. 
Samia calleta, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1225 °. 
Platysamia polyommata, Tepper, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. v. p. 66, t. -. f. 8%. 
Hab. Unirep States, South Arizona (Driver *).—MeExico® (Coffin 12, in mus. Oxford ; 


Glennie, Hartweg, in mus. Brit.); GuatEmata, tablelands (Salvin, in mus. Oxford). 
Closely allied to the North-American S. cecropia. Apparently a rare species. 


2. Samia montezuma. 
Saturnia montezuma, Sallé, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1856, p. xen’. 
Telea montezuma, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1. p. 118’. 


Hab. Mexico’, Orizaba (Sallé +). 

This species is quite unknown to me. The following is the description :—* Port 
et taille de la Saturnia polyphemus ; ailes beaucoup plus découpées et largement dentées 
surtout aux inférieures ; les yeux 4 peu prés semblables, seulement celui des supérieures 
sensiblement plus arrondi, et celui des inférieures opaque; le bord postérieur de chaque 
aile est en outre divisé par une ligne noire sinueuse qui devient trés large sur les 
secondes ailes, ot elle forme une véritable bande noiratre irreguliére. Des environs 
d’Orizaba sur le Platanus occidentalis. Deux exemplaires.” 


RHESCYNTIS. 
Rhescyntis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156; Walk. Cat. vi. p: 1821 (partim). 


Eight Tropical-American species were placed in this genus by Walker. As under. 
stood here, Ahescyntis will include one species (R. hippodamia) only; this is now 
known to extend northwards to the State of Panama. 


-192 . HETEROCERA. 


1. Rhescyntis hippodamia. 

Phalena Attacus hippodamia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 48, t. 126. f. BY. 
Bombyx hippodamia, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 169; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 109; Ent. Syst. ii. 1, p. 418. 
Rhescyntis hippodamia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 156; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1822 (3)’. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam}; 
Brazit, Rio Janeiro 2. 

I include this species upon the authority of a specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s col- 
lection. 


Fam. LASIOCAMPIDA. 


MOLIPPA. 
Molippa, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1345. 
This genus was founded by Walker upon a Brazilian insect, MM. sabina, Walk. A 


‘second species has lately been described from Mexico ; judging from the figure of the 
latter, the genus hardly seems distinct from Dirphia. 


1. Molippa nibasa. 
Molippa nibasa, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. zur Schmett. f. 121°. 
Hab. Mxxtico }. 


This species is quite distinct from WM. sabina, Walker. 


PHRICODIA. 
Phricodia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 187. 


Several Tropical-American species are now placed in this genus. Three species 
inhabit our country. 


1. Phricodia avia. 
Phalena Attacus avia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 36, t. 307. f. A’. 
Phricodia avia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 187. 
Dirphia avia, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1849 (¢ )’. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chirigqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion).—CotomB1a, Bogota (mus. D.); Guiana, Surinam *?. 


'[his insect appears to be rare in our country; Mr. Champion only obtained three 
examples. 


2. Phricodia hircia. 
Phalena Attacus hircia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 49, t. 30. £. G’. 
Phricodia hircia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 187. 
Dirphia hircia, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1861 °. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Hége).—Gutana, Surinam !?. 


PHRICODIA.—ORMISCODES. 193 


In Mexico this species is common, but I have not any evidence of its occurrence 
elsewhere in Central America ; in the State of Panama it is replaced by the very closely 
allied P. avia. I think it quite probable that P. hircia and P. avia will most likely 
prove to be merely forms of one species, the chief difference being in colour only; 
P. hircia is dark and more strongly marked with grey, P. avia of a very much paler 
and redder tint. 


3. Phricodia arcei, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries uniform pale brown, slightly shaded with yellow; primaries crossed by two very 
indistinct brown bands ; secondaries with a central dark band from the costal margin nearest the apex to 
the inner margin: head, thorax, and antenne pale brown; abdomen banded with black and yellow; legs 
brown. Expanse 43 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.). 

This species is allied to P. avia, from which it is easily distinguished by the 
different position of the dark bands on the primaries, and also by its much paler 
colour. . 


ORMISCODES. 
Ormiscodes, Blanchard, in Gay’s Historia fisica y politica de Chile, Zool. vii. p. 61 (1852). 


This genus was instituted by Blanchard for the reception of the Chilian 0. (Bombyx) 
cinnamomea, Feistl. [= 0. (Bombyx) crinita, Blanchard, op. cit., Atlas, Lep. t. 4. f. 4], 
an insect not considered generically distinct from Dirphia by Walker; it includes 
two Central-American species. 


1. Ormiscodes agis. 
Phalena Attacus agis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 49, t. 30. f. F*. 
Bombyx agis, Oliv. Enc. Méth., Ins. v. p. 38. 
Dirphia agis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 1537; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1857. 


Hab. Mexico (Boucard, in mus. D.), Jalapa (Hoge).—Gutana, Surinam 12; Ecuapor ; 
EASTERN BraziL, Pernambuco. 

This species appears to be very rare; from our country we have only received two 
specimens, both males. A female from Ecuador, which only differs from the male in 
being very much larger, and another male from Pernambuco, are all the specimens of 
this species that I have received; the latter is considerably paler in colour than the 
Mexican examples. 


2. Ormiscodes lasiocampina. 
Ormiscodes lasiocampina, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 90. f. 5, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 7 (2). 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé 1). | 


A very distinct species. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., October 1886. 2 bb 


194 HETEROCERA. 


DIRPHIA. 
Dirphia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 153; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1346. 


This Tropical-American genus is closely allied to Ormiscodes and Phricodia; it is 
represented in our country by eight species, all of which are apparently rare. Walker 
included in Dirphia a large number of species, many of which have subsequently been 
placed in other genera. 


1. Dirphia semirosea. 
Dirphia semirosea, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1859". 
Hab. Muxico! (Hartweq), Jalapa (Hége); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet, Cache, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


A very variable species. Some specimens are very dark brown, almost black, others 
quite pale brown. 

This is apparently a common insect in Costa Rica; but from Mexico we have only 
received one specimen, a female. 


2. Dirphia citrina, sp. n. (Tab. XX. fig. 6,3.) 

Male. Primaries pale pinkish-brown, shaded with darker brown, and crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by two narrow yellow lines, upon which are several tufts of white scales; the largest spots are on 
the costal margin ; secondaries uniform pale brownish-yellow, all the veins black, an indistinct line crosses 
the wing below the middle from the costal to the inner margin; underside uniform pale brownish-yellow, 
slightly shaded with pink at the apex of the primaries, a whitish central band crossing about the middle 
of both wings: head, legs, and the underside of the thorax and abdomen pinkish-brown ; upperside of 
the thorax dark brown, with a few long whitish hairs ; abdomen rose-colour, banded with black; antennze 
brownish-black. Expanse 2? inches. 


Hab. GUATEMALA (Boucard, in mus. D.); British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blanca- 
NCAUL). 

Two specimens, one brought home by Boucard some years ago, the other received 
quite lately from Blancaneaux. | 

This pretty little insect is allied to D. semirosea, from which it can be at once distin- 
guished by its smaller size and different colour. The female is unknown. 


3. Dirphia fumosa. 
Ormiscodes fumosa, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 90. f. 3, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 7 (3)'. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek 3). 
This insect is closely allied to D. semirosea, and is doubtfully distinct from that 
species, the only difference being that of colour. 


4, Dirphia hogei, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 10¢, 119.) 
Male. Primaries pale brown, shaded with darker brown, and crossed by two pale whitish bands, the first 
indistinct, the second beyond the cell, extending from the costal to the inner margin, and bordered on the 
outer edge with dark brown, a submarginal whitish waved band from the apex to the anal angle ; secon- 


DIRPHIA. 195 


daries uniform pale brown, with an indistinct waved paler submarginal band, all the veins dark brown, the 
fringe yellow; underside uniform pale brown, both wings being crossed by a dark brown line bordered on 
the inner edge close to the apex with white, and each with a dark-coloured spot at the end of the cells: 
head, thorax, and the underside of the abdomen yellowish-hrown, the upperside of the latter black banded 
with yellowish-brown; the anus and antennz pale yellowish-brown. The female differs from the male. 
in being more uniform in colour, with the bands crossing the primaries very much more indistinct- 
Expanse, ¢ , 23-33 inches ; 9, 33 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


This insect appears to be common at Jalapa, whence Hége sent a large number of 
specimens ; we have no evidence of its occurrence in any other locality. The female 
slightly resembles Ormiscodes lasiocampina, Felder, though very different from that 
species, the male of which is unknown. JD. hégei varies considerably in colour and 
size ; several specimens of the male are only 22 inches in expanse, and much darker in 
colour. The females do not show any variation. 


5. Dirphia rosea, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 7¢, 8 2.) 

Male and female. Primaries brown, shaded with rose-colour, a rose-coloured band extending from the costal 
to the inner margin, the base very dark brown, a semicircular brown patch at the apex, a waved rose- 
coloured submarginal band extending from the apex to the anal angle, a brown spot bordered with rose- 
colour at the end of the cell; secondaries bright rose-colour from the base to beyond the middle, from the 
middle to the outer margin shaded with brown, two indistinct wide waved black lines crossing the wing 
from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle, a black line at the end of 
the cell; underside uniform pale brown, shaded with rose-colour, the black bands as above: head and 
thorax dark brown; abdomen brown, banded with chrome-yellow, covered with long whitish hairs ; 
antennz of the male deeply pectinated, of the female simple, pale yellowish-brown ; legs dark brown, 
banded with red. The male is slightly paler in colour and considerably smaller than the female. 


Expanse, g, 2% inches; 9, 34 inches: 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Staudinger), Jalapa (Hoge). 
A female specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is much smaller than those 


obtained by Herr Hoge. 
This beautiful insect is not nearly allied to any described species. 


6. Dirphia speciosa. 
Phalena Attacus speciosa, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 16, t. 107. f. B*. 
Bombyx speciosa, Oliv. Enc. Méth., Ins. v. pp. 38, 52, t. 71. f. 1. 
Dirphia speciosa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 153 ; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1863 *, 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 


(Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Demerara”, Surinam +? ; Ecuapor. 


I have only seen a male and female example of this apparently rare species, which 
we now trace northwards to Costa Rica, from our country; the male is considerably 
smaller than Cramer’s figure of the female. A female specimen from Ecuador in my 
collection agrees well with the figure, though it is much brighter in colour and rather 
larger. Dr. Staudinger’s example of the female has a white line at the end of the cell 
of the secondaries, which I can trace on the underside of my Ecuador specimen. 


266 2 


196 HETEROCERA. 


7. Dirphia menander, sp. n. (Tab. XX. fig. 9, ¢ .) 

Male. Primaries light pinkish-red, darker at the base, crossed rather beyond the middle from just below the 
costal to the inner margin by a narrow white band shaded on the outer edge with black, the veins 
between the band and the outer margin white ; secondaries brownish-black, with a central white band, 
the veins light up to the central band, the fringe pinkish-white; underside dusky brownish-black, 
shaded with pink scales, the white bands as above: head and thorax chrome-yellow, shaded with pink ; 
abdomen above chrome-yellow, banded with black ; antenne, the underside of the thorax, and the abdomen 
black ; palpi and legs black. The female is similar to the male, but slightly larger and darker in colour. 
Expanse, ¢, 3 inches; 9, 37 inches. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belé, ¢ ); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, ¢ ; 
Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger, & ). 


Three examples, two males and one female. A very distinct species. 


8. Dirphia triangulum. 
Dirphia triangulum, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1851". 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger).—S.K. Brazin, Rio Janeiro 1. 


This species is included in our fauna upon the authority of a specimen from the 
Volcan de Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. This example is almost identical 
with Walker’s type in the British Museum, though of a more reddish-brown colour. 


HYLESIA. 
Hylesia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 186. 


Four Tropical-American species were placed under this generic name by Hubner ; 
Bombyx falcifera of the same author (cf. Exot. Schmett. ii. t. 192) will, in my opinion, 
also belong to it. The genus was not adopted by Walker. 

In our country Hylesia is represented by five apparently rare species. 


1. Hylesia falcifera. 
Bombyx falcifera, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 192. 
Hyperchiria myops, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1812 (¢ )’. 
Hyperchiria falcifera, Walk. loc. cit. p. 1380. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ride), near the city (J. J. Walker).—Braziu. 


This species varies in colour, some specimens being very much darker than others. 


2. Hylesia continua. 
Hyperchiria continua, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 538 (¢@ )’. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé, in mus. B.; Coffin, in mus. Oxford), Jalapa (Hoge). 
The males before me agree well with the female (the only sex described) in the 
markings, but they are smaller and considerably brighter in colour. 


HYLESIA. 197 


8. Hylesia alinda, sp. n. (Tab. XX. fig. 8, 3.) 


Male. Primaries pale pinkish fawn-colour, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by 
two bands of darker brown, a brown spot at the end of the cell and a waved submarginal pale band 
beyond; the underside as above, but the markings much more indistinct ; secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, 
with two indistinct submarginal lines: head and thorax pinkish-brown ; antenne and abdomen yellowish ; 
legs pinkish-brown. The female is similar to the male, but rather paler in colour and with the markings 
less pronounced. Expanse, ¢,2 inches; 9, 23 inches. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (mus. 
Staudinger). 


The specimen of the female from Chiriqui differs considerably in colour from our 
male example from Guatemala; it is very much browner, and has not the pinkish 
shade, but in other respects it is almost identical. 

This species is allied to Hyperchiria continua, Walker. 


4. Hylesia acuta, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg.1¢, 29.) 

Male. Primaries pale brown, with a pinkish shade on the central part, the apex and part of the outer margin 
shaded with dark brown, a dark brown patch close to the base on the inner margin; secondaries pale 
brown, slightly darker at the apex, the base yellowish-brown, a small dark brown spot at the end of the 
cell: head and antennez pale brown; thorax and the base of the abdomen dark brown; abdomen and anus 
yellowish-brown ; legs dark brown. male. Primaries pinkish-brown, the base, a spot at the end of the 
cell, and a wide band beyond crossing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin dark 
brown; secondaries uniform pinkish-brown, with a darker mark at the end of the cell, the base of both 
primaries and secondaries clothed with long dark brown hairs: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, 
thickly clothed with pale yellowish-brown hairs. Expanse, g, 2 inches; ? 22 inches. 


Hab. Norta Mexico (tn mus. D. & Staudinger). 


I received, some years ago, a fine series of both sexes of this species from Northern 
Mexico, but do not know the exact locality. Dr. Staudinger has a male specimen, also 
without locality. H. acuta is a very distinct species. 


5. Hylesia (2) lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg.43, 52.) 


Male, Primaries pale brown, crossed by two dark brown lines which are edged on the inner side with pale 
fawn-colour, a submarginal waved line extending from the apex to the anal angle, a dark brown spot at 
the end of the cell; underside pale fawn-colour, slightly reddish at the base and along the costal margin, 
a round black dot at the end of the cell, beyond which is a dark brown line crossing from near the apex 
to the inner margin ; secondaries pale fawn-colour, with two dark waved submarginal lines extending 
from the apex to the inner margin, a dark red spot bordered with black at the end of the cell ; underside 
fawn-colour, palest near the base, and crossed in the middle by a dark brown line: head and thorax pale 
brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown, banded with black; antenne and legs pale yellowish-brown ; antenne 
of the male deeply pectinated, those of the female simple. The female is much larger than the male, of a 
more reddish-brown colour, with all the markings similar but very indistinct. Expanse, ¢, 14 inches; 
@ , 24 inches. ; 

Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 

This insect is not nearly allied to any known to me; I am a little doubtful if it 
should be placed in Hylesia, the secondaries of the males being rather longer than 
in any other species of the genus known to me. The female, however, agrees well with 
the same sex of Hylesia. 


198 HETEROCERA. 


OXYTENIS. 


Oxytenis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 150; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1181. 
Syssaura, Hiibner, loc. cit. p. 150 (partim). 


This Tropical-American genus is represented in our country by four species. Walker, 
in his Catalogue, has, I think rightly, included in Oxytents two species, O. honesta and 
O. zerbina, both of which Hiibner placed in Syssaura. 


1. Oxytenis honesta. 
Phalena Attacus honesta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 25, t. 302. ff. C, D’. 
Syssaura honesta, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 150. 
Oxytenis honesta, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1182’. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (A7zdde, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Ecuapor ; Peru; Guiana, Surinam!2; Amazons, Para. 


This species ranges over a very wide extent of country ; the Amazons region, whence 
I have received a good series of specimens of both sexes, would, however, appear to be 
its headquarters. From our country I have only seen two specimens—a male obtained 
by the late Mr. Belt at Chontales, and a female from the Volcan de Chiriqui in the 
collection of Dr. Staudinger; the last-named agrees well with the female examples 
before me from Ecuador, excepting that it is a darker brown (as is also the Chontales 
male) and rather smaller. In some respects Dr. Staudinger’s Chiriqui specimen is like 
the figure of O. modesta, Cramer, though it has not any of the black markings; on the 
underside it agrees well with the male from Chontales. 


2. Oxytenis lonomica, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 1, 3.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, shaded with dark brown, a narrow reddish line crossing 
the primaries considerably beyond the middle and extending from the apex to the inner margin near the 
anal angle, a corresponding line crossing the middle of the secondaries, below this line a series of lunate 
markings with patches of paler colour on their outer edge, and nearer the outer margin a row of very 
indistinct darker fawn-coloured spots: head, thorax, and abdomen above the same colour as the primaries ; 
antenne and legs yellowish-brown; the underside of the abdomen pale yellow, of the primaries and 
secondaries yellow with all the darker markings considerably more distinct than above. The female is 
altogether darker than the male, and the spots on the secondaries are very much darker in colour, Expanse 
24 inches. 


Hab. GuareMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Stau- 
dinger). 


This insect is most nearly allied to O. attacina, Walker, from Colombia. 


3. Oxytenis malecena, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 2, 3.) 

Male. Primaries reddish fawn-colour,.palest from the base to the middle, where a reddish-brown line crosses 
from the apex to the inner margin, nearest the base between the reddish-brown line and the outer margin 
is a second waved line with pale-coloured markings between it and the margin, the surface close to the anal 
angle is thickly speckled with black scales; secondaries almost uniform reddish fawn-colour, palest at the 
base, and close to which they are crossed by a narrow reddish-brown line (being a continuation of the 


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line on the primaries), on the outer margin close to the anal angle are two small black dots; underside of 
both wings uniform reddish-brown, with the darker lines very indistinct: head, thorax, and abdomen 
pale fawn-colour ; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 2? inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger). 

This species is allied to O. lonomica, but at once distinguished from that insect by 
its differently coloured underside. The very worn example in Dr. Staudinger’s collection 
is rather greyer in colour, and the markings are not quite so distinct as in the specimens 


from Bugaba. 


4, Oxytenis beprea, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. figg. 3, 4.) 

Primaries and secondaries dark brown; primaries shaded with grey, a dark brown waved line crossing from 

the costal to the inner margin close to the base, a straight reddish-brown line crossing from the apex to 

the inner margin, beyond which is a row of lunate spots, and close to the outer margin a few indistinct 

dark brown dots; on the secondaries the markings form a continuation of those on the primaries, the 

submarginal row of dots being rather more distinct; underside pale yellowish fawn-colour, thickly 

irrorated with darker brown scales, the colour being brightest round the outer margins ; both wings with 

a submarginal dark brown line, this line having a row of dark brown marginal spots on the secondaries : 
head and thorax greyish-brown (abdomen wanting); antenne and legs brown, LExpanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (R7bbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
I have only seen a single specimen of this insect. On the underside it is quite 
unlike any other species of the genus known to me. 


LONOMIA. 


Lonomia, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1191; ibid. vil. p. 1764. 
Walker places eleven species in this genus, all of which are from South America ; 
one of these extends northwards into our country, whence we now describe three 


others. 


1. Lonomia cynira. 
Phalena-Bombyx cynira, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 89, t. 152. f. C’. 
Eacles cynira, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 154. 
Lonomia (?) cynira, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1766°. 
Hab. Guatemana, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion).—Gu1ana, Surinam 12. 


A single male specimen of this species was sent from Vera Paz by Mr. Champion ; 
it agrees well with Cramer’s figure, and is the only one I have seen. 


2. Lonomia electra, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. figg. 73, 82.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform pale pinkish-brown, shaded with grey; primaries with two round 
white spots (placed one above the other) at the end of the cell, and beyond these a whitish line (bordered 
on the outer side with darker brown) crossing from the apex to the middle of the inner margin ; 
secondaries crossed above the middle and slightly nearest the base by a dark brown line; underside pale 
pinkish-grey, with the outer margins of both wings shaded with pale brown, two dark brown spots at the 
end of the cell of the primaries, and a dark brown spot on the costal margin of the secondaries near the apex : 


200 HETEROCERA. 


head, thorax, and abdomen above the same colour as the primaries, on the underside very much paler in 
colour; antenne pale yellowish-brown ; legs pink. Female much greyer in colour than the male, and 
darker brown from the whitish central line to the outer margins of both wings; the underside is also 
much more shaded and mottled with brown. Expanse, ¢, 34 inches; 2, 43 inches. 


Hab. Guatemata (Boucard, in mus. D.). 


Apparently a rare species. 


3. Lonomia concordia, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 6, 3.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform dark yellow, shaded with reddish-brown ; primaries with a faint dark- 
coloured line crossing near the base, two white spots at.the end of the cell, and a narrow blackish line (placed 
nearest the anal angle) crossing from the apex to the inner margin, the blackish line is bordered on the 
inner edge with pale yellow and between it and the outer margin are several dusky markings ; secondaries 
crossed about the middle by a blackish line, between which and the outer margin is an irregular series of 
blackish markings; underside pale yellow, with a slightly pinkish shade near the apex of the primaries 
and about the middle of the secondaries, the outer margins of both wings irrorated with minute black 
scales, two reddish-brown spots at the end of the cells of both wings and a dark brown spot on the costal 
margin nearest the apex of the secondaries: head, thorax, and abdomen the same colour as the primaries, 

anus slightly paler ; antenne pale yellowish-brown ; legs reddish-brown. Expanse 33 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion; ibbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


This species is very closely allied to Z. electra, from which it differs chiefly in colour 
and in the rather different position of the dark line crossing the wings. I think it quite 
likely that this insect may be only a southern form of L. electra, though the differ- 
ences seem to be constant in the four male examples before me; but, without knowing 
the female, I could not include it with that species, and have therefore ventured to 
describe it. 


4. Lonomia cluacina, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 5, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries dark yellow, thickly irrorated with black scales; primaries crossed by two 
black lines, the first close to the base, the second beyond the middle crossing from the apex to the middle 
of the inner margin, between the second line and the outer margin are a number of indistinct pale yellow 
markings with dusky scales on the inner side, two whitish spots (connected by an indistinct black line) 
at the end of the cell; secondaries crossed by two black lines, the first near the base, the second about 
the middle, from the second black line to the outer margin the surface is very thickly speckled with black 
dots and a number of indistinct pale yellow markings ; underside pale greyish-y ellow, shaded with greenish- 
brown, with an interrupted pale yellow submarginal band: head, thorax, and abdomen yellow; antenne 
pale brown. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Only a single male specimen of this species was sent. L. cluacina is most nearly 
allied to an undescribed species from South-east Brazil contained in my own collection. 


METANASTRIA. 
Metanastria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 186. 


Hiibner placed three species in this genus; these are:—M. hyrtaca, Cram., from 
Surinam (placed doubtfully in Lasiocampa by Walker); J. aconyta, Cram., from 


METANASTRIA.—ASBOLIA. 201 


Bengal (placed doubtfully in Dirphia by Walker); and MM. rudi (Linn.), from Europe 
(placed in Lasiocampa by Walker). Judging from the figures, I do not think that these 
insects can be considered congeneric ; I therefore have taken WU. (Bombyx) rubi as the 
type. Two species are now known from our country. 


1. Metanastria psidii. 
Bombyx psidii, Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1857, p. 16, t. 1. ff. 2, a-c (¢ 9)’. 
Lasiocampa psidii, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 560. 

Hab. Mexico? (Boucard), Cordova (Sallé1), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Capetillo 
(Champion). 

This insect appears to be common in the State of Vera Cruz, whence we have received 
many specimens, but only a single example, a male, was sent from Guatemala. 
M. psidii closely resembles the European MM. rudi (Linn.), but is rather larger and 
darker in colour, and the pale bands are more curved than in that species. 

The larva, of which dried examples are contained in the British Museum, is figured 
and described by Sallé!; it is said to feed upon the guayava (Psidiwm) and on a species 


of oak. 


2. Metanastria mexicana, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fige. 9¢, 102.) 


Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, darker from the base to about the middle, crossed from the costal margin 
to the inner margin just beyond the cell by two whitish bands ; secondaries very pale fawn-colour : head, 
thorax, and abdomen pale brown; antenne reddish-brown. Female. Primaries pale fawn-colour, slightly 
shaded with pink, the pale-coloured bands much wider apart than in the male, and with a small vitreous 
spot at the end of the cell ; secondaries pinkish fawn-colour, with a pale submarginal band extending from 
the apex to the inner margin ; underside as above, but pinker in colour: head, antenne, and thorax fawn- 
colour ; abdomen and legs pinkish-brown. Expanse, ¢, 23 inches; 9, 3 inches. 


Hab. Mexico (mus. Staudinger). 

The female of this species resembles, to some extent, the figure of Ormiscodes lasto- 
campina, Felder. 

Iam greatly indebted to Dr. Staudinger for the loan of these specimens; they are 
the only ones I have seen. 


ASBOLIA. 
Asbolia, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 7; Moschler, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. 
p. 359 (1872); Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 671, t. 9. £. 35 (187 7). 
One of the described species of this Tropical-American genus extends northwards 
into our region. 


1. Ashbolia sericea. 
Asbolia sericea, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1877, p. 671, t. 10. f. 36°; Beitr. Schmett.- 
Faun. Surinam, ii. p. 43, t. 10. f. 36 (1878). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—DvutcH Gutana, 
Paramaribo 1. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., March 1887. 2 ce 


202 HETEROCERA. 


A single specimen obtained by Mr. Champion in Chiriqui agrees fairly well with 
Méschler’s figure, though the wings are not quite so strongly marked; this and a 
specimen from Guiana in the British Museum are all I have seen of the species. 


GLOVERIA. 
Gloveria, Packard, Fourth Ann. Report Peabody Ac. Se. 1871, p. 89; H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. 
p. 105 (1884). 
Dr. Packard placed a single species, G. arizonensis, from Arizona, in this genus; 
since then several others from Mexico have been described by Mr. H. Edwards. 


1. Gloveria dentata. 
Gloveria dentata, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 107 (¢)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus 1). 


Mr. Edwards states that this species is easily distinguished from G. arizonensis by the 
paler field of the primaries and the very much dentated submarginal band. 


2. Gloveria olivacea. 
Gloveria olivacea, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 108 (¢ 2)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus ). 


The colour of this insect is olive-brown and very different from that of G. arizonensis. 


3. Gloveria venerabilis. (Tab. XXII. figg. 186,199.) 
Gloveria venerabilis, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 108 (?)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus 1, Hoge). 


Mr. Edwards described only the female. I have received both sexes of what I believe 
to be this species, the female example agreeing well with the description. The male 
differs considerably: it is smaller in size, the primaries are much redder in colour, and 
the secondaries are golden-brown bordered with reddish-brown. I quite agree with 
Mr. Edwards that in colour and markings the female very closely resembles some speci- 
mens of Lastocampa pini (Linn.) of Europe. 


4. Gloveria jalapz. 
Gloveria jalape, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 109 (¢)*. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus 1). 


LEBEDA. 
Lebeda, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 14538. 


Walker included in this genus a large number of Eastern species. In our country 
Lebeda is represented by the single species now described; L. championi agrees well 


LEBEDA,.—ARTACE. 203: 


with the male of L. (Odonestis) ampla, Walker, from Silhet, and, indeed, very closely 
resembles that insect. 


1. Lebeda championi, p.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 1.) 


Male. Primaries pale brownish fawn-colour, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by four indi- 
stinct waved darker brown lines; secondaries uniform dark reddish-brown: head, antenne, thorax, and 
abdomen the same colour as the primaries ; the underside of both wings uniform greyish-brown, and both 
crossed by two almost central dark brown lines. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


LASIOCAMPA. 
Lasiocampa, Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. pt. 2, p. 153 (1802). 


Fourteen species were placed in this genus by Schrank. 


1. Lasiocampa thyatira, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 2.) 

Male. Primaries blackish-brown, with a spot on the costal margin beyond the middle, a round spot at the 
apex, and a large patch at the anal angle extending almost to the base pale cream-colour; secondaries 
pale cream-colour, shaded with brown from the costal margin near the middle to the anal angle; on the 
underside both wings are paler in colour and the secondaries are crossed in the middle by a dark-coloured 
line: head, thorax, and abdomen pale cream-colour; antenne dark brown; palpi cream-colour, with a 
few dark brown hairs close to their base; legs brownish-white. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


This beautiful insect resembles Thyatira batis (Linn.), var. mexicana, recently described 
by Mr. H. Edwards, specimens of which were obtained by Mr. Champion from the 
Volcan de Chiriqui. In neuration L. thyatira is almost identical with the European 
L. ilicifolia, but differs slightly in the shape of the anal angle of the primaries. 
Dr. Staudinger’s specimen is the only one I have seen. 


2. Lasiocampa modesta, sp. n. 

Male. Primaries dull fawn-colour, crossed by three indistinct bands of small dark-coloured spots, and with a 
dark brownish spot at the end of the cell; secondaries uniform dull fawn-colour, with a dark-coloured 
submarginal row of very minute dots: head, thorax, and abdomen dark fawn-colour; antenne blackish ; 
legs dark brown; the underside of both wings pale fawn-colour, the outer margin of the secondaries 
shaded with blackish-brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Had. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
Only one specimen of this small Lasiocampa was obtained ; it is not very closely 
allied to any other described species. 


ARTACKH. 
Artace, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1491. 


Four species were included in this genus by Walker, two (A. punctistriga and A. albi- 
cans) from the United States, one (A. punctivena) from an unknown locality, and one 
(A. bifascia) from South Africa; the last-named doubtfully included. Artace is 

2ce 2 


204 HETEROCERA. 


probably confined to the New World. I am now able to trace one of the North- 
American species through our country and southwards to Ecuador. 


1. Artace punctistriga. | 
Artace punctistriga, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1491 (¢)'; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 21. 
Titya rubripalpis, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 84. f. 8, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 9 (¢)?. 
Hab. Norta America, Georgia 1—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chi- 
riqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA”; Ecuapor, 
Sarayacu. 


I see no reason to retain Felder’s species as distinct, as this insect is very variable ; some 
specimens being much more strongly spotted with black than others. A. punctistriga 
does not appear to be at all common, though distributed over a very wide extent of 


country. 
TOLYPE. 


Tolype, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 189 (partim) ; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1466. 


Hibner placed three species—T. orsiloche (Cram.), from Surinam ; 7. velleda (Stoll), 
from Georgia and Mexico; and 7. riphea (Cram.), from Surinam—under this generic 
name. Walker, in his Catalogue, restricted Tolype to one species, T. velleda; but 
since that time others have been described from North America by Messrs. Grote and 
Fitch. One species only is found in our country. 


1. Tolype velleda. 

Phalena Bombyx velleda, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. p. 178, t. 41. f£.4(9)?. 

Phalena velleda, Abbot & Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. of Georgia, i. p. 108, t. 52 (g 2)? 

Tolype velleda, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 189; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1467°; Grote, List of North- 
American Moths, p. 21+. 


Hab. Norta Amurica*, New York}, Georgia ?.—MeExioo 8. 


I include this species in our fauna upon the authority of Walker. The only speci- 
mens I have seen from our country are those contained in the National Collection. 
Both sexes of the perfect insect, and the larva, pupa, and cocoon are figured by Abbot 
and Smith. The larva is said to feed on the willow-oak and on the persimmon (Dios- 
pyros virginiana). 

GASINA. 
Gasina, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1478. 

Walker included in Gasina a single species from Para; this insect appears to be 
common and very widely distributed. Pecilocampa (t) nuda (Cramer), from Surinam, 
also belongs to this genus. 


1. Gasina albicollis. 
Gasina albicollis, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 14787. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde, mus. Staudinger), 


GASINA.—HYDRIAS. 205 


Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion)—Ecvuapor; Amazons, Para!; Sovru-East 
BRAzIL. 

This species varies slightly, some specimens being considerably whiter than others ; 
G. albicollis is, however, very distinct from G. nuda (Cramer). 


CQECULIA. 
Ceculia, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 60, t. 19. ff. 86,87; Walker, Cat. vi. 
p. 1404. 
In our country this genus is represented by a single species; the Chiriqui insect is 
-closely allied to the type, C. hella, from Brazil, figured by Herrich-Schaffer. 


1. Coculia bella, sp. n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 3.) 


Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, mottled and banded with grey from the base to about the middle, and 
with a waved greyish-white submarginal line extending from the costal margin to the anal angle; secon- 
daries pale uniform dull brown, with a very indistinct submarginal waved line: head, thorax, antenne, and 
legs brown (abdomen wanting). Female considerably larger than the male, and with all the light-coloured 
markings very much more distinct. Expanse, ¢, 1? inch; 2, 27 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The female example before me is without any locality, but I believe it was received 
by Mr. Salvin with others sent by Herr Ribbe from Chiriqui. The two specimens here 
-described are the only ones I have seen of this species. 


HYDRIAS*. 
Hydrias, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 78, t. 19. ff. 88-91; Walker, Cat. vi. 
p- 1897. 


This genus now contains about twenty species. It is well represented in our country 
‘by six species. 


1. Hydrias lignosa. 
Hydrias lignosa, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1400°. 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—BRaziL, Rio Janeiro }. 


The male and female lent me by Dr. Staudinger are the only specimens I have seen 


‘from our country. 


2. Hydrias melancholica. 
Aydrias melancholica, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 82°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, 


Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion).—Awmazons, Rio Solimoens?. 
Our Chiriqui examples agree well with the type in the British Museum. 


* This genus requires a new name, Hydrias having been long preoccupied (Ehrenberg, 1830) in Rotatoria, 


206 HETEROCERA. 


8. Hydrias limba, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. figg. 43,59.) 


Male. Primaries brown, palest close to the base, and crossed about the middle by a wide dark brown band 
edged with paler colour; secondaries uniform slaty-brown, slightly paler at the base: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown; antenne and legs brown. Female like the male, but larger and slightly redder in 
colour. Expanse, 3, 14 inch; 9, 2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
Rogers only obtained a pair of this distinct species; it is allied to H. guttularis. 


4, Hydrias guttularis. 
Hydrias guttularis, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1402". 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli) ; Honpuras (Dyson *). 


We have received a single specimen of this species from Mexico ; it agrees well with 
the type in the British Museum. 


5. Hydrias larunda, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 6.) 


Male. Primaries reddish-grey, from the base to about the middle dark reddish-brown, bordered by a very 
narrow black line which has a few white scales on its outer edge; secondaries reddish-grey, darkest at 
the base and along the inner margin, whitish at the apex: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown ; 
antenns brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Only one specimen of this species was sent; it is allied to H. guttularis, from which 
it is easily distinguished by the very different colour of the wings. 


6. Hydrias laronia, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 7.) 

Male. Primaries pale brown, crossed about the middle by a wide greyish-white band (widest on the inner 
margin, where it extends almost to the anal angle), which is itself crossed by a very narrow white line 
from the costal margin near the apex to about the middle of the inner margin, and near the base by a white 
line, a brown spot at the end of the cell, and a submarginal row of white lunular markings (edged with 
darker colour on the inner side) extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries pale brown, 
greyish along the costal margin and near the apex, and with an indistinct white line crossing beyond the 
middle from the costal margin to near the anal angle (but not reaching the anal margin), and a submar- ~ 
ginal band of lunular markings as on the primaries but not so distinct; the underside of both wings. 
uniform pale reddish-brown: head, the front of the thorax, and the antenne pale brown; thorax brown, 
with numerous white hairs; abdomen pale brown, with long greyish hairs at the anus; legs brown, with 
some greyish hairs. Hxpanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Two males of this beautiful insect were obtained by Mr. Champion; H. laronia is. 
quite unlike any other species of the genus known to me, but comes nearest to an 
undescribed form from Ecuador in my own collection. 


OCHA. 
Ocha, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1498. 
Walker in his Catalogue (loc. cit.) included in this genus 0. albida, from Santo. 


OCHA.—TRABALA. 207 


Domingo, and 0. plagiata, from Brazil; he also provisionally retained in it Bombyx 
bibianca, Cramer, from Surinam ; the last-named has not the least resemblance to the 
other species and should be placed in another genus. Since that time several others 
have been added ; two inhabit our region and are here described. 


1. Ocha lauda, sp. n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 12.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries pale greyish cream-colour ; primaries darkest from the costal margin to about 
the middle, with two minute black spots at the end of the cell, three spots close to the apex, a reddish- 
brown square-shaped patch about the middle close to the outer margin, and several very indistinct narrow 
greyish lines crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin; secondaries with two small reddish- 
brown spots at the apex, and two narrow indistinct waved lines above these, the outer margin and the fringe 
pale cream-colour, the hairs along the abdominal margin slightly yellowish: head, thorax, abdomen, and 
legs pale yellowish cream-colour ; palpi brown above, pale beneath; antenne blackish. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen of this species was obtained by Mr. Champion; it is quite unlike any 
other known to me. . 


2. Ocha lasthenia, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform reddish cream-colour, with the markings as in the preceding species, 
but very much more indistinct, the dark colour on the primaries being entirely absent: head, thorax, 
abdomen, and antenne pale cream-colour; legs pale; the anus slightly reddish. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli). 


This insect is closely allied to O. /auda, in fact it may only be a variety of that 
species, but the entirely different colour of the antenne and several other minute 
differences have induced me to venture to describe it. Only a male was obtained, the 
female of O. /auda and of this species being unknown. 


TRABALA. 


Amydona, Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1413 (nomen preoc. ). 
‘Trabala, Walker, 1. c. vii. p. 1785. 


Walker included in this genus numerous species from India, Africa, and South 
America, his type apparently being Trabala humeralis from Port Famine; most of the 
other species are now placed in other genera. J somewhat doubtfully include in 
Trabala one species from the State of Panama. 


1. Trabala (?) fusca, sp. n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 11.) 


Male. Primaries dark blackish-brown, crossed beyond the middle from the apex to the inner margin by a narrow 
curved pale brown line which joins a second line at the apex, the second line crossing close to the outer 
margin and almost reaching the anal angle, the extreme margin pale brown, the fringe alternately dark 
and light brown; secondaries uniform brown, but not so dark as the primaries: head, thorax, and 
abdomen blackish-brown, almost of the same colour as the primaries; antennee and legs paler brown. The 
female similar to the male, but larger. Expanse, J, 14 inch; 9, 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (22bbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


208 . HETEROCERA. 


Mr. Champion only obtained a male and a female of this dull-coloured insect. I 
believe it belongs to the genus Trabala, but the wings are so thickly covered with scales. 
that I cannot see the neuration, and therefore do not feel quite certain that I have 
placed it rightly. The specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is much worn and faded,. 
and is considerably paler in colour. T. fusca is closely allied to a Brazilian species in 


my own collection. 
APATELODES. 


Apatelodes, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 353 (1864); Walker, Cat. xxxv. p. 1935. 


1. Apatelodes vivax. 
Apatelodes vivax, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 77". 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus'). 


_ 2. Apatelodes bombycina. 
Parthyris bombycina, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. t. 95. ff. 11, 12, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 8°. 
Hab. Mexico 1, 


8. Apatelodes ardeola, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 9.) 


Female. Primaries dark reddish-brown, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by two bands of a 
pale greyish colour (slightly pinkish in shade in some lights)—the first band nearest the base, and not quite 
half the width of the second band, and very much dentated on the basal margin, where it is crossed by a 
zigzag narrow dark brown line, the second band with a waved narrow indistinct line crossing the middle 
from a triangular hyaline spot close to the apex to near the anal angle; secondaries bright reddish-brown, 
lightest at the base and along the costal margin, the anal angle slightly darker, the outer margin greyish : 
head and thorax dark brown; abdomen reddish-brown, with mixed reddish-brown and greyish hairs ; 
antenne greyish. The underside of both wings reddish-brown, the apex of the primaries with hyaline 
spots. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons (Leech, 
mus. D.). 


This species is allied to the Mexican A. boméycina, Felder, though very differently 
marked on the primaries. The specimen from the Amazons is rather duller in colour, 
but in all other respects identical with Dr. Staudinger’s example. 


4. Apatelodes adrastia, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 8.) 


Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, crossed by several very indistinct, slightly darker, bands, and with a reddish- 
brown spot near the base on the inner margin, a waved narrow dark brown line crossing from the costal 
margin near the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, and a very minute hyaline spot close to the 
apex ; secondaries pale fawn-colour, rather yellower than the primaries, and with a very indistinct whitish 
central line crossing from the middle of the costal margin to near the anal angle, the line here joining a 
small reddish-brown patch; the fringe of both wings dull brown; the underside fawn-colour, both wings 
with a narrow submarginal white line, the secondaries clouded from the base to about the middle with 
reddish-brown: head, thorax, legs, antenn#, and palpi greyish fawn-colour; abdomen darker, the anus 
tufted with dark brown. Female. Resembling the male, but considerably larger, very much paler in 
colour, and all the markings much more indistinct. Expanse, ¢, 1? inch; 9, 23 inches, 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Costa Rica (Van 
Patten, mus. D.); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


APATELODES.—METRAGA. 209 


This insect is allied to the North-American A. torrefacta, Abbot and Smith, but 
readily distinguished from that species by its larger size and entirely different colour. 

The female specimen from Bugaba is considerably the darkest in colour, the primaries 
having all the markings very much clearer, the secondaries yellower in tint and with 
the central line more distinct. 


5. Apatelodes heptaloba, sp. n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 10.) 


Male. Primaries uniform reddish-brown, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by fine narrow dark 
brown waved lines, and with a reddish-brown spot on the inner margin nearest the base, and a hyaline dot 
close to the apex; secondaries uniform pale reddish-brown, with the veins and fringe slightly darker ; 
underside pale reddish-brown, the secondaries with a pale fawn-coloured narrow central band crossing from 
the costal margin to the inner margin: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown, the thorax with a 
dark brown central line from the apex to the base ; palpi and the front of the underside of the thorax dark 
brown; antennz pale brown; legs reddish-brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet (Champion). 

A single specimen of this insect was obtained by Mr. Champion. A. heptaloba is 
most nearly allied to A. adrastia, from which it differs greatly in colour and in the 
narrow bands on the primaries. 


ACRONYCTODES. 
Acronyctodes, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 78 (1884). 

Mr. Edwards states that this genus is closely allied to Apatelodes, Pack., but differs in 
the following respects :—“ the fore wings are longer and acutely produced at the apex, 
without the excavation on the margin visible in Apatelodes, the posterior margin being 
more oblique to the internal angle; the feet and legs less densely clothed with hair ; 
the abdomen a little longer; and the palpi shorter and more slender.” 


1. Acronyctodes insignata. 
Acronyctodes insignata, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 78 (g ?)’. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus +). 


Fam. LIMACODIDA. 


METRAGA. 


Metraga, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1129. 
Walker included a single species from Venezuela in this genus; this I am now able 
to trace northwards to Guatemala. 


1. Metraga perplexa. 
Metraga perplexa, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1180°. 
Hab. Guaremaia (Boucard, in mus. D.).—VENEZUELA'. 
A single specimen of this dull-coloured insect was brought home by Boucard from 
BIOL. CENTR.-aMER., Heter., Vol. 1., March 1887. 2 dd 


210 HETEROCERA. 


Guatemala, without any more exact locality; it agrees well with Walker’s type in the 
British Museum. 
EURYDA. 
Euryda, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 58, t. 38. £. 182 (1854); Walker, Cat. vii. 
p. 1746. 


The female sex only of this genus was known to Herrich-Schiiffer; the male is a 
very different-looking insect. 
Euryda contains a single species which is widely distributed in Tropical America. 


1. Euryda variolaris. 
Euryda variolaris, Herr.-Schaff. 1. c. p. 58, t. 88. f. 182"; Walk. 1. c. p. 1746 ?. 

Hab. Guatemaia, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 
feet (Champion).—CotomB1a!; Braz 2. 

Specimens from Rio Janeiro in my own collection are identical with those from our 
country. It is not unlikely that the insect figured by Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. t. 185. 
f. D, under the name of Phalena hipparchia, may be intended for this species ; but the 
figure is so bad and unlike the specimens before me that I think it better to use 
Herrich-Schiiffer’s name. 


ALPIS. 
Alpis, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1094. 

Walker included in this genus two species, A. defoliata, from Mexico, and A. xan- 
thopasa (Sepp), from South America; the same author (J. ¢. xxv. p- 1935) subsequently 
adding a third species, A. contigua, from Colombia. A. xanthopasa, judging from the 
figure, cannot in my opinion be retained in the same genus. 

I have to record four species of Alpis from our region. 


1. Alpis defoliata. 
Alpis defoliata, Walk. Cat. v. p. 10947. 
Hab. Murxico }. 


The only specimens I have seen of this insect are the types in the British Museum. 


2. Alpis contigua. 
Alpis contigua, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 19357. 
Hab. Guatemaa (Boucard, in mus. D.).—Cotomsta, Bogota 1. 
An example of this species was brought home by Boucard from Guatemala; it agrees 
well with Walker’s type, which is now in my own collection. 


3. Alpis alydda, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 13.) 


Male, Primaries dark sericeous-brown, with the outer margin, from the apex to the anal angle, broadly banded 
with pale fawn-colour, a series of silvery-white spots (which have black dots on the side nearest the base) 


ALPIS,.—SIBINE. 211 


on the inner edge of the pale colour, two black spots close to the apex, and a'pale fawn-coloured mark at 
the end of the cell, the fringe also pale fawn-colour; secondaries uniform pale sericeous-grey : head, 
thorax, and abdomen very dark brown, thickly clothed with long fawn-coloured hairs; antenns pale 
brown ; palpi black ; legs dark brown. The underside of the wings pale sericeous-grey, the primaries 
suffused with dark brown along the costal margin and inwards to about the middle. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Two specimens of this fine insect were captured. A. alydda is very distinct from, 


though most nearly allied to, A. contigua, Walk. ; it is altogether much more brightly 
coloured. 


4, Alpis salacia, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 14.) 


Male. Primaries dark dull brown, bordered with paler brown along the outer margin, with two small greyish 
dots close to the base, a waved narrow greyish line crossing from the apex to the inner margin nearest the 
anal angle, and a marginal row of small elongate black spots extending from the apex to the anal angle ; 
secondaries blackish-brown, palest at the base and round the outer margin, and with a marginal row of 
spots as on the primaries; underside of both wings dark brown, palest on the outer margins, and with 
a marginal row of black spots as above: head, the front of the thorax, and the abdomen dark reddish- 
brown, thickly clothed with long light brown hairs, a light-coloured band on the front of the thorax 
crossing to the base of the primaries ; antenne pale fawn-colour ; palpi reddish-brown; legs dark brown. 
Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Only a single specimen of this dull-coloured insect was sent. 


SIBINE. 
Sibine, Herrich-Schiffer, Samm]. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 7, 58, t. 37. f. 176 (1854). 


Six species were placed under this generic name by Herrich-Schaffer, but most of 
them have been since separated into genera by Walker and others. 


1. Sibine chloris. 
Sibine chloris, Herr.-Schaff. 1. c. p. 58, f. 176°. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). — Sovran America }, 
Keuador. 


2. Sibine norba, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 15.) 


Male. Primaries uniform dull brown, slightly lighter near the outer margin, with a small green spot on the 
inner margin close to the base, and a minute black dot at the end of the cell; secondaries uniform pale 
glossy brown: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark reddish-brown; antenne and palpi black; the 
underside uniform pale reddish-brown. The female similar to the male, but lighter in colour. Expanse, 
3, 1z inch; Q, 1,3, inch. 


Hab. “Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, im 
mus. Staudinger). 
Mr. Champion obtained a male example of this species; both sexes, however, are 


contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, 
2dd2 


212 HETEROCERA. 


ECHEDORUS. 
Echedorus, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 9, 60, t. 91. ff. 521, 522; Walker, 
Cat. xxxii. p. 577. 
Herrich-Schaffer placed ‘a single species from Mexico under this generic name; 
Echedorus appears to be nearest allied to Alpis. 


1. Echedorus mexicanus. 
Echedorus meaicanus, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 60, t. 91. ff. 521, 522°; Walk. 
Cat. xxxii. p. 577. 
Hab. Mexico!; Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor; AMAZONS. 


The specimens from Nicaragua agree well with Herrich-Schaffer’s figure and with 
the example in my own collection from the Amazons ; those from the State of Panama 
and Ecuador are much smaller and slightly darker in colour at the apex of the 
primaries. 


2. Echedorus nanus, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 16.) 


Female, Primaries light greyish fawn-colour, mottled and marked almost as in E. mewicanus, with a dark 
marking close to the apex, and a reddish-brown subquadrate patch about the middle of the inner margin 
extending across to the cell; secondaries uniform very pale fawn-colour, slightly darker along the inner 
margin; the underside as above, excepting that the dark brown mark on the primaries is hardly visible : 
head, thorax, and abdomen greyish fawn-colour, a few long black hairs along the centre of the latter ; 
antenne and palpi grey. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hége). 


It is quite probable that this insect will prove to be the female of E. mewxicanus; it 
differs so much, however, in colour and in the darker markings that, without further 
evidence, I prefer to treat it as distinct, and have therefore given it a name. 


SCIATHOS. 
Sciathos, Walker, Cat. iii. p. 752. 


Walker included in this genus 8. punctigera (Stoll), from Tropical America; this is 
the only described species. 


1. Sciathos punctigera. 
Phalena Bombyx punctigera, Stoll, in Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 151, t. 84. f. 17. 
Sciathos punctiger, Walk. Cat. iii. p. 752°; ibid. vii. p. 1711. 
Isochroma fallax, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. t. 83. ff. 18, 19, Erkl. der Taf, 75 bis 107, p. 7°; Stretch, 
Cist. Ent. ii. p. 14. 
Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), 
Volcan de Chiriqui (2idbe).—Co.omsia ?; Guiana, Surinam!; Brazin2. 


This species is found over a very extended range of country, though apparently rare. 
I have received only a few specimens. 


SCLATHOS.—LAGOA. 213 


The insect figured by Stoll is very much darker in colour than any of the specimens 
before me; but I have not the slightest doubt that all should be referred to the same 
species. Our examples from the State of Panama are identical with Felder’s figures, 
which were taken from Bogota specimens. 


DALCERA. 
Dalcera, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 7, 59, t. 88. f. 180; Walker, Cat. v. 
p. 1106. 
This Tropical-American genus is represented in our country by three species, one of 
which was originally described from Rio Janeiro; these insects remind one very much 
of the Laparide. 


1. Dalcera alba, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries white, slightly hyaline and tinged with pale brown along the inner margin; secondaries 
uniformly white: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish-white; antennw pale brownish-yellow ; legs pale 
brown. Female considerably larger than the male; the primaries slightly browner along the costal 
margin, but with not quite so much colour along the inner margin. Expanse, 3, 3 inch; 92, 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer); GuatemMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion). 

One example from each locality. 

D. alba is most nearly allied to an undescribed species from Bolivia in my own 
collection. 


2. Dalcera mesoa, sp. n. | 
Primaries chrome-yellow, with the centre of the wing from the base almost to the outer margin dull lead- 
colour; secondaries uniform chrome-yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen yellow; legs brownish-yellow ; 
(antenne wanting). The underside of both wings uniform pale yellow, the darker colour on the primaries 
hardly visible. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger). 


The two specimens of this pretty little species are in very poor condition ; I believe 
both are males. 


3. Dalcera ochracea ? 
Dalcera ochracea, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1107’. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—Ecvapor ; SourH-East BRAZIL, 


Rio Janeiro 1. 

The single example received from Costa Rica is in very bad condition, but I believe 
it belongs to Walker’s species; it nearly agrees with specimens from Ecuador in my 
own collection. 


LAGOA. 
Lagoa, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1759 ; Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. i. p. 333. 
Walker included in this genus two North-American species, L. opercularis and 


214 HETEROCERA. 


L. pyxidifera, both of which are figured by Abbot and Smith (Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. 
Georgia, ii. pp. 105, 107, tabb. 53 and 54). From our own country four species are now 
recorded. 


1. Lagoa superba. 
Lagoa superba, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 79°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 
According to Mr. Schaus! the cocoon of this showy species is spun in a leaf, and 


is very thick, almost leathery in texture, and the hairs of the caterpillar are very 
poisonous. 


2. Lagoa ornata, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries dark fawn-colour from the base to beyond the middle and thence to the outer margin pale 
cream-colour, the costal margin speckled with black scales, a row of indistinct white dots crossing from 
near the apex to the anal angle, the fringe white; secondaries uniform cream-white ; the underside of 
both wings pale fawn-colour, shaded with brown from the base to beyond the middle: front of the head 
white, the thorax dark fawn-colour, the abdomen pale cream-colour ; antenne greyish; legs clothed with 
fawn-coloured hairs, Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Hége). 


One example only. 


3. Lagoa affinis, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform cream-white, a few black scales along the costal margin of the- 
former: head, thorax, and abdomen cream-white ; legs and the front of the thorax beneath ‘slightly 
shaded with brown; antenne greyish. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer). 


A single specimen in very poor condition. JL. affinis is most nearly allied to the 
North-American L. opercularis, Abbot and Smith. 


4. Lagoa ravida, sp.n. (Tab. XXII. fig. 17.) 


Primaries and secondaries white, the primaries shaded with brown from the base to about the middle and 
beyond crossed from the costal margin to near the inner margin by a row of indistinct brown spots: head 
and thorax dusky, the abdomen whitish; antenn and palpi pale brown; legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (J. J. Walker). 
A single specimen of this pretty little insect was obtained by Mr. J. J. Walker of 
H.M.S. ‘ Kingfisher.’ 


PARASA. 


Neera, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 58, f. 176 (1854); Walker, Cat. v. 
p. 1138 (nomen preoc.). 
Parasa, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Ins. Mus. E. I. H. ii. p. 413; Wallengren, Wien. ent.. 
Monatschr. vii. p. 187 (1863). 
This genus is very widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa, and Madagascar ; it 
also inhabits the New World. The three Central-American species here described. 


PARASA.—EUCLEA. 215 


agree well in the neuration, the structure of the antenne, and other minor details with 
Parasa lepida (Cramer) from India. A species also occurs in North America. 


1. Parasa laranda, sp. n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 1g, 22.) 


Male. Primaries bright pea-green, the base, a spot at the end of the cell, and the outer margin narrowly 
edged with reddish-brown; secondaries uniform reddish-brown: head, antenne, palpi, and abdomen 
reddish-brown ; thorax bright pea-green above, reddish-brown beneath ; legs pale brown; the underside 
of both wings uniform red-brown. The female identical with the male, but larger; the wings similarly 
marked on the upperside, though of a lighter-brown colour beneath. Expanse, ¢, 14 inch; 9, 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Teleman (Champion). 


This species seems to be peculiar to Guatemala; our specimens, however, are from 
widely distant localities, the one on the Pacific slope, the other in the low hot valley of 
the Rio Polochic. 


2. Parasa imitata, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 36,49.) 

Male. Primaries bright pea-green, the base, somewhat broadly, and the outer margin bordered and blotched 
with reddish-brown ; secondaries uniform reddish-brown, slightly paler on the inner margin: the back of 
the head and the upperside of the thorax bright pea-green ; antennz, palpi, the front of the head, and 
the underside of the thorax and abdomen dark reddish-brown ; legs dark brown; the underside of both 
wings pale yellow, shaded with reddish-brown. The female is similar to the male but considerably 
larger. Expanse, 3, 1dinch; 92, 12 inch. 

Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion). 

This species is closely allied to P. laranda, from which it is easily distinguished by 
the absence of the spot at the end of the cell, and the very much wider brown markings 
‘on the base and outer margins of the primaries. 

The specimen from Costa Rica appears to be faded ; it is very much paler in colour 


than those from the Volcan de Chiriqui. 
3. Parasa laonome, sp. n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 5, 2.) 


Female. Primaries dull green, the base, a round spot at the end of the cell, and the outer margin broadly 
banded with dark brown ; secondaries uniform dark brown: the back of the head and the tegule green ; 
the thorax above and beneath, the abdomen, antenna, palpi, and legs dark reddish-brown; the underside 
of both wings uniform pale reddish-brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 

A female example of this distinct species was sent by Mr. Champion; the male is 
unknown. 

EUCLEA. 
Euclea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 149 (1816) (partim) ; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1143; Packard, 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 336 (nec Boisd.). 

This genus now includes a large number of species, most of which are from the New 
World. Light species at least inhabit North America, and many others, nearly all of 
which are undescribed, are found in South America. I have to record five species from 
our country, three of which are here described. 


216 >  HETEROCERA. 


1. Huclea urba, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 6, ¢ .) 


Male. Primaries uniform glossy reddish-brown, with a narrow green streak about the middle of the inner- 
margin; secondaries uniform reddish-brown, slightly paler near the base: head, thorax, antenne, palpi,. 
and legs dark reddish-brown ; abdomen pale brown; the wings uniform pale reddish-brown beneath. 
Expanse # inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


One example. A pretty little species allied to the North-American £. cippus 
(Cramer). 


2. Euclea determinata, sp. n. 


Mate. Primaries dark dull brown, slightly paler near the outer margin, and with three minute silver streaks,. 
below and slightly beyond which are several indistinct dark-coloured markings on the inner margin near 
the base; secondaries uniform pale glossy brown, with all the veins rather darker brown; the underside: 
of both wings pale reddish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; antenne reddish-brown ;. 
palpi black ; legs dark brown. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. GuateMa.a, Volcan de Atitlan, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


This distinct species is allied to the preceding. 


3. Euclea zygia, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 7, 3.) 


Male, Primaries dark blackish-brown, slightly paler near the outer margin ; secondaries uniform pale silky- 
brown, with all the veins rather darker in colour: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the anus with 
the hairs almost black ; antenne dark brown; palpi black; legs dark brown, with a few greyish hairs ; 
the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Senahu, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The specimen described and figured is from Dr. Staudinger’s collection, it being in 
very much better condition than any of those collected by Mr. Champion; the Guate- 
malan examples are very much rubbed, but I believe they represent the same species. 
Our specimen from Chiriqui is larger than that of Dr. Staudinger, but in other respects 
identical. 


4. Euclea ? 
Hab. Muxico, Presidio (Forrer). 


A single very worn specimen of an apparently distinct species. 
5. Kuclea (?) 2 
Hab. Guatema.a, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


A single example, also in very bad condition; both this and the preceding are too 
worn to describe. 


ROMOSA. 
Romosa, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1114. 


Walker placed a single species from Honduras in this genus. 


ROMOSA.—-EUPALIA., 217 


1. Romosa invaria. 
Romosa invaria, Walk. Cat. v. p. 11151. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 4, in mus. B.). 


The type in the British Museum is the only specimen I have seen. 


VIPSANIA, n. g. 


Male. Body short and stout ; proboscis not visible; palpi very long, projecting straight out from the head, the 
third joint small and club-shaped ; antenne slender, simple, and about half the length of the wings; 
thorax flat and rather broad ; abdomen not extending beyond the wings. Wings rather short and broad, 
much rounded at the anal angle, the costal margin of the primaries almost straight ; the neuration almost 
as in Eupalia, but the cells of both wings considerably shorter. The legs rather long and stout. 
The female larger than the male, the body slightly longer, and the palpi quite small. 


This genus includes a single very distinct species from Mexico and Guatemala; 
Vipsania will be known by the extreme length of the palpi in the male and other 
characters. 


1. Vipsania anticlea, sp. n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 83,92.) 


Male. Primaries bright golden-brown, with all the veins dark reddish-brown, and a reddish-brown line crossing 
the middle from the apex to the inner margin nearest to the base; secondaries uniform dark silky-brown: 
head and palpi dark reddish-brown ; the front of the thorax and the tegule bright yellow, the rest of the 
thorax and the abdomen reddish-brown; legs brown; the underside of both wings pale yellowish-brown, 
with the veins slightly darker in colour. The female considerably larger than the male and much paler 
in colour. Expanse, g,1} inch; 9,14 inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hége); Guaremana, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion). 


EUPALIA. 


Nyssia, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1132 (nec Duponchel). 
Eupalia, Walker, Cat. xxxv. p. 1927. 
Neomiresa, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 74. 

Thirteen species from various parts of the world were placed in Myssia by Walker. 
Eupalia of the same author, based upon a single species from Bogota, E. megasomoides 
(the type of which is in my own collection), is certainly generically identical with 
Nyssia,—E. megasomoides, indeed, being so closely allied to E. trimacula (Sepp) as 
to be doubtfully distinct therefrom. The name proposed by Butler (Joc. cit.) is not 
required ; this author gives, on what grounds I know not, WV. argentata as the type of 
Nyssia, Walk. 

In the British Museum there are several specimens, unnamed, agreeing well with 
Walker’s type of E. megasomoides. I think it doubtful if the insects from Africa, 
Madagascar, and India, placed in the genus Myssia by Walker, are generically identical 
with the New-World species. Three species inhabit Central America, two of which 
are apparently widely distributed in South America. 


BIOL, CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., April 1887. 2 ¢€e 


218 _ HETEROCERA. 


1. Kupalia trimacula. 
Phalena Bombyx trimacula, Sepp, Ins. Surin. i. p. 97, t. 45°. 
Nyssia trimacula, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1188 ’. 

Hab. Muxico, Presidio (Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge); GuaTEmata, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Rkibbe)—Gutana, Surinam}; 
Ecuapor; Amazons, Para 2. 


This species is fairly common in our country. I have a large series of specimens 
before me, none of which are quite so dark in colour as Sepp’s figure; I have very little 
doubt, however, that they belong to the same species. The metallic spots on the 
primaries vary in number from one to four, and are sometimes unsymmetrical or entirely 
wanting; in a specimen before me one wing has a single spot and the other wing 
three spots. This species is found over a very extended range of country, and I think 
it most probable, when we have received more specimens, that several species now 
standing as distinct will prove to be nothing but slight local varieties of E. trimacula. 
The larva, pupa, and cocoon are figured by Sepp; the larva is said to feed upon citron 
and orange trees. 


2. Hupalia argentata. 
Nyssia argentata, Walk. Cat. v. p. 11843. 
Neomiresa argentata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 74’. 


Hab. Panama, Boquete 3500 feet (Champion).—Amazons, Juruapuca?; Braz}. 


The female example before me from the State of Panama agrees well with the type 
in the British Museum. Mr. Butler states? that the specimen captured by Mr. Trail on 
the Rio Jurué is smaller and altogether brighter in colour than Walker’s type. 


3. Eupalia argentea, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 10, ¢.) 


Male, Primaries dark brown, lightest from the base along the inner margin to the anal angle, with a darker 
brown spot beyond the middle, two waved narrow metallic lines crossing from near the apex to the inner 
margin, and a dark brown line crossing near the base; secondaries uniform dark blackish-brown, with the 
fringe yellowish-brown ; the underside of both wings dark silky-brown, palest on the outer margins: 
head, antenne, palpi, and the underside of the thorax dark brown; thorax and abdomen light yellowish- 
brown; the legs and underside of the abdomen dark brown; the anus slightly tipped with yellow. The 
female similar to the male, but larger and considerably paler in colour and not having the metallic lines so 
distinctly marked. Expanse, g, 1j inch; 2, 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion). 


This species resembles EL. argentata (Walker), but is considerably darker in colour, 
and differs slightly in the form of the primaries. The specimen from Mexico is a 
female, that from the Volcan de Chiriqui a male. 


PEROLA. | 219 


PEROLA, 
Perola, Walker, Cat. iv. p. 920. 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species, P. murina, from Rio Janeiro, the 
type of which is now in the British Museum. From our country I have now to add 
five new species. 


1. Perola daona, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 11.) 


Primaries uniform pale fawn-colour, crossed from the apex to about the middle of the inner margin by a narrow 
brown line and by a submarginal dark brown line from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries uniform 
dark reddish-brown: head, thorax, antenne, and legs pale fawn-colour; abdomen reddish-brown. Expanse 
1} inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


One specimen. 


2. Perola dora, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 12.) 

Primaries pale silky fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with black scales, more especially near the base and anal 
angle; secondaries considerably lighter in colour; the underside of both wings uniform very pale fawn- 
colour: head bright orange-colour; antenne pale brown; thorax and abdomen glossy fawn-colour, the 
former dark brown beneath, the latter yellowish near the anus; legs pale fawn-colour. Expanse 
1 inch. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet 

(Champion). 

This insect is closely allied to an undescribed species from Ecuador in my own 


collection. 


8. Perola caria, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 18.) 


Primaries dark silky fawn-colour, a spot at the end of the cell and a narrow submarginal line dark brown; 
secondaries still darker in colour: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown; legs brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this small dull-coloured species was captured. 


4, Perola eleea, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries pale reddish fawn-colour, mottled with a few darker scales, with a narrow black line crossing from 
near the apex to the inner margin:close to the base; secondaries uniform pale fawn-colour, slightly darker 
at the anal angle; the underside of both wings pale fawn-colour, very silky on the costal margin of the 
primaries: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs pale fawn-colour. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This little species is allied to P. caria, but quite distinct, the band on the primaries 


being in an entirely different position. 


5. Perola ceres, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 15, 2.) 
Male and female. Primaries pale brownish-grey, shaded with darker brown, with a dark brown line crossing 
from near the apex on the costal margin to the anal angle, and on the inner side of this a pale greyish band, 
the latter crossing the end of the cell, where it is joined by a narrow band of the same colour running up 


2 ¢e 2 


220 HETEROCERA. 


from the base, and from which a short band crosses to the inner margin; secondaries dusky, with the 
fringe paler in colour: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish, the anus rather darker; antenne pale 
brown ; legs greyish. Expanse, ¢, ? inch; 9, 1 inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Presidio (Forrer); GuatemaLa, Senahu, Rio Maria Linda 500 feet 
(Champion). 

This species appears to be peculiar to Mexico and Guatemala. The males before me 
are in very poor condition, but, so far as I can see, they are identical in markings with 
the female, from a specimen of which sex our figure is taken. 


SEMYRA. 
Semyra, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1180. 
Five species from Tropical America were placed in this genus by Walker; Semyra is 
represented in our country by at least three species, a fourth I provisionally refer to it. 


1. Semyra bella. 
Euryda bella, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 58, f. 181. 
Semyra bella, Walk. Cat. v. p. 11381’. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, hibbe, in mus. 
Staudinger ).—Sovutu-East BRazIL, Bahia. 


The specimens from our country, though slightly darker in colour, agree well with 
those in my own collection from South-east Brazil. 


2. Semyra finita. 
Semyra finita, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1181". 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 1, in mus. B.). 


3. Semyra diversa, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 16.) 

Primaries silky reddish-brown, darkest near the apex and at the base on the inner margin, with a narrow 
white line crossing from the costal margin near the apex to about the middle, a small dark brown spot 
in the cell, a white interrupted line about the middle of the inner margin, beyond which is a triangular 
light brown mark, and a narrow pale brown submarginal line from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries 
pale reddish-brown, slightly darker at the anal angle; the underside of both wings uniform pale reddish- 
brown: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, paler beneath; legs dark brown; antenne pale brown. 
Expanse 17 inch. 

Hab. Guatema.a, Cerro Zunil 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 

800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This insect is very distinct from any other known to me; the example from Bugaba 
is in very poor condition, but I have no doubt it is referable to this species. 


4, Semyra (?) diana, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 17.) 
Primaries uniform reddish-brown from the base to beyond the middle, and then shaded with blackish-brown 
to the outer margin; secondaries blackish, slightly hyaline in the middle; the underside of both wings 
uniform blackish-brown, excepting the costal margins of the primaries which are reddish-brown: head, 


SEMYRA.—TALIMA. 221 


antenna, and palpi reddish-brown ; collar, thorax, and abdomen almost black; tegule reddish-brown; the 
underside of the thorax and legs yellowish-brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Only one example was captured of this curious little insect; it is, I believe, a male, 
but I am doubtful if it is rightly placed in the genus Semyra, the primaries being rather 
more pointed at the apex, and the antenne not quite so long or so deeply pectinated as 
in the other species of the genus. On account of the thickness of the scales I am unable 
to see sufficient of the neuration of the primaries to determine with certainty its exact 


affinities. 
EULIMACODES. 
Eulimacodes, Moéschler, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 672 (1877); Beitr. Schmett.-Fauna 
Surinam, u. p. 44 (1878). 
This genus was founded upon £. distincta, Moschl. (doc. cit. t. 10. f. 37), from 


Paramaribo, the same author also including in it Limacodes scapha, Harris (L. undi- 
fera, Walker). 


1. Eulimacodes scapha. 

Limacodes scapha, Harris, List Ins. Mass. (1833)'; Report on Ins. Mass. injurious to vegetation, 
p- 803 (1841) ; ed. 2, p. 420; Ent. Corr. p. 300, t. 3. £. 8 (larva) ; Walsh, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 
Hist. ix. p. 298; Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 341°; Guide Study Ins. p. 290, f. 219; 
Stretch, Illustr.of the Zygenide and Bombycide of North America, p. 200, t.8. £.15(¢). 

Limacodes (Eulimacodes) scapha, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 17 (1882). 

Eulimacodes scapha, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 672; Beitr. Schmett.-Fauna 
Surinam, p. 44. 

Limacodes undifera, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1149°. 

Hab. Norvu America 2, Massachusetts 1—GuaTemaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Cham- 
pion); Honpuras °. 

The larva of . scapha has been described by Dr. Harris and also by Dr. Packard ; 
it is said to feed on walnut. We have received one specimen, a female, of this species 
from Guatemala. 

TALIMA. 

Talima, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1120. 

A single species, 7. postica, from Venezuela, was placed in this genus by Walker ; 
this insect we are now able to trace as far north as the Volcan de Chiriqui. A second 
species (cf. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 75) from Tropical South America has been 


described by Butler. 


1. Talima postica. 
Talima postica, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1121°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).— VENEZUELA }. 
A small dull-coloured insect closely allied to Z. datescens, Butl., from the Amazons. 


222 HETEROCERA. 


ZANOLA. 
Zanola, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1173. 


This genus was founded by Walker upon a single species, Z. difficilis, from Vene- 
zuela; its author stating that “‘Zanola, Ennomos, and some other genera of Geometride 
appeared to connect the Drepanulide with the Geometride.” 

A closely allied form occurs in Mexico. 


1. Zanola harpis, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 18.) 


Primaries light chestnut-brown, crossed by three narrow waved black lines which are edged on their inner 
sides with a pinkish line (the first black line is close to the base, the second beyond the middle, and the 
third submarginal and almost in the form of a series of lunate markings), and between the first and 
second black lines is a wide silvery-brown band crossing from the costal margin (where it is widest) to 
the inner margin, this band running off to a point ; secondaries light brown, palest from the apex to the 
anal angle, and with a narrow almost central dark brown band, shaded on each side with pinkish-brown, 
crossing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle; the fringe of 
both wings pale whitish-brown; the underside of the primaries pale brown, shaded along the costal 
margin with darker brown, and crossed from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin close to 
the anal angle by two indistinct dark brownish bands; the underside of the secondaries pale pinkish- 
brown, crossed in the middle by a wide brown band and nearer the outer margin by a narrow waved black 
line, and with a dark brown patch close to the anal angle: head and thorax dark brown, the abdomen 
lighter ; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége). 


This species is allied to Z. difficilis, Walk., but differs considerably in colour and 
in the position of the bands crossing the primaries. 


TARCHON. 


Mesotages, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. t. 95. f. 10 (2), Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 6 (1874) (nomen 
preeoc.). 


This genus was adopted by Felder for the reception of the South-American Mimallo 
trilunula, Herr.-Schaff. A closely-allied species from the State of Panama is here 
described. Felder’s name having been long preoccupied in Hymenoptera (Forster, 
1862), I have been obliged to change it. 


1. Tarchon felderi, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 19 3, 209.) 


Male, Primaries deep chestnut-brown, palest along the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle, a spot 
at the end of the cell, one beyond, near the apex, and one at the anal angle pale yellowish-brown, a 
silvery-white streak beyond the middle on the inner margin ; secondaries uniform brownish-black, slightly 
reddish along the outer margin; the underside of the primaries and secondaries uniform brownish-black, 
the former with a pale streak at the apex, the latter with a central waved pale line and a small white dot 
on the inner margin about the middle: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brownish-black, slightly reddish 
beneath ; antenne black ; palpi black above, reddish-brown beneath ; legs pale brown. Female. Primaries 
pale chestnut-brown, crossed just beyond the end of the cell by a series of elongated silvery-white spots, 
these spots forming a broken line from the costal margin to the inner margin, and beyond this line by two 
bands of lunular marks, the second being submarginal, the spots at the end of the cell as in the male; 
secondaries uniform brownish-black, but not so dark as in the male, broadly marked with lighter colour 
at the anal angle; the underside of the primaries from the base nearly to the middle (excepting the 


TARCHON.—HYGROCHROA. 223 


costal margin, which is yellowish-brown) and the outer half pale yellowish-brown, the latter crossed by 
a narrow dark brown line and by a submarginal row of black lunular marks extending from the apex to 
beyond the middle but not reaching the anal angle; the underside of the secondaries uniform pale 
yellowish-brown, a small white dot about the middle of the costal margin, from which a brown waved. 
band crosses to the inner margin, and beyond this band and nearer the outer margin is a narrow waved 
line of dark brown lunular marks: head, thorax, and the upperside of the abdomen pale reddish-brown, 
the underside of the latter pale yellowish-brown; front of the head, palpi, and the underside of the 
thorax dark brown; antenne black; legs dark brown. Expanse, ¢, 14 inch; 9, 24 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to 7. trilunula (Herr.-Schaff.), from which the male is at once 
distinguished by the absence of the purple band from the primaries. The female of 
our insect, when compared with Felder’s figure of the same sex of 7. trilunula, will at 
once be seen to be very distinct. The sexes of 7. felderi were captured in copuld by 
Mr. Champion. 


Fam. BOMBYCIDZ. 


COLLA. 
Colla, Walker, Cat. xxxii. p. 580. 

Walker founded this genus upon a species from Bogota, which he described as Colla 
glaucescens. J have no doubt it is identical with that figured by Drury under the name 
of Phalena (Bombyx) rhodope; Walker placed Drury’s insect in the genus Endromis, 
from which it is very different in neuration. C. rhodope is now known to extend as 
far north as Mexico. 


1. Colla rhodope. 

Phalena Bombyx rhodope, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 30, t. 22. f. 3°. 
Endromis rhodope, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1386”. 
Colla glaucescens, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 580°. 

Hab. Mexico, Paso del Macho (Hége).—Cotomsia, Bogota?; Ecuapor ; Braziu 12. 

Herr Hoge sent one specimen of this fine insect, and also the pupa; the latter is 
of a dark-brown colour, and enclosed in a silvery-grey silky cocoon. 

The specimen from Ecuador in my own collection is considerably smaller than the 
one from Mexico; the latter agrees fairly well with Drury’s figure, and also with the 
type of Colla glaucescens, Walk. I have not seen any specimens from Brazil. 


HYGROCHROA. 
Hygrochroa, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 95. f. 15, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 5 (1874). 
Anthocroca, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 78. 

This genus was established by Felder upon an Amazonian species, H. vulnerata ; 
this insect is identical in neuration with Anthocroca muscosa and A. cuneifera, Butl., 
from the same region. 

Three species inhabit Central America. 


224 HETEROCERA. 


1. Hygrochroa muscosa. 
Anthocroca muscosa, But). Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 79, t. 3. f. 5 (no. 148) *. 
Anthocroca cuneifera, Butl. loc. cit. p. 79, t. 8. f. 4 (no. 149)”. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger).— Amazons } ?. 


The examples from Chiriqui are identical with Butler’s types in the British Museum 
from the Amazons. I have not the slightest doubt but that they represent the sexes 
of one and the same species, A. muscosa being the female and 4. cuneifera the male. 


2. Hygrochroa casnonia, sp.n. (Anthocroca casnonia, Tab. XXIII. fig. 25, ¢ .) 
Male. Primaries pinkish fawn-colour, shaded with brown and greenish-yellow, with a dark curved line near 
the base, a large Y-shaped. mark in the middle of the costal margin, and a narrow dark brown line 
crossing beyond the middle from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin close to the anal 
angle; secondaries reddish fawn-colour, palest along the costal margin and at the apex, crossed by two 
indistinct waved brownish lines and by a dark brown marginal line; the underside of the primaries pale 
yellowish-brown, crossed beyond the middle by two narrow dark brown lines; the underside of the secon- 
daries uniform brownish-yellow, somewhat greyish near the anal angle, and crossed beyond the middle 
from the costal margin to the anal angle by two waved lines of dark brown: head and collar pale yellowish- 
brown; thorax and abdomen brown, the anus paler; antenne pale reddish-brown; palpi brown, with 
yellow tips; legs yellowish-brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


This pretty little species is allied to Anthocroca muscosa, Butl. 


3. Hygrochroa rutila, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries uniform pale fawn-colour, shaded with white, the primaries with a dark brown band 
crossing from the apex to the inner margin, the band bordered externally with a series of lunular whitish 
markings; the underside of both wings uniform pale yellowish fawn-colour, with two indistinct narrow 
brown lines crossing the secondaries from the costal margin to the inner margin near the anal angle: 
head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellowish fawn-colour ; antenne and legs darker. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt). 


One specimen. This example is not sufficiently well preserved to figure. 


CARTHARA. 
Carthara, Walker, Cat. xxxiil. p. 914. 

This genus was founded by Walker upon a single species (C. albicosta) from the 
Amazons region; the type is stated to be in the Saunders Collection, but upon a recent 
visit to the Museum at Oxford I was unable to find it. I have to record three species 
from our region. 


1. Carthara veca, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 21 ¢, 22 2.) 


Male. Primaries pale reddish-brown, crossed by four or five indistinct narrow waved dark brown lines, a 
square-shaped patch close to the base on the inner margin, and a dash of dark brown close to the apex ; 
secondaries uniform pale brown, with several dark brown streaks along the inner margin ; underside 
uniform pale brown, both wings crossed by a central band of narrow double lines of darker brown: head, 
thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs dark brown. Female of a much darker brown tint than the male, 
and with all the markings much more indistinct. Expanse, g¢, 14 inch; 9, 1? inch. 


CARTHARA.—ANTICLA. 225 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion; Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


Three specimens, one male and two females. C. veca is closely allied to an undescribed 
species from Ecuador in my own collection. 


2. Carthara lividia, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 23, 249.) 


Male. Primaries greyish-brown, thickly irrorated with greyish scales, the costal two thirds almost white from 
the middle nearly to the apex, with five dark brown spots on the costal margin (the first four quite small, 
the fifth in the form of an elongated streak), the outer spot joined by a waved pale-coloured line bordered 
with black on the inner edge, and three indistinct waved lines crossing from near the costal margin to the 
inner margin, between the middle and the base; secondaries dark greyish-brown, palest at the base and 
along the inner margin to the anal angle, the fringe reddish-brown; underside dark greyish-brown, 
shaded with reddish-brown at the apex of the primaries, the costal margin edged with pale yellowish- 
brown, and with a small brown dot and also a white dot close to the apex: head and thorax brown, 
thickly covered with grey and yellowish hairs, the collar dark brown; abdomen dark brown above, much 
paler beneath, the anus pale yellowish-brown ; antennae, palpi, and legs dark brown. Female. Primaries 
dark brown, speckled with minute greyish scales, a dark brown band crossing near the base from the 
costal margin to the inner margin, beyond which is a second dark brown band (widest at the costal 
margin, and then gradually becoming narrower till it reaches the inner margin near the anal angle), an 
indistinct narrow white zigzag line on the outer edge of the second band; secondaries bright reddish- 
brown, lightest near the base, with a very indistinct line on the anal angle; underside uniform reddish- 
brown, crossed by dark lines indicating the dark bands on the upperside: head, thorax, and abdomen 
dark reddish-brown, with a few greyish hairs on the thorax; antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. 
Expanse, ¢, 14 inch; 9, 2 inches. 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui 


(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The single male specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is considerably brighter in 
colour than those collected by Mr. Champion. 


3. Carthara drepanoides. 
Pamea (?) drepanoides, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1938". 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); GUATEMALA, 
Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion).—CotomB1A, Bogota}. 


The specimens from Guatemala and British Honduras are rather darker in colour, 
and the markings a little more distinct than in those from Mexico. 


ANTICLA. 
Anticla, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1174. 


A single species, A. antica, from Venezuela was placed in this genus by Walker. 
Two species have been received from our country. 


1. Anticla ortygia, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 26.) 


Primaries uniform pale fawn-colour, slightly darker at the apex, and with a minute black dot at the end of the 
cell; secondaries pale golden-yellow, edged with fawn-colour along the abdominal margin and at the anal 
angle; the underside of both wings pale yellow, the secondaries with two narrow central brown lines 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1., May 1887. 2 ff 


226 _ HETEROCERA. 


from the costal margin to the inner margin: head and thorax and the upper- and undersides of the 
abdomen pale fawn-colour ; antenne and legs darker fawn-colour. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
One specimen. This species is allied to A. antica, Walk. 


2. Anticla carya, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries greenish-yellow, with a large square-shaped reddish-brown spot about the middle, extending from 
the inner margin to the cell, an angularly shaped reddish-brown mark near the apex on the outer margin, 
and a dark brown spot at the end of the cell, and beyond the latter from the costal margin to the inner 
margin an indistinct waved brown line, and nearer the outer margin a number of minute white dots 
crossing from near the apex to the inner margin; secondaries dark orange, palest at the base, crossed. 
about the middle by two indistinct brown lines, the outer margin narrowly bordered with dark brown, a few 
white scales on the inner margin close to the anal angle; the underside of both wings rich orange-brown, 
with the bands as above, but darker in colour: head and thorax greenish-yellow, the abdomen fawn- 
colour, a dark brown line extending from the base of the thorax to the anus, the abdomen reddish-orange 
beneath ; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


A single specimen only of this beautiful and distinct species was captured. 


ASTHENIDIA. 


Asthenia, Westwood, in Duncan’s Nat. Libr. xxxvii. p. 209 (1841) ; Walker, Cat. xxxu. p. 379 
(nomen przoc.) (nec Hiibner, 1816). 
Asthenidia, Westwood, Trans. Zool. Soc. x. p. 515, note (1879). 


The species of Asthenidia are only found in the forest-regions of Tropical America ; 
their great resemblance to the Old-World genus Strophidia is most remarkable. One 
species inhabits our country. 


1. Asthenidia transversaria, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 1.) 


Primaries and secondaries pure white; the primaries with a brownish-black line at the end of the cell, beyond 
which are three similarly-coloured lines (the first broad, the second narrow, and the third submarginal) 
crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin; secondaries crossed from the costal margin close 
to the base to near the anal angle (but not reaching it) by a narrow brownish-black line, a second line of 
the same colour crossing beyond this from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin close to the 
anal angle, and also with a small indistinct greyish marking on the outer margin below the anal angle, a 
plack marginal line from the apex to just above the small tail, there forming a black spot, bordered on the 
outer side by a bright orange angular mark, and on the inner side of the tail a large black spot ; the under- 
side of both wings pure white, with the darker markings of the upper surface showing through : head, 
thorax, and abdomen white; antenne yellowish, rather deeply pectinated; palpi black above, white 
beneath ; legs yellowish-white. Expanse 2? inches. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba 
(Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion, Arcé).—CotomBia (mus. D.). 


This species appears to be common in our country as far north as Nicaragua, and to 
extend southwards beyond the limits of our region. A. transversaria differs from the 
other described species in having an orange-coloured spot, instead of a red one, on the 
secondaries, and in the different position of the black bands; it is allied to 4. geome- 


ASTHENIDIA.—PEROPHORA. 227 


traria, Felder, specimens of which are before me from Ecuador, but quite distinct. 
The single specimen from Colombia is considerably larger than the Central-American 
examples, though agreeing perfectly in other respects. 


Fam. DREPANULIDE. 


PEROPHORA. 


Perophora, Harris, Report on Ins. Mass. Injurious to Vegetation, ed. 1, p. 299 (1841) ; ed. 2, p. 319 
(1842) ; Walker, Cat. iv. p. 974. 


I am adopting Perophora with considerable doubt, not having seen any specimens of 
the North-American P. melsheimerii, Harris, the type of the genus. The two species 
from our country agree fairly well with, though very distinct from, the insects placed 
in this genus by Walker, viz. P. batesit and P. hamata, from Brazil, both of which 
are contained in the British Museum. 


1. Perophora hegewischi, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 3, 2.) 

Primaries and secondaries uniform pale pinkish fawn-colour, slightly darker at the base and along the costal 
margin of the former, both wings crossed near the outer margin by two quite narrow lines (the inner line 
of a reddish-brown colour, the outer dusky) and with the fringe distinctly darker; the underside of 
both wings as above, but slightly paler: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs pale pinkish fawn- 
colour. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico (Hegewisch, in mus. Staudinger). 


A specimen in the collection of Dr. Staudinger is the only one I have seen of this 
species ; it is without any exact Mexican locality, but most likely came from the southern 
part of that country, its nearest allies being found in Tropical South America. 


2. Perophora (?) fabia, sp. n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 2, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries dark fawn-colour, speckled with black scales along the costal margin, a light-coloured spot 
close to the base on the inner margin and a round pale-coloured spot at the end of the cell, a narrow dark 
brown line crossing beyond the end of the cell from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin 
close to the anal angle, the space between the line and the outer margin being pale cream-colour thickly 
speckled with brown and black scales ; secondaries dark fawn-colour, with an almost central dark brown 
line extending from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle, the base, 
a spot at the apex, and tho anal angle pale cream-colour, thickly irrorated with brown and black scales ; 
the underside as above but paler, and both wings with a narrow submarginal waved black line: head 
and the front of the thorax pale pink; tegule cream-colour, speckled with black; thorax and abdomen 
fawn-colour, the underside of the former and the legs pink; antenn pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This beautiful species is very distinct from all others of the genus known to me, 
and it is possible that upon receipt of further material it may be necessary to place it 


in a new genus. 
2 ff 2 


228 HETEROCERA. 


DREPANA. 
Drepana, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. 2, p. 155 (1802) ; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1159. 


This genus now includes a large number of species; it is very widely distributed 
over the Old and New Worlds; from our country, however, we have as yet only 
received a single species. 


1. Drepana chaonia, sp. n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 7, 2.) 


Female, Primaries brownish fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown minute dots, an indistinct brown 
band crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin close to the base, a black spot at the end of the 
cell, and a brown line crossing from the apex to the middle of the inner margin; secondaries brownish 
fawn-colour, with the costal half uniformly pale yellow, a short central brown line on the darker half 
below which are two rows of black dots; the underside of both wings reddish-yellow, with a central 
brown line: head and the front of the thorax pale yellowish fawn-colour; thorax and the upperside of 
the abdomen dark brownish fawn-colour, the latter beneath, the legs, and the underside of the thorax 
orange-yellow ; antenne pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


A single specimen only of this dull-coloured insect was sent; in form it resembles 
the European D. sicula, but differs in marking and colour from that species. 


MIMALLO. 
Mimallo, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 190; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1336. 


Walker placed in this genus six species, all from Tropical America; one of these is 
now known to extend as far north as Mexico. 


1. Mimallo amilia. 
Phalena Attacus amilia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 180, t. 265. ff. D, EK’. 
Mimallo amilia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 190; Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1837 7. 
Phalena vorax, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, i. p. 47, t. 20°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (&idde).—Gu1ana 
(mus. D.), Surinam 122; Amazons; Souru-East Braziu °, Rio Janeiro; TRINIDAD. 


This species is found over a very extended range of country. I have a good series 
of specimens before me; they do not show the least variation. The two specimens 
from our country are both males; those from South America in my own collection 
are, however, all females. ‘The larva, pupa, and cocoon are figured by Sepp (Joc. cit.) ; 
the larva lives in a case which it constructs of pieces of wood and grains of sand. 


Fam. PSYCHIDA. 


Three genera of this family are now known to inhabit Central America; a fourth 
has been named by Guérin-Méneville as Dipyle, D. boucardi (cf. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 
1867, p. 455), from the larval case only!—this latter was brought from Mexico by 
M. Boucard. 


TYPHONIA.—(CECETICUS. 229 


TYPHONIA. 
Typhonia, Bruand, Essai monogr. sur la tribu des Psychides, p. 17 (1853). 


Nine species, all European, were placed in this genus by Bruand; I venture to pro- 
visionally include in it one from Guatemala. 


1. Typhonia (?) naxa, sp. n. 


Female. Primaries brownish-black, slightly hyaline, with the nerves rather darker; secondaries uniform 
hyaline-black: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs black. The head very small; the palpi 
exceedingly minute. LExpanse 14 inch. 


Hab, GuatEMALA, near the city, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


This species appears to be very close to 7. ciliarella, but differs slightly in neuration ; 
the specimens from our country are both females and agree fairly well with Bruand’s 
figure of the female of the above-mentioned species, but without more material it is quite 
impossible to make it out satisfactorily. 7. naxa bears a most remarkable resemblance 
to a Trichopterous insect. 


PSYCHE. 
Psyche, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. 1, p. 156 (1801). 


This genus contains a large number of species from all parts of the World; from our 
country we have received only one as yet. Our specimens unfortunately are too worn 
to identify or describe. 


1. Psyche ——? 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer). 


Two specimens; these somewhat closely resemble Microrgyia amazonum, Felder, 
from the Amazons. 


GZCETICUS. 


Oiketicus, Lansdown Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 373 (1827); Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1854, p. 219. 
(Eceticus is at present only retained for one species, O. kirbii, the type of the genus; 
the numerous others described by Lansdown Guilding, Westwood, &c. being now 
transferred to other genera. 0. Xirbii is apparently very widely distributed. 


1. Gceticus kirbii. 

Oiketicus kirbii, Lansdown Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 374, t. 6. ff. 1-10 and t. 7. ff. 1-13°; 
Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 221, Annulosa t. 34. ff. 2a-d; Walk. Cat. iv. p. 96] °; Berg, 
Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxv. pp. 230-237; Bol. Ac. Cordova, i. pp. 81-95. 

Psyche (Oiketicus) giganta, Zeller, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxii. pp. 49-52, 80 and 81, t. 2. ff 1-5 
(cocoon, &c.). 


230 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson ?, in mus. Brit.).—ARGENTINE RepuBLic (Durnford, in mus. 
D.).—West Inpizs !. 


I include this species in our fauna upon the authority of a specimen from Honduras 
in the British Museum ; it is the only one I have seen, excepting those from the 
Argentine Republic contained in my own collection. 

The life-history of this interesting insect has been very fully described by Lansdown 
Guilding, Westwood, and Zeller ; numerous figures of the various stages are given by 
these authors. 


Fam. COSSIDA. 


COSSUS. 
Cossus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 1 (1793); Walker, Cat. vil. p. 1510. 


One of the species I have placed in this genus is probably not a true Cossus. So 
many different forms, however, are included in the genus by Walker and Herrich- 
Schaffer that without making an examination of most of the species it would be 
impossible to separate them into different genera; I have not sufficient available 
material to enable me to arrive at any definite conclusion. 


1. Cossus redtenbachi. 
Zeuzera (Cossus) redtenbachii, Hammerschmidt, Naturw. Abhandl. von Haidinger Wien, ii. p. 151, 
t. 14, ff. 1-8 (1848)*; Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1530”. 
Hab. Mexico 12, 


The figure of this species is a very bad one; it represents the insect as of a uniform 
slaty-grey colour, with several darker lines crossing the primaries from the costal 
margin to the inner margin. The larva is stated by Hammerschmidt to closely resemble 
that of C. ligniperda, and to bé of a dull reddish colour. This insect is quite unknown 
to me. 


2. Cossus (?) multipunctata, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 9.) 


Primaries deep black, thickly banded with small dark blue spots; secondaries uniform smoky-black ; the under- 
side of both wings glossy brownish-black, the costal margin of the primaries thickly speckled with blue 
spots: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs black (antenne wanting). Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 


This insect has the wings so thickly covered with scales that it is impossible to see 
the neuration properly. I believe the specimen to be a female, but the abdomen is so 
much flattened that I am unable to speak positively. 


LANGSDORFIA. 
Langsdorfia, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 192 ; Walker, Cat. vu. p. 1527. 


The single species placed in this genus by Hiibner is very widely distributed; I have 
to add a second from Western Mexico. 


LANGSDORFIA.—HEPIALUS. 231 


1. Langsdorfia francki. 
Langsdorfia franckii, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 192. ff. 1 and 2; Walk. Cat. vii. p. 15277. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Payama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—CotomBia; Ecuapor; Braziu}. 


None of the specimens before me are so large as represented in Hiibner’s figure, 
though they agree in all other respects. | 


2. Langsdorfia forreri, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 5.) 


Primaries pale brownish-white, thickly irrorated with darker brown streaks, with a crescent-shaped dark 
brown mark edged with pale brownish-white close to the apex, an ill-defined dark brown patch at the 
end of the cell, and a dark reddish-brown rather broad line close to the base crossing from the costal 
margin to the inner margin; secondaries dirty brownish-white, thickly streaked with minute darker 
brown lines ; the underside as above but more lightly marked with brown: head, thorax, and abdomen 
brownish, the tufts of hair on the anus pale brownish-white, a pale line on each side of the abdomen; 
antenne and palpi pale brown ; legs and the underside of the abdomen dirty brownish-white. Expanse 
1} inch. ; 

Hab. Mexico, Tres Marias Islands (Lorrer). 
Two examples. This curious and distinct species closely resembles a Zeuzera, but 


has the neuration and antenne of Langsdorfia. 


ZEUZERA. 
Zeuzera, Latreille, Hist. nat. des Crust. et Ins. xiv. p. 175 (1805) ; Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1528. 


Walker placed twenty-nine species in this genus, and since then various others have 
been described. Zeuzera is very widely distributed in the Old and New Worlds; some 
of the Indian and African species are very beautifully coloured. 


1. Zeuzera cognata, (Tab. XXIV. fig. 6, 2.) 
. Zeuzera cognata, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 15327. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (forrer), Jalapa (Hége); Honpuras (Dyson 1, mus. Brit.) 


This species is allied to Z pyracmon and Z. fracta, Walk., the former of which is 
from Surinam and the latter from an unknown locality. The male of this insect is 
considerably smaller than the female; we figure one of the latter sex from Jalapa. 


Fam. HEPIALIDZ. 


HEPIALUS. 


Hepialus, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 162 (1776). 
Hepiolus, Mliger, Mag. i. p. 138 (1801). 

This well-known genus is found all over the world; the tropical species, however, are 
very little known as yet. From our country we have only received a single species. 


232 HETEROCERA. 


1. Hepialus pharus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 12, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries dark brown, mottled with lighter brown, with a large dark brown patch below the end of the 
cell, beyond which are two dark brown bands crossing from the costal margin to the anal angle, several dark 
brown dots on the costal margin, and a silver streak near the base, another at the end of the cell, and a third 
close to the apex ; secondaries dark brownish-black, semihyaline close to the base, the base thickly covered 
with reddish-brown hairs ; the underside of both wings uniform dark brown, with a few light-coloured 
spots along the costal margin of the primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the latter thickly 
covered with reddish-brown hairs at the base ; antenne very minute, of a dark brown colour ; legs brownish- 
black, the hind tibie clothed with a brush of long yellowish hairs. Expanse 27 inches. 


Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Duefias (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


The specimen from Las Mercedes is the one from which our figure is taken; it is 
rather darker and more distinctly marked than the others; the individual from Costa 
Rica is considerably paler in colour, the one from Duefias being intermediate between 
the two. 


DALACA. 
Dalaca, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1559 (1856). 


Walker included five species in this genus—one from Chili, two from Africa, and 
two, doubtfully, from Brazil. I take the first-named, D. nigricornis, Walk., as the 
type of the genus; the African species appear to be very doubtfully congeneric. 
Numerous other species of Dalaca are now known, and I here describe one from 
Guatemala. 


1. Dalaca assa, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 10.) 


Primaries pale reddish-brown, crossed by very many bands of small spots of aslightly darker colour; secondaries 
uniform pale brown, shaded with reddish-brown at the apex; the underside of both wings brown: head, 
thorax, and abdomen dark brown, with some reddish-brown hairs at the base of the thorax; antenne and 
legs dark brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 8500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet 
(Champion). 


This species is closely allied to an undescribed one from Ecuador in my own collection. 


PHASSUS. 
Phassus, Walker, Cat. vii. p. 1566 (1856). 


Six species were placed in this genus by Walker—one from Mexico, three from 
Tropical South America, one from Africa, and one from Asia. Phassus now includes 
several additional species, most of which are from the New World. I have to record 
five species from our country, three of which are described as new. 

Most of the species of this genus appear to be exceedingly rare, though one is 
distributed over a very extended range of country. 


PHASSUS. 233 


1. Phassus argentiferus. 
Phassus argentiferus, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 15667. 
Hab. Mexico (Hartweg!); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


The examples before me are identical with Walker's type in the National collection. 
P. argentiferus seems to be peculiar to our country; I have no evidence of its occurrence 
south of the Isthmus of Panama. This species is allied to P. hiidneri. 


2. Phassus triangularis. 
Phassus triangularis, H. Edwards, Ent. Amer. i. p. 1291. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus 1). 


This insect, judging from Mr. Edwards’ description, is very closely allied to 
P. argentiferus. 


8. Phassus phalerus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 8, 3.) 


Male. Primaries pale brown, shaded with darker brown, crossed beyond the middle by a wide indistinct glossy 
pale brownish band, which begins close to the costal margin and crosses to the inner margin and then runs 
up to the base (forming an ill-defined V-shaped mark, darkest near the inner margin), with two metallic 
spots about the middle (the first close to the base, the second beyond and close to the end of the cell), and 
the costal and outer margins speckled with dark brown ; secondaries brownish-black, slightly hyaline near 
the base, the apex and outer margin brownish, the base thickly covered with long brownish-black hairs ; 
the underside of both wings brownish-black, their costal margins, and the outer margins of the secondaries 
also, pale yellowish-brown, the primaries thickly clothed with long blackish hairs from the base to beyond 
the middle: head and thorax dark brown; abdomen above black, dark brown at the base, each segment 
banded with very pale brown hairs, beneath pale brown; antenne very minute, of a dark brown colour; 
legs dark brown, the hind tibie with a large tuft of bright orange-coloured hair. Expanse 4 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


One specimen. It is just possible that P. phalerus may be identical with the 
insect from the same locality described by Mr. Edwards as P. triangularis, but as it 
does not fit his description at all well I have ventured to describe it. 


4, Phassus championi, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 11.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, thickly covered with darker streaks and much mottled with paler colour, and with 
several dark brown spots along the costal margin and on the inner margin near the base; secondaries 
pale blackish-brown, the apex pale and spotted with darker brown, the points of the veins on the outer 
margin pale fawn-colour ; the underside of both wings uniform brownish fawn-colour, the apices paler 
and spotted with darker brown, all the veins dark brown: head and thorax pale brownish fawn-colour ; 
abdomen above black, pale brownish fawn-colour at the base, beneath and the sides also brownish, and 
covered with silky hairs; (antenne wanting); legs dark brown. Expanse 6 inches. 


Hab. GuatTemaa, Purula 4000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only was obtained of this fine species; it is quite unlike any other 
known to me, but may be allied to the South-American P. giganteus, Herr.-Schiff. 
P. championi is by far the largest species of the genus as yet found in our country. 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1887. 299 


234 | HETEROCERA. 


5. Phassus costaricensis, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 4.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform reddish fawn-colour; the primaries thickly marked with darker lines, and 
with a narrow dark reddish-brown line crossing beyond the end of the cell from the costal margin near the 
apex to the inner margin (which it does not quite reach), and an indistinct blackish spot at the end of the 
cell; the underside of both wings reddish fawn-colour: head and the front of the thorax dark reddish 
fawn-colour ; thorax and abdomen black, thickly covered with light brown hairs ; (antenne and legs 
wanting). Expanse 3} inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


The only specimen sent of this species is in very poor condition ; in colour it is very 
distinct from any described species. 


Fam. NOTODONTIDA. 


CECRITA. 
Cecrita, Walker, Cat. v. p. 992. 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species from Nova Scotia. I refer to it 
two species from our country ; both these were placed in other genera by Walker. 


1. Cecrita viridescens. 
Stauropus viridescens, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 416}. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion). 

The two Central-American specimens before me agree well with the type in the 
National collection ; the locality from which the latter was obtained is unknown! I 
do not agree with Messrs. Grote and Robinson in regarding this insect as synonymous 
with C. (Heterocampa) biundata. 


2. Cecrita biundata. 

Heterocampa biundata, Walk. Cat. v. p. 10251. 

Heterocampa obliqua, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 3682; Grote & Robinson, Tr. Am. Ent. 
Soc. 1. p. 178, t. 4. ff. 26 3, 27 23. 


Hab. Norta America, Trenton Falls 1, New York? to Pennsylvania 3.—GUATEMALA, 
San Geronimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet ( Champion). 

The Central-American specimens before me agree well with Walker’s type in the 
National collection. The female example from the State of Panama is more distinctly 
marked with dark brownish spots than any I have seen from North America, but 
specimens from Colombia in my own collection are exactly like those from New York. 


CEDEMASIA. 
Cidemasia, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 359 (1864). 
This genus was founded by Packard upon Phalena concinna, Abbot & Smith, and 


(ZEDEMASIA.—EDEMA, 235 


two other species described by him, all from the United States. Mr. Grote in his list 
of North-American Moths includes five species in Edemasia; from our country I have 
to record one. 


1. Gidemasia seriata, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 1, 3.) 


Male. Primaries pale brown, darker along the costal margin and streaked with brownish-black lines at the 
apex, with four black spots close to the anal angle, and the inner margin as far as the cell thickly speckled 
with black dots; secondaries uniform pale silky brown, slightly paler at the base and along the costal 
margin, the fringe yellowish-white; the underside of the primaries dark brown, with the veins pale 
greyish from the outer margin to about the middle, that of the secondaries pale greyish-brown, consi- 
derably paler at the base: head and the front of the thorax pale brown, the thorax itself darker brown; 
abdomen and legs pale brown; antenne long and slender, of a pale brown colour. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Stau- 
dinger). 

The female specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is rather darker in 
colour along the inner margin of the primaries and not quite so distinctly marked with 
dark spots near the apex as our Mexican example; the secondaries are also darker 
brown. 

EDEMA. 
Edema, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1028. 

Five species were placed in this genus by Walker, all from North or Central 

America. 


1. Edema producta. 
Edema producta, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1031°. . 
Hab. Norta America, St. John’s Bluff in E. Florida 1.—Honpvras (Dyson 1).— 


ANTILLES, Jamaica }, 


2. Edema fuscescens. 
Edema fuscescens, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1031. 
Hab. Honpuras (Miller'). 


8. Edema mandela, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 3.) 


Primaries dark brown, thickly speckled with minute black dots, and with a small spot at the end of the cell, 
a light brown-coloured patch beyond the cell, and a whitish streak at the apex (but considerably smaller 
than in any other described species of Edema); secondaries dark brown, palest at the base, the fringe 
whitish ; the underside of both wings dark brown, shading to very pale fawn-colour at the base: head 
fawn-coloured ; thorax fawn-coloured in front, dark greyish-brown behind, beneath and the sides pale 
greyish-brown ; tegule dark greyish-brown; abdomen above dark greyish-brown, beneath and the sides 
pale greyish-brown; legs dark brown; antenne and palpi dark reddish-brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer). 

One specimen. . mandela is closely allied to several of the North-American 
species ; it differs, however, in having the head and the front of the thorax bright fawn- 
colour, and also in the small size of the whitish mark at the apex of the primaries. 


2 9g 2 


236 HETEROCERA. 


This species appears to come nearest to E. packardi, Morrison, a bad specimen of which 
is contained in the Grote collection now in the National Museum. 


LEPTOSPHETTA. 
Leptosphetta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 67. 


Leptosphetta is stated by its author to be allied to the eastern genus Sphetta and to 
have the antenne minutely pectinated as in Calledema. A single species only, L. rab- 
dina, from the Amazons, was included in the genus by its describer; this insect appears 
to be widely distributed and to extend northwards to Costa Rica. 


1. Leptosphetta rabdina, 
Leptosphetia rabdina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 67 '. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers)—Cotomsia, Bogota; Ecuapor ; 
Amazons, Rio Jutahi (Trail 1). 


A single example of this insect was captured in Costa Rica by Mr. Rogers. I have 
a good series of specimens of both sexes obtained by the late Mr. Buckley in Ecuador ; 
these are considerably brighter in colour than the individual from Costa Rica. 


LOCHMAUS. 


Lochmeus, K. Doubleday, in Newman’s Entomologist, 1841, p. 57. 
Heterocampa, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1022 (partim). 


This New-World genus is represented in our country by two species, one of which is 
also common in North America. 


1. Lochmzus manteo. 
Lochmeus manteo, E. Doubleday, in Newman’s Entom. 1841, p. 581. 
Heterocampa manteo, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1024’. 
Hab. Nort America! ?.—Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); GuaTEMALA, 
San Gerénimo (Champion). 


2. Lochmeeus albosigma, sp. n. 


Primaries very dark brown, speckled with black, with a small white spot at the apex and a larger whitish 
spot about the middle of the inner margin ; secondaries uniform dark brown, slightly paler near the base, 
the fringe pale brown; the underside of both wings uniform pale brown: head and the front of the thorax 
pale yellowish fawn-colour, the back of the thorax and the abdomen dark brown; antenna, palpi, and 
legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuatTEMata, Volcan de Atitlan 2600 to 8500 feet (Champion). 


HETEROCAMPA. 


Heterocampa, E. Doubleday, in Newman’s Entomologist, 1841, p. 55; Walker, Cat. v. p. 1022; 
Grote & Robinson, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 178. 


This genus is of considerable extent, about nineteen species being found in North 


HETEROCAMPA. 237 


America alone; others have also been described from various parts of the Old and New 
Worlds; in our country Heterocampa is represented by nine species. 


1. Heterocampa edwardsi. 
Heterocampa muscosa, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p.79* (nec Moschler). 


Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus'). 


“Allied to H. guttivitta, but of a much greener tint, and also distinguished by the 
strongly marked white patches.” The specific name having been previously used by 
Moschler for another species of the same genus, a new name is required. 


2. Heterocampa dardania, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 4, 2.) 


Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, the nerves darker brown, with a narrow zigzag line crossing close to the 
base from the costal margin to the inner margin, a dark line at the end of the cell extending to the costal 
margin, and a submarginal row of elongate blackish spots extending from the apex to the inner margin 
near the anal angle, the fringe alternately dark brown and pale greyish; secondaries white, broadly 
bordered along the costal margin with greyish-brown, and with a narrow marginal brown line from the 
apex to the anal angle; the underside of both wings whitish, dusky along the costal margins of the 
primaries: head and thorax above greyish-brown, beneath brown; abdomen above greyish-brown, beneath 
greyish-white, the anus bright fawn-colour; legs and antenne brown, the palpi almost black. The female 
similar to the male, but larger, and with the markings near the base of the primaries much more distinct. 
Expanse, d, 1,4 inch; 92, 1;% inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


Two examples, one of each sex. 


3. Heterocampa sylla, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 5, ¢.) 


Primaries reddish-brown, shaded with darker brown, and thickly irrorated with minute black dots, with a 
large greyish spot on the inner margin close to the anal angle and a narrow submarginal-waved yellowish 
line extending from the apex to the hind margin; secondaries pale blackish-brown, palest at the base, a 
white spot on the costal margin close to the apex; the underside of both wings whitish, shaded with 
brown: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish-brown; antennz, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 
14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 


One specimen. A very pretty and distinct species. 


4, Heterocampa manethusa, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 6, 2.) 


Primaries from the base to about the middle reddish-brown and speckled with greenish-grey scales, from the 
middle to the apex and almost to the outer margin white, the outer margin broadly greenish from the 
anal angle almost to the apex (but not reaching it) and with four very minute white dots on the extreme 
edge; secondaries greyish-white, irrorated with dusky scales near the apex; the underside of both wings 
white, the primaries broadly shaded with brown along the costal margin: head and thorax greenish- 
yellow, speckled with darker scales; abdomen above dark brown, with three small tufts of yellowish 
scales down the middle, beneath and the anus greyish; antenne and palpi brown; legs pale yellowish- 
brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


One specimen. ‘This fine species has no near known ally. 


238 HETEROCERA. 


5. Heterocampa tessella. 
Lochmeus tessella, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 370 (¢)*; Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 19307. 
Heterocampa tessella, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 182, t. 4. f. 29, 9%. 
Hab. Norta America, New York to Pennsylvania?, Middle States 1} 2—Mexuico, 
Jalapa (Hoge). | 
One specimen. This is identical with an example from the United States in 
Mr. Grote’s collection, now in the British Museum. 


6. Heterocampa lupia, sp. n. 


Female. Primaries pale greyish fawn-colour at the base and apex, with a whitish zigzag line bordered with black 
on the inner side and some dusky markings crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin, and several 
indistinct blackish markings along the outer margin; secondaries greyish-white, slightly darker from the 
apex to the anal angle; the underside of both wings white, the primaries thickly irrorated with brown 
scales: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-white; antenne and legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch, 


Hab. MExico, Presidio (Forrer). 
One example. This species is allied to ZH. tessella. 


7. Heterocampa alector, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 7.) 

Primaries brownish-grey, streaked and mottled with black, with a black streak on the inner margin near the 
base, a black W-shaped mark about the middle, a larger pale brown mark close to the apex, and several 
black spots along the outer margin ; secondaries pale yellowish-brown, darkest across the middle, and with 
several greyish spots at the anal angle; the underside of both wings very pale fawn-colour, the primaries 
clouded with dark brown about the middle: head and thorax greyish-brown; abdomen pale fawn-colour ; 
palpi and legs dark brown ; (antennz wanting), Expanse 2 inches, 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Horrer). 

One specimen. ‘This insect is allied to H. pulverea, but is considerably smaller and 
with the wings not nearly so distinctly marked. ‘The example before me is not in good 
condition, therefore it is very difficult to describe the exact markings. 


8. Heterocampa pulverea. 
Heterocampa pulverea, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 185, t. 4. f. 82, 97. 
Hab. Norts America, Pennsylvania 1.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


Our single specimen is a female; it very closely resembles a male in Mr. Grote’s 
collection in the National Museum. 


9. Heterocampa punctata, sp. n. 

Male. Primaries uniform pale brown, thickly spotted with minute dots of a darker colour, and with a marginal 
row of small black dots; secondaries uniform pale brown, palest at the base; the underside of both wings 
uniform pale brown: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale brown; antenne and palpi darker brown. 
Expanse 1,5, inch. 

Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 


Two males of this species were obtained by Mr. Champion in Guatemala; the 


HETEROCAMPA.—SYMMERISTA. 239 


specimen from the Volcan de Chiriqui is much paler in colour, but in all other 
respects identical with the type. 


SYMMERISTA. 
Symmerista, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 248 (1816) ; Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. 
ii, p.. 179 (1878). | 
In our country this genus is represented by four species, all of which appear to be 
very rare. Symmerista is not retained by Walker; the two described species I refer to 


it were placed by him in the Noctuide, but they seem to me to agree far better with 
the Notodontide. 


1. Symmerista politia. 
Phalena Noctua politia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 41, t. 309. f. F’. 
Symmerista politia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 248. 
Polia (?) politia, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 5207. 
Hab. Guatemata, Purula (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.). 
—GuUvIANA, Surinam ! 2, 


The Guatemalan example before me agrees well with Cramer’s figure of this species ; 
the specimen from the State of Panama is considerably smaller and paler in colour, 
but in other respects identical. 


2. Symmerista pinna, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 9.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, broadly darker brown along the costal margin, a wide streak from the end of 
the cell to the outer margin, with three indistinct waved lines crossing from the costal margin to the inner 
margin, and a marginal row of lunular-shaped marks, yellowish-brown ; secondaries uniform blackish- 
brown, with the fringe whitish,; underside of the primaries dark brown, pale cream-colour at the apex 
and along the outer margin to the anal angle, and then along the inner margin up to the base, a 
marginal row of black dots from the apex to the anal angle: head and thorax pale greyish fawn-colour ; 
abdomen dusky above, with a central black line from the base to the anus; the underside of the thorax 
and abdomen pale brownish fawn-colour; legs and palpi brown; (antenne wanting). Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


One specimen only. 


3. Symmerista distinguenda. 
Acronycta distinguenda, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 63’. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger).—ANTILLES, Santo 
Domingo }. 
The specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is identical with Walker’s type. It is 
the only one I have seen from our country. 


240 HETEROCERA. 


4, Symmerista lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 11.) 

Primaries greyish-white, crossed by narrow waved black lines, with a black streak at the end of the cell, and 
external to this two pale brown waved lines crossing from the costal margin to the inner margin, a wide 
black line beyond bordered on the outer edge with dark brown markings, and a submarginal row of lunular 
black markings extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries dusky white, broadly bordered 
with brownish-black from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe white; the underside of the primaries 
glossy brownish-black, with the inner margin and the fringe white, that of the secondaries silky white, 
with a dark-coloured border as on the upperside: head dark brown, white in front; thorax above dark 
brown, beneath white; tegule greyish-white; abdomen above dusky, beneath white, the anus pale grey ; 
legs white; antenne brown; palpi pale grey. Expanse 2,!, inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 


This fine insect is allied to 8. distinguenda, from which it is at once distinguished by 
the black lines crossing the primaries; an allied undescribed species is found in South- 


east Brazil. 
ROSEMA. 


Rosema, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1168; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 68. 

Walker included five species, all from Tropical South America, in this genus; three 
of these extend northwards into our region, whence I also have to record one other. 
The author of the genus erroneously referred it to the Drepanulide. 


1. Rosema dorsalis. 
Rosema dorsalis, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1169". 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Abbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Ecvapor ; Braz }. 


The only authority I have for including this southern species in our fauna is a female 
specimen in the collection of Dr. Staudinger; this is identical with a long series of 
examples before me from Ecuador. 


2. Rosema deolis. 
Phalena Geometra deolis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 59, t. 36. f. F, & iv. p. 136, t. 360. f. B. 
Rosema deolis, Walk. Cat. v. p. 1170’, and xxxii. p. 511°. 

Hab. Guatemaia, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, San Gerénimo 
(Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Champion). 
—KEcvapor; Guiana, Cayenne’, Surinam 13; Amazons, Ega?; Souru-zast Brazit, Rio 
Janeiro >, — ANTILLES 3. 


This widely distributed species varies both in colour and in the size of the brown 
spot at the end of the cell. 


3. Rosema demorsa. 
Rosema demorsa, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 96. f. 11, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 8 ( 2)’. 
? Phalena Bombyx epigena, Sepp, Surin. Vlind. p. 227, t, 102 (1848); Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 


1878, p. 68°. 


ROSEMA.—CONTREBIA. 241 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 8000 feet (Champion).—Cotomsia, Bogota 2 3 
Amazons, Rio Sapo 2. 


A male of this species was sent from the Volcan de Chiriqui; it only differs from 


Felder’s figure in being slightly darker in colour, and in having the antenne rather 
deeply pectinated. 


4. Rosema ethra, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 12, 3.) 


Primaries pale pea-green, the costal margin from the base to the apex edged with brownish-yellow, a small 
black spot at the end of the cell and a pale brownish-yellow spot about the middle of the inner margin, 
the latter between the spot and the base of a much darker green colour; secondaries silky-white, with the 
fringe pale yellowish-brown ; the underside of the primaries greenish-white, with the costal margin yellow, 
that of the secondaries as above: head and tegule pale pea-green; thorax above pale fawn-colour, beneath 


pinkish-red ; abdomen above and beneath yellowish-white, the base above pale fawn-colour ; antenne and 
legs brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cahabon 1000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen. ft. ethra differs from its allies in having white hind wings; it is 
most nearly allied to an undescribed species from Ecuador in my own collection. 


CERURA. 


Cerura, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. 2, p. 155 (1802); Stephens, Ilustr. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 15 
(1829); Walker, Cat. v. p. 982, & xxxii. p. 407. 


This well-known genus is widely distributed in the Old and New Worlds; one species 
inhabits our region. 


1. Cerura cinerea ? 
Cerura cinerea, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 407°; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 207. 
Hab. North America!?,— Mexico, Jalapa (Hodge); GuatemaLa, San Gerdénimo 
(Champion). 


The specimens I somewhat doubtfully refer to this species are very much stained ;. so 
far as I am able to see they appear to be almost identical in the markings of the 
primaries with Walker’s type. 


CONTREBIA. 
Contrebia, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 184. 


Walker placed this genus in the Noctuide; but in my opinion, and in Mr. Butler’s 


also, it should be included in the Notodontide. Contrebia contains a single species 
from Honduras. 


BIOL, CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., June 1887. | 2 hh 


242 HETEROCERA. 


1. Contrebia extrema. 
Contrebia extrema, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 184’. 


Hab. Honpvras (Dyson 1). 


This species is only known to me by the type in the National collection. 


ETOBESA. 
Etobesa, Walker, Cat. xxxii. p. 471. 
Walker included in this genus a single species, FE. ligneata, from the Amazons; 
Edema sylinoides, Walk., from Colombia, would appear also to belong to it. The 
latter extends northwards into our region. 


1. Ktobesa xylinoides. 
Edema «xylinoides, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1931". 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— 
Cotomsia, Santa Marta !. 


Two examples: the one from Mexico agrees fairly with Walker’s type ; the other from 
the State of Panama is altogether darker in colour, but has the markings almost similar, 
the greatest difference being in the colour of the abdomen—in the former quite pale 
fawn-colour, in the latter dark brown. Our material is not sufficient for me to venture 
to describe the Panama insect, but it is quite likely that upon receipt of more specimens 


it may prove to be distinct. 


PHYA. 


Janassa, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1101 (nomen przoc.). 

Walker founded this genus upon a single species, J. lignicolor, from an unknown 
locality; this insect is now known to come from North America, and quite lately 
Mr. H. Edwards has described a second species from our country. The name Janassa 
being preoccupied in Pisces, it is necessary to change it. 


1. Phya laciniosa. 
Janassa laciniosa, H. Edwards, Entom. Amer. i. p. 129°. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus1), Mazatlan (H. Edwards’). 
Unknown to me. 
TIFAMA. 
Tifama, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1077. 
Two species were placed in this genus by Walker, Z. simois (Cram.), and, 
doubtfully, 7. ziliante (Cram.), both from Surinam; Tifama also includes several 


TIFAMA,—HAPIGIA. 243 


other Tropical-American species, two of which are now known to inhabit our 
region. | 


1. Tifama chira. 
Phalena Noctua chira, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 39, t. 308. £. E* (nec Drury). 
Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux).—Guiana, Surinam 1, 


The specimen before me from British Honduras agrees well with Cramer’s figure, but 
not with that of Drury; the latter, I believe, represents a species of Noctuide. 


2. Tifama (?) truncata. 
Notodonta truncata, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. t. 87. f. 4947, 
Notodonta (n. g.?) truncata, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 410. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer)—Soutn AMERICA 12, 


One example. This insect in neuration is extremely close to 7. chira; it, however, 
has much longer primaries, and may prove to belong to a distinct genus. 


HAPIGIA. 
Hapigia, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 875 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 960. 
Corymbia, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 765 (pars). 
Lobogona, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 98. f. 4, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 6 (1874). 
_ Hapigia is probably confined to Tropical America; the Asiatic species included by 
Walker in Corymbia, being most probably generically distinct. Four species inhabit 
our region. ‘he genus is placed in the Noctuide by Guénée and Walker. 


1. Hapigia nodicornis. 
Hapigia nodicornis, Guén. Sp. Gén. Lep. vi. p. 376, t. 12. £. 77. 
Hapygia nodicornis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 960°. 
_ Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde).—Gutana, Cayenne ! 2, 


Herr Ribbe obtained several specimens of this species in the State of Panama; Mr. 
Champion did not meet with it. Chiriqui specimens agree perfectly with Guénée’s figure. 


2. Hapigia smerinthoides. 
Corymbia smerinthoides, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 765 (¢ )*. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Payama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde).—Gutana, 
Demerara!; Amazons, Villa Nova}. 


Of this species I have four female specimens from our country before me, all agreeing 
well with Walker's types. The only male example known to me, from Chiriqui, is in 
the collection of Dr. Staudinger ; it is rather smaller, and has the costal margin slightly 
paler than in the female. 

2hh 2 


244 HETEROCERA. 


3. Hapigia (?) ——? 
Hab. Panama, Colon (Boucard, in mus. D.). 


A female specimen, too worn to describe. 


4, Hapigia ribbei, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 8.) 

Primaries uniform rich reddish-brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin 
by a narrow dark brown line with minute yellowish dots along its inner edge, a submarginal row of very 
minute black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle, a large metallic golden spot at the end of 
the cell and a small one close to the apex on the costal margin ; secondaries uniform pale drab-cclour ; 
the underside of both wings pale brown, shaded with darker brown at the base and also along the costal 
margin of the primaries: head and thorax reddish-brown, the latter much paler beneath ; abdomen above 
pale greyish-brown, beneath pale reddish-brown, the anus yellow; palpi and legs reddish-brown ; antenne 
dark brown. Expanse 3,5, inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (2, Ribbe; 3, Arcé, in mus. D.). 

The sexes of this fine species closely resemble wne another. HH. ribbei is allied to 
fH. simplex (Walk.), from Cayenne, from which it is at once distinguished by the 
metallic spots on the primaries. 


CANODIA. 


Canodia, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 377 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 968, & xxxv. 
p. 1967. 

Guénée placed this genus in the Noctuide at the head of his family “ Hemiceride ” ; 
he included in it a single species, C. carmelitoides, from Brazil, Walker subsequently 
(op. cit. xxxv. p. 1967) adding to it C. difformis, Herr.-Schaff., from Surinam; the 
latter is now known to extend northwards to Panama. Canodia is no doubt allied to 
Hapigia, and I accordingly place it in the Notodontide. 


1. Canodia difformis. 
Canodia difformis, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. t. 27.1321; Walk. Cat. xxxv. p.1967?, 
flab. Panama (Libbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam ! 2, 
The specimen of this species from Panama in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees with 
Herrich-Schaffer’s figure ; it is the only one I have seen. 


CHLIARA. 
Chliara, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 938. 
Autographa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 251 (partim). 

Walker founded this genus upon two insects from Tropical South America: C. impe- 
rialis, from Brazil, and C. cresus, Cramer, from Berbice; J see no reason for not regarding 
these as one and the same species. C. cresus is now known to extend northwards to 
Chiriqui. 


CHLIARA.—LIRIMIRIS. 245 


1. Chliara cresus. 

Phalena cresus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 72, t. 142. f. C*. 
Autographa cresa, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. ff. 1-4; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 251. 
Chliara imperialis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 939 ?. 
Chliara cresus, Walk. 1. c. p. 939%. 
Chliara moneta, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 96. f. 7, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 3 *. 

Hab, Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Gutana, Berbice! *, Demerara ; Amazons‘; 
BRAZIL 2. 


I fail to find any characters to separate these as distinct species; the specimens before 
me vary slightly, but in no case sufficiently to enable me to regard them as anything 
but very slight varieties of one and the same species. The example from the Vo!can 
de Chiriqui is most like Felder’s figure, being at the same time identical with others 
from Demerara; others again more nearly resemble Cramet’s figure: all the specimens 
vary very much in the colour of the secondaries. 


DATANA. 
Datana, Walker, Cat. v. p. 1060; Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 8 (1866). 


Walker included in this genus four species from North America; three others have 
since been described by Grote and Robinson, one of which is now known to extend 
southwards to Mexico. 


1. Datana integerrima. 
Datana integerrima, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 12, t. 2. f. 4, 2%. 
Hab. Norta America, United States \—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


The two specimens of this species from Mexico agree with others from the United 
States in Mr. Grote’s collection. 


LIRIMIRIS. 
Lirimiris, Walker, Cat. xxxu. p. 468. 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species, L. lignitecta, from an unknown 
locality, and a specimen under this name is contained in the National collection. An 
insect from the State of Panama appears to be congeneric with this, and I include it in 
Lirimiris accordingly. 


1. Lirimiris albo-lineata, sp. n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 10, 3.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, with two V-shaped reddish-brown marks on the costal margin (the first near 
the base, the second beyond the middle) and two small spots of the same colour nearer the apex, two 
waved white lines (the one nearest the base very indistinct) crossing from the V-shaped marks to the 
inner margin, several dark brown dots close to the anal angle, and a white streak at the end of the cell; 
secondaries pale silky-brown, darkest at the apex and round the outer margin; the underside of the pri- 
maries dark brown, slightly greyish at the base, and with the fringe brown and white, that of the secondaries 


246 HETEROCERA. 


white, with long yellowish hairs from the base to about the middle, the costal margin brownish: head and 
thorax dark brown ; abdomen above dark brown, beneath greyish-brown; tegulw large, almost white ; 
palpi above dark brown, beneath whitish; antennee and legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion). . 


One specimen. This species is allied to, though quite distinct from, L. lignitecta, 


Walker. 


CRINODES. 


Crinodes, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p.11; Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
5th ser. i. p. 178. 

Crino, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 216; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1846; Dietrich, Stett. ent. Zeit. 
1862, p. 477 ; Ritsema, Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. pp. 94, 95, and 164-166. (Nomen prezoc.) 

Tarsolepis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. x. p. 125, and xi. pp. 78 & 79 (1872) ; Ent. 
Monthly Mag. ix. pp. 111 & 112 (apud Ritsema). 


This genus is represented in our country by three species, one of which is here 
described. Crinodes inhabits the tropical regions of both the Old and the New World. 
The genus was erroneously placed in the Noctuide by Walker. 


1. Crinodes besckei. 
Crino besckei, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 194. ff. 1-4; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 18467. 
Crinodes besckei, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 11. 
Hab. Mexico}, Cordova (Hége); Guatemata, Duefias (Champion); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui (Champion, Arcé).—Amazons, Para!; Braziu}. 


This fine species is found over a very extended range of country, but does not appear 
to be common anywhere; it is most nearly allied to C. dellatrix (Cram.), from Guiana 
and Brazil. 


2. Crinodes ritseme. 
Crinodes ritseme, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. ii. p. 1787. 
Hab. Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker), Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion).— 
Upper Amazons, Rio Madeira 1. 


This is a smaller and darker-coloured insect than C. besckei; I have both sexes 
before me. 


8. Crinodes guatemalena, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 2,3.) 

Male. Primaries dark silky-brown, thickly irrorated with darker brown streaks, the outer margin paler brown 
and narrowly edged with black, an indistinct waved black line crossing beyond the middle from the cesta] 
margin to the inner margin and then extending upwards to near the base, a blackish spot at the end of 
the cell; secondaries very pale fawn-colour, broadly bordered with dark brown (still more broadly so at 
the apex), and with a narrow submarginal fawn-coloured band (edged on the outer margin with dark 
brown) from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside of both wings pale 
silky fawn-colour, slightly darker on the outer half of the primaries: head dark brown; thorax above and 
beneath dark brown, the base above fawn-coloured; abdomen above fawn-coloured, becoming darker near 
the anus, the anal tuft of long scales dark reddish-brown, beneath brown; antenne and palpi brown ; 


CRINODES.—RHUDA. 247 
legs pale greyish-brown. Female similar to the male, but lighter in colour. Expanse, ¢, 2? inches; 
Q , 3¢ inches. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). 


This fine insect is very distinct from all the other described species of the genus, the 
primaries being very differently coloured. 


OPHITIS. 
Ophitis, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 97. f. 10, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 7 (1874). 


Felder founded this genus upon a single species, O. magnaria, from Guiana; I have 
now to add a second from the State of Panama. Ophitis appears to be closely allied to 
Dudusa, Walker, a genus containing a single species, from North China. 


1. Ophitis cyllota, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 14.) 


Primaries of a uniform fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales (especially near the outer 
margin), and with two indistinct whitish lines at the end of the cell; secondaries reddish fawn-colour, 
thickly irrorated with dark brown and whitish scales near the anal angle and along part of the inner 
margin, a small black streak at the anal angle; the underside of both wings pale fawn-colour, thickly 
speckled with dark brown scales: head and thorax brownish fawn-colour; abdomen above pale greyish, 
the base brownish fawn-colour, each segment broadly banded with black, the anus yellowish fawn-colour, 
beneath dark brown; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 4 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


One specimen. This insect is allied to O. magnaria, Felder, from which it is at once 
distinguished by the uniform colour of the primaries, and the entire absence of the 
black margin from the secondaries, and also by the black bands on the abdomen; it 
moreover differs in many of the minor markings on the primaries, 


RHUDA. 
Rhuda, Walker, Cat. xi. p. 621. 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species, R. basifera, from Rio Janeiro, and 
placed it in the Noctuide; it appears to me to belong to the Notodontide, and I 
accordingly place it in that family. 


1. Rhuda splendens, sp. n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 13, 2.) 


Primaries greenish-brown, with a silvery-white crescent-shaped mark extending from near the base to the 
apex, where it is widened into a broad patch, and an uneven waved line from near the anal angle to the 
end of the cell; secondaries reddish-brown, palest from the base to about the middle, and with a darker 
mark at the anal angle, the fringe pale brownish-yellow ; the underside of the primaries pale greenish- 
brown, with the outer margin pale cream-colour, that of the secondaries pale cream-colour, shaded with 
brown along the costal margin: head and tegule greenish-brown ; thorax greenish-brown, brown in front; 
palpi and legs brown; abdomen above and beneath pale reddish-brown; antenne dark brownish-black. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


One example. This beautiful species is very distinct; the specimen was probably 


248 HETEROCERA. 


very much greener in colour when captured, but no doubt, like many other similarly 


coloured species of Heterocera, the colour very quickly fades or changes to a yellowish- 
brown. 


NYSTALEA. 


Nystalea, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 122 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 633. 
Trigonophora, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 217 (partim). 


Guénée included three species in this genus—W. conchyfera, from Saint Thomas, 
NV. superciliosa, from Cayenne, and WN. ebalea (Cramer), from Surinam; two of these 
extend into our country, whence I have also to record five other known species ; 
numerous others have been described by Guénée, Walker, and Felder. The genus is 
apparently confined to Tropical America and the Antilles. 


1. Nystalea ebalea. 
Phalena Noctua ebalea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 41, t. 810. £. C}. 
Nystalea ebalea, Guén. Sp. Gén. Lep. vi. p. 123; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 6847. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger ).—Gutana, Surinam ! 2, 


NV. conchyfera, Guénée, may be referable to this species, but Guénée’s and Cramer’s 
figures are very different. The Central-American specimens before me undoubtedly 


belong to WV. ebalea, Cramer; though they are not quite so dark in colour the markings 
are similar. 


2. Nystalea superciliosa. 
Nystalea superciliosa, Guén. Sp. Gén. Lep. vi. p. 123"; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 635”. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet 
(Champion).—Guiana, Cayenne!2; Santo Domingo 2. 


This is the largest and most darkly-coloured species of the genus. 


8. Nystalea guttiplena. 
Nystalea guttiplena, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 635. 
Hab. Panama (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Stau- 
dinger).—CoLomBIA, Bogota (mus. D.). 


This insect was described from an unknown lccality. 


4, Nystalea inchoans. 
Nystalea inchoans, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 686%. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribée, in mus. Staudinger).— VEnEzvELa 1, 


A specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees well with Walker’s 
type of this species. 


NYSTALEA.—HEMICERAS. 249 


5. Nystalea attenuata. 
Nystalea attenuata, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1743). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger).— VENEZUELA 1. 
This species is very close to N. inchoans. Dr. Staudinger’s specimen is the only one 
I have seen from our country. | 


6. Nystalea seminivea. 
Heterocampa seminivea, Walk. Characters of undescribed Lep. Heter. p. 17 (1869)’. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Sovuth AMERICA, 
Tima’. 
The type of this insect is now in the British Museum. A specimen from Chiriqui 
in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees perfectly with it. 


7. Nystalea ocellata. 

Nystalea ocellata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 7601. 

Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé 1). 

Unknown to me. 

ECREGMA. 

Ecregma, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 966; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 34. 

This genus was founded by Walker upon a single species from Venezuela, and a 
second, from the Amazons, has been subsequently added by Butler; both these are 
now known from our country. Hcregma is very closely allied to the genus Hemiceras. 


1. Kcregma transducta. 
Ecregma tranducta (err. typog.), Walk. Cat. xii. p. 967". 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuatemMata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). — 


VENEZUELA }. 
Our specimens agree well with the Venezuelan type in the British Museum. 


2. Ecregma modesta. 
Ecregma modesta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 34’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuateMmaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion) ; 


Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Amazons }. 
This species is very closely allied to the preceding. 


HEMICERAS. 
Hemiceras, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 379 (1852); Walker, Cat. xii. p. 969, & xxxiii. 
p. 851; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 35. 
Salamboria, Walker, Cat. xxxili. p. 855. | - ; 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., August 1887. 2 


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Thirteen species were placed by Guénée in this genus, Walker and Butler subse- 
quently adding seven others; with the exception of one from North America, the 
known localities for all of these is Tropical America. In our country Hemiceras is 
well represented by eight species, but Tropical South America seems to be its head- 
quarters. Many of the species are very much alike; they, however, appear to be very 
constant in their characters, as in the extensive series of specimens before me none show 
any variation in colour or markings. 


1. Hemiceras pallidula. 
Hemiceras pallidula, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 381, t. 13. f. 1°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9717. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus); Panama, Bugaba 
1000 feet (Champion).—Brazit !2, Rio Janeiro (mus. D.) 


This insect has a very extended range; the specimens before me from Rio Janeiro 
agree well with those from Central America. 


_ 2 Hemiceras trinubila. 
Hemiceras trinubila, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 882'; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 971%. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuaTEMALA, Coatepeque 1300 feet, Las Mercedes 
3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
Brazit ! 2, 


We have received a good series of specimens from Guatemala, a few only from the 
State of Panama. 


8. Hemiceras pulverula. 
Hemiceras pulverula, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 382°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9727; Butl. 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 35°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Coatepeque 1300 feet, Senahu (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1000 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Braziu ! 2; 
AMAZONS 8, 


This species appears to be not uncommon in our country, but I have not seen any 
specimens from South America. 


4. Hemiceras deornata. 
Salamboria deornata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 8551. 
Hab. Mzxico, Jalapa (Schaus).—Cotomsia, Bogota !. 


This insect is allied to H. pulverula. The type of Salamboria deornata, Walk., is 
now in my own collection, and shows that Salamboria is undoubtedly congeneric with 
Hemiceras. The specimen obtained by Mr. Schaus is a female, that described by 
Walker a male. 


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5. Hemiceras sigula. 
Hemiceras sigula, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 884°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 973. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Braziu! 2. 


One specimen of this species was sent from Chiriqui. 


6. Hemiceras violascens. 
Hemiceras violascens, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 3847; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 973°. 
Hab. Costa .Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volean de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Braziu! 2. 
This is the largest of the Central-American species; we have only received one 
example from Costa Rica and one from the State of Panama. 


7. Hemiceras mora, sp. n. 


Male. Primaries pinkish fawn-colour, crossed by two narrow indistinct brown lines (the first close to the base, 
the second beyond the middle and nearest the outer margin), and with an indistinct blackish dot at the 
end of the cell; secondaries uniform brownish fawn-colour, the fringe much paler; the underside of the 
primaries pale fawn-colour, that of the secondaries silky-white: head white, the thorax reddish fawn-colour, 
the abdomen dusky brown; antenne dark brown; legs pale brown. Female similar to the male, but 
duller in colour. Expanse, 14 inch; 9,13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa(Schaus); Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion). 


Both sexes of this species were sent. H. mora is allied to H. violascens, but consi- 
derably paler in colour, and with the bands more distinct and differently placed; at the 
same time it is just possible that the insect may be one of those described by Guénée, 
several of which I have not seen, and cannot make out with any certainty from his 
descriptions. 


8. Hemiceras alba. 
Hemiceras alba, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 8517. 


Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus); Honpuras (Dyson !).—CoLomsia, Bogota 
(mus. D.). 
COMIDAVA. 
Comidava, Walker, Cat. xxvi. p. 1695. 


Two species from Tropical South America were placed in this genus by Walker; one 
of these also inhabits our country. Comidava is placed by its describer in the Geome- 
tride ; it is, however, undoubtedly very closely allied to the genus Hemiceras, Guénée, 
which I believe is rightly placed in the Notodontide. 


1. Comidava obliquilinea. 
Comidava obliquilinea, Walk. Cat. xxvi. p. 16957. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuatemaLa, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Cerro Zunil 
4000 feet (Champion)—VENEZUELA!; Braziu}. 
2% 2 


252 HETEROCERA. 


The two specimens obtained by Mr. Champion in Guatemala agree well with Walker’s 
type in the National collection. 


2. Comidava albulana, sp. n. 

Male. Primaries above greyish-white, sparingly irrorated with small dark scales (more distinctly so along the 
inner margin), with a narrow submarginal brown line edged with yellow on the outer side crossing from 
the apex to near the middle of the inner margin, and a small dark-coloured streak at the end of the cell ; 
secondaries pure silky-white, slightly tinted with very pale fawn-colour near the anal angle; the underside 
of both wings silky-white, the costal margin of the primaries pale yellowish-white: head, thorax, abdomen, 
and legs white ; antenne fawn-coloured. male similar to the male, but slightly larger, and the primaries 
with a second narrow zigzag line crossing from the inner margin near the base but not reaching the costal 
margin. Antenne pectinated in the male, simple in the female. Expanse 1} inch. . 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus). 


Two examples, one of each sex. 


GADIANA. 
Gadiana, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 854. 


‘Walker founded this genus upon a single species from Colombia; this is now known 
from Chiriqui. Gadiana appears to me to be very closely allied to the genus 
Hemiceras. 


1. Gadiana rufescens. 
Gadiana rufescens, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 854". 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Libbe, in 


mus. Staudinger).—CoLoMBIA, Bogota !. 


A female example from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees perfectly with 
Walker’s types; the latter are now contained in my own collection. 


ORASIA. 
Oresia, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 362 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 942. 
Guénée and Walker include in this genus several species from India, China, Natal, 


and the Antilles. Orwsia is exceedingly closely allied to the genus Calpe, Treitsch., 
if indeed distinct therefrom. Two species occur within the limits of our fauna. 


1. Oresia excitans. 
Oresia excitans, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 942°. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Hoge), Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemaua, San Isidro 1600 feet, 


Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker).— 
ANTILLES, Santo Domingo}. 

One of the specimens from the Volcan de Atitlan is considerably paler in colour than 
any of the others before me, but the markings are identical. 


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2. Oresia xqualis. 
Gonodonta equalis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 956". 
Hab. Paxama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Are in 


mus. D.).— Amazons, Santarem!; Sovru-East BrazIL. 


This dull-coloured species is found over a very extended range of country; it does 
not show the slightest variation from any locality. 


GADERA. 
Gadera, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 964. 
Two species were included in this genus by Walker—one from an unknown locality, 
the other from Brazil; both these inhabit Central America. Gadera is allied to 
Oresia. 


1. Gadera incitans. 
Gadera incitans, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 964. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guaremaua, Senahu and Sabo in Vera Paz (Cham- 


pion); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers). 


The type is without locality; Central-American specimens agree well with it. 


2. Gadera repellens, 
Gadera repellens, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 965". 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).—Braziu}. 


One specimen only of this beautiful species was sent from Chiriqui. 


GONODONTA. 


Gonodonta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 263 (1816); Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. 
p. 864 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 946. 

This genus is entirely confined to the New World, Tropical South America being its 
headquarters. In our country Gonodonta is represented by fifteen species, most of 
which extend over a wide range of country. The genus is allied to Oresia, and I think 
it best placed in the Notodontide. 


1. Gonodonta teretimacula. 
Gonodonta teretimacula, Guénée, Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 367'; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9477. 


Gonodonta velata, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 957. 
Gonodonta dentata, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 111. f. 4, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 4°. 


Hab. Mexico1*, Cordova (Riimelt); Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). — 
CotomBia!?; Guiana? ?; Amazons?; ANTILLES, Guadaloupe!?, Dominica (Angas, 


mus. D.). 


254 HETEROCERA. 


This widely-distributed species varies slightly in the size of the yellow spot on the 
secondaries, this spot being much larger in some examples than in others. - 


2. Gonodonta clotilda. 


Phalena Noctua clotilda, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 153, t. 34. f. 4°; Guén. Spécies 
général des Lép. vi. p. 869°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 949. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus).—Gutana, Surinam !23, Berbice !23; Amazons, Ega 3, 
Villa Nova 23, 


The only specimen of this southern species I have seen from our country is in the 
collection of Mr. Schaus ; it is allied to G. teretimacula. 


3. Gonodonta correcta. 
Gonodonta correcta, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9477. 
Hab. Mexico1, Jalapa (Schaus). 


The type and a specimen in Mr. Schaus’s collection are all I have seen of this species. 


4. Gonodonta soror. 
Phalena soror, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 150, t. 276. f. B’. 


Gonodonta soror, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 368°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 948°; Feld. Reise 
d. Nov. Lep. t. 111. f. 18, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 18+. 


Hab. GvateMata, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Arcé, in mus. D.).—Gutana, Surinam !3; Kast Perv; Amazons 3, Villa Nova; Brazi 4; 
ANTILLES, Guadaloupe 7, Santo Domingo °. 


This species is common throughout Tropical South America, but appears to be much 
rarer 1n our country. 


5. Gonodonta bidens. 
Gonodonta bidens, Geyer, in Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iv. p. 24, ff. 695, 696°; Guén. 
Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 369°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 949°. 
Hab. Muxico, Coatepec (Schaus); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet 
(Champion).— ANTILLES, Cuba ! 23, 


The specimen sent from the Volcan de Chiriqui agrees with Geyer’s figure, and is 
perfectly distinct from G. soror. 


6. Gonodonta nutrix. 
Phalena Noctua nutriz, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 46, t. 312. f. B?. 


Gonodonta nutrix, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 263; Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p- 870’; 
Walk. Cat. xii. p. 949°. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—Gutana, Surinam } 23, 
Cayenne 2°; Anvittes, Jamaica 3, Haiti 2 3, 


One specimen of this species was obtained some years ago by Arcé in Chiriqui. The 


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larva and pupa are described and figured by Stoll (cf Cramer, op. cit. v. p. 92, 
t. 18. f. 8). 


7. Gonodonta immacula. 
Gonodonta immacula, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 3651; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 951’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Honpuras (Dyson 2).—Gutana, Cayenne !2; Brazin 1! 2, 


I have only seen two specimens of this species from Central America. G. immacula 
is closely allied to the following species. 


8. Gonodonta choninea. 
Phalena Noctua choninea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, t. 310. f. F’. 
Athysania choninea, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 263. 
Gonodonta choninea, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 3667; Walk. Cat. xii. p- 951°. 
Hab. Guatema.a, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba ( Champion), 
Volcan de Chiriqui (ibde).—Gviana, Surinam123; Amazons, Villa Nova 3, Ega 3 ; 
SourH-EAst Brazit. 


This species occurs over a very extended range of country. The specimens from 
Central America are rather smaller than those from more southern localities; they 
have the markings more indistinct, but agree well with others before me from San 
Paulo, Brazil. 


9. Gonodonta ——? 
Hab. Panama, Obispo (Salvin). 


A single very worn specimen of a small, but probably distinct, species found by 
Mr. Salvin on the isthmus of Panama; it is apparently allied to G. choninea. 


10. Gonodonta lincus. 
Phalena Noctua lincus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 79, t. 50. f. H'. 
Bombyx lincus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 456. 
Bombiz lincus, Oliv. Enc. Méthod. v. p. 79’. 
Gonodonta lincus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 263; Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 366°; 
Walk. Cat. xii. p. 952%. 
Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Panama, 
Volean de Chiriqui (2be).—Gutana, Surinam! 23; Brazi 4. 


Cramer’s figure of this species is a very poor one; the Central-American specimens 
before me are slightly paler in colour, but in other respects agree with it. 


11. Gonodonta primulina, sp. n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 15.) 


Primaries primrose-colour, reddish-brown at the base and along the costal margin and at the apex, a small 
black dot at the end of the cell, and a row of six very narrow waved reddish-brown lines from the apex 
to the anal angle ; secondaries orange-yellow, broadly bordered with black from the apex to the anal angle 
and thence along the inner margin to the base, the fringe orange-yellow ; the underside of the primaries 


256 HETEROCERA. 


black, with the base and the costal and outer margins pale yellow, that of the secondaries uniform pale yellow, 
bordered with black from the apex to near the anal angle, the black border broken into spots by the yellow 
veins crossing it: head and palpi above white ; collar and tegule fawn-coloured, edged with reddish-brown ; 
thorax and abdomen above brownish-black, beneath yellowish-white, the anus yellow; antenna and legs 
brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Panima in Vera Paz, Cahabon ( Champion). | 


This beautiful species is allied to G. latimacula, Guénée, from Colombia, but very 
distinct. 


12. Gonodonta pyrgo. 
Phalena pyrgo, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 65, t. 189. f. D*. 
Gonodonta seriz, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 870’. 
Gonodonta pyrgo, Guén. |. c. p. 371°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 953%. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Paso de San Juan (Schaus), Cordova (Riimeli); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Ribbe).—CotomBia? 4; VenezurLat; GUIANA, 
Surinam 134; Amazons, Egat; Brazin? 4, 


This common Tropical-A merican insect we are now able to trace northwards to Mexico. 


13. Gonodonta holosericea. 
Gonodonta holosericea, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 371’; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9547. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Cache, Rio Sucio, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—Co oma ! 2; 
VENEZUELA ?. 


The Costa Rican specimens before me agree with one from Venezuela in the National 
collection. 


14. Gonodonta hesione. 
Phalena hesione, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 29, t. 22. £. 21. 


Gonodonta uncina, Hubn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 11, ff. 35, 367; Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p- 268. 


Gonodonta hesione, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 872°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 954‘, 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemaua, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Panima in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Panama, Taboga Island (J. J. Walker) —Cotompia 24; Wenezura 4: 
Ecuador ; East Perv; Amazons, Pardé?; Braziu}24; ANTILLES, Dominica. 


15. Gonodonta sinaldus. 
Gonodonta sinaldus, Guén. Spécies général des Lép. vi. p. 372°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9542. 

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Jalapa (Schaus); Guaremaua, Panima in Vera Paz, 
Cahabon, San Gerénimo, San Isidro 1600 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Hogers) Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Ribbe)—CotomBia!2; Venuzveta2:; Ecovapor. 


In our country this species appears to be very common. G. sinaldus, to some extent, 
varies in colour, and also in the width of the black marginal band on the secondaries. 


GONODONTA.—THYATIRA. 257 


The following species was overlooked when my remarks on this genus were written :— 


16. Gonodonta elegans, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 1.) 


Primaries pale glossy fawn-colour, almost yellow at the base, the costal margin broadly bordered with white 
from the apex almost to the base, a narrow white line crossing the wing from the costa to the inner 
margin close to the base, and an indistinct submarginal whitish line extending from the apex to the anal 
angle, the outer margin whitish; secondaries pale primrose-colour, broadly bordered with black from the 
apex to near the anal angle; the underside of both wings very pale yellowish-white, slightly dusky near 
the apex of the primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish, the tips of the palpi yellow; antenne 
yellowish-brown ; legs yellowish-white. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion).—SovutH-East 
BRAZIL. | 

A very distinct species, of which I have only seen four specimens, two from our 
country and two from Rio Janeiro. It is allied to G. sinaldus, Guén. 


Fam. NOCTUIDZ. 


The number of species included by authors in the Noctuide is very great, and repre- 
sentatives of the family inhabit all parts of the globe. The arrangement here adopted 
is that of Guénée, and it is the one upon which Walker based his Catalogue. Many of 
the genera are very unsatisfactorily defined, and the same remark applies to some of 
the numerous “ subfamilies ” or “ groups ” into which this family has been divided. In 
fact, it is probable that a large number of the so-called genera will have to be sunk as 
soon as it is possible to critically examine them. Characters derived from the neuration 
are in many cases certainly not of generic value in this family. It is not, however, 
within the scope of this publication to work out these points, it being more a matter of 
convenience to us to follow Guénée’s arrangement than to attempt another that could 
in no way be complete or satisfactory. 

Most of the species of Noctuide are night-fliers, and they are seldom to be met with 
in the daytime. 
Subfam. CY MATOPHORINEGE. 


THYATIRA. 


Thyatira, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 236 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 6. 

Hiibner founded this genus upon Phalena Noctua batis, Linn. In Walker’s Catalogue 
five species are included in it, and since the publication of this several others have been 
described by Moore from the Oriental Region. In our country the genus is repre- 
sented by four species, three of which are here described. 


1. Thyatira batis, var. mexicana. 
Thyatira batis, var. mexicana, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 16°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus+); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1., May 1889. 2 kk 


258 HETEROCERA. 


The examples received from Chiriqui agree well with Edwards's description. The 
insect is extremely close to 7. batis, and chiefly differs from it in having a row of 
spots on the outer margin of the primaries. From South-east Brazil we have speci- 
mens of 7. batis that are perfectly conspecific with English ones; the species has also 
been recorded from Japan. 


° 


2. Thyatira hersilia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 2.) 


Primaries dark dull brown, crossed about the middle by a number of very indistinct darker brown waved lines, 
with a spot at the base nearest the inner margin, two on the costal margin, one of elongate shape at the 
apex, one on the outer margin, and a small one at the apex, dusky white ; secondaries brown, palest at 
the base, with a row of marginal lines extending from the apex to near the anal angle, the fringe brownish- 
white ; the underside of both wings pale brown, without white markings, and each with two submarginal 
rows of darker brown lines extending from the apex to the anal angle: head, the thorax in the middle, 
and the abdomen dark brown, the sides of the thorax greyish-white, the anus pale yellowish-brown ; 
antenns, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 2 inches, 


Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 


One specimen. 


3. Thyatira heurippa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 3.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, the costal margin broadly bordered from the base to the apex with white (edged 
with reddish-brown from the base to the middle), a large dark brown V-shaped mark extending across 
the wing from the costal margin to near the middle and here divided by a narrow white line from a 
dark band extending to the inner margin (the latter edged with white), a small V-shaped dark brown 
mark at the apex, and several rows of very minute reddish-brown spots extending from the apex to 
the anal angle, the latter whitish; secondaries dark brown, palest at the base and anal angle, the 
fringe pale reddish-fawn-colour; the underside of the primaries dark blackish-brown, with the costal, 
outer, and inner margins paler, and the V-shaped markings as above but not so distinct, that of the 
secondaries reddish-brown, both wings with two narrow waved submarginal dark brown lines extending 
from the apex to the inner margin: head and front of the thorax dark brown, the collar and base of the 
tegula white, the rest of the thorax and tegule dark fawn-colour; the abdomen reddish-brown, the anus 
fawn-colour ; palpi, antenne, and legs dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


This fine insect, of which only two specimens were captured, is quite distinct from 
all the known species of the genus, and it is not closely allied to any yet described. 


4, Thyatira (2) hypatia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 4.) 

Primaries of a pale olive-colour, much shaded with pink-brown and white, with a broken black line near the 
apex extending from the costal margin towards the outer margin but not reaching it, a black mark close 
to the anal angle, several black spots near the base, and a pinkish semicircular spot on the inner margin 
nearest the anal angle, the centre of the wing whitish; secondaries glossy pale olive-brown, with the 
outer margins broadly bordered with brown, a pinkish spot at the anal angle; both wings narrowly 
edged with black: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the tegule and a few scales at the base of the 
abdomen pinkish ; (antenne and legs wanting). Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


We include this beautiful insect in the genus Thyatira with considerable doubt ; in 
many respects it very closely resembles the species of that genus, but the palpi are longer 


THYATIRA.—PANTHEA. 259 


and the head does not seem to be so thickly clothed with hairs. The single specimen 
received has unfortunately lost the antenne, and is considerably damaged about the 
head and thorax: this to some extent may be the cause of the apparent differences. 


Subfam. BRYOPHILIN ZL. 


GRAMMOPHORA. 
Grammophora, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 80 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 28. 


Of this genus we have, as yet, only received an example of a single species from our 
country. The three referred to it by Walker are all from North America. 


1. Grammophora chaldera, sp.n. (Tab. X XVI. fig. 5.) 


Primaries reddish-brown mottled witb silvery-white, with a bronzy-green spot at the end of the cell, and 
several indistinct green streaks close to the base; secondaries silky-brownish-white: head, thorax, 
antenne, and legs brown, the abdomen pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 feet (Rogers). 


A single worn specimen only. 


Subfam. BOMBY COIN. 


PANTHEA. 


Panthea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 202 (1816). 
Diphtera, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 31 (pars). 


Two species of this genus inhabit Central America. 


1. Panthea cavillator. 
Diphtera cavillator, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 37°. 
Hab. Merxico!, Jalapa (Hoge). 


The single specimen received agrees well with Walker’s type in the National 
Collection ; the species closely resembles the European P. cenobita. 


2. Panthea pythion, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 6.) 


Primaries white, crossed by many waved black lines; secondaries pure white; the underside of both wings 
pure white: head, collar, thorax, and tegule white spotted with black, the abdomen white; antenne 
black. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Allied to P. cavillator, but very distinct. The numerous waved black lines on the 
primaries are much wider apart, and in some specimens they become very indistinct ; 


and the underside of both wings is pure white. | 
: 2 kk 2 


260 HETEROCERA. 


ACRONYCTA. 


Acronicta, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 62 (1816). 
Acronycta, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 1, p. 3 (1825) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 40. 

Acronycta is represented in our country by two species, one from Mexico, the other 
from the Los Altos region of Guatemala. A large number of species inhabit North 
America, and the genus is also common to Europe and Africa. 


1. Acronycta dolens, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 7.) 


Primaries dull greyish-black speckled with grey, a greyish spot at the end of the cell, two waved greyish 
marginal lines extending from the apex to the anal angle, and a greyish patch on the middle of the inner 
margin, the latter crossed by several indistinct black waved lines; secondaries white, shaded with brown 
along the costal margin to the apex, and from the apex to the anal angle narrowly bordered with blackish- 
brown ; the underside of both wings silky-white, each shaded with brownish-black along the costal margin, 
a very distinct discal spot on the secondaries black: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown; antennxe 
dark brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hége). 


One specimen. A. dolens is closely allied to the European A. megacephala, but is 
considerably darker in colour. 


2. Acronycta dedala, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 8.) 


Primaries dull mouse-colour, crossed near the base from the costal margin to the inner margin by two indistinct 
waved narrow black lines; secondaries mouse-colour, palest at the base, the fringe white: head, thorax, 
and abdomen mouse-colour ; antenne and legs brownish. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Quezaltenango 7800 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this dull-coloured species has been received. 


Subfam. LEUCANIINA. 


LEUCANIA. 
Leucania, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 81 (1816); Walker, Cat. ix. p. 79. 


In Walker’s Catalogue eighty-eight species are included in this widely-distributed 
genus, and many others have since been described. We have as yet only received six 
species from Central America; one or two, however, of these appear to be common and 
widely distributed. 


1. Leucania unipuncta. 
Noctua unipuncta, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 174 (1803)'. 
Heliophila unipuncta, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 30 (1882)’. 
Leucania extranea, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 773; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 93°. 

Hab. Norta America’, Georgia, Florida 3X—-Muxico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet 
(forrer), Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith), Mexico city (Hége) ; Costa Rica, Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 
6000 feet (Champion).—CoLoMBIA?; VENEZUELA4; BraziL ?.—ENG@LAND }, 


4 


LEUCANIA. 261 


A very common species in our country, and one that varies slightly in the colour of 
the secondaries. L. unipuncta is also stated to occur in India, Australia, Java, and 
New Zealand; but it is rather doubtful if the examples from all these widely 
distant localities are really conspecific with it. Mr. Butler has recorded (rans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 32) Z. eatranea from the Hawaiian Islands. The larva of LZ. un- 
puncta is known to North-American Lepidopterists as the “ army-worm,” and its life- 
history has been very fully described by Prof. Riley and others. 


2. Leucania multipunctata, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 11.) 

Primaries pale fawn-colour, with two black spots in the cell and two below it near the inner margin, a curved 
row of black dots crossing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin, and a marginal 
row of minute black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle ; secondaries silky-white shaded with 
very pale fawn-colour at the apex and along the outer margin, with a marginal row of minute black dots 
extending from the apex to about the middle of the outer margin; the underside uniformly pale silky 
fawn-colour, with the black dots as above but very indistinct: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs of the 
same colour as the primaries; antenne dark fawn-colour. Expanse 1} inch. 


Had. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridbe, mus. Staudinger). 


Two specimens of this species are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. ZL. multi- 
punctata is not closely allied to any other species known to me, and I am compelled 
therefore to describe it as new. The primaries are coloured very much as in L. wni- 


puncta, but they are more dusky along the costal margin. 


3. Leucania extincta. 
Leucania extincta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 79°. 
Heliophila extincta, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 30 (1882). 
Leucania insueta, Guén. loc. cit. p. 81°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 95°. 
Leucania linita, Guén. loc. cit. p. 81°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 95 °. 
Leucania scirpicola, Guén. loc. cit. p. 84°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 96°. 
Leucania antica, Walk. Cat. ix. p.100°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 20"; Druce, P. Z. 8. 


1884, p. 322”. 
Hab. Norta America 2, New York 3, Florida 14567 §,—Ma_xico, near the city (Hége) ; 


GuaTEMALA, Balheu in Vera Paz, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—SovtH-zast BRazIt ; 
Amazons 10; AntILLES, Dominica}. | 


This common and variable species is found over a very extended range of country. 
In the large series of specimens before me from the above-mentioned localities scarcely 
any two are exactly alike, and after careful comparison with others in the National 
Collection I do not see any reason for separating them in the way Guénée has done. 
‘Three of this author’s supposed species came from the same locality in Florida; and I 
have no doubt they are somewhat differently-coloured specimens of one and the same 
species. Z. antica is included by Walker in his South-American group of species, and 
is stated to be from the “ West Coast ” ¥. 


262 HETEROCERA. 


4. Leucania salebrosa. 
Leucania salebrosa, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. i. p. 80'; Ill. Lep. Het. ii. p. 22, t. 28. 
fig. 10. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion; Ribbe, mus. Staudinger).— 
Japan, Yokohama}, 


Our specimens are almost identical with Butler’s type from Japan. 


5. Leucania solita, 
Leucania solita, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 99°. 

Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet (H. H. Smith, Oct. 1888) ; 
GuaTeMaLA, San Isidro 1000 feet, San Gerénimo, Coban in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Honpuras (Miller!) ; Cosra Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; Panama, 
Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridbe, mus. Staudinger). 

A common and widely-distributed species in our country, and one showing a consi- 
derable amount of variation in the colour of the primaries, the latter being very much 
darker in some examples than in others. 


6. Leucania diffusa. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 10.) 
Leucania diffusa, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 94°. 
Hab. Nortu America, Nova Scotia .—MeExioo, near the city (Hage). 


One specimen of this very distinct species was sent by Herr Hége from the city of 
Mexico. 


OBRIMA. 
Obrima, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 134 (1856). 


A single species from Honduras was included in this genus by Walker. This is 
the only authority we have for including Obrima in our fauna. 


1. Obrima pyraloides. 
Obrima pyraloides, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 185°. 
Hab. Hoyvuras (Dyson}, in Mus. Brit.). 


Subfam. GLOTTULINAL. 


EUTHISANOTIA. 


Euthisanotia, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 141 (1856). 
Philochrysa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 838 (1868). 


Walker founded this genus upon a species described by Cramer. 


EUTHISANOTIA.—EUGLYPHIA. 263 


1. Euthisanotia timais. 

Phalena Noctua timais, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 148, t. 275. f. B? , 

Euthisanotia timais (Noctua bombycoides, Diphtera precipua), Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 
lil. p. 89, ff. 589, 590. 

Aanthopastis timais, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 211. 

Glottula timais, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 1167. 

Euthisanotia timais, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 1423; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 30 (1882); 
Druce, P. Z.S8. 1884, p. 322°; Méschler, Beitr. zur Schmett.-Faun. Surin. iii. p. 2°. 

Phalena Noctua amaryllidis, Anon. Ins. Surinam, i. p. 63, t. 287. 

Philochrysa regnatriz, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. pp. 339%, 441°. 

? Glottula heterocampa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 116”. 

Hab. NortH America ? 3 48—MeExico (Boucard), Jalapa (Hoge), Chilpancingo in 
Guerrero 4600 feet (H. H. Smith, June 1888); Costa Rica (Van Patten, mus. D.), San 
Francisco 4500 feet (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, 
mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBia; Ecuapor; Guiana, Surinam }3 6 7; Braz, Rio Ja- 
neiro; ANTILLES, San Domingo 3, Jamaica ?, Dominica °. 


This insect is common and very widely distributed in the warmer parts of America. 
The specimens before me from Dominica and Jamaica are smaller and paler in colour 
than any of those from the mainland. Glottula heterocampa, Guén., is most likely a 
variety of this insect. Grote® shortly after describing his Philochrysa regnatrix 
discovered that it was synonymous with Huthisanotia timais. 


EUGLYPHIA. 
Euglyphia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 203 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 145. 


One species only was included in this genus by Hubner. 


1. Euglyphia hieroglyphica. 
Phalena hyroglyphica, Cram. Pap. Exot. 1. p. 81, t. 147. f. D*. 
Euglyphia hieroglyphica, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 145°. 
Bombyx festiva, Faby. Sp. Ins. i. p. 194; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 127. 
Phalena Bombyx festiva, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 5, p. 2425. 
Diphthera festiva elegans, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. t. 194, ff. 1-4. 
Euglyphia elegans, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 203. 
Noropsis fastuosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 117°. 

Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango, Presidio (Forrer), Mazatlan (Boucard, mus. 
D.), Tepetlapa 3000 feet, Venta de Zopilote 2800 feet, Rio Papagaio 1200 feet, and 
Acapulco in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), State of Oaxaca (Flohr), Atoyac in Vera Cruz 
(Schumann); GuatEMALA, El Reposo 800 feet, Zapote, San Gerdnimo, El Jicaro in 
Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridée, 
in mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBia °, Honda; Curagao!; Ecuapor; Braziu?%, Recife ; 
ANTILLES, San Domingo 2, Jamaica ?. 


264 HETEROCERA. 


This handsome insect appears to be fairly common in Central America. Guatemalan 
specimens are much paler in colour than those from most other localities, but in all 
other respects they agree. The examples captured by the late Mr. Forbes at Recife 
are the largest I have seen. . hieroglyphica was found last year by Mr. H. H. Smith 
in various parts of the Mexican State of Guerrero and at various dates between the 
months of June and October. 


. EUDIPNA. 
Eudipna, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 149 (1816). 
Acolasis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 256 (1856) (pars). 
Two species were referred to this genus by Walker, both from Surinam. One of 
these extends northwards to the Colombian State of Panama. 


I. Eudipna cedica. 
Phalena Noctua cedica, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, t. 810. f. E*. 
Eudipna cedica, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 150’. 
Hadena (?) cedica, Walk. loc. cit. xi. p. 754°. 
Ophiusa (?) cedica, Walk. loc. cit. xiv. p. 1425 *, 
Hab, Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Suri- 
nam 1234, 


The specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees perfectly with 
Cramer’s figure. 


. BETUSA. 
Betusa, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 151 (1856), & xv. p. 1671 (1858). 
A single species, Noctua chera, Drury (=B. phasianus, Walk.), from Guiana and 


Brazil, was included in this genus by its describer. We also refer to it Phalena 
amynta, Cram., an insect now known to extend northwards into our region. 


1. Betusa amynta. 
Phalena amynta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 100, t. 251. f. E'. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam 1. 
A specimen from Bugaba, a male, agrees well with Cramer's figure, except that it has 
the antenne pectinated. Cramer’s figure apparently represents a female. 


GISCALA. 
Giscala, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1671 (1858). 
Walker founded this genus upon a single species from Venezuela and Brazil; the 
second, from Colombia, subsequently added by him, is synonymous with it. This 
insect inhabits the southern part of Central America. 


GISCALA.—NASIA. 265 


1. Giscala quadricolor. 
Giscala quadricolor, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 16721; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 207. 
Giscala semiviridis, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 636°. 
Ceroctena pictipennis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. iv. t. 119. f. 3, Erkl. der Taf. 119 *. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Co.LomBIA, Bogota 3 
(Birchall, in mus. D.); Venzzveta!; Guiana4; Ecuapor; Braziu!; Amazons, Ega}, 
Rio Javary 2. 

Phalena amynta, Cramer (Pap. Exot. iii. p. 100, t. 306. f. C), may be a synonym 
of this species, but the figure is so badly drawn that it is impossible to say with 
certainty. If this should prove to be the case, the name amynta cannot be retained 
for the insect, Cramer having also applied it to a very different species on t. 251. f. E. 
The type of Giscala semiviridis, Walker, is now in my possession, and upon comparing 
it with that of G. guadricolor in the National Collection I find that the two are con- 
specific. The sexes are very similar. 


Subfam. APAMINA. 


Group GORTYNIDES. 


GORTYNA. 
Gortyna, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 82 (1816); Walker, Cat. ix. p. 154. 


Ten species were originally included in this genus by Walker, four from Europe, 
five from North America, and one from the Cape of Good Hope; and he subsequently 
added one from Mexico. 


1. Gortyna ditissima. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 9.) 
Gortyna ditissima, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 716°. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé1); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 
2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 
Guatemalan specimens agree perfectly with Walker’s type in the National Collection. 
Our figure is taken from an example from the Volcan de Atitlan. 


NAESIA. 


Nesia, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1741 (1858). 

Walker founded this genus upon an insect from Venezuela; this is now known to 
us from Costa Rica, whence we have also received specimens of the second species here 
described. Ne@sia appears to be very closely allied to Gortyna, but to differ in the 
third joint of the palpi being slightly longer, the primaries not quite so much rounded, 
and the abdomen clothed with tufts of long hairs. 

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266 HETEROCERA. 


1. Nesia mesta. (Tab. XXVL. fig. 12.) 
Nesia mesta, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1742". 
Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers).— VENEZUELA }, 


Our specimen from Costa Rica only differs from the type in being a shade darker in 


colour. 


2. Nesia dolens, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 13.) 

Primaries pale fawn-colour, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by several very indistinct 
narrow waved darker-coloured lines, with a dark brown marking at the end of the cell and several dull 
brown spots along the outer margin ; secondaries uniform dark brown ; the underside of both wings pale 
silky fawn-colour: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish-fawn-colour; antenne pale brown. Expanse 
2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Allied to VV. mesta, but a smaller and paler-coloured insect. 


UFEUS. 
Ufeus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 101 (1878). 
Grote states that this genus is allied to Agrotis; the two species he included in it 
also inhabit Eastern Mexico. 


1. Ufeus satyricus. 
Ufeus satyricus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 101, t. 3. f.4°; List of North-American Moths, p. 30 


(1882). 
Hab. Nortu America, Philadelphia 1.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge, Schaus). 


Our Mexican specimens of this and the following species agree perfectly with those 
in the Grote collection now in the National Museum. 


2. Ufeus plicatus. 
Ufeus plicatus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. 102+; List of North-American Moths, p. 30 (1882). 


Hab. Nortu America, Philadelphia '—Mextco, Jalapa (Hége). 


Group XYLOPHASIIDES. 


XYLOPHASIA. 
Xylophasia, Stephens, Illustr. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 174 (1829); Walker, Cat. ix. p- 169. 
Some of the species of the genus are very widely distributed, and inhabit both 
Europe and North America. 


1. Xylophasia denterna. 

Xylophasia denterna, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 140, Noct. t. 4. f. 41; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 179°; 
Druce, P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 322°. 

Xylophasia diminuta, Guén. loc. cit. p. 141‘; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 180°. 


XYLOPHASIA.—LAPHYGMA. 267 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); GuateMata, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 
4000 feet (Champion).—CotomBia!?; Ecuapor; Braziu!245, Rio Janeiro; ANTILLES, 
Dominica 3. 

This species varies considerably, both in markings and colour. Specimens from 
Central America are darker in tint and smaller than those from South America. 
Guénée’s figure is taken from a very large male example from Brazil, and I have only 
seen one (and that from the same country) that at all equals it in size. Four specimens 
only have been received from Central America, but in Ecuador and South Brazil it 
is a very common insect; Dominican examples are of a more straw-coloured tint. 
A. diminuta, Guén., was based upon a small specimen of this species. Mr. H. H. Smith 
met with this insect at Atoyac in the month of May. 


LAPHYGMA. 
Laphygma, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 156 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 187. 
Five species were included in this genus by Guénée, and fifteen more were added to 
it by Walker. Laphygma appears to be very widely distributed in both the Old and 
the New Worlds. 


1. Laphygma macra. 
Laphygma macra, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 157, Noct. t. 4. f. 61; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 189%. 


Hab. Norta America, New York, Florida?,—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888), Coatepec (Brooks); Brirish Honpuras?, Belize 
(Blancaneaux); GuateMaa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Co.tomBIa!; Guiana!l; 
Brazin!2; Antitues, Cuba 2. 


A common and very wide-ranging species. Guénée’s figure is far too highly coloured 
and the lines on the primaries are not so distinct as represented. 


2. Laphygma orbicularis, 
Laphygma orbicularis, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 719°. 
Prodenia ignobilis, Butl, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 485°. 

Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Las Vigas (Hége), Jalapa (Schaus, Trwjillo), Teapa 
in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Jan. & Feb. 1888); Guaremaa, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Las 
Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely, in mus. D.) ; 
Cosra Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor ; SourTH-East BraziL ; ANTILLES, San Domingo }, 


Jamaica *, Dominica. 


2 Ut 2 


268 HETEROCERA. 


This is a common species, and has a very extended range over Tropical America 
and the Antilles. It varies to some extent in colour, some specimens being much 
darker than others; the palest individuals in the large series before me are those from 
San Pedro. 

Xylina inquieta, Walk. (Cat. xi. p. 632), the locality of which is unknown, is possibly 
a synonym of L. orbicularis. 


3. Laphygma eridania. 
Phalena Noctua eridania, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 183, t. 358. f. F’. 
Callierges eridania, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 244. 
Aylomyges eridania, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 148. 
Xylomyges (?) eridania, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 182”. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Aidde)—Guiana, Surinam !?; SovtTH-gast 
BRAZIL. 


This species is quite distinct from the one represented by Cramer on his tab. 358. f. E; 
the latter resembles Phalana phytolaccew, Abbot & Smith, but is doubtfully synonymous 
with it. The present insect is labelled Laphygma externa, Walker, in the Oxford 
Museum; this name, however, so far as I am aware, is an unpublished one. 


4, Laphygma triplex. 
Laphygma triplex, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 721°. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet (H. H. Sinith, 
Oct. 1888); Guatemala, Champerico (Champion); Honpuras!; Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

This small species is not uncommon in Mexico. It differs from typical Laphygma in 
its smaller size and more slender body, and it may have to be placed eventually in the 
genus Galgula, Guén.; but I have no specimens of the latter before me for com- 
parison. 


PRODENIA. 
Prodenia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 159 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 191. 


The members of this genus are cosmopolitan, and they are found in most parts of 
the globe. Walker in his Catalogues enumerates twenty-five species, and many others 
have since been described. Prodenia is represented in Central America by four species, 
and we have received many examples of three of them. 


1. Prodenia commeline. 

Phalena commeline, Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 189, t. 95°. 

Trigonophora commeline, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 217. 

Prodenia commeline, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 162°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 192°, and xi. p. 722°; 
Druce, P. Z.S. 1884, p. 322’. 


PRODENIA. 269 


Hab. Nortu America, Georgia! , Virginia!—Muxico, Presidio (Forrer), San Blas 
(J. J. Walker), Jalapa (Hége), Coatepec (Brooks), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
GuaTEmaLa, Coatepeque, Cerro Zunil, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Senahu (Champion) ; 
Honpuras?; Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 
6000 feet (Champion).—CotomBia; Ecvapor; Souru-gast BraziL; ANTILLES%, Jamaica’, 
San Domingo +, Saint Thomas 2, Dominica 5, Trinidad. 


This wide-ranging species varies much in size and colour, some specimens being much 
darker and more heavily marked than others. Walker in his Catalogue? also gives 
Samoa (or Navigators’ Islands) as a locality, but I very much doubt the correctness of 
this. All the examples I have seen are from North, Central, or South America, or 
the West Indian Islands. ‘The larva and pupa are well-figured by Abbot and Smith; 
they state that the former feeds on the wild comfrey (Commelina communis), hickory, 
ground-peas, &c. 


2. Prodenia androgea. 
Phalena Noctua androgea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, t. 310. f. D?. 
Prodenia androgea, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 1617; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 195°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridse, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Guiana, Surinam 123, Cayenne 2. 


The only specimen of this species obtained by Mr. Champion in Central America 
agrees very well with Cramer’s figure. 


8. Prodenia signifera. 
Prodenia signifera, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 1931, and xi. p. 722. 
? Prodenia plagiata, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 194°. 


Hab. NortH AMeRIca, Georgia 1.—Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge), 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888); Guatemata, Balheu, San Geronimo 
(Champion) ; Costa Rica, Punta Arenas (J. J. Walker); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 
feet, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).— VENEZUELA!; SooTH-EAST BRazIL; ANTILLES, 
San Domingo 2. 

This small species is found over a very extended range of country. P. plagiata, 
Walk., from Jamaica 3, is very probably a synonym of P. signifera. 


4. Prodenia variolosa. 
Prodenia variolosa, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 722°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Cordova (Riimeli), Mexico city (Hége), Jalapa (F. 
D. G.), Coatepec (Brooks) ; Guatemaa, Lanquin and Balheu in Vera Paz ( Champion).— 
ANTILLES, San Domingo !. 


A well-marked and very distinct species. We have received numerous examples 


270 HETEROCERA. 


from Mexico, but two only from Guatemala. These agree perfectly with those from 
San Domingo in the British Museum. | 


DARGIDA. 
Dargida, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 201 (1856). 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species from Venezuela and Brazil. ‘This 
and six other species, five of which are here described as new, inhabit our region. 


1. Dargida grammivora. 
Dargida grammivora, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 202+. 
Hab. Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Morrer); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet (Logers).—VENEZUELA!; BraziL, Rio Grande!, Rio Janeiro. 


Our specimen from Costa Rica agrees well with Walker’s type in the National 
Collection. Those from Northern Mexico are a little darker in colour, but they do not 
otherwise differ from examples from Rio Janeiro contained in my own collection. 
D. crucifera, Felder, from Luzon, very closely resembles this species. 


2. Dargida singularis. 
Dargida singularis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 227. 
Hab. Muxico, Coatepec (Brooks); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).—Amazons, Villa Nova de Parentins 1}. 


The single worn specimen we have received from Mexico differs from those from more 
southern localities in being browner in colour and in having the markings fainter ; it is 
possibly a distinct species, but without seeing further material we hesitate to separate 
it. D. singularis very closely resembles Felder’s figure of Phlegetonia(?) bellona (Reise 
der Novara, Lep. t. 112. fig. 1), an insect inhabiting Guiana. 


3. Dargida niphanda. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 14.) 


Primaries pinkish-brown, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by two waved black lines, with 
a small green-coloured streak near the base, a short black band along the inner margin close to the 
base (but not touching it), two green spots at the end of the cell, on the inner side of which is a dark 
brown streak extending to the costal margin, a faint waved submarginal line running from the apex to 
the anal angle, and a round dark brown spot on the inner side of this line at the anal angle, the outer 
margin edged with lead-colour, the fringe light and dark brown; secondaries white, broadly bordered 
with brown: head and front of the thorax pinkish-brown, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen pale 
brown, the anus yellowish; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 
This handsome species is most nearly allied to D. singularis, Butler, but it is very 
differently marked on the primaries. We have received only one specimen. 


4. Dargida amphion, sp.n. (Tab. X XVI. fig. 15.) 
Primaries dark brown, shaded with purple, the markings resembling those of D. singularis but all much paler 
in colour and more distinct, a pale green spot close to the base on the inner margin, and a marginal row 


DARGIDA. 271 


of minute black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries almost uniformly dark silky- 
brown, slightly paler at the base, the fringe brown and yellowish-white: head, collar, and thorax dark 
brown, the abdomen paler brown ; antenne and legs reddish-brown. Expanse 1,5 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks) ; GuaTemMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 38500 feet 
(Champion). 

This species may be readily distinguished from D. singularis, Butler, by the entirely 
brown secondaries, and also by the lighter-coloured and more distinctly marked 
primaries. The Guatemalan specimen is figured. 


5. Dargida sarepta, sp.n. (Tab. XXVL. fig. 16.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed by three indistinct black lines, with a white line at the end of the cell, a small 
white spot on the inner margin close to the base, a narrow whitish waved liue extending from the apex, 
where it is forked, to about the middle of the inner margin, and on the outer side of the whitish line a 
pale brown line beyond which is a row of indistinct brown spots; secondaries glossy brown, slightly 
paler in the middle and at the base: head and thorax dark brown, the abdomen of the same colour as the 
secondaries ; legs and antenne brown. LExpanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Rzbbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Two specimens of this distinct species are contained in the collection of Dr. Stau- 
dinger. JD. sarepta is allied to the preceding species, but may be at once distinguished 
from it by the pale lines on the primaries ; in one specimen these lines are not quite so 
white in colour as in the other. 


6. Dargida porphyra, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 17.) 

Primaries dark brown shaded with reddish-brown, with a white spot at the end of the cell, beyond which is a 
row of minute white dots crossing the wing from near the apex on the costal margin to the inner margin, 
a pinkish-brown stripe near the apex, commencing on the costal margin above the white spot and | 
extending towards the outer margin, a wide pinkish-brown streak about the middle of the inner margin 
and a bluish-white dot between it and the base, and a submarginal row of minute black dots, the fringe 
light and dark brown; secondaries uniformly dark brown, palest at the base, the fringe light brown: 
head and thorax dark brown; abdomen brown, becoming lighter near the anus; antenne, palpi, and legs 
brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Gvatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqul 
(Ribbe). | 

A beautiful species and quite distinct from all others of this genus. Our figure is 
taken from the Guatemalan specimen. 


7. Dargida luma, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 13.) 

Primaries reddish-brown shaded with darker brown, the costal margin streaked with dark brown, an indistinct 
dark brown mark in the middle of the wing, a minute bluish-white spot on the inner margin close to the 
base, and a marginal row of small black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe 
brown: secondaries uniform dark brown, with the fringe reddish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen 
reddish-brown ; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Guaremaua, San Gerénimo, Volcan de Atitlan 3500 feet (Champion). 


Two specimens only of this dull-ccloured insect were obtained. 


272 HETEROCERA. 


Group EPISEMIDES. 


HELIOPHOBUS. 
Heliophobus, Boisduval, Europ. Lep. Ind. Meth. p. 69 (1829) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 203. 


The species placed in Heliophobus by Guénée and Walker are all European except 
one, the latter being from North America. 

The single representative of the genus received by us from Central America closely 
resembles the European /. hispida in form, but differs from it entirely in colour. 


1. Heliophobus hipparis, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 19.) 


Primaries pale greyish-mouse-colour, with a dark-coloured spot at the end of the cell, two faint spots nearer 
the base, a dark brown spot close to the base on the inner margin, a waved narrow whitish line crossing 
the wing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin, and a submarginal dark brown 
line extending from near the apex to the anal angle, the fringe light and dark mouse-colour ; secondaries 
uniform pale greyish-brown, the fringe considerably paler in colour; the underside uniform greyish- 
white, with a very distinct dark brown spot at the end of the cell on both wings: head, thorax, abdomen, 
legs, and antenne pale mouse-colour; the antennw deeply pectinated in the male, simple in the female. 
Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), Mexico city (F. D. G., Hoge), 
Jalapa (Hoge). 

This species varies very considerably in size. The specimens from the city of 
Mexico are much larger and more darkly marked than those from Durango, but in 
other respects they are similar. 


Group APAMIDES. 


MAMESTRA. 
Mamesira, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 76 (1816). 


The species of this genus are very widely distributed over all parts of the globe. 
Four are known to us from Central America. 


1. Mamestra configurata. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 20.) 
Mamestra configurata, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 284’. 
Hab. Mexico}, near the city (Hége). 


Our specimen agrees perfectly with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


2. Mamestra inducta. 
Mamestra inducta, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 236°. 
Hab. Mexico, Patzcuaro, Mexico city (Ff. D. G.), Jalapa (Hoge, M. Trujillo); Guats- 
MALA, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—VENEZUELA 1. 


This insect is common in Mexico, but it appears to become very scarce in Guatemala 
and further south. It closely resembles M. brassicw, an abundant species in Europe, 
and also found in Japan. 


MAMESTRA.—APAMEA. 273 


3. Mamestra dotata, sp. n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 21.) 


Primaries reddish-fawn-colour, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by three very indistinct dark 
brown lines (the second the widest and placed about the middle), with a whitish spot at the end of the 
cell and a submarginal row of very minute white dots extending from the apex to the anal angle, the dot 
close to the anal angle the largest and very distinct ; secondaries of the male semihyaline, whitish, shaded 
with brown on the costal margin and at the apex, those of the female very much darker in colour; the 
underside of both wings very pale in colour and without markings: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish- 
fawn-colour, the latter becoming paler near the anus, the legs and antenne pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbe). 


This species varies slightly, some specimens being more strongly-marked than others. 
M. dotata may be very readily distinguished from any other species of the genus by 
the white dot at the anal angle of the primaries. 


4. Mamestra hipparion, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 24.) 


Primaries pale glossy-brown with a reddish tinge in certain lights, a dark central streak extending from the 
base almost to the outer margin (which it does not quite reach), a pale brown spot at the end of the cell, 
several minute dark markings along the costal margin, and a series of very minute indistinct dots along 
the outer margin; secondaries pale glossy greyish-brown, more obscure in the female, darkest on the 
outer margin from the apex to the anal angle; the underside of both wings considerably paler than the 
upperside: head, thorax, and abdomen of a darker brown than the primaries, the anus pale brown ; 
antennee and legs brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


This is a very dull-coloured insect, and it somewhat resembles Perinenia lignosa, 
Butler, from Japan. 


APAMEA. 
Apamea, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 75 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 248. 


Two species only of this genus are known to us from Central America. 


1. Apamea iaspis. 
Apamea iaspis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 209°; Walk. Cat. ix. p. 250°. 
Hab. Norta America, New York!?.—Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuaTemaLa, San 
Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


We have received five specimens only of this species. 


2. Apamea intermittens. 
Apamea intermittens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1686°. 
Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Schaus); GuatemMata, Senahu (Champion).— ANTILLES, San 
Domingo 1. 


Our Guatemalan specimen agrees well with Walker’s type in the National Collection. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L, July 1889. 2mm 


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MIANA. 
Miana, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 11 (1829). 


1. Miana pulchra, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 22.) 


Primaries dark greenish-brown shaded with paler brown, with a large pinkish-white spot at the end of the cell, 
on the inner side of which is a long dark brown streak, the latter having a very minute white dot on the 
end nearest to the base, two fine black lines crossing the wing from the costal margin to the inner margin, 
and a pale greenish-brown submarginal line extending from the costa to the anal angle, the fringe black 
and brown; secondaries uniform blackish-brown, palest at the base, the fringe greyish; the underside 
of both wings brownish-black, the base of the secondaries whitish: head and thorax brown, shaded with 
greenish at the base, the abdomen and antenne brown. LExpanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


A Chiriqui specimen of this pretty little species is figured. 


2. Miana zonella, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 23.) 


Primaries greyish, with a wide dark brown V-shaped mark enclosing a large greyish-white spot at the end of 
the cell, an indistinct brown band close to the base, a grey-white submarginal band extending from 
the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle, and a series of minute black dots along the outer 
margin; secondaries uniformly pale greyish-brown, palest near the base; the underside of both wings 
pale brown: head and thorax greyish-white, the abdomen pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
Rogers obtained a good many specimens of this insect, but we have not received it 
from any other locality. 


CELZAENA. 


Celena, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. 1. p. 15 (1829) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 219 
(1852) ; Walker, Cat. x. p. 259. 


This genus is numerous in species and is very widely distributed ; seven are known 
to us from Central America, and six of these are here described as new. 


1. Celena rubens, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 25.) 

Primaries reddish-brown shaded with darker and lighter brown, with a yellowish-brown round spot close to 
the base on the inner margin, a dark brown mark in the middle of the wing below the cell, a triangularly- 
shaped brown spot at the end of the cell, and beyond this a wide fawn-coloured band (darker on its outer 
margin) crossing the wing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin, the outer margin of 
the band edged with a pale waved line, the marginal line pale brown, the fringe light and dark brown; 
secondaries very pale brownish-white, the outer margin edged with a brown line: head, thorax, abdomen, 
antenney, and legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, near the city (Ff. D. G., Hoge), Jalapa (IM. Trujillo, Hoge). 
This species varies slightly, some of the specimens having the markings more distinct 
than others. 


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2. Celena perta, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 26.) 


Primaries reddish-brown shaded with darker brown, with two waved greyish lines crossing the wing from the 
costal margin to the inner margin, a large oval-shaped white spot at the end of the cell, a smaller greyish 
spot in the cell close to the base, and a waved submarginal greyish line, ending in a white dot, extending 
from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries greyish-brown, palest near the base; the underside very 
pale shining brown with a rosy tinge: head and front of the thorax yellowish- brown, the rest of the 
thorax and the upperside of the abdomen dark brown, the underside of the latter considerably paler. 
Expanse 11, inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Las Vigas (Hége). 


One specimen only of this pretty little moth has been received. C. perta is allied to 
the preceding species, but is quite distinct from it. 


3, Celeena hamara, sp. n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 27.) 

Primaries pale grey, with a dark brown spot close to the base on the inner margin, a wide brown band crossing 
the wing from the costal margin (where it is much the widest) to the inner margin, and a white spot 
edged with black at the end of the cell, the outer margin brown with a row of very minute marginal 
dots, the fringe brown; secondaries white, dusky at the apex and slightly so along the outer margin; 
the underside of both wings uniformly greyish: head and front of the thorax greyish-brown, the rest of 
the thorax and the abdomen darker brown ; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks). 


One specimen. This insect resembles grey examples of the European Miana strigilis 
(Linn.). 


4. Celeena oriza, sp.n. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 28.) 

Primaries dark brown, palest along the costal and outer margins, with a pale greyish line crossing the wing 
beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin, an elongate white streak at the end of 
the cell, and two finer white lines close to the base, the fringe brown; secondaries white, slightly dusky 
at the apex, the fringe white ; the underside of both wings whitish, slightly shaded with pinkish-brown : 
head and the front of the thorax pale brown, the collar greyish, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen 
dark brown; antennz and legs brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks). 


Allied to C. hamara. One specimen. 


5. Celena esopis, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 1.) 

Primaries dark reddish-brown, with a pale brownish-white spot at the end of the cell, below which is a broad 
streak of dark brown, and a pale, very indistinct band crossing the wing from near the apex to the inner 
margin, beyond which close to the anal angle is a greyish patch extending towards the apex, the fringe 
pale and dark brown; secondaries uniform dark brown, slightly paler at the base, the fringe pale brown ; 
the underside of both wings dark brown, with a central darker brown line crossing the middle of each 
wing: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 1,7), inch. 


Hab. GuateMaa, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 


A dull-coloured species. One specimen only. 


6. Celana ——? 
Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
2mm 2 


276 HETEROCERA. 


One specimen, in very poor condition. This seems to be allied to Celena esopis, but 
of this we cannot be certain, the primaries being so much rubbed. 


7. Celena minuta, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 2.) 


Primaries dark reddish-brown, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle broadly bordered with pale 
pinkish-brown, a black spot at the end of the cell, two minute black lines crossing the wing from the 
costal margin to the inner margin, and several pale pinkish-brown spots close to the base; secondaries 
pale brown, paler at the base, the fringe fawn-colour: head, front of the thorax, and tegule pinkish- 
white, the base of the thorax and the abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft fawn-colour ; antenne and legs 
dark brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. GuaTemaua, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


A beautiful little species, of which only a single specimen has been received. 
C. minuta is very distinct from all the species of Celena we have seen, and is one of 
the smallest known members of the genus. 


PERIGEA. 
Perigea, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 225 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. x. p. 270. 
Condica, Walker, Cat. ix. p. 239. 

This genus has a very wide range, and is represented in most parts of the globe. 
The numerous species referred to it by authors are mostly of a very dull colour; no 
less than thirteen are known to me from Central America, three of which are here 
described as new. 


1. Perigea infelix, 
Perigea infelixz, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 229'; Walk. Cat. x. p. 271’. 

Hab. Norta America, Florida! ?.—GuvatEMata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, 
Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion). 

Our example from Pantaleon is considerably darker in colour than any of those we 
have seen from other localities, and it also has the hind wings whiter at the base; but 
the markings agree well with those of the other specimens before me. 


2. Perigea cupentia. 
Phalena cupentia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 103, t. 252. f. E’. 
Cenipeta cupentia, Hubn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 260. 
Bacula (?) cupentia, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 148°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, 
Surinam !2; Braziu. 
Our Panama specimens agree well with Cramer’s figure and also with others from 


Brazil in my own collection. Examples of this species have been forwarded to us from 
Dr. Staudinger under the name of Agrotis mizta. 


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3. Perigea palpalis. 
Condica palpalis, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 240, & xv. p. 1686". 
Hadena confederata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 143°; Canad. Entom. xii. p. 264°. 
Hab. Norta America, Staten Island 3, Louisiana 2, New Orleans 2, Texas ?.—Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Ribbe).—AntTILLES, San Domingo }, 
Jamaica 3, 


This species is very closely allied to P. cupentia, from which it chiefly differs in its 
much redder colour and more distinct grey patch at the apex of the primaries. We 
have received seven fine specimens from our region, and they do not show any sign of 
variation. 


4. Perigea epopea. 
Phalena Noctua epopea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iil. p. 144, t. 272. ff. G, H’. 
Agrotis (?) epopea, Walk. Cat. x. p. 338”. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam ! 2, 


Our Panama specimens are paler and whiter in colour than Cramer’s figure G, but in 
other respects they agree with it. 


5. Perigea hippia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 3.) 


Primaries greyish-white, with brown markings along the costal margin, a brown patch near the base extending 
from the costal margin to near the inner margin (but not reaching it), beyond which at the end of the 
cell is a wide brown streak, and a large reddish-brown patch bordered with greyish scales on the outer 
margin, the fringe dark brown; secondaries pale greyish-brown, darkest near the apex and outer margin, 
the fringe greyish-white; the underside pale brown with a reddish tinge: head and front of the thorax 
reddish-brown, the rest of the thorax and the basal part of the abdomen silvery-white, the other part of 
the abdomen yellowish-white ; antenne and palpi dark brown ; legs greyish-brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen. JP. hippia is allied to P. epopea, Cram., of which it is just possible 
it may be an extreme variety ; but the markings are so entirely different in colour that 
it seems advisable to name the Chiriqui insect. 


6. Perigea abstemia. 
Perigea abstemia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 281°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 2727. — 
Hab. Mexico ! ?. 


This species is unknown to us. 


7. Perigea subaurea. 
Perigea subaurea, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 227'; Walk. Cat. x. p. 2727. 
Celena (?) plagiata, Walk. Cat. x. p. 268°. . 
Celena inclinata, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 732 *. 
Perigea mobilis, Walk. Cat. x. p. 277°. 
Perigea subaurata, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 681 °. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), Teapa in Tabasco (Z. H. Smith, February 1888) ; 


278 HETEROCERA. 


British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaur) ; Honpuras®; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—ANTILLES, Guadaloupe}, San Domingo **; Brazin}?. 


This most variable insect is found over a very extended range of country, and with 
a large series of specimens before me I am quite unable to separate the specimens 
named by Walker as distinct species. In no locality do they appear constant. Our 
examples vary from light orange-brown to dark mouse-colour; in some the white discal 
spot is almost obsolete and in others it is much larger. Specimens from South-east 
Brazil in my own collection are more brightly-coloured than any from Central America. 
P. subaurea may be synonymous with P. hylea, Cram. (Pap. Exot. iv. p. 48, t. 312. f. E), 
from Surinam ; but the figure of the latter is so bad that without specimens from that 
locality it is impossible to decide with certainty. The habitat of Celena plagiata is 
not stated by Walker °. 


8. Perigea albolabes. 
Perigea albolabes, Grote, Canad. Ent. xii. p. 216°; List of North-American Moths, p. 28 (1882). 
Hab. Norta America, Arizona !.—GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—CoLomBIA. 


This species is closely allied to P. stelligera, Guén., from South-east Brazil. 


9. Perigea sutor. 
Perigea sutor, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 281°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 274’. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, February 1888); Panama, Volcan de 


Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Braztu}?, Rio Janeiro. 


Central-American specimens agree perfectly with those from Rio Janeiro in my own 
collection. 


10. Perigea fidelia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 4.) 

Primaries dark brown, mottled with pale brown close to the base and along the inner margin, and with several 
white dots at the end of the cell, beyond which is a row of indistinct black spots crossing the wing from 
the costal margin to the inner margin ; secondaries dark blackish-brown, the fringe pale brown: head, 
thorax, and abdomen dark brown; antenna, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse, g 1} inch; Q 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species is allied to P. sutor, Guén., but it is altogether a smaller insect. The 
female is larger than the male, and has the white discal spots more distinct. 


11. Perigea berinda, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 5.) 

Primaries pale brown, mottled with darker brown, with a round indistinct discal spot, a dark brown mark 
below this and nearer the base, another close to the anal angle, and a row of very minute white dots 
crossing the wing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries blackish-brown, the fringe much paler: head, thorax, and antenne pale brown; the abdomen 
greyish-brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Jalapa (Hage, M. Trujillo), Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888); Guatsmata, San Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 


PERIGEA.—MERISTIS. 279 


4000 to 5000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet 
(Champion, Ribbe). 

P. berinda varies considerably in colour, some specimens being of a much darker 
brown tint than others. A closely-allied species from South-east Brazil is contained in 
my own collection. 


12. Perigea paupera. 
Perigea paupera, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1693". 
Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison).—VENEZUELA 1. 


The late Mr. Morrison sent us a large series of specimens of this insect from Sonora ; 
these agree well with Walker’s type in the National Collection. 


13. Perigea fabrefacta. 

Segetia fabrefacta, Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii. p. 146°. 

Perigea fabrefacta, Grote, Bull. Brooklyn Soe. i. p. 87; List of North-American Moths, p. 28 
(1882). 

Hab. Norta America!.—MeExico, Presidio (Horrer), Las Vigas, Jalapa (Hége, MW. Tru- 
jillo), Coatepec (Brooks), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888); GuaTEMALA, 
El Tumbador, San Isidro 1600 feet, San Gerénimo, Cahabon (Champion); Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Janson) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); PANAMA, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species is very common and widely distributed in our country. 


Subfam. CARADRININAL. 


MERISTIS. 
Meristis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 239 (1816); Walker, Cat. x. p. 279. 


This genus is represented in Central America by a species very similar to the Euro- 
pean Meristis (Grammesia) trilinea. 


1. Meristis fea, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, crossed from the costal margin to the inner margin by four narrow dark waved 
lines, the submarginal line being very indistinct, and with a yellowish-brown spot at the end of the cell ; 
secondaries uniform pale greyish-brown, the fringe brown (that of the primaries darker) ; the underside of 
both wings uniform pale brown and each with a rather wide indistinct submarginal dusky line extending 
from the costal margin to the inner margin: head and thorax greyish-brown, the abdomen slightly 
darker, the anus yellowish; antenne and legs pale brown. Hxpanse 1,8, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemana, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet, Las 
Mercedes 3000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, San Geronimo (Champion). 


Numerous examples of this insect were obtained by Mr. Champicn in Guatemala ; 
two only by Herr Hége at Jalapa. The description and figure are taken from one of 


the Mexican specimens. 


280 HETEROCERA. 


MONODES. 
Monodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 240 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. x. p. 284. 


Two species of this genus are known to us from Central America, both of which are 
here described as new. 


1. Monodes citrina, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 7.) 


Primaries fawn-colour, yellow at the base and along the costal margin to near the apex, with two very indi- 
stinct broken bands crossing the wing about the middle, the bands extending from the costal margin to 
the inner margin, the fringe dark fawn-colour; secondaries white, slightly hyaline, the fringe yellowish ; 
the underside of the primaries pale fawn-colour, shaded with yellow along the costal margin, that of the 
secondaries white: head and thorax yellowish-brown; abdomen above white shaded with pale fawn- 
colour, beneath almost white; antenne dark brown; legs whitish. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, San Gerénimo 3000 feet (Champion). 
Only two specimens of this little species were obtained; it seems to be allied to the 
type of the genus, I. nucicolora, Guén., from East Florida. 


2. Monodes monyma, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 8.) 


Primaries pale yellowish-fawn-colour, with a dark brown patch on the outer margin between the apex and the 
anal angle and a very minute black dot at the end of the cell, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries white, 
slightly hyaline, the apex shaded with brown, the fringe yellowish-white: head, thorax, and abdomen 
pale fawn-colour, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio in Durango (Forrer); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion). | 


A pretty little species allied to WV. citrina. Our figure is taken from a Chiriqui 
specimen. 


CARADRINA. 


Caradrina, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 230 (1816); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 80; 
Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 141; Walker, Cat. x. p. 284. 


One species only of this genus has been, as yet, received by us from our region. 


1. Caradrina flavimaculata. 
Caradrina flavimaculata, Harvey, Canad. Ent. viii. p. 54°; Grote, List of North-American Moths, 
p. 30 (1882). 
Hab. Nortu America, Oregon and California !.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Mor- 
rison). 
One specimen from Sonora, agreeing with those in the Grote collection, now in the 
National Museum. 


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Subfam. NOCTUINZ. 


AGROTIS. 
Agrotis, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 66 (1816); Walker, Cat. x. p- 803. 


Guénée and Walker place a large number of species in this genus; these are widely 
distributed all over the globe. 


1. Agrotis ypsilon. 

Phalena ypsilon, Rottemb. Der Naturf. ix. p. 141. 

Agrotis ypsilon, Staud. Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 88. no. 1229. 

Phalena Noctua subfusa, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2541. 

Phalena Noctua suffusa, Borkh. Naturg. Europ. Schmett. iv. p. 549. 

Noctua suffusa, Wien. Verz. p.80 (1776), edit. 2, i. p. 257 (1801) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 157; Ent. 
Syst. m1. 2, p. 71; Hibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett., Noct. t. 28. f. 184; Haw. Lep. Brit. 
p. 217; Godart, Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. v. p. 255, t. 69. ff. 1, 2. 

Peridroma suffusa, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 227. 

Noctua (Agrotis) suffusa, Meig. Handb. fiir Schmett. p. 154; Syst. Beschr. iii. p. 87, t. 94. f. 3. 

Agrotis suffusa, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 152; Steph. Ill. British Ent., Haust. ii. p. 116; 
Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 109; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. p. 268; Walk. Cat. x. 
p- 809°; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 25 (1882) ; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1882, p. 1267. 

Bombyx spinula, Esp. Europ. Schmett. iii. t. 68. ff. 6, 7. 

Phalena Bombyx idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 150, t. 275. f. H; iv. p. 48. 

Noctua robusta, Blanch. in Gay’s Hist. fisica y polit. de Chile, Zool. vii. p. 75, Atlas, t. 6. f. 9°. 

Agrotis bipars, Walk. Cat. x. p. 334*; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 127°. 

Agrotis telifera, Harris, Treatise Ins. New Engl. p. 323 (1842) ; Treatise on some Insects injurious 
to Vegetation, Flint’s edit. p. 443 (1862). 

Hab. Norta AmMertca!.—Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), Patzcuaro 
(fF. D. G.), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de 
Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in 
mus. D.).—VENEZUELA 14; Guiana; Brazin; Urnvevay!; Cuin1*°5,—Evropr!; Inpia!; 


Cuina!; South Arrica!; AustraLiA!; New ZEauanp !. 


This species is universally distributed ; it varies very little in any locality. I can 
see no reason for treating A. dipars as distinct from A. ypsilon. 


2. Agrotis saucia. 

Noctua saucia, Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett., Noct. t. 81. f. 878; Godart, Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. 
v. p. 260, t. 69. f. 4. 

Peridroma saucia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 227. 

Agrotis saucia, Treitschke,.Schmett. Europ. v. 1, p. 149; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 271°; 
Walk. Cat. x. p. 3117; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 126°; Staud. Cat. Lep. Europ. 
p- 88. no. 1226*; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 26 (1882). 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., Judy 1889. 2 nn 


282 HETEROCERA. 


Noctua equa, Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett. t. 171. £.812; Godart, Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. v. p. 258, 

t. 69. f. 3. 

Agrotis equa, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 115. 

Agrotis ambrosioides, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 738°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 126. 

Spelotis stictica, Blanch. in Gay’s Hist. fisica y polit. de Chile, Zool. vii. p. 73, Atlas, t. 6. fig.8 °. 
Agrotis impacta, Walk. Cat. x. p. 8337‘; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 126. 

Agrotis inermis, Harris, Treatise Ins. New Engl. p. 323 (1842) ; Treatise on some Insects injurious 

to Vegetation, Flint’s edit. p. 444 (1862) ; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 26 (1882). 
Agrotis ortonii, Pack. First Annual Report of the Peabody Acad. of Science, p. 63 (1869) ; Grote, 

List of North-American Moths, p. 26. 

Noctua margaritosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 218. 

Hab. Norta Amertca.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Milpas in Durango 
5900 feet (Forrer), Jalapa, Mexico city (Hége), Cuesta de Misantla (Jf. Trujillo), 
Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Purula (Champion); Costa Rica (van Patten), Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde, 
mus. Staudinger).—Co.LomBiIA!; VENEZUELA®’; Braziu!, Rio Janeiro’; ARGENTINE 
REPUBLIC; Cuiti? °.—Evurope!4; Asta Minor*; MaApDEIRA 2. 


This species is common in our country, and varies very considerably in colour. I 
agree with Mr. Butler in regarding 4. ambrosioides, Walker, S. stictica, Blanch., and 
A. impacta, Walker, as nothing more than colour-varieties of A. saucia. Specimens 
agreeing with the types of these so-called species occur in almost all the localities 
mentioned, whence we have also received numerous intermediate forms. Mr. Butler 
remarks ? that the secondaries of the variety A. ambrosioides have the borders and veins 
dark brown: the Chilian specimens collected by Mr. T. Edmonds are darker in this 
respeci, but others from Mexico with similarly-coloured primaries have the secondaries 
much paler. Our examples vary greatly in size, those from South-east Brazil and 
the Argentine Republic, as a rule, being the smallest. 


8, Agrotis malefida. 
Agrotis malefida, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 267°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 328°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 25 (1882). 
Agrotis consueta, Walk. Cat. x. p. 334°, 
Hab. NortH America}, Kast Florida *.—Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Patzcuaro (F. 
D. G.), Mexico city (Hoge, F. D. G.), Jalapa (I. Trujillo), Coatepec (Brooks) ; Costa 
Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—VENEZUELA °. 


We have received eleven specimens from Central America; these agree well with 
others from North America in Mr. Grote’s collection now in the British Museum. 
A. malefida varies considerably in colour, some specimens having the primaries much 
greyer than others. dA. consueta, Walk., is based upon a pale form of the same 
Species, 


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4. Agrotis penicillum. 
Agrotis penicillum, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. iv. t. 109. f. 33, Erkl. der Taf. 109'. 
Hab. GUATEMALA }, 


Unknown to me. 


5. Agrotis anteposita. 

Agrotis anteposita, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 278"; Walk. Cat. x. p. 336°. 

Agrotis decernens, Walk. Cat. x. p. 833°. 

Noctua lutescens, Blanch. in Gay’s Hist. fisica y polit. de Chile, Zool. vii. p. 76‘; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 128°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge, M. Trujillo) ; Honpuras (Dyson); Costa Rica, Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).— VENEZUELA? ; SoutH-EasT Brazi.; Uruauay, Monte Video12; Cum 4°: 
ANTILLES, San Domingo 8, 


Though very widely distributed, this species appears to be rare in all the above- 


mentioned localities. 


6. Agrotis obelisca. 

Noctua obelisca, Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776), edit. 2, i. p. 258 (1801); Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett. 
t. 26. f. 123; Godart, Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. v. p. 214, t. 64 f. 3. 

Noctua (Agrotis) obelisca, Meig. Syst. Beschr. iii. p. 86, t. 92. f. 10. 

Agrotis obelisca, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 1, p. 143; Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. 
p. 110; Guén. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 240; Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 291; Walk. Cat. x. 
p. 323°, 

Metazxyja obelisca, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 223. 

Noctua obeliscata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 222. 

? Agrotis obeliscata, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 124. 

Noctua praticola, Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett. t. 123. f. 567. 

Phalena Noctua pratincola, Borkh. Europ. Schmett. iv. p. 553. 

Bombyx molothina, Esp. Europ. Schmett. iii. t. 85. f. 1. 


Hab. Norra America, Nova Scotia :—Mexico, Las Vigas (Hége) ; Costa Rica, Volcan 
de Irazu (fogers).—EvRoPe }. 


This insect appears to be common in Mexico, but from Costa Rica we have only 
received one specimen. Central-American examples agree well with European ones; 


7. Agrotis c-nigrum. 

Phalena Noctua c-nigrum, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 316. no. 1198 (1761) ; Clerck, Icon. Ins. t.i. f. 3; 
Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2542. © 

Noctua c-nigrum, Wien. Verz. p. 77. 

Megasema c-nigrum, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 223. 

Graphiphora c-nigrum, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 186; Westw. & Humphr. Brit. Moths, i. 
p- 182, t. 26. ff. 4,5; Walk. Cat. x. p. 389°. 

2nn 2 


284 HETEROCERA. 


Agrotis c-nigrum, Staud. Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 82; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 24 
(1882). 
Bombyx nun-atrum, Esp. Europ. Schmett. iii. p. 385. 
Noctua gothica, var. singularis, Esp. Schmett. iii. t. 76. f. 3. 
Hab. Nortn America, Nova Scotia!; United States !.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége).— 


EvRorPe }. 
We have received a single example of this well-known species from Mexico. 


8. Agrotis manethusa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 9.) 


Primaries dark purplish-brown, with the costal margin from the base to near the apex pale fawn-colour, a 
round spot in the middle of the cell and a lunular-shaped mark at the end of the cell pale reddish-brown 
bordered with a pale fawn-coloured line, two narrow black lines crossing the wing near the base from the 
inner edge of the pale costal streak to the inner margin, and a very indistinct row of minute dots crossing 
beyond the middle from the costal margin above the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle, the 
marginal line and the fringe reddish-fawn-colour; secondaries brownish-white, darkest at the apex 
and along the outer margin, the fringe white; the underside of the primaries blackish-brown with the 
costal margin and the fringe pinkish, that of the secondaries as above: head and thorax dark reddish- - 
brown, the underside blackish ; abdomen above yellowish-white, below white with a row of black dots on 
each side ; antenne and legs black. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, near the city (Hoge). 


This distinct species is allied to A. obelisca, from which it may be at once distin- 
guished by its much darker colour and the paler and wider streak of the costal margin. 


Two examples. 


9. Agrotis incivis. 

Agrotis incivis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 274; Walk. Cat. x. p. 330°. 

Agrotis infecta, Ochs. Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 67. 

Noctua precoxr, Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett. t. 77. f. 859; Oliv. Encycl. Méth. p. 8330; Du- 
ponch. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. ili. p. 20, t. 73. f. 1 (nec Linn.). 


Hapalia infecta, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 220. 
Anicla alabame, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 159’; List of Noct. of Am. north of Mexico, p. 7 (1875)’. 


Agrotis alabame, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 26 (1882). 
Hab. Nortu America, Central Alabama?, East Florida!.—Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 


2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Ribbe).—ANTILLES, San Domingo }. 
This species we are now able to trace southwards to the State of Panama. Some 
specimens are more spotted than others. According to Grote*, the name Anicla 


alabame is a synonym of Agrotis incivis. 


10. Agrotis ignicans. 
Agrotis ignicans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 274°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 335°. 
Agrotis prodenoides, Walk. Cat. x. p. 354°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—VenEZUELA? ; 
Braziu 2, 


The specimen described by Walker * under the name of Agrotis prodenoides is from 


AGROTIS. 285 


an unknown locality. A. ignicans is closely allied to A. incivis, and I think it quite 
possible that upon receipt of more specimens they will prove to be forms of one 
species. 


11. Agrotis differens. 
Agrotis differens, Walk. Cat. x. p. 336". 
Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Hége).—Venuzvue.a }. 


The single example received from Mexico agrees well with Walker’s type in the 
National Collection. 


12. Agrotis auxiliaris. 
Agrotis auxiliaris, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 961; List of North-American Moths, p. 24 (1882). 
Var. Agrotis agrestis, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. ii. p.117?; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 24. 
Var. Agrotis introferens, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 24. 
Hab. Norra America, Colorado !2,—Mxxico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 


We have received one specimen of this species from Sonora ; it does not differ from 
those from North America labelled A. agrestis in the Grote collection now in the 
National Museum. 

The above synonymy is taken from Grote’s Catalogues. 


13. Agrotis oroba, sp. n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 10.) 
Primaries pale greyish, crossed by three waved black lines, the fringe brownish ; secondaries white, with the 
costal margin and part of the outer margin shaded with brown: head and thorax greyish ; abdomen 
black, the anal tuft yellowish ; antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith, Aug. 1888). 


This species is allied to A. incivis, Guén. 


14. Agrotis ornea, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 11.) 

Primaries uniform pale fawn-colour, mottled with dark brown along the outer margin from the apex to the 
anal angle, and with four minute dark brown spots along the costal margin; secondaries blackish-brown, 
with the fringe white; the underside of both wings uniformly blackish-brown : head and thorax pale fawn- 
colour, the abdomen darker brown, the antenne and legs dark brown. LExpanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, near the city (Hoge). 
This species is quite distinct from any other Agrotis known to us. Two specimens. 


15. Agrotis altes, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries pale straw-colour, with a spot on the inner margin near the base and one at the end of the cell dark 
brown, the outer margin from the apex to the inner margin thickly irrorated with dark brown scales ; 
secondaries hyaline-white, shaded with brown at the apex and also along part of the outer margin ; the 
underside uniform very pale yellowish-white: head, thorax, and abdomen pale straw-colour, the collar 
black, the antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888). 


One specimen. 


286 HETEROCERA. 


16. Agrotis orophila. 
Brotis orophila, Geyer in Hiibner’s Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 5, p. 7. ff. 809, 810 
Agrotis orophila, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 736°. 


Hab. Mexico!, Coatepec (Brooks); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


Our specimens are of a browner colour than Geyer’s figures, but in other respects 
they agree fairly well with them. 


17. Agrotis repleta. 
Agrotis repleta, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 786". 
fab. Mexico (Sallé*). 


Unknown to me. 


18. Agrotis semidolens. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 13.) 
Agrotis semidolens, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 789°. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Coban (Champion); PANAMA, Bugaba 
(Champion).—CotomBia, Bogota!; Amazons}, 


Our specimens agree with the one in the late Mr. Saunders’s collection now in the 
Oxford Museum, which I believe to be the type. The example from Bogota in the 
National Collection is the darkest I have seen. 


19. Agrotis splendens, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIL. fig. 15.) 


Primaries greyish-green mottled with brown, a large white spot at the apex and several white patches along 
the inner margin, a round fawn-coloured spot edged with white below the cell, beyond which is a narrow 
black line, a black dot edged with white close to the base of the wing, and a submarginal row of minute 
black dots edged with white on the inner side extending from near the apex to the anal angle, the fringe 
greenish-grey ; secondaries dusky hyaline-white, brownish at the apex and round the outer margin, the 
fringe whitish; the underside of the primaries dark brown, that of the secondaries the same colour as 
above but crossed by two rows of dark brown spots: head, collar, and the front of the thorax reddish- 
brown, the rest of the thorax and the tegule greyish-brown speckled with green scales; abdomen dark 
brown, the anus pale fawn-colour; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Paxama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet ( Champion).—Ecuapor. 


This fine insect was first received by me from Mr. Buckley, who obtained a very large 
series of specimens at Sarayacu ; these are in all respects similar to those from our 
country. The figure is taken from a Panama specimen. 


TIRACOLA. 
Tiracola, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 851; Descr. Ind. Lep. Ins. Coll. Atkinson, p. 117. 


This genus is allied to Agrotis, but very distinct. 
1. Tiracola plagiata. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 14.) 


Agrotis plagiata, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 7401. 
Tiracola plagiata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 8522; Descr. Ind. Lep. Ins. Coll. Atkinson, p. 117°. 


TIRACOLA.—DRYOBOTA. 287 


Agrotis plagifera, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 741‘. 
Agrotis spectabilis, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 704°. 
Tiracola spectabilis, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 352°. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo)—Inp1a, South 


India and Darjeeling 23; Czyton!?234; Augsrratia®, Moreton Bay °. 


After careful comparison of the types of these so-called species I am unable to 
separate them as distinct, or to detect any difference between them and examples from 
Mexico. ‘The species varies considerably: one of our specimens from Mexico agrees 
perfectly with one from Ceylon in the National Museum ; another Mexican example is 
almost identical with others from Australia in my own collection. 


LYCOPHOTIA. 
Lycophotia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 215 (1816); Walker, Cat. x. p. 355. 


Four species were included in this genus by Walker, two from Europe, and two from 
Tropical South America. One of the latter extends northwards to Mexico; this, as 
stated by Walker, is doubtfully congeneric with the others. 


1. Lycophotia (?) grandimacula. 
Agrotis grandimacula, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 296, t. 5. f. 5+; Walk. Cat. x. p. 357”. 
Lycophotia (?) grandimacula, Walk. Cat. x. p. 357 °. 
Hadena basicarnea, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 587 *. 
? Calymnia cirrus, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 109. f. 5, Erkl. der Taf. 109’. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); GuatemMata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA ‘* ®; 
Ecuapor; Braziu! 2 3, 

Our specimens agree well with Guénée’s figure, except as regards the palpi, which 
appear to be incorrectly drawn. Calymnia cirrus is probably the same species, but it 
has the secondaries whiter and the bands of the primaries more distinct. 


DRYOBOTA. 
Dryobota, Lederer, Noct. Europ. p. 100 (1857). 


In Staudinger’s Catalogue of the European Lepidoptera five species are included in 
this genus; one inhabits Central and South America. 


1. Dryobota agnata. 
Dryobota agnata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 109. f. 4, Erkl. der Taf. 109°. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Totonicapam 89500 to 10,500 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet 
(Champion) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Braziu '. 


288 HETEROCERA. 


Our specimens from Central America are rather darker in colour than Felder and 
Rogenhofer’s figure of D. agnata, but they have the markings exactly similar. 
Guatemalan examples are the darkest. 


Subfam. ORTHOSIINZA. 


TANIOCAMPA. 


Taeniocampa, Guénée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 477 (1839) ; Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 346 ; Walker, 
Cat. x. p. 421. 


1. Teniocampa oviduca. 


Teniocampa oviduca, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 83571; Walk. Cat. x. p. 429°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 31 (1882). 


Hab. Nort America! ?.—Mexico, Las Vigas, J alapa (Hoge); GuatTemata, San 
Gerénimo (Champion). 

The three specimens received from our region agree well with those from North 
America in the Grote collection now in the National Museum. 


2. Teniocampa (?) lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIL. fig. 16.) 


Primaries reddish-brown, crossed by three narrow greyish lines, the spot at the end of the cell greyish ; 
secondaries creamy-white, shading off to brown in some specimens: head and thorax reddish-brown, the 
abdomen greyish. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species appears to be very common in Chiriqui; from Costa Rica we have only 
received one specimen. 


ORTHODES. 
Orthodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 371 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. x. p. 443. 


From our country examples of three species of this genus have been received ; two 
of these are very widely distributed. 


1. Orthodes cynica. 
Orthodes cynica, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 875°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 443°; Grote, List of North- 
American Moths, p. 31 (1882) °*. 
Orthodes nimia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 3764; Walk. Cat. x. p. 443 °. 
Orthodes candens, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 876°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 4447. 
Hab. Nortu America 3, Nova Scotia2, New York 12456 7—MExIco, Coatepec 
(Brooks); GuatemaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Purula, Senahu ( Champion) ; 


Costa Rica, Rio Sucio, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan 


ORTHODES.—MESOGONA. 289 


de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion, Arcé)—Coxromsia ; Ecuapor ; Sovru-rast 
BRAZIL. 


This species varies in colour from pale drab to dark reddish-brown: as a rule, 
specimens from North America are the palest, the most richly coloured being from the 
State of Panama. 


2. Orthodes lodebar, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. figg. 17 ¢, 182.) 


Male. Primaries reddish-brown, darkest along the costal margin to the middle, and the dark colour beyond 
this extending half over the wing towards the outer margin, with three waved indistinct lines crossing 
from the costal to the inner margin, a yellowish-brown spot at the end of the cell, and a submarginal 
waved black line extending from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle; secondaries 
dark brown, with the fringe paler (especially so on the inner margin); the underside yellowish- — 
fawn-colour, the costal and the outer margins of the primaries broadly banded with reddish-brown, 
the apex of the secondaries slightly shaded with reddish-brown: head and thorax dark reddish-brown, 
the collar pale yellowish-brown, the abdomen dark brown with the sides and anus reddish-brown, the 
underside of the thorax, abdomen, and the legs yellowish-fawn-colour; antenne brown; palpi brown, 
paler in front. Female marked like the male, but with the spot at the end of the cell very much more 
distinct and of a pale fawzi-colour, and the underside more dusky. Expanse, ¢,2inches; 9, 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata, Senahu (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


This species is allied to O. cynica, but very differently marked. The Mexican and 
Guatemalan specimens are rather darker brown than the two from Costa Rica 
figured. 


3. Orthodes infirma. 
Orthodes infirma, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 8757; Walk. Cat. x. p. 4467; Grote, List of North- 
American Moths, p. 31 (1882)%. 
? Orthodes curvirena, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 374, t. 5. f. 12%. 
Hab. Norra America *.—MeExico, Coatepec (Brooks), Jalapa (Schaus, Hoge) ; 
GvaTEMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Senahu (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (ogers).—BraziL 124, Rio Janeiro (coll. D.). 


O. infirma and O. curvirena, Guén., are. probably one and the same species; the 
black bands on the body of O. curvirena shown in the figure are, I think, most likely 
caused by the abdomen being much pulled out. My specimens from Rio Janeiro are 
similar to those from Central America. 


MESOGONA. 
Mesogona, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 144 (1840) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. 
v. p. 403; Walker, Cat. x. p. 472. 
Walker in his Catalogue includes four species in this genus, two from Europe, one 
from North America, and one from Mexico; the latter is unknown to me. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., July 1889. 2 00 


290 | HETEROCERA. 


1. Mesogona madida. 
Mesogona madida, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 404°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 4747. 
Hab. Mexico! 2. 


Subfam. COSMIINAL. 


ATETHMIA. 


Atethmia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 238 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. x. p. 490. 
Athetmia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 12. 


The species of this genus have a very wide distribution in Tropical America. 


1. Atethmia subusta. 


Atethmia subusta, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 2, p. 8. no. 108, ff. 205, 206; Verz. bek. 
Schmett. p. 238 ; Walk. Cat. x. p. 490°. 

Athetmia subusta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 13’. 

Athetmia inusta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 12, t. 8. f. 1°. 

Alethmia inusta, Walk. Cat. x. p. 491+. 

Anthophila erecta, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 828°. 

Poaphila congesta, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1838 °. 

Laphygma trilinea, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 6497. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, R. Papagaio 1200 feet, and 
Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Coatepec 
(Brooks), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo); Guaremata, Cahabon, San Joaquin, San 
Gerénimo, Zapote (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Cotomsia!2; Venezvug.a °; 
Guiana®; Brazin?34; Anrittes, San Domingo 57, 


This widely distributed and common Tropical-American insect is very variable in 
colour ; and in some specimens the lines crossing the primaries are very distinct, while 
in others they are almost obsolete. We are now able to trace the species as far north 
as Mexico, where it appears to be not uncommon. Walker has described the species 
three times, and on each occasion he placed it in a different genus. I fail to detect 
the slightest difference between his types. 


Examples were captured by Mr. H. H. Smith in various localities in Mexico, between 
April and October 1888. 


Subfam. HADENINA. 


DIANTHACSCIA. 


Dianthecia, Boisduval, in Silberm. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 246 (1834); Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 92. 
Dianthecia, Guénée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 204 (1888) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 496. 


This genus is represented in our country by one species only; others have been 
described from South America, Europe, South Africa, &c. 


DIANTHCCIA.—HECATERA. 291 


1. Dianthecia tura, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 19.) 


Primaries reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by five narrow whitish lines, the one 
in the centre of the wing bordered on the outer side with dark brown, and with a white spot at the end 
of the cell, and a submarginal row of minute dark brown dots, bordered on the inner side with white, 
extending from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle; secondaries glossy reddish-brown, 
palest at the base, the fringe almost white; the underside pale glossy fawn-colour, the secondaries lighter 
than the primaries: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown; the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
This species is allied to D. botonga, Felder, from South Africa. 


HECATERA. 
Hecatera, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 27 (1852); Walker, Cat. xi. p. 508. 


Two American species were included by Guénée in this widely distributed genus ; 
one of these inhabits Central America, whence two others are here described. 


1. Hecatera laudabilis. 
Hecatera laudabilis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 30, t. 8. f. 4°; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 5117. 
Mamestra laudabilis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 27 (1882). 
Mamestra illaudabilis, Grote, Canad. Ent. vii. p. 27°. 
Hab. Norta America!, Vancouver ?, California®, Kast Florida?,—Mexico, Jalapa 


(Hoge), Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, near the city (Champion). 
Our specimens agree with those from North America in the British Museum, but 
they are not so highly coloured as Guénée’s figure. 


2. Hecatera hodeva, sp. n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 21.) 


Primaries dark brown, mottled with greyish scales at the base along the inner and outer margins, the spot at 
the end of the cell greyish; secondaries white, semihyaline, slightly clouded with brown at the apex and 
along the outer margin; the underside of both wings greyish-white: head and thorax dark blackish- 
brown, speckled with grey scales; abdomen dark grey, slightly yellowish at the anus; legs grey; antenne 
black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
This little species is allied to H. laudabilis, Guén.; one specimen only has been 


received. 


3. Hecatera hoshea, sp. n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 22.) 

Primaries dark grey mottled with dark brown, with a glossy dark brown mark on the middle of the inner 
margin spreading over the wing towards the costal margin, an indistinct glossy brown band extending 
from the costal margin near the apex across the wing to the inner margin near the anal angle, and a 
marginal row of minute black dots; secondaries white, semihyaline, broadly bordered with dark brown: 
head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish-brown, the antenne black, the legs greyish. LExpanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
One specimen of this distinct species has been kindly sent to us by Dr. Staudinger 


for determination. 
200 2 


292 HETEROCERA. 


VALERIA. 


Valeria (Géermar), Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 22 (1829); Guénée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
vii. p. 121 (1838) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 529. 


In our country this genus is represented by three species, two of which are described 
as new. 


1. Valeria beryllus. 
Valeria beryllus, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 51, t. 8. f. 7*; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 53817. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3060 feet (Champion).—Braziu ! 2. 


Guénée’s figure of V. beryllus is not a good one, but I have no doubt that our 
Central-American examples are referable to this species. 


2. Valeria laches, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 20.) 

Primaries reddish-brown, with the costal and inner margins pale fawn-colour, and several irregular green 
markings crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, the outer part of the wing speckled 
with greyish scales; secondaries glossy reddish-fawn-colour, palest at the base, the fringe yellowish; 
the underside of both wings of a uniform glossy pinkish-brown: head, thorax, and tegule dark 
reddish-brown ; abdomen yellowish-fawn-colour, becoming reddish at the anus; antenne dark brown; 
legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this fine species was sent. V. laches has no near known ally. 


3. Valeria uscana, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 23.) 


Primaries greenish-brown marked with darker brown, with a black dotted line bordered on the outer side with 
pinkish-grey crossing the wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and some 
black streaks near the base and along the costal margin, the marking at the end of the cell yellowish 
bordered with pale green, the fringe greenish-brown ; secondaries brownish-black, whitish at the base and 
inner margin, the fringe greenish-yellow ; the underside uniform pale glossy brown, the secondaries with 
a brown line crossing below the middle from the costal to the inner margin: head, thorax, and 
abdomen greenish- brown, the abdomen rather paler than the thorax ; antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
2 inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


Numerous examples. V. wscana closely resembles Hadena auriplena, Walk., from 
North India, and also H. gnoma, Butl., from Japan. 


EUPLEXIA. 
Euplexia, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 3 (1829); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 67; 
Walker, Cat. xi. p. 542. 
This genus is represented in Europe, North, Central, and South America, Africa, and 
Australia. 


EUPLEXIA.—HADENA,. 293 


1, Euplexia roseola. | 
Euplexia roseola, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 110. f. 7, Erkl. der Taf. 110°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VunuzvuzLa}!. 
The single specimen received from Chiriqui agrees well with Felder and Rogenhofer’s 


~ figure. 
POLYPHAENIS. 


Polyphenis, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 128 (1840); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. 
vi. p. 71. 
Polyphlenis, Walker, Cat. xi. p. 547. 
The species of this genus are scattered over Europe, North, Central, and South 
America, and the Antilles. 


1. Polyphenis respondens. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 24.) 
Polyphlenis respondens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 17207. . 
Hab. Mexico, near the city (Hége); Honpuras 1.—Braziu}; Trinipap. 
A specimen from Trinidad in my collection is darker in colour than the one we have 
received from Mexico, but in all other respects they agree with each other. 


HADENA. 
Hadena, Guénée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 213 (1838) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. ‘558. 


A very large number of species have been placed in Hadena by Guénée, Walker, and 
others; and doubtless when some of these are better known and their earlier stages 
described, the genus will have to be divided. 


1. Hadena psittacus. 
Mamestra (Noctua) psittacus, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 80, f. 216. 
Hadena psittacus, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 589°. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, 


Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).— VENEZUELA}. 
Our specimens agree perfectly with Herr.-Schaffer’s figure; the Costa Rican example 


is the most richly coloured. 


2. Hadena toxaridia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 25.) 


Primaries dark olive-brown crossed by narrow black lines, with a wide greenish band crossing the wing near 
the base from the costal to the inner margin, the inner edge of the band narrowly bordered with white, 
a large greenish spot at the end of the cell becoming whitish on the outer side, a marginal band of 
greenish-white spots extending from the apex to the anal angle, and along the outer margin a series of 
small black dots, the fringe greenish-white with black points; secondaries blackish-brown, becoming 
whitish at the base, the fringe grey; the underside of both wings greyish-brown, each crossed by an 
indistinct pale waved line: head and thorax greenish-brown, the tegule and the hinder part of the thorax 


294 HETEROCERA. 


thickly speckled with greyish hairs, the abdomen greyish-brown, the anus greenish; antenne and palpi 
dark brown; legs greyish, spotted with brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Muxtco, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer). 


One specimen only of this beautiful species has been received ; it is not closely allied 
to any other known to me. 


3. Hadena viridis. 
Hadena viridis, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 17}. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 


4. Hadena metallica. 
Hadena metallica, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 17°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 


“A very handsome species, somewhat recalling the coloration of Amphipyra sanquini- 
puncta, Guén., from N. S. Wales.”—H. E. 


5. Hadena (?) impedita. 
Hadena impedita, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1726". 
Hab. GuatEMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—VENEZUELA!. 


This species is doubtfully referable to the genus Hadena. 


6. Hadena latifascia. 
Hadena latifascia, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 780°. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Duefias, Senahu (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA 1. 


This species appears to be very widely distributed. The large spot on the prima- 


ries varies considerably in colour, it being much greyer in some specimens than in 
others. 


7. Hadena aperiens. 
Hadena aperiens, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 755°. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA !. 
This in all probability is a very dark form of the preceding species. 


8. Hadena differens, sp.n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 26.) 
Primaries dark brown, with a broad V-shaped reddish-brown mark about the middle, on the outer edge of 
which, nearest the inner margin, is a very dark brown spot, and an indistinct reddish-brown submarginal 


HADENA.—ALIBAMA. 295 


line extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries dull brown, slightly paler at the base: head, 
thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species is perhaps nearest allied to H. aperiens, but it is a much larger insect. 


CALYMNIA. 
Calymnia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 235 (1816); Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 115; 
Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 32 (1882). 
Cosmia (Ochsenheimer), Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 8; Walker, Cat. x. p. 486 (pars). 
This genus seems hardly separable from Hadena; it contains a few species from 
Europe, and North, Central, and South America. Calymnia cirrus, Feld. & Rogenh., 
from Venezuela, is probably, as already stated, a Lycophotia. 


1. Calymnia oryx. 
Calymnia oryz, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 109. f. 35, Erkl. der. Taf. 109+. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA 1. 
This species is very closely allied to Hadena latifascia, Walk., but it has the pri- 
maries much more brightly coloured. 


2. Calymnia bicon, sp. n. 
Primaries marked exactly as in C. oryx, Feld. & Rogenh., but white (instead of pinkish-brown as in that 
species), with the outer margin tinged with pinkish-brown; the secondaries darker than in C. oryw: the 
head and the terminal joints of the palpi white (instead of black as in C. oryx). Expanse 1), inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks). 

C. bicon is, no doubt, very nearly allied to the preceding species; but in the two 
specimens before me (and in others we have seen from Mexico) the head and the 
terminal joints of the palpi are white, instead of black as in C. oryr. The primaries 
are also whiter than in C. oryx. 


ALIBAMA. 
Alibama, Moschler, Beitr. zur Schmett.-Faun. von Jamaica, p. 43 (1886). 
This genus seems to be exceedingly close to Hadena and Calymnia; it has the 
primaries slightly narrower and the thorax not quite so robust. ‘Two species, both 
from Jamaica, were included in it by Moschler. 


1. Alibama mutata. 
Alibama mutata, Mésch. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Faun. von Jamaica, p. 44, tab. ff. 5, 5a’. 
Hab. Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet, San Joaquin 
(Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—ANTILLEs, 
Jamaica 1. 


Our specimens agree perfectly with Méschler’s figure. 


296 HETEROCERA. 


STIBAERA. 
Stibera, Walker, Cat. xi. p. 608 (1857). 


Walker founded St¢b@ra upon a single species from Brazil which is now known to 
extend northwards to Northern Mexico; we now add a second from our region. This 
genus seems to have some affinity with Thyatira. 


1. Stibera costiplaga. 
Stibera costiplaga, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 608°. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Tonalapa in Guerrero (H. H. Smith, June); Gua- 
TEMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Ribbe).— Braziu}. 

The type, and also a specimen in my own collection, is from Rio Janeiro. A single 


example from Guatemala is darker in colour than either of these, while those from 
Mexico are paler. 


2. Stibera lucina, sp. n. (Tab. XXVII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries brownish-grey, with a broad central dark brown band edged on each side with a pale line, and 
beyond this two indistinct pale waved lines, the second being submarginal, crossing the wing from the 
costal to the inner margin, the spot at the end of the cell pale greyish-brown; secondaries dark 
glossy greyish-brown; the underside of both wings greyish, clouded with darker brown: head, thorax, 
and tegule greyish-brown, the abdomen paler but with the anus greyish; antenne and legs brown. 
Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, April). 


One specimen only of this distinct species has been received. 


Subfam. XV LININA. 


XYLINA. ~ 


Xylena, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 85 (1816) (pars). 

Xylina, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, p. 3 (1826) (pars) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 622; Staudinger, 
Cat. Europ. Lep. p. 119. 

Lithophane, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 32 (1882). 


Four species of this very widely distributed genus are known to us from Central 
America. | 


1. Xylina albula. 
Xylina albula, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 6297. - 
flab. Honpuras }.—Antitizs, San Domingo’. 


The only specimens we have seen of this species are those contained in the National 
Collection. 


XYLINA.—CUCULLIA. | 297 


2. Xylina detrecta. 
Xylina detrecta, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 750°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888); Gua- 
TEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion); Honpuras!; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA I. 


Our Central-American specimens agree well with Walker’s type in the National 
Collection. 


3. Xylina esula, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 1.) 


Primaries dark grey streaked and mottled with pale whitish-grey, and with a small black streak in the cell 
and a waved indistinct black line crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin beyond it, 
the fringe grey; secondaries pearly-white, slightly edged with brown at the apex and along part of the 
outer margin; the underside of the primaries blackish, that of the secondaries as above: head, thorax, and 
abdomen grey, the anus yellowish; antenne black, greyish at the base. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, February). 


We have only received one specimen of this distinct but dull-coloured species. 


4, Xylina lytewa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 2.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, clouded with dark blackish-brown on the costal margin near the apex, and with a 
dark-brown streak at the end of the cell, the fringe pale fawn-colour; secondaries pearly-white, almost 
hyaline, the fringe white; the underside of the primaries dusky white, slightly darker along the costal 
margin, that of the secondaries as above: head, thorax, and abdomen brownish-fawn colour, the antenne 
and legs brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (mus. D.). 


For the pleasure of adding this species to our list and the type to my collection, I am 
indebted to the kindness of M. Paul Dognin, who has submitted all his Mexican moths 
to me for determination. 


MAGUSA. 
Magusa, Walker, Cat. xi. p. 762 (1857). 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species from San Domingo; Felder and 
Rogenhofer have since added two from Bogota; and several others, undescribed as yet, 
are contained in various collections. 


1. Magusa strigifera. 
Magusa strigifera, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 763°. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Mexico city (Hége).— ANTILLES, San Domingo 1. 


Our Mexican specimens do not differ from Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


CUCULLIA. 
Cucullia, Schrank, Fauna boica, ii. 1, p. 153 (1801); Walker, Cat. xi. p. 637. 


Most of the numerous species belonging to this genus are European; nine are known 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1., July 1889. 2 pp 


298 HETEROCERA. 


from North America, one of which we include in our list upon the authority of 
Dr. Staudinger; and one is now added from Western Mexico. 


1. Cucullia postera. 
Cucullia postera, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 183°; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 656’. 
Hab. Norta America! ?, Carolina (Morrison)—MeExico (in mus. Staudinger). 


The specimens from Mexico, forwarded to us by Dr. Staudinger for examination, 
agree well with others from Carolina in my own collection. 


2. Cucullia phocylides, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 3.) 


Primaries pale grey, with an indistinct wide fawn-coloured band crossing the wing from near the apex to the 
inner margin, several narrow black streaks near the apex, and a dark brown spot close to the anal angle, 
the marginal line black, the fringe grey ; secondaries dull white, dusky at the apex and along part of the 
outer margin, the fringe white; the underside of the primaries dusky blackish-brown, that of the secon- 
daries as above: head and front of the thorax dark grey, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen brownish- 
fawn-colour, the antenne dark brownish-black, the legs dark grey. Expanse 2} inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. A. Smith, August). 


This species is allied to C. postera, Guén., from which it differs in having a wide 
fawn-coloured marking across the primaries and much less colour on the outer margin 
of the secondaries. It is possible that C. phocylides may prove to be inseparable from 
one or the other of the North-American species of Cucullia described by Lintner; but 
it is not likely that this is the case. The single specimen received is probably a female. 


Subfam. HELIOTHINAL. 


CHLORIDEA. 
Chloridea, Westwood, in Duncan’s Nat. Libr. xxxvii. p. 198 (1841) ; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 677. 


Prof. Westwood founded this genus upon Phalena rherie, Abbot and Smith, from 
Georgia; and Walker subsequently added two others to it, one from North America 
and one from the Antilles. 


1. Chloridea rhexiz. 

Phalena rhexiea, Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 199, t. 1007. 

Chloridea rhexiea, Westw. in Duncan’s Nat. Libr. xxxvii. p. 198, t. 24. f.3; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 678°; 
Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 35 (1882) ; Druce, P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 823°. 

Aspila rhexia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 175+. 

? Noctua virescens, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 830. no. 72; Oliv. Encycl. Méth.viii. p. 269. 

? Aspila virescens, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 175°. 

? Chloridea virescens, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 678°. 

Heliothis spectanda, Streck. Lep. N. Am. p. 122 (1876) *. 

Chloridea spectanda, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 35 (1882). 


CHLORIDEA.—HELIOTHIS. 299 


Hab. Nortu America 4, Virginia 1, Georgia 12, Florida?, Texas?.—Mexico, Cordova 
(Riimeli), Coatepec (Brooks), Chilpancingo in Guerrero 4000 feet (H. H. Smith, 
June); GuaTemaa, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, 
mus. D.).—Soutu-East Brazit, Cabo; Amazons, Santarem?, S. Paulo; ANTILLES ®, San 
Domingo ?, Dominica *, St. Thomas >, Guadaloupe >. 


This species is very widely distributed. It varies to some extent, none of the speci- 
mens before me being anything like so brightly coloured as Abbot and Smith’s figure ; 
those from Brazil are darker than the examples from the more northern localities. The 
larva is well-figured by Abbot and Smith, who state that it feeds on Rhexia virginica 
as well as on the tobacco-plant. I think it most probable that Abbot and Smith’s 
insect is not distinct from Noctua virescens, Fabr., if so the Fabrician name has 
priority. 


HELIOTHIS. 


Heliothis, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 91 (1816) ; Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, 
p. 230 (1826) ; Guénée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 56 (1841); Walker, Cat. xi. p. 680. 


The species of this genus are very widely distributed all over the globe ; two only 
from Central America are known to us. 


1. Heliothis armiger. 

Noctua armigera, Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. iv. t. 79. f. 370; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 316, 
t. 119. ff. 6,7; Frey. Beitr. i. t. 203. 

Heliothis armigera, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, p. 230; Boisd. Faun. ent. Madag., Bourbon 
et Maurice, Lép. p. 98; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 683; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 181; Druce, 
P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 323°. | 

Heliothis armiger, Staud. Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 130. 

Heliothis umbrosus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. i. pp. 219, 347°, and ii. p. 276. 

Heliothis interjacens, Grote, Bull. Brooklyn Soe. ii. p. 80°; List of North-American Moths, p. 36 
(1882). 

Hab. Nortn America, Long I.°, Georgia1, California, Florida, Texas (Ff. D. G.), 
Arizona *.—Mexico1, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), Cuernavaca in Morelos 
(H. H. Smith, June), Mexico city (Hége); GuateMaLa, San Geronimo, Zapote (Cham- 
pion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—VENEzUELA!; 
Braziu+; Cutt; ANTILLES, Dominica ?, Jamaica 1.—Evurope!; AsiaA!; Arrica!; Avs- 
TRALIA!; Mapacascar!; New Zeatanp!; Samoa Is.anps }, go. 


This very common and widely-distributed insect is found in all parts of the world. 
With a large series of specimens before me, I am unable to separate H. interjacens, 
Grote, the type of which is contained in the National Collection, from H. armiger; in 
Grote’s List of N.-Amer. Moths, 1882, the former is placed as a synonym of H. phlogo- 
phagus. H. armiger is extremely variable: some specimens from Mexico being pale 


2 pp 2 


300. | HETEROCERA. 


straw-colour, while others are quite dark brown; and many of our examples do not 
differ from European ones. The specimen captured by Mr. Godman at El Paso, Texas, 
is smaller and darker in colour than any we have seen from Central America. 


2. Heliothis phlogophagus. 
_ Heliothis phloxiphaga, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 1877. 
Heliothis phlogophagus, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Heliothis luteitinctus, Grote, List of Noct. of Am. north of Mexico, p. 19, footnote no. 24 (1875). 
Heliothis phlogophagus, var. luteitinctus, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36, and foot- 
note (1882) *. 
Hab. North America, Kansas ?, Illinois 1, Colorado :—Mexico, Milpas in Durango 


5900 feet (Forrer), Mexico city (Hoge). 


Our Mexican specimens do not differ from those named H. luteitinctus in Grote’s 
collection now in the British Museum. 4. luteitinctus, according to Grote, is a yellow- 
winged variety of H. phlogophagus. The larva of this species is stated 1 to feed upon 
Phlox. 


ANTHC:CIA. 


Anthecia, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 162 (1840) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. 
vi. p. 183; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 691; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Walker included twelve species in this genus—five from Europe, six from North 
America, and one from an unknown locality. Numerous species from North America 
have since been added to it. The genus is not adopted by Staudinger in his European 
Catalogue. 


1. Anthecia meskeana. 
Lygranthecia meskeana, Grote, Canad. Entom. vii. p. 224°. 
Anthecia meskeana, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Heliothis fastidiosa, Streck. Lep. N. Am. p. 121 (1876)*. _ 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas ! *.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


Our specimen from Jalapa agrees with one in the Grote collection. According to 
Grote (Canad. Entom. viii. p. 26), Héliothis fastidiosa is not distinct from A. meskeana. 


2. Anthecia emessa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 4.) 


Primaries with the base purplish-brown crossed by a dark brown curved line, beyond this olive-green shading 
off almost to white, the whole part limited externally by a second brown line, and thence almost to the 
outer margin olive-brown, the latter shaded with pink, the fringe greyish ; secondaries blackish-brown, 
paler at the base; the underside of both wings uniformly blackish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen 
pale olive-brown, the underside of the abdomen greyish-white, the antenne and legs pale brown. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. GuatTeMALa, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this beautiful insect was captured. It is not closely allied 
to any other species known to me. 


ANTHECTA.—AGROPHILA. 301 


3. Anthecia scira, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries yellowish-brown, darkest in the middle and along the costal margin, with a bluish-white narrow 
waved line crossing the wing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, the dark brown part of 
the wing thickly irrorated with pale blue scales, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle 
broadly bordered with creamy-white; secondaries brownish-black, with the fringe almost white: head 
dark brown, the front of the thorax and the tegule yellowish-white, the rest of the thorax white; abdomen 
above blackish-brown, beneath dusky white; antenna and legs dark brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Rincon in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 


Of this very beautiful insect a single example was captured by Mr. Smith in 
September 1888. 


ADISURA. 
Adisura, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 367 ; Descr. New Indian Lep. Ins. Coll. Atkinson, p. 136. 


The species included in this genus by Moore are all from India or the Eastern 


Archipelago. ‘We have to add one from Costa Rica, this also being known to me from 
the Lower Niger. 


1. Adisura imitata, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries silky white, with the costa and a streak extending from the base to the anal angle bright pink; 


secondaries dusky white; the underside of both wings dusky white: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish- 
white. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).—Arrica, Lower Niger (mus. D.). 


One worn specimen of this species has been received by us from Van Patten. It is 
not separable from others from the Lower Niger in my own collection; these latter 
were collected by the late W. A. Forbes. 


Subfam. ACONTIINEE. 


AGROPHILA. 


Agrophila, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 175 (1840) (pars) ; Guénée, Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. x. p. 228 (1841); Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 204; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 772, & xxxiii. 
p. 774. 
The species of this genus are distributed over Europe, North, Central, and South 
_ America, and the Antilles ; seven are known to us from Central America. 


1. Agrophila transmutata. 
Agrophila transmutata, Walk. Cat. xxxiil. p. 776". 
Spragueia pardalis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 50°; List of North-American Moths, p. 38 (1882). 
Hab. Norta America, Florida ? —Muaxuco, Presidio (Forrer); GuatreMa.a, San Isidro 
1600 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui tebe, in mus. Staudinger).— 
ANTILLES, San Domingo !. 


Our specimens agree perfectly with Walker's type in the National Collection, and 
also with the North-American insect named by Grote. 


302 , HETEROCERA. 


2. Agrophila rudisana. 
Agrophila rudisana, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 776". 
Hab. Mrxico, Presidio (Forrer).—AntitLEs, San Domingo}. 


Mexican specimens do not differ from Walker’s type. 


3. Agrophila trifariana. 
Agrophila trifariana, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 7777. 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco and Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco, Atoyac in 
Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San Gerdnimo, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion). 


The locality of this species was unknown to its describer}, Our specimens from 
Mexico and Guatemala agree well with the type in the National Collection. Mr. Smith 
met with this insect in Mexico in the months of March, April, and September 1888, 
one specimen only having been found in each locality. 


4, Agrophila apicella. 

Emmelia (Agrophila) apicella, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 21°; Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 199. 
Fruva apicella, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 38 (1882). 
Agrophila truncatula, Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. ges, Wien, xxiii. p- 2038, t. 3. f. 1°; xxv. pp. 327, 328. 
Fruva accepta, H. Edwards, Papilio, i. p. 24°. 

Hab. Nortu America, Alabama}, Texas?, Florida 3x—Mexico, Rio Papagaio 1200 
feet and Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith) ; 
GuaremaLa, San Gerénimo, Zapote (Champion) ;- Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (22d6e). 


This insect is widely distributed and not uncommon in our country, and we are now 
enabled to trace it as far south as the Volcan de Chiriqui. It appears to have been 
described no less than three times. 


5. Agrophila marmorea. 
Aphusia marmorea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 27°. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemaa, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, 
San Gerénimo (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
—Amazons, Rio Jutahi}. 


This species varies considerably, some examples being much greener in tint than 
others. Mr. Smith obtained specimens of it in Southern Mexico in March 1888. 
A. marmorea appears to have'a more southern distribution than A. apicella. 


6. Agrophila cleta, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 7.) 


Primaries orange-yellow, paler along the costal margin, the latter marked with fine very small black dots, a 
round black spot at the end of the cell, a slate-coloured streak on each side extending to the inner margin, 
and a black spot close to the base and another at the apex, the fringe orange ; secondaries dark brown; 
the underside of both wings dark brown: head, front of the thorax, and tegule orange-yellow, the rest of 
the thorax and the abdomen brown, each segment of the latter edged with yellow; antenne brown; the 
legs pale yellowish-brown, Expanse jy inch, 


AGROPHILA.—-METOPONIA. 303 


Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith, July). 


One specimen. 


7. Agrophila phenna, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 8.) 

Primaries dusky white, darkest along the inner margin and near the anal angle, with three small dots along 
the costal margin, one at the end of the cell, and a small one in the cell, brownish-black, and two similarly- 
coloured streaks on the inner margin near the anal angle, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries dusky white, 
darkest round the outer margin: head, collar, and tegulea white, the thorax and abdomen brownish-white, 


the legs and antenne black. Expanse ;$, inch. 


Hab. Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith, June). 


This species is very distinct from any other known to me. 


METOPONIA *. 
Metoponia (Duponchel), Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 206 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 775. 


Walker included two species in this genus, and since the publication of his Catalogue 
several others have been described by various authors. We have lately received three 
species from Mexico, all of which were captured in the State of Guerrero. 


1. Metoponia demo, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 9.) 


Primaries bright yellow, with three brown marks along the costal margin, a large brown spot about the middle 
of the inner margin, and several minute dots near the base, an indistinct waved line crossing the wing 
beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a submarginal row of small brown spots 
extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe brown and yellow; secondaries black, with the 
fringe yellow; the underside of both wings yellow but much suffused with brown: head, palpi, and 
antenne brown, the thorax and anus yellow, the abdomen black above and reddish-brown beneath, the 
legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith, August). 


This species is perhaps nearest allied to UZ. obtusa, Herr.-Schaff. Two specimens only 
were obtained by Mr. Smith. 


2. Metoponia primulina, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 10.) 

Primaries pale primrose-colour, with four minute dots placed in a straight line and extending along the costal 
margin, and a brown streak close to the base on the inner margin ; secondaries dusky white, darker in some 
specimens than in others; the underside of both wings cream-colour, that of the primaries irrorated with 
black scales and with the costal margin black at the base and thence to the apex yellow: head, front of the 
thorax, and tegule pale primrose-colour, the tegule edged with dark brown, the rest of the thorax dark 
brown, the abdomen brown above but yellowish-white beneath, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
13 inch. 


Had. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith, August). 


Allied to the preceding, from which it may be at once distinguished by its paler 
primaries and very differently-coloured secondaries. Several specimens. 


* This generic name, as noted by Walker, is preoccupied in Diptera, Macquart, 1847. 


304 HETEROCERA. 


3. Metoponia (?) procida, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 11.) | 


Primaries pale brownish-yellow, clouded with brown at the base and along the inner margin, two dark brown 
spots on the costal margin and one on the middle of the inner margin, the wing crossed from the costal 
to the inner margin by five very indistinct narrow waved brown lines; the secondaries blackish; the 
fringe of both wings yellow: head, thorax, and tegule pale yellowish-brown, the abdomen black above 
and pale brown beneath, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen, captured in October 1888. 


EUGRAPHIA. 
Eugraphia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 208 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 776. 
This genus was founded by Guénée for the reception of a single species, EH. irretita 
(Hiibn.), from Brazil. A very fine new one from Chiriqui is now added. 


1. Eugraphia effusa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries cream-colour, broadly bordered with brownish-black from the apex to the anal angle, and with 
three narrow black lines crossing the wing from the costal margin and joining the marginal band about 
the middle, the black lines and the outer borders thickly irrorated with metallic green scales; secondaries 
bright yellow, broadly bordered with black from the apex to about the middle of the outer margin, a 
yellow spot on the costal margin close to the apex ; the fringe of the primaries greenish-black, that of the 
secondaries white; the underside of both wings bright yellow, with the outer margins black: head and 
thorax cream-colour, the abdomen and anal tuft pale yellow, the underside of the thorax and abdomen and 
the legs almost white, the antenne black. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (7rétsch, mus. Staudinger). 
Allied to £. irretita, from which it may be at once distinguished by the broad dark- 
coloured outer margins of the primaries and secondaries. 


XANTHODES. 
Xanthodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 209 (1852). 


This genus has a very extended distribution, species being found in Europe, Asia, 
and Africa; and we now have to record three from Central America. 


1. Xanthodes laverna, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 13.) 


Primaries greyish fawn-colour, crossed by three yellowish-brown bands, edged with paler colour on one side, 
the two outer bands being >-shaped and joining in a point close te the apex on the outer margin, the 
fringe brownish; secondaries yellowish fawn-colour: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs greyish, the anus 
dusky, the antenne pale brown. Expanse 1,4 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (I. Trujillo), Jalapa (Schaus); Guatema.a, Zapote, 
San Gerdénimo (Champion). 

This species bears a slight resemblance to X. flava (Fabr.) (=transversa, Guén.) ; 
but it is entirely different in colour. .X. laverna appears to be peculiar to Mexico and 
Guatemala. Our figure is taken from a San Gerdnimo specimen. 


XANTHODES.—ACONTIA. 305 


2. Xanthodes malacha, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries brownish fawn-colour, darkest near the apex and along the outer margin, crossed by three narrow 
dark brown lines, the first nearest the base and almost straight from the costal to the inner margin, 
the second and third >-shaped ; secondaries uniformly pale yellowish fawn-colour, the fringe pale brown: 
head, thorax, and legs brownish fawn-colour, the abdomen yellowish, the antenne brown. Expanse 
1585 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen of this distinct species was captured by Mr. Smith in June 1888. 


3. Xanthodes (?) paulina, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 15.) 


Primaries bright purplish-brown, crossed by three dark brown lines (as in X. laverna, but with the lines rather 
straighter), a few greyish scales along the costal margin and at the apex, and some indistinct greyish dots 
along the outer margin, the fringe yellowish-brown ; secondaries dark brown, shading off to greyish-brown 
at the base, the fringe almost white; the underside of both wings brown, with the costal and outer 
margins pinkish-brown: head and front of the thorax reddish-brown, the rest of the thorax and the 
tegule darker brown; abdomen brown above, the underside and the anus reddish-brown; antenne and 
legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—-Ecuapor, Sarayacu 
(Buckley). 

We have received one specimen of this fine species from Chiriqui. Examples from 
Ecuador in my own collection are rather brighter in colour and slightly larger. 


ACONTIA. 
Acontia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 91 (1816) ; Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, p. 237 ; 
Walker, Cat. xii. p. 781. 
A large number of species from all parts of the world are placed in this genus by 
Walker, and many others have since been described by Felder and Rogenhofer, and 
also by Moore; fifteen are here enumerated from Central America. 


1. Acontia debilis. 
Acontia debilis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 786°. 
Tarache debilis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 37 (1882). 
Hab. Norra America, East Florida !.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Presidio 
(Forrer). 
Our two specimens from Northern Mexico agree well with Walker's type in the 


National Collection. 


2. Acontia tetragona. 
Acontia tetragona, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 786°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer); Guatremata, Panzos, San Gerdénimo 


(Champion) ; Honpuras.—ANTILLES, San Domingo }. 
Our specimens show a considerable amount of variation: one from the State of 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., October 1889. 29g 


306 . HETEROCERA. 


Durango is whiter at the base of the primaries than any of the others, but amongst 
these latter every grade between it and the typical form from San Domingo is to be 
found. | 


3. Acontia redita. 
Acontia redita, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 108. f. 30, Erkl. der Taf. 108. no. 30'. 


Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Jforrison), State of Durango (Forrer), Jalapa (Hége), 
Cordova (Riimeli), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Amula in Guerrero 
6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


This species appears to be very variable, and is closely allied to 4. tetragona, Walk. 
The specimens from Jalapa agree best with Felder’s figure; those from the State of 
Durango and Cordova are darker and more strongly marked. The examples received 
from Mr. Smith are labelled as having been found between the months of April and 
August 1888. The original locality for A. redita was unknown to Felder and Rogen- 


hofer 1. 


4. Acontia bilimeki. 
Acontia bilimeki, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 108. f. 29, Erkl. der Taf. 108. no. 29". 


fab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Cuernavaca 1, Amula 6000 feet, and Xucumanatlan 
7000 feet in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. G.), Mexico 
city (Hoge). 

Specimens of this species were captured by Mr. Smith between the months of June 
and December 1888 ; it is allied to A. tetragona, Walk., but quite distinct. 


5. Acontia phecolisca, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 16.) 


Acontia phecolisca, Walk. in litt. 
Primaries white from the base and along the costal margin, the outer half of the wing mottled with brownish- 
black, much as in A, tetragona. Expanse 55; inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet 
(H. H. Smith). 

Agrees well with specimens in the National Collection labelled as above by Walker, 
but I am unable to find that it has been described. Mr. Smith’s examples were 
captured in October 1888. The species is allied to A. tetragona, Walk., but is alto- 
gether a smaller insect and more darkly coloured. 


6. Acontia embolima, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 17.) 


Primaries pale yellowish-brown, crossed by indistinct undulating darker brown lines, the costal margin from 
the base to near the apex broadly bordered with white, and a large white spot close to the anal angle ; 
secondaries dusky white, darkest at the apex and round the outer margin: head and front of the thorax 
white, the rest of the thorax and abdomen yellowish-white ; antenne pale brown; legs dusky white. 
Expanse 1 inch. 


ACONTIA. 307 


fab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
A very distinct species. 


7. Acontia apela, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 18.) 


Primaries yellowish-cream-colour, crossed beyond the middle by a much broken brown band, the band forming 
an irregular V-shaped mark (this being much more strongly defined in some specimens than in others) on . 
the costal margin, and widening before it reaches the inner margin, where it forms a dark brown patch, 
and with two minute black spots in the cell, and a submarginal row of black points extending from the 
apex nearly to the anal angle, the fringe brown and yellowish-cream-colour; secondaries brown, palest 
at the base, the fringe pale yellow: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish-cream-colour ; the legs and the 
underside of the thorax and of the abdomen greyish-brown; the antennz dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. 
Smith). 

This species varies considerably in colour, some specimens being much yellower than 
others. Mr. Smith met with it in the month of October. Our figure is taken from a 
Guerrero specimen. 


8. Acontia philomela, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 19.) 


Primaries greyish-black, mottled with white near the apex, and with three dusky white streaks on the costal 
margin beyond the middle; secondaries dusky brown, darkest at the apex and round the costal margin, 
the fringe yellowish-white: head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish-brown; antenne black; legs 
greyish. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen, captured in October 1888. This small dull-coloured species seems to 
come nearest A. pyralina, Walk., from Sierra Leone. 


9. Acontia phya, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 20.) 


Primaries brownish-black, mottled with darker brown, the base broadly banded with white, a large U-shaped 
white mark on the costal margin rather beyond the middle, and two small dark brown dots between the 
white markings; secondaries greyish-white, dusky from the apex to the anal angle: head and collar dark 
brown, the tegule and thorax white; abdomen pale brown, the anus greyish ; legs pale brown. Expanse 
2 inch. 


fab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 


One example only, captured in June 1888, This pretty little species is allied to 
A. redita, Feld. & Rogenh., but is altogether a smaller insect and very differently marked 


with white. 


10. Acontia valena, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 21.) 


Primaries dark brown, shading off to pale straw-colour at the apex and along the outer margin, with a small 
white spot close to the base on the costal margin, and beyond this at about the middle an elongate simi- 
larly-coloured patch ; secondaries greyish-white, almost hyaline near the base, the outer margin from the 
apex to the anal angle dusky brown, the fringe greyish: head and thorax dark brown ; the abdomen pale 
greyish-brown ; the antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Rimeli); Guaremata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


This species is quite distinct from all others of the genus yet described. The single 
2 aq 2 
agg a 


308: HETEROCERA. 


specimen received from Mexico is smaller and rather paler in colour than those from 
Guatemala ; our figure is taken from one of the latter. 


11. Acontia phenna, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 22.) 


Primaries dark brownish-fawn-colour, quite pale on the costal margin at the base, with two white streaks on 
the costal margin (the first the largest, the second smaller and nearest the apex), a cream-coloured spot 
at the anal angle, bordered on the inner side by a waved reddish-brown line, and a submarginal row of 
minute black dots edged with white on the inner side, the fringe pale brown ; secondaries dark brown, palest 
near the base, the fringe pale yellowish-brown ; the underside of both wings pale fawn-colour, that of the 
primaries shaded with dark brown near the apex: head, collar, and front of the thorax white, the rest of 
the thorax, the abdomen, and tegula pale brown ; the underside of the abdomen almost white ; the antennee 
dark brown; the legs pale fawn-colour. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. MeExioo, Presidio (Forrer). 
This species comes nearest to an unnamed one from South Africa in my own 
collection. 


12. Acontia costalis. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 23.) 
Acontia (?) costalis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 787°. 
Hab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan in Guerrero 7000 feet (H. H. Smith, July 1888), 
Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); GuaremMaLa, Panzos, San Gerénimo (Champion).— 
Amazons, Santarem!; AnvTILLEs, San Domingo}. 


The few specimens we have received of this species agree with Walker's type in the 
National Collection. We figure one from Mexico. 


13. Acontia (?) damia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 24.) 


Primaries bright pea-green, the base and the outer third of the wing dark brown, a narrow waved white line 
crossing from the costal to the inner margin beyond the middle; secondaries bright orange, slightly 
shaded with brown at the apex; the underside of both wings orange, shaded near the apex with pale 
brown: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown; the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Only one specimen of this beautiful species was obtained; I place it in the genus 
Acontia with considerable doubt. 


14, Acontia dacia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 25.) 


Primaries pale brown, very pale near the base, with a dark brown line crossing the wing from the inner 
margin near the base, but not reaching the costal margin, a reddish-brown spot close to the anal angle, 
and a white streak starting from the costal margin near the apex, but not reaching the outer margin, the 
apex and the costal margin very pale brown ; secondaries dusky white, darkest at the apex and round 
the outer margin to the anal angle: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-brown ; the antenne brown. 
Expanse 1,1, inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hége), Cordova (Riimeli), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann, 
H. H. Smith); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The specimen from the Volcan de Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is larger 
than any of our Mexican examples, and is also considerably darker in colour, but the 
markings are identical. 


ACONTIA.—-DACIRA. 309. 


Mr. Smith’s Atoyac specimens are labelled as having been captured in the month of 
April. 


15. Acontia cratina, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 26.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, becoming much darker near the outer margin, with a large black mark near 
the apex (like an inverted C), edged with a narrow white line, and a dark brown streak near the base 
extending across the wing from the costal margin, but not reaching the inner margin; secondaries dark 
brown, becoming paler near the base, the fringe very pale brown; the underside of the primaries very 
dark brown, palest along the costal margin and at the apex, that of the secondaries uniform pale fawn- 
colour: head and thorax greyish-brown ; the abdomen pale brown; the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
14 inch. 

Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith, April 1888). 
This species is allied to 4. dacia, from which it may be at once distinguished by its 


larger size and entirely different colour. 


DIASTEMA. 
Diastema, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 817 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 879. 
Nipista, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 799 (1857). 
Guénée associated Diastema with Placodes in his family Placodide. The genus is, 
without doubt, very closely allied to Acontia. 


1. Diastema tigris. 
Diastema tigris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 317, Noct. t. 15. f. 2°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 8797. 


Nipista lineata, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 800°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet, Teapa in 


Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Guaremaua, San Gerdnimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Gabé, 
mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Panama city (J. J. Walker).— 
CoLoMmBIA ! 2; VENEZUELA °. 

This species varies in colour, some specimens being much darker and more strongly 
marked than others. The Mexican examples are the brightest. 

Mr. Smith met with this insect at Tierra Colorada in the month of October, and at 


Teapa in February and March, 1888. 


DACIRA. 


Dacira, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 801 (1857). 

This genus, which was established by Walker upon a single species, D. combusta, 
from the Amazons, seems to me to be extremely close to Acontia ; one species inhabits 
Central America. D. combusta is now known from as far north as Ecuador.. 


1. Dacira forreri, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries brownish-black, a white spot close to the base, and a broad white band much dentated on the outer 
edge crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, the fringe white with a black spot on the 
middle of the outer margin ; secondaries pure white, almost hyaline, but slightly dusky at the apex; the 


310 . HETEROCERA. 


underside of the primaries dusky, with the white band very indistinct, that of the secondaries as above : 
head and front of the thorax white, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen blackish-brown ; the antenne 
black. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer). 


DROBETA. 
Drobeta, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1755 (1858). 


Drobeta differs from most of the allied genera in the form of the primaries. A 
single species only, from Venezuela, was included in it by Walker. We have now to 
record four from Central America, two of which are described as new. 


1. Drobeta exscendens. 
Drobeta exscendens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1755". 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion).—V ENEZUELA (Dyson 1). 


The single specimen received from Chiriqui agrees very nearly with the type in the 
National Collection. 


2. Drobeta delectans. 
Dianthecia (?) delectans, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 505°. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Volcan de Atitlan 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Santarem 1. 


This species seems to me to be better placed in Drobeta, it being, without doubt, 
closely allied to D. exscendens. The specimen received from Guatemala is considerably 
paler than the type, though not otherwise differing from it. 


3. Drobeta tiresias, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 1.) 


Primaries dark silky brown, clouded with very dark brown near the apex from the costal to the outer margin, 
with two narrow dark brown lines crossing the wing close to the base from the costal to the inner margin, 
several faint brown lines crossing beyond the cell from the inner margin to the dark brown marking near the 
apex, and a dark brown spot at the anal angle ; secondaries dark brown, with a pale brown streak along 
the inner margin, the fringe pale brownish-white: head and thorax pale brown, the collar dark brown ; 
the abdomen, antenne, and legs pale brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Las Mercedes 3000 feet ( Champion). 


4. Drobeta ithaca, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 2.) 


Primaries pale brown, with darker brown lines crossing from the costal to the inner margin and several TOWs 
of small lunular-shaped white spots crossing the wing beyond the middle, the fringe alternately dark 
and light yellowish-brown ; secondaries glossy dark blackish-brown, with the fringe pale fawn-colour : 
head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the anal tuft black, the antenne pale brown, the legs brown. 
Expanse 1,8, inch. . 


Hab, Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


PSEUDINA.—EUSTROTIA. 31] 


Subfam. HUSTROTIINA. 


PSEUDINA. 
Pseudina, Guénee, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 226 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 802. 


Guénée founded this genus upon a single species from Brazil; a second is now added 
from Mexico. 


1. Pseudina cnossia, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 28.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, shaded with darker brown near the base, crossed about the middle by two waved 
narrow white lines, and with a marginal white line, on the outer side of which are some very minute 
black dots and on the inner side a very indistinct waved brown line extending from the costal margin 
near the apex to the anal angle; secondaries uniform pale fawn-colour, slightly darker at the apex and 
round the outer margin, the fringe greyish: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-brown; the antennz 
and legs pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer). 


This species differs from P. vellerea, Guén., in its very different markings. 


EUSTROTIA. 
Eustrotia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 253 (1816) ; Grote, List of North-American Moths, 
p. 37 (1882). 
Erastria, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 92 (1816); Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, p. 250 
(1826) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 224; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 804 (nec Hiibner). 

We follow Grote in adopting the name Lustrotia for this genus. Sixteen species 
from North America are enumerated in this author’s Catalogue, and numerous others 
inhabit Europe. We have to record twelve from Central America, eleven of which 
are described as new. 


1, Eustrotia musta. 
Erastria musta, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 358°. 
Eustrotia musta, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 37 (1882). 
Hab. Norra America, Atlantic district—Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


Our Costa Rican specimens do not differ from those from the United States in 
Mr. Grote’s collection. 


2. Hustrotia catea, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 3.) 


Primaries brownish-cream-colour, broadly bordered ‘from the apex to the anal angle with dark brown, with a 
central indistinct brown band (very narrow and almost divided in the middle) extending from the costal 
to the inner margin, a small dark brown spot at the end of the cell, and several small similarly-coloured 
streaks on the costal margin close to the base; secondaries uniformly dark brown; the fringe of both 
wings brown: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs brown. Expanse 3 inch. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen. 


312 HETEROCERA. 


3. Kustrotia glycera, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 4.) 

Primaries greenish-brown, streaked beyond the middle with darker brown, with a white band at the end of 
the cell reaching the costal margin, and on the costal margin between it and the base a white streak, 
three small white spots on the costal margin, a white line at the apex, and a white spot on the middle of 
the outer margin ; secondaries dark brown, bordered on the costal margin from the base nearly to the 
apex with white: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greenish-brown ; the antenne and legs brown. Ex- 
panse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 


We are indebted to Dr. Staudinger for the opportunity of describing and figuring 
this species. 


4. Kustrotia catilina, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 5.) 


Primaries from the base to beyond the middle dark blackish-brown and from thence to the outer margin pale 
ochraceous-brown, with a small brown spot on the costal margin near the apex and several very fine 
indistinct waved brown submarginal lines crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, the 
fringe ochraceous ; secondaries dark brown, with the fringe greyish-brown: head, front of the thorax, 
and tegule pale ochraceous, the rest of the thorax, the abdomen, legs, and antennew dark brown. Ex- 
panse ? inch. | 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 


A single specimen, captured in March 1888. 


5. Kustrotia numa, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 6.) 

Primaries pale fawn-colour, with the base, a wide band crossing the wing from the costal margin (where it is 
narrow) to the inner margin, two faint lines near the apex, and two spots on the outer margin, dark 
brown, and a dot close to the base and a very minute one at the end of the cell black ; secondaries dark silky 
brown, palest at the base and along the inner margin: head and thorax dark brown; abdomen and legs 
pale brown, the anal tuft fawn-colour ; the antenne dark brown. LExpanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith, April 1888). 


This species varies considerably in colour, some specimens being very much darker 
than others. A pale example is figured. 


6. Eustrotia girba, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 7.) 


Primaries pale ochraceous-brown, with a wide submarginal indistinct darker brown band, edged on the outer 
side with a pale uneven whitish line, crossing the wing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner 
margin nearest the anal angle, the band and a dark brown patch on the inner margin extending upwards 
but not reaching the costal margin; secondaries uniformly dull brown, with the fringe paler: head, 
thorax, and abdomen brown; the antenne and legs brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


A dull-coloured species allied to £. numa, but very differently marked. 


7. Eustrotia fausta, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 8.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform pale brownish-fawn-colour, the latter rather the darkest, the former crossed 
‘near the base by a wide dark brown band, edged on the outer side with a very narrow white line, and 
with the basal part of the costal margin of a pinkish shade: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antenne 
pale brownish-fawn-colour. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (£7be, in mus. Staudinger). 


EUSTROTIA. — 813 


A worn specimen of this species has been forwarded to us for determination by Dr. 
Staudinger ; it is not closely allied to any other described member of the genus. 


8. Kustrotia catiena, n.sp. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 9.) 


Primaries dark brown, with a large darker brown spot, edged on both sides with pale lines, extending across 
the wing from the inner margin, several dark brown streaks near the apex, below which the wing is 
clouded with blackish-brown, a reddish-brown submarginal line, and two similarly-coloured short streaks 
on the costal margin, the fringe blackish-brown; secondaries uniformly blackish-brown, darkest round 
the outer margin from the apex to near the anal angle, the fringe greyish: head, thorax, and abdomen 
dark brown ; the antenne black; the legs greyish-brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


Mr. Smith captured several specimens of this species in August 1888. 


9. Kustrotia geta, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 10.) 


Primaries pinkish-brown, darkest at the base and on the costal margin near the apex, a pinkish-brown line, 
edged with black on the inner side, crossing the wing at the end of the cell from the costal to the inner 
margin; secondaries dark silky brown, palest at the base and along the costal margin: head, tegule, 
thorax, and abdomen dark brown; the antenne almost black. Expanse 4 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888). 


A small species allied to 1’. catiena. 


10. Kustrotia gilda, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 11.) 


Primaries dark brown, with a wide pale band just before the middle extending from the costal to the inner 
margin, a dark brown spot about the centre of the outer margin, and round the latter several indistinct 
pale lines, the fringe pale brown; secondaries blackish-brown, palest at the base and along the costal 
margin, the fringe paler than the wing: head, thorax, and abdomen dark blackish-brown; the antenne 
black; the legs brown. Expanse 4 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888). 


11. Kustrotia fannia, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 12.) 


Primaries reddish-brown, with a large stone-coloured spot on the costal margin in front of the cell, the spot 
edged on both sides with black lines, and a black line crossing from the apex and joining the black edge 
of the stone-coloured spot and almost forming a black V-shaped mark; secondaries dark blackish-brown, 
the fringe slightly paler: head, thorax, and abdomen almost black; the antenne black; the legs pale 
brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (Hl. H. Smith). 


Mr. Smith met with examples of this species from January to March 1888. It varies 
considerably in colour, some specimens being of a much darker brown than others. , 


12. Kustrotia catada, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 13.) 


Primaries dark blackish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four greyish-blue narrow waved 
lines; secondaries dark brown, slightly paler on the costal margin: head, thorax, and abdomen black; the 
antenne: and legs brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith, Aug. 1888). 


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314 HETEROCERA. 


THALPOCHARES. 

Thalpochares, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, iv. p. 368 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xxxiili. p. 800; 
Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 181 (1871); Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 37 
(1882). 

Micra, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 241 (1852). 

A large number of species have been referred to this genus by Lederer, Felder, 

Staudinger, Grote, and others. Six from Central America are here provisionally 

included in it. 


1. Thalpochares harudes, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 14.) 


Primaries pinkish-fawn-colour, darkest along the outer margin and at the apex, the marginal line pale, a large 

_ angular-shaped dark brown spot on the middle of the inner margin, the spot not reaching the costal 

margin and edged with a pale pinkish line, a minute black dot at the end of the cell, the fringe brown; 

secondaries brownish-white, darkest along the costal margin and at the apex, the fringe brownish-white ; 

the underside of both wings pale brown, shaded with pink at the base: head, thorax, and abdomen 
pinkish-brown, the anal tuft brown, the antenne and legs pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Pantaleon 1700 feet 
(Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Brazi., 
Rio Janeiro; ANTILLES, Dominica. 


Of this widely distributed species we have received only a few specimens from 
Central America; and of these the Mexican examples are rather darker in colour than 
those from Costa Rica or the State of Panama. Mr. Smith’s specimens were captured 
in the months of February and March. 

An individual from Pantaleon is figured. 


2. Thalpochares idicra, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 15.) 


Primaries pale brown, with a wide reddish-brown band crossing the wing beyond the middle from the 
costal margin towards (but not reaching) the inner margin near the anal angle, several black streaks 
along the costal margin, and on the inner margin nearest the base, and extending across the wing, a large 
blackish-brown spot bordered with a pale brown line; secondaries blackish-brown, palest at the base, 
the fringe greyish ; the underside of both wings pale brown: head, thorax, abdomen, antenna, and legs 
brown. LExpanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith, Sept. 1888); 
GuaTEMALA, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 


A very distinct species allied to 7’. harudes, from which it may be at once distin- 
guished by the different shape of the dark spot on the primaries. 
A Guatemalan specimen is figured. 


3. Thalpochares hirasa, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 16.) 


Primaries pale reddish-fawn-colour, darkest near the apex and along the outer margin, with a faint submar- 
ginal line extending from the apex to near the anal angle, a large black spot on the inner margin near 
the base, the spot extending across the wing almost to the costal margin and edged on the outer side with 


THALPOCHARES. —XANTHOPTERA. 316 


a pale line, and a minute black dot at the end of the cell, the fringe the same colour as the wings; 
secondaries dusky brown, palest at the base; the underside of both wings pale dusky brown: head and 
thorax pale reddish-fawn-colour, the abdomen dusky brown, the antenne brown, the legs pale greyish- 
brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (forrer). 


Two specimens of this little species were sent; one of them is considerably darker 
in colour than the other, though otherwise agreeing with it. TZ. hirasa is allied to 
T. idicra, from which it differs not only in colour but in having the dark spot on the 
primaries differently shaped. 


4, Thalpochares hippotes, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 17.) 


Primaries dull brown, darkest at the apex and along the outer margin, crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by a wide reddish-brown band edged with a white line on each side, the band itself having on the 
outer side at about the middle a minute white spot; secondaries dark blackish-brown ; the fringe of both 
wings dark brown ; the underside pale brown, that of the secondaries the palest: head, thorax, abdomen, 
antennee, and legs brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (7. H. Smith). 


One specimen of this very distinct species was captured by our collector in August 


1888. 
5. Thalpochares bias, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 18.) 


Primaries uniformly reddish-fawn-colour, with an indistinct brown mark on the costal margin about the middle, 
_a faint line crossing the wing from near the apex to the middle of the inner margin; secondaries blackish- 
brown: head, thorax, and abdomen brown; the antenna dark brown; the legs pale brown. Expanse 
2 inch. 
Hab. GuatemMaLa, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


A very dull-coloured species, not closely allied to any known to us. 


6. Thalpochares hippotamada, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 19.) 


Primaries uniformly dark silky brown, slightly reddish along the inner margin, a very indistinct dark line 
crossing the wing from near the apex to the inner margin; secondaries dark brown, palest at the base 
and along the inner margin; the underside of both wings uniformly dull brown: head, thorax, abdomen, 
antenne, and legs brown. Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, San Gerénimo and Panima in Vera Paz, San Isidro 1600 feet 
(Champion). 

It is possible that this insect may be a very dark form of 7. d¢as; but I have seen a 
good many specimens of each, and they do not show any variation. 


XANTHOPTERA. 
Xanthoptera, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 240 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 818. 
Walker, in his Catalogue, includes six species in this genus, all from North or South 
America; and others have since been described by various authors. Several of the 


species are of very doubtful value. One only is known to us from Central America. 
2rr 2 


316 HETEROCERA. 


1. Xanthoptera nigrofimbria. 
Xanthoptera nigrofimbria, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 241, Noct. t. 10. f. 12'; Walk. Cat. xii. 
p- 8182; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 38 (1882) °. 
? Xanthodes parvula, Walk. Cat. xxxili. p. 779. 
Hab. Norta America!2%, Florida (Morrison).—Mexico, Presidio (forrer), Rincon 
in Guerrero 2800 feet, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schu- 
mann); GuateMaLA, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (A7bbe), 


Caldera 1200 feet (Champion).—BraziL, 8. Paulo. 


This species varies from a pale straw-colour to deep yellow, and the dark outer 
margin of the primaries is in some specimens broad and in others almost wanting. 

X. nigrofimbria appears to be common in Mexico and Guatemala, both Messrs. 
Champion and Smith having captured a good series of specimens. Mr. Smith’s 
examples were obtained between the months of January and March. I believe 
that Xanthodes parvula, Walk., the locality for which was unknown to its describer, 
is the same species. 


Subfam. PALINDIIN A. 


CALYDIA. 


Phrygionis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 307 (1816) (pars). 
Calydia, Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1875, p. 291. 


The broader, shorter, and more rounded wings chiefly distinguish this genus from 
Palindia, to which it is very closely allied. Two species from Guiana were included 
in it by Bar; and Phrygionis metalligera, Butl., is doubtless congeneric with these. <A 
fourth species is now added from Chiriqui. The name Calydia is here adopted in 
preference to Phrygionis, as two of the three species placed under that name by Hiibner 
belong to distinct genera. 


1. Calydia metalligera. 
Phrygionis metalligera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 32’. 
Hab. GuateMa.a, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Z7rdtsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons 1. 


Our specimens from Guatemala agree well with the type in the National Collection. 
The insect is allied to C. bourgaulti, Bar, but is much paler in colour. 


2. Calydia hemithea, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 20.) 

Primaries pale brown, with a curved reddish-brown line beyond the cell and three curved metallic lines crossing 
the wing from near the costal to the inner margin, the costal margin yellowish with minute streaks 
of dark brown; secondaries pale brown, slightly yellowish at the base and along the inner margin, with 
several indistinct brown lines and some metallic spots and streaks at the anal angle; the underside of 


CALYDIA.—PALINDIA. 317 


both wings dark brown, the fringe brown: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown; the antenne and 
legs brown. Expanse 1,), inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Tréésch, in mus. Staudinger). 
This species differs from C. metalligera in having the markings of the primaries much 
darker in colour. Two specimens are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


PALINDIA. 


Palindia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 274 (1852); Walker, Cat. xii. p. 844; Bar, Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. 1875, p. 294. 
Numerous species of this genus have been described, nearly all from Tropical America ; 
thirteen are here enumerated from within the limits of our fauna. 


1. Palindia dives. 
Phrygionis dives, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 30°. 
Hab. Costa Rica, San Francisco 4500 feet (Hogers).—Amazons, Rio Jurua?. 


One specimen only of this beautiful insect was captured by Rogers. ‘The species is 
allied to P. corinna (Cram.), and P. stelia, Bar. 


2. Palindia corineta. 
Palindia corineta, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t.111. f. 2, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 2°. 
Palindia lucia, Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1875, p. 300, t. 5. f. 7”. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion).—Gutiana?; Brazib!; Amazons!. 


One specimen only has been received from Guatemala, and this agrees well with 
Felder’s figure of P. corineta, The insect described by Bar is no doubt the same 
species. 


3. Palindia thecloides. 
Palindia thecloides, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 851°. 
Eulepidotis thecloides, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 29’. 


Had. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Honpuras !.— 
AMAZONS 2. 

The single specimen sent from Guatemala by Mr. Champion closely resembles 
Walker’s type in the National Collection. 


4. Palindia mabis. 
Palindia mabis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 277; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 8507. 
Eulepidotis mabis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 29°. 
Palindia fumata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 111. f.17, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 17 *. 


Hab. Mzxico, Acapulco, San Blas (J. J. Walker).—VenezvnLa?; Brazin!; AmMa- 
zons 34, Kga 2, 


318 HETEROCERA. 


The only specimens I have seen of this species from our country are those collected 
by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., late of H.M.S. ‘ Kingfisher.’ 


5. Palindia mustela, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 21.) 


Primaries pale brownish-fawn-colour, dark brown (in some lights appearing to be shot with purple) along the 
costal margin, and this colour extending across the wing towards the middle, with three narrow yellowish- 
brown lines crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, a large almost black spot close to the 
base, and a submarginal row of black dots extending from the costal margin close to the apex to the anal 
angle, the fringe brown with several black patches on the outer margin near the apex ; secondaries pale 
silky brown, becoming yellowish at the apex and on the outer margin, an indistinct metallic streak and a 
purplish spot near the anal angle, above which are two small black spots; the underside of both wings pale 
brown, that of the secondaries with two faint lines crossing from the costal to the inner margin: head, 
thorax, and tegule pale yellowish-brown ; abdomen pale brown, much paler beneath ; legs greyish-brown ; 
antenne and palpi dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann). 


A very distinct species, quite different in colour and markings from any known 
to me. 


6. Palindia juncida. 

Palindia juncida, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 277°; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 8497; Druce, P. Z.8. 
1884, p. 323°. 

Palindia addens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1768 *. 

Palindia aglauda, Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 7, t. 1. ff. 10, 11°. 

Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith, May 
1888); GuatemaLa, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger), Panama 
city (J. J. Walker) —CotomBia+?; Gurana®; Braziu?; Upper Amazons; ANTILLES, 
Dominica %, San Domingo 4. 


This species varies considerably, the wings in some specimens being of a pale prim- 
rose and in others of a dusky brown tint; but in no one locality, so far as I can judge 
from the material before me, is any form of colour at all constant. The specimens 
from Central America are as variable as those from South Brazil. 

The insect figured by Bar (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, t. 1. f. 11) closely resembles 
P. addens, Walk. ; the latter is not distinct from P. juncida. 


7. Palindia rectimargo. 
Palindia rectimargo, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 2767; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 847°; Herr.-Schaffer, 
Corr. Biatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1869, p. 153 (sep. copy, p. 25)°; Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1876, p. 8“. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888).— VENEZUELA? ; Guiana *; 
Peru; Braziu; Urvueuay, Monte Video!*; ANTILLES, Cuba °. 


8. Palindia candida. 
Palindia candida, Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 8, t. 1. f. 13°. 


PALINDIA. 319 


Hab. Mextco, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Costa 
Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger)— VENEZUELA; GuiaNa!; PERu. 


This species appears to be common in Guatemala and Costa Rica. 


9. Palindia punctangulata. 


Palindia punctangulata, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 8481; xxxili. p. 806°. 
Palindia pulchella, Bar, Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 245, t. 5. f£.17°. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Gulana?; AMa- 
zONS 1, Para *, Tapajos ?. 

Two specimens of this species were obtained by Mr. Champion on the Volcano of 
Chiriqui; they agree with Walker’s type in the late Mr. Saunders’s collection now in 
the Oxford Museum. 

The insect is very closely allied to P. alabastraria (Hiibn.), and may prove to be not 
really distinct from it. 


10. Palindia micca, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 22.) 


Primaries pale primrose-colour, the costal margin white from the base to near the apex, with three indistinct 
narrow lines of a darker colour, the third edged with a metallic line, crossing the wing from the costal to 
the inner margin, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle shaded with brown; secondaries 
pale primrose-colour, darkest about the middle, with a large bluish-grey spot, and above this a narrow 
brown line, about the middle of the outer margin; the fringe of both wings brownish; the underside 
silky white, with a faint yellowish tinge: head, antennw, and collar greyish-black ; the thorax, tegule, 
and abdomen above pale primrose-colour, beneath white ; legs yellowish-white. Expanse 1,%, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—CoLoMBIA, interior 
( Wheeler, mus. D.). 

This species is allied to P. punctangulata, from which it may be distinguished by its 
pale primrose-colour. : 


11. Palindia perducens. 
Palindia perducens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1767'. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Trétsch, mus. Staudinger).—CotomBia; Ecuapor; ANTILLES, Jamaica‘. 
We have only seen two specimens of this species from Central America, one of these 
being contained in Dr. Standinger’s collection. The type in the National Collection is 
very much faded. 


12. Palindia spectabilis. 
Palindia spectabilis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1767". 


320 - HETEROCERA. 


Eulepidotis spectabilis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 29’. 
Palindia guttata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t.111. f. 3, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 3”. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David (Champion).— Amazons 123. 


Our specimens from Costa Rica and the State of Panama agree perfectly with 
Walker’s type in the Oxford Museum, and I have not the slightest doubt that 
P. guttata is the same species. | 


13. Palindia deva, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 23.) 

Primaries dark brown, darkest along the outer margin, with three darker brown bands crossing the wing from 
the costal to the inner margin (the first near the base and in the form of a curved line, the second about 
the middle, reddish-brown, edged with a narrow black line on each side, the third beyond the middle, 
edged with black on the inner side, and with a metallic line on the outer side), and two minute black 
dots at the end of the cell, the marginal line dark brown, the fringe brown; secondaries brown, broadly 
bordered with black on the costal margin from the base to the apex, a brown line crossing the wing 
from the inner margin just above the anal angle to the black border on the costal margin, the outer 
part of the wing reddish-brown with a metallic blue spot irrorated with white scales, the marginal line 
black edged with white, the fringe brown; the underside dark brown, palest near the base, both wings 
crossed by two indistinct brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown above, considerably paler 
beneath, the anal tuft yellowish; the antenne dark brown; the legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 

Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (I. Trujillo), Coatepec (Brooks); Panama, Volcan 


de Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 

This fine species appears to be not uncommon in Mexico; from Chiriqui we have 
only seen one example. It is most nearly allied to P. egista (Bar) from Guiana. 

A Mexican specimen is figured. 


Subfam. DYOPSTNA. 


DYOMYX. 
Dyomyx, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 281 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 853. 
Dyomizx, Bar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 436 (pars). 
Walker, in his Catalogue, included four species in this genus, and Bar has described 
several others; some of these latter would, I think, be better placed in Palindia. All 
the known species are from Tropical America; one only, as yet, has been received 


from our region. 


1. Dyomyx lineata, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. figg. 24, 259.) 

Male. Primaries brown, crossed from the costal margin by four brown lines, the second line only reaching the 
inner margin, where it is edged on the outer side with yellow, with two pale streaks at the end of the 
cell, an indistinct pale submarginal band extending from the costal margin near the apex to the anal 
angle, and a large yellow-bordered black ocellus with a minute white dot in the middle on the inner 
margin near the anal angle, the space between the ocellus and the outer margin irrorated with minute 
metallic lead-coloured scales ; secondaries dark brown, darkest along the costal margin and at the apex, 


DYOMYX.—DYOPS. 321 


with a dark brown band edged with yellowish-brown crossing from the inner margin above the anal angle 
towards the outer margin and then extending upwards to near the costal margin, an elongate metallic 
lead-coloured patch between the band and the outer margin, a small black orange-bordered spot (on the 
inner side of which is a small white streak) about the middle of the outer margin, and a narrow yellowish- 
brown submarginal line; the underside of both wings uniformly pale brown, crossed beyond the middle 
by a waved darker brown line, the fringe pale brown: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; the collar 
and tegule yellowish-brown ; antenne, palpi, and legs pale brown. The female differs from the male in 
the following particulars:—The primaries are paler and of a more yellowish colour, with the bands 
broader and darker, the second and third reaching the inner margin, and the ocellus entirely wanting ; 
the secondaries have the metallic lead-coloured patch considerably smaller, and also a faint indication of 
a second brown band; and the fringe of both wings is pale yellowish-brown. Expanse, ¢ 9, 
21 inches. 


Hab. GvuaTEMALA, Coatepeque, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, mus. Staudinger),—AMAZONS, 
Para. 


This fine species is allied to D. megalops, Guén., specimens of which are contained 
in the National Collection, but can at once be distinguished from it by the entire 
absence of the purple colour on the primaries. D. lineata is also allied to D. egistoides, 
Bar, from which it differs in having the bands on both wings differently placed, and 
also in its larger size. 


DYOPS. 
Dyops Groupe i., Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 283 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 854. 


This genus contains a few species, all American, the genus ranging from the Amazons 
to California, and also extending to the Antilles. 


1. Dyops ocellata, 

Phalena ocellata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 151, t. 276. f. E (non D)’. 

Dyops ocellata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 288, Noct. t. 11. f.3°; Walk. Cat. xi. p. 855°; 
Herr.-Schaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 188 (sep. copy, p. 26)*; Butl. 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 33’. 

Dyops pupillata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 111. f. 21, Erkl. der Taf. 111. no. 21°. 

Hab. NortH America, California (Boucard, mus. D.).—MeExico, Jalapa (Hége) ; 

Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).—Guiana, Surinam!?3%; Brazin?3; 

Amazons®; ANTILLES, Cuba 4. 


This species varies considerably in colour, but I have not seen any specimen so green 
as represented by Guénée. The female example before me from the Volcan de 
Chiriqui is almost identical with Felder’s figure. 


2. Dyops juba, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 26.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by very narrow black lines, which are 
joined together by short transverse lines and form quite a network beyond the middle, and with a bluish- 
grey band nearer the outer margin extending from near the costal to the inner margin, and a large 
yellowish-brown spot marked with minute black and grey dots in the middle at the end of the cell, the 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol, I., November 1889. 2 ss 


322 HETEROCERA. 


fringe dark brown; secondaries uniform dark brown, with an indistinct greyish spot at the anal angle ; 
the underside of both wings dark brown, crossed by a broken band of darker brown markings : head, 
thorax, antenne, and abdomen dark brown. Expanse 1} inch. , 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion). 


A very distinct species. 


3. Dyops phila, sp. n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 27.) 

Primaries dark brown, shaded with reddish-brown near the base and about the middle, with two white 
waved lines crossing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, a double waved white sub- 
marginal band extending from the costal to the inner margin, and a row of minute white marginal dots 
extending from the apex to the anal angle, most of the veins white, the fringe dark and light brown ; 
secondaries dark brown, palest at the base and along the inner margin, the marginal line black with 
minute white dots, the fringe dark brown: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark brown; the underside 
of the head, thorax, and legs yellowish-brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. 
D.; Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). 


4. Dyops minthe, sp.n. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 28.) 


Primaries dark brown, darkest at the base and along the inner margin, with two waved dark brown lines 
crossing from the costal to the inner margin, a wide submarginal waved white band extending from the 
apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, and about the middle of the band a dark brown spot, 
the outer margin brown; secondaries silky brown, palest at the anal angle and round the outer margin, 
a minute black dot at the anal angle: head, thorax, abdomen, and antenne brown; the legs pale brown. 
Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion; Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Brazit, S. Paulo. 


This species is allied to D. phila, from which it chiefly differs in the wide white 
submarginal band of the primaries. In a variety in Dr. Staudinger’s collection the 
white band is almost obsolete. The example from Brazil in my own collection is 
altogether duller in colour than those from Central America. Our figure is taken from 
a typical specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


LITOPROSOPUS. 
Dyops Groupe ii., Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 284 (1852). 
Litoprosopus, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 8309 (1869); List of North-American Moths, 
p- 33 (1882). 

Grote refers three species to this genus: Noctua hatuey, Poey, from Cuba; Dyops 
confligens, Walk., from Honduras and the West coast of America; and Dyups futilis, 
Grote and Robinson, from Florida. The two first named are, I have no doubt, one 
and the same species; and it is extremely doubtful if the third is distinct, as specimens 
of it lately received from Mr. H. Edwards, from Florida, apparently only differ from 
L. hatuey in their rather smaller size. 


LITOPROSOPUS.—CALLOPISTRIA. 323 


1. Litoprosopus hatuey. 
Noctua hatuey, Poey, Cent. Lép. Cuba, decade 1, tab. (1832) *. 
Dyops hatuey, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 284°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 855°. 
Litoprosopus hatuey, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. ii. p. 309‘. 
Dyops hautuey, Herr.-Schiff. Corr.-Blatt zool-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 188 (sep. copy, p. 26)’. 
Dyops confligens, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 856°. 
Litoprosopus confligens, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 33 (1882)". 

Hab. NortH AmeERiIcA’.—Mexico, Misantla (fF. D. G., March 1888), Cuesta de 
Misantla (M. Trujillo), Coatepec (Brooks), Jalapa (Hége), Cordova (Riimeli); Brivisu 
Howpuras (Blancaneaux); Guaremata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion) ; 
Honpuras?3%; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion, Arcé, Ribbe).— 
West Coast or America®; ANTILLES, Cuba! 235, San Domingo 8, 


Specimens before me from Cuba agree perfectly with those from the other above- 
mentioned localities. D. conjfligens, Walk., cannot be separated from the species 
described by Poey; Grote* has recorded his opinion that Noctua hatuey, Poey, and 
Dyops hatuey, Guén., are distinct species, but for what reason I know not. 


Subfam. ERIOPINA. 


CALLOPISTRIA. 


Callopistria, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 216 (1816); Walker, Cat. xii. p. 861. 
Eriopus, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 1, p. 865 (1825); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p- 291. 


This genus is represented in our country by three species, all of them being rare. 


1. Callopistria floridensis, 
Eriopus floridensis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 292*; Méschler, Beitr. Schmett.-Fauna von 
Jamaica, p. 52°. 
Callopistria floridensis, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 862°. 
Hab. Norta America, Florida’ *.—Guatemana, San Isidro 1600 feet ( Champion) ; 
Panama (mus. Staudinger).—Braziu*, Rio Janeiro; ANTILLES, Jamaica 2, Dominica. 


Specimens from Guatemala agree perfectly with others from Rio Janeiro in my 
collection; but one from Dominica, captured by the late Mr. Angus, is darker than 
any of them. 


2. Callopistria mexicana, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 1.) 

Primaries reddish-brown, crossed by many faint lines, with a marginal row of black dots, edged with white 
on the inner side, and a small white elongate spot at the end of the cell, the outer margin bordered from 
the apex to the anal angle with purplish-white, the fringe reddish-brown ; secondaries dark brown, 
palest at the base, the fringe pale brown: head, thorax, and tegule reddish-brown ; abdomen dark brown, 
paler beneath, the anal tuft yellowish ; legs brown. Expanse 1,), inch. 


Hab. MeExico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888). 


A single example. 
2 ss 2 


324 HETEROCERA. 


3. Callopistria panamensis, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 2.) 
Primaries dark brown, thickly streaked with pale markings ; secondaries dark brown, palest at the base and 
along the inner margin, the fringe pale fawn-colour: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the legs 
greyish, the antenne brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

A single example only, kindly communicated by Dr. Staudinger. 

The intricate markings of the primaries somewhat resemble those of C. recurvata, 
Moore ; it is impossible to describe them, and they will be best understood from 
our figure. 


Subfam. HURHIPINA. 


PENICILLARIA. 
Penicillaria, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 802 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 870. 


Walker included a good many species in this genus, these being chiefly from the 
tropical regions of the Old or New World; from Central America we have as yet only 
received two, both of which are known from more southern localities. 


1. Penicillaria abscondens. (Tab. XXX. fig. 3.) 
Penicillaria abscondens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1774". 
Hab. Costa Rica (mus. Staudinger).—Co.omBia, Bogota}. 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimen from Costa Rica agrees with Walker’s type in the 
Saunders collection, now in the Oxford Museum. 


2. Penicillaria auratrix. 
Penicillaria (?) auratriv, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1775". 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann); GuatemaLa, San Gerdénimo, San 
Isidro 1600 feet (Champion).—CoLomB14, Bogota; Amazons, Ega 1. 


Of this species we have only received three specimens from Central America; they - 
are rather duller in colour than others from Bogota in my own collection. 


DYSODIA. 


Dysodia, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 349 (1860). 

Platythyris, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyceum New York, viii. p. 361 (1866); Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 18 (1882). 

_ Varnia, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 69 (1864) ; Cat. xxxiii. p. 825 (1865) (pars). 

A single species only, D. oculatana, Clem., was included in the genus Dysodia by its 
author ; and as the type of Platythyris, P. fasciata, Grote and Robinson, belongs to 
the same species, under which indeed it is placed in Grote’s Catalogue, it is clear that 
the generic name Dysodia must stand. 


DYSODIA. 325 


Grote and Robinson refer Platythyris to the Thyride, but it seems to me to be better 
placed in the Eurhipine. 

Species of this genus are very widely distributed in the Old and New World; five 
are now enumerated from within the limits of our fauna, four of these being described 
as new. 


1. Dysodia sica, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 4.) 

Primaries yellowish-olive colour, with three whitish spots on the costal margin, and four distinct brown lines 
crossing from the costal to the inner margin, the wing also crossed by many very minute brown lines, 
the fringe dark brown; secondaries the same colour as the primaries, crossed in the middle by a brown 
line, the fringe whitish near the anal angle; the underside paler than the upperside, with the apex of the 
primaries much browner: head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish-olive colour, the antenne brown, the 
palpi and legs yellowish-brown. Expanse 1,%, inch. 


Hab. Muxtco, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888). 


Mr. Smith captured a fair series of this insect ; it does not show any variation. 


2. Dysodia nipsa, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 5.) 

Primaries dark reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four rather wide pale reddish- 
brown bands; secondaries dark reddish-brown, mottled with paler brown, with an elongate hyaline spot 
about the middle, but placed rather closer to the costal than to the inner margin; the fringe of both 
wings brown ; the underside paler than the upperside : head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antenne reddish- 
brown. Expanse 1,8, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Allied to D. (Eutelia) fenestrata, Moore, but entirely different in colour and 
markings. 


8. Dysodia lusia, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 6.) 

Primaries reddish-orange, shaded and streaked with brown, with a brown mark at the middle of the costal 
margin and a brown line near the apex, the other parts of the wing streaked with very minute brown 
lines ; secondaries reddish-orange, shaded with brown along the costal margin and at the apex, and 
streaked across the wing from the inner margin with brown lines: head, collar, and front of the thorax 
dark brown, the rest of the thorax and abdomen above reddish-orange, a greyish line crossing the abdo- 
men near the base; the underside of the thorax, abdomen, and legs pale brown; antenne dark brown. 
Expanse 17 inch. 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Allied to D. sica, and also slightly resembling the Indian D. ( Varnia) ignita, 


Walker. 
4. Dysodia lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 7.) 


Primaries dark olivaceous-brown, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by two narrow 
reddish-brown lines, and with three small whitish dots on the costal margin, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries similar in colour to the primaries, with a large hyaline spot about the middle, and several 
very minute dots between the hyaline spot and the inner margin, the fringe greyish: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft pale brown; the antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 1,4 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, March 1888). 


Allied to D. nipsa, but a smaller and darker-coloured insect. 


326 HETEROCERA. 


5. Dysodia oculatana. 
Dysodia oculatana, Clem. Proc. Acad. Phil. xii. p. 350°. 
Platythyris oculatana, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 13 (1882) *. 
Varnia plena, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 826°. 
Platythyris fasciata, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyceum New York, viii. p. 362, t. 18. figg. 4 (9), 


5(3)*. 
Hab. NortH America }?3, Virginia 4—GuATEMALA, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This species has been described three times by different authors; Clemens’s name has 
five years’ priority over that of Walker, and seven over that of Grote and Robinson. 


INGURA. 
Ingura, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 809 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 874. 

Walker in his Catalogue includes nine species in this genus, all from North or 
South America or the Antilles, and a tenth has recently been described by Moschler 
from Jamaica; three are known to us from Central America. 

The genus Orthoclostera, Butl. (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 70), based upon a 
single species, O. peculiaris, Butl., from the Rio Negro, and the type of which in the 
National Collection appears to be considerably distorted in setting, seems to me to be 
quite inseparable from Jngura; in fact, one of our species, £. murina, very closely 
resembles it. 


1. Ingura abrostoloides. 
Ingura abrostoloides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 83117; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 875°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 33 (1882) *. 
Hab. Nortn America 1? *,—Costa Rica (Boucard, in mus. D.), Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion).—Brazit, Rio Janeiro. 


A specimen taken at sea off the coast of Panama by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., late of 
H.M.S. ‘ Kingfisher,’ is identical with our Costa Rican and Chiriqui examples. 


2. Ingura lunodes. 
Ingura lunodes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 8310’; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 876%. 
Hab. Honpuras!?; Panama, Flamenco I. (Salvin). —Gutana, Cayenne 12; Brazit, 
Rio Janeiro !2; ANTILLES, Dominica. 


I am indebted to Mons. C. Oberthtir for the loan of Guénée’s type of this species ; 
it is allied to L. abrostoloides, but much paler in colour. 


3. Ingura murina, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 8.) 


Primaries dark purplish-brown, darkest along the costal margin from the base almost to the apex, the inner 
margin much paler, with a double narrow waved reddish-brown line, crossing from the apex to the inner 


INGURA.—CALYPTIS. 327 


margin, and some minute black dots close to the apex, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries blackish-brown, 
palest near the base and along the inner margin, the fringe dark and light brown: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown, the anal segments blackish, the antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volean de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Cotomptia, Bogota. 


Allied to I. abrostoloides, from which it may be readily distinguished by the primaries 
having the costal margin dark brown and being without a pale spot near the base. 

I. murina, as already stated, closely resembles Orthoclostera peculiaris, Butl. A 
Guatemalan example is figured. 


Subfam. PLUSIINA. 


ABROSTOLA. 


Abrostola, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 88 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 320; 
Walker, Cat. xii. p. 880. 


The species of this genus are widely distributed over the globe; two only are known 
to us from Central America. 


1. Abrostola tinctoides. 
Abrostola tinctoides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 323°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 8837. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger ).—Braziu } 2. 


This insect is only known to me by a specimen so named by Dr. Staudinger. 


2. Abrostola adrana, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 9.) 


Primaries dark brown, with a large pale yellowish-brown patch on the inner margin extending from near the 
base to the anal angle, this patch edged on the inner side by a darker brown line which extends along 
the outer margin to the apex, the discal spot yellowish-brown, the fringe dark brown; secondaries 
blackish, the fringe white on the outer margin near the anal angle: head, thorax, and abdomen dark 
brown, the last three segments of the latter, the underside of the thorax, and the legs yellowish-brown, 
the antenne dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer). 


CALYPTIS. 
Calyptis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 323 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. pp. 884 & 940. 

Guénée founded this genus upon a single species, the exact locality for which was 
not known, though he supposed it to be from North America; this insect is known to 
me from Central and South America, but not from north of the State of Panama. 
I follow Felder in including Phalena Noctua idonea, Cram. [= Plusia (1) semicuprea, 
Walk.|, in Calyptis. Butler refers Walker’s species to Basilodes. 


328 ; HETEROCERA. 


1. Calyptis iter. 
Calyptis iter, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 8324, Noct. t.12.£.3°; Walk. Cat. xii. pp. 885* & 940°. 
Hab. t Norra America! 2,—Panama, Chiriqui (A2bbe, in mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBIa, 


interior (Wheeler); Brazit, Rio Janeiro?; Amazons, Para ?®, 


A Chiriqui specimen of this fine species is contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 
The examples captured by Mr. Wheeler in Colombia closely resemble Guénée’s figure, 
but they have a beautiful bronzy gloss on the primaries. 

The locality North America is very doubtful, and the species is not included in 
Grote’s Catalogue. 


2. Calyptis idonea. 

Phalena Noctua idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 48, t. 811. f. A’. 
Calyptis idonea, Feld. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 110. f. 36, Erkl. der Taf. 110. no. 367. 
Plusia (?) semicuprea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1787? 
Basilodes semicuprea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 33%. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger).—CotomBiA, Bogota; Guiana’, Surinam!; Amazons, Rio Jutahi 4, 
Manaos. 


I have no doubt that the insects described by Cramer and Walker belong to one 
and the same species, though Cramer's figure isfar from good. The series of specimens 
before me show a slight variation in colour; and the females are larger and paler than 
the males. Some of the Colombian examples agree perfectly with Felder’s figure of 
C. idonea. Walker omitted Phalena Noctua idonea, Cram., from his Catalogue ; and 
the locality for P. semicuprea was unknown to him 3, 


PLUSIA. 


Plusia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 89 (1816) ; Treitschke, Schmett, Europ. v. 3, p. 184; 
Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 824; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 885. 


This genus contains a very large number of species, and these are scattered over all 
parts of the globe. Walker in his Catalogue enumerated one hundred and thirty-one as 
belonging to it, and many others have since been recorded. In Central America Plusia 
is represented by many known species, and several very distinct new ones are here 
described. 


1. Plusia coronides, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 10,) 

Primaries brilliant metallic golden, with the costal margin from the base to the apex edged with a narrow 
greyish-white line, a small spot at the end of the cell, and a short streak on the inner margin at the base, 
pale brown; secondaries uniformly dusky silky-white, the fringe similarly coloured ; the underside of the 
primaries dusky brown, edged along the costal margin and at the apex with yellowish-fawn-colour, that 
of the secondaries silky-white : head, the front of the thorax, and the base of the tegule white, the rest 


PLUSIA. 329 


of the thorax and the tips of the tegule dark brown, the upperside of the abdomen golden, the underside 
of the thorax and of the abdomen white, the antenne, palpi, and legs pale yellowish-brown. Expanse 
12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (7. H. Smith). 
One specimen, captured in August 1888. 


9. Plusia arianda, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 11,2.) 

Primaries brilliant metallic golden, the costal margin edged with pale whitish-fawn-colour, from which two 
\V-shaped marks extend partly across the wing (the first the smallest and nearest the base, the second at 
the end of the cell), a small fawn-coloured streak on the inner margin close to the base, the fringe golden- 
brown and pale fawn-colour ; secondaries white, dusky at the apex and round the outer margin, the fringe 
white: head, thorax, and tegule pale fawn-colour; the antenne, abdomen, and legs yellowish-brown. The 
male only differs from the female in having the secondaries whiter. Expanse, ¢ 9, 12 inch. 


Hab. Norta America, Arizona (Morrison, in mus. D.).—MeExico, Northern Sonora 
(Morrison). 

Two examples, a male from Arizona and a female from Northern Sonora. Allied to 
P. coronides. 


3. Plusia smithi, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 12, 2.) 

Primaries rich metallic golden, the costal margin from the base to the apex broadly bordered with creamy- 
white, the outer and inner margins bordered with a fine white line, a white streak extending from the 
cell to the outer margin, the fringe white; secondaries cream-colour, more dusky in the female than in 
the male, the fringe white; the underside of both wings dusky white, the costal margin of the primaries 
tinged with yellow: head, thorax, tegule, and the base of the abdomen white, the rest of the abdomen 
yellowish-white ; the antenne and legs pale fawn-colour. LExpanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


I have much pleasure in naming this fine insect after Mr. Smith, who has recently 
captured examples of four of the finest and most remarkable species yet known of this 
genus. Our specimens are labelled as having been captured at Teapa in March and 
at Tierra Colorada in October 1888. 


4. Plusia acantha, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 13.) 


Primaries rich dark brown, with a large darker brown patch irrorated with metallic golden scales on the inner 
margin close to the base, a small metallic golden spot at the base nearest the costal margin, and a broad 
\/ -shaped mark crossing from about the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle and from the anal 
angle along the outer margin to the apex, the fringe pale brown; secondaries dark brown, the fringe 
greyish-brown; the underside of both wings dark brown, the costal margin of the primaries yellowish- 
brown: head, thorax, tegule, and abdomen dark brown, the collar with a few yellowish scales mixed 
with the dark brown, the palpi and the underside of the head and thorax yellowish-brown, the underside 
of the abdomen and the anus pale yellowish-brown; the legs brown, the antenne dark brown. Expanse 
1} inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith, Aug. 1888); GuaTEMALA, 
San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


This very beautiful species is allied to P. howardi, Edw. 


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330 HETEROCERA. 


5. Plusia acema, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 14.) 


Primaries golden-brown, palest along the costal margin, a wide metallic golden band extending from the base 
along the costal margin to the middle and then crossing the wing to the inner margin, the fringe brown ; 
secondaries pale brown, the fringe greyish; the underside of both wings pale brown, the costal margin of 
the primaries shaded with fawn-colour: head, thorax, and abdomen dark greyish-brown, the anal tuft and 
the antennz and legs yellowish-brown. Expanse 1,1, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet (H. H. Smith, Oct. 1888). 


One specimen. A beautiful and very distinct species. 


6. Plusia(?) argyra, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 15.) 


Primaries pure white, with a slightly metallic wide bronzy band extending from the base along the inner 
margin almost to the anal angle and then crossing to the apex, two fine waved black lines crossing the 
wing on the outer edge of the band from near the apex to the inner margin, and on the inner side of it is _ 
another band crossing to the costal margin and then to the base (the latter enclosing an elongate white 
basal spot), a marginal row of black spots extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries silky 
white, with a marginal row of very minute black dots; the fringe of both wings white; the underside 
dusky white: head, collar, and tegule white, the thorax and the greater part of the abdomen pale brown, 
the anus white, the basal segment of the abdomen pink, the underside of the thorax, abdomen, and legs 
white; antennez pale brown, whitish at the base. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Bolafios in Jalisco (Richardson, July 1889). 


This species is referred with some doubt to the genus Plusia. 


7. Plusia biloba. 
Plusia biloba, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 104; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 841, Noct. 
t. 11. f. 10°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 905°; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 34 (1882)°. 
Hab. Nortu America®, Florida! ?.—Mextico, Milpas in Durango 59U0 feet (Forrer), 
Cordova (Liimeli), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), Jalapa (MU. Trujillo) —VENEZUELA ; 
Ecuapor?; Brazit; CHILI. 


Guénée’s figure of this species is far too highly coloured. P. biloba was described by 
Stephens from an example supposed to be from Great Britain. 


8. Plusia verruca. 

Noctua verruca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 238. 

Plusia verruca, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 8342'; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9067; Herr-Schaff. Corr.- 
Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 183 (sep. copy, p. 21)*; Grote, List of North- 
American Moths, p. 84 (1882)*. 

? Phalena Noctua oo, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, t. 811. f. F (? E). 

Noctua omega, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ff. 378, 374. 

Autographa omicron, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 251. 

Plusia questionis, Treitschke, Schmett. Europ., Suppl. p. 182. 

Hab. Nortu Amertca!4, United States2—Muxico, Ventanas 2000 feet (Forrer), 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Jan. 1888); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (T7rétsch, in 
mus. Staudinger), San Feliz (Champion).—CotomBia, Bogota?; VENEZUELA?; Gurana, 
Cayenne!; Brazin}; Antituzs, S. Thomas}, Cuba?. 


PLUSIA. 331 


We have only seen four specimens of this species from Central America; the one 
from San Feliz is much darker in colour than either of the others. 


9. Plusia rogationis. 

Plusia rogationis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 344°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9067; Herr.-Schaff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 183 (sep. copy, p. 21) °. 

Plusia includens, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 914°. 

Plusia hamifera, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 917°. 

Hab. Nortn America !?2,— Mexico, Venta de Zopilote and Tierra Colorada in 
Guerrero 2800 feet, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Coatepec (Brooks), Jalapa (Hége) ; 
GUATEMALA, near the city (Rodriguez), Senahu, San Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 
to 5000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion ; Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger ).—CotomBia1?; VENEZUELA®; BrazIL; AMAZONS, Santarem®; ANTILLES, 
San Domingo 4, Cuba’; AvsTRALiA } 2. 


This species is common in our region. 
Mr. Smith’s examples were captured in January, February, and October 1888. 


10. Plusia gamma *, 
Phalena Noctua gamma, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 127. 
Noctua gamma, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 227; Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Noct. t. 58. f. 283. 
Autographa gamma, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 251. 
Plusia gamma, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 3487; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 898*; Méschler, Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. p. 295, note’. 
Hab. Norru America } 2,—Mexico, Huahuapan, Puebla (Hedemann*).—Evrore ! 3; 


Centra Asta? ; Sourn AFRICA 2. 


This species, which is one of the most widely distributed and best known of all the 
Noctuide, has been recorded by Méschler from Mexico; but we have not received a 
specimen of it from any part of Central America, and it is inserted here solely on 
Moschler’s authority®. It is not included by Grote in his Check-list of North- 
American Moths. 


11. Plusia ou. 

Plusia ou, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 3487; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 9077; Herr.-Schaff. Corr.- 
Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 183 (sep. copy, p. 21)°; Grote, List of North-American 
Moths, p. 34 (1882)*, | 

Hab. Norra America!4, East Florida 2.—Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. 

Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), Cuesta de Misantla (Mf. Trujillo), Orizaba 

(F. D. G., H. H. Smith), Mexico city, Jalapa (Hége); GuatemaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 

to 5000 feet (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 

(Trotsch, in mus, Staudinger).—VENEZUELA 2; ANTILLES, Cuba. 


* For full synonymy see Walker’s Catalogue (op. cit.), 
2 té 2 


332 HETEROCERA. 


This species is common in Mexico, but becomes rarer southwards. From the State 
of Panama we have only seen a single specimen. 
Mr. Smith’s examples were captured in the months of June and December. 


12. Plusia parallela. 
Plusia parallela, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 918°. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Feb. 1888); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA 1. 


Central-American specimens agree perfectly with Walker’s type in the National 
Collection. 


13. Plusia basigera. 
Plusia basigera, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 836". 
Hab. NortH America }.—MeExico, near the city (Hége). 


We have received one specimen of this species from Mexico; it is identical with 
Walker’s type in the National Collection. P. basigera is omitted from Grote’s Check- 
list of North-American Moths. 


14. Plusia egena. 
Plusia egena, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 328°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 914”. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Coatepec (Brooks); GuatEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBia }, 
Bogota?; VENEZUELA?; Braziu}, Rio Janeiro?; AntiLLEs, San Domingo 2. 


Specimens of this species from Rio Janeiro are rather duller in colour than those 
from Central America. 


15. Plusia abeona, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 16.) 


Primaries pale brown, crossed from the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle by a pale whitish-brown 
line, with a pale line near the base crossing from the inner to near the costal margin, but not 
reaching it, and a large copper-coloured patch extending from the apex along the outer margin to near 
the anal angle, the fringe brown ; secondaries pale brown, almost whitish-hyaline at the base, the fringe 
pale greyish-brown : head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the antenne and legs pale brown. Expanse 
12 inch. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Cusa, San Cristo- 

bal (Boucard, mus. D.). 


It is possible that this may be the same species as P. egenella, Herr.-Schaff. ; but as 
it does not agree with the description, I have thought it better to describe it. 


16. Plusia longicornis, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 17.) 
Primaries dark silky brown, shaded with darker brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the 
inner margin by a waved dark brown line, on the outer side of which is a dark band extending from the 
apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, a dark brown patch about the middle nearest the inner 


PLUSIA.—DIAMUNA. 333 


margin, the metallic spots the same asin P. rogationts, but rather smaller, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries dark brown, with the fringe paler in colour; the underside of both wings silky brown: head, 
thorax, and abdomen brown, the legs pale brown, the palpi brown; the antenne brown, and as long as 
the primaries. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).— _ 
Ecuabor, Sarayacu (Buckley). 


This species is distinguished from all others of the genus by the antenne being as 


long as the primaries. Ecuador specimens do not differ from those from Central 
America. 


17. Plusia abrota, sp. n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 19.) 


Primaries dark brown, the costal margin banded with short brown markings, with a pale waved brown band 
crossing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner margin, a wide metallic golden-brown streak 
from the base below the cell, on the upperside edged with a very fine white line, and a wide metallic 
golden-brown submarginal line extending from the apex almost to the anal angle, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries blackish-brown, palest at the base, the fringe pale greyish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen 


dark brown, the hairs at the base of the thorax golden-brown; the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (FP. D. G.), Coatepec (Brooks). 
A fine distinct species. The specimen captured by Mr. Godman is figured. 


THYRIA. 
Thyria, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 357 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 934. 
Four species were placed in Thyria by Walker, all from Tropical America: .two of 
these, I believe, are conspecific, and one is referable to another genus. 


1. Thyria ditissima. 

Thyria ditissima, Walk. Cat. xii. p. 935°. 
? Thyria aurifundens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1788”. 
Thyria fulgida, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 110. f. 87, Erkl. der Taf. 110. no. 37°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger)—CoLomBia, Antioquia; Guiana? ; Ecuapor; 
Brazit, Rio Janeiro 2; AMAZONS, Para}. 

This insect may not really be @istinct from 7. amenita (Cram.); but the latter, 
according to Cramer’s figure, has the secondaries clouded almost to the base with 
yellowish-brown. I believe 7. aurifundens, Walk., to be the same species. 


Subfam. CAL PIN. 


DIAMUNA. 
Diamuna, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 960 (1857). 
Walker included in this genus one species only, Phalena (Noctua) severa, Cram., 


334 _ HETEROCERA. 


from Guiana. In Central America Diamuna is represented by four species, all of which 
are here described as new. 


1. Diamuna longipes, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 18.) 

Primaries greyish-brown, with some pale greyish streaks near the apex on the costal margin, a wide greyish- 
brown band edged with dark brown lines extending from near the base on the inner margin to the anal 
angle, and then along the outer margin to the apex, the marginal line dark brown, the fringe pale brown ; 
secondaries bright orange, broadly bordered from the apex to the anal angle with brownish-black, the 
fringe greyish-brown ; the underside of both wings pale yellow, broadly bordered with reddish-brown, a 
reddish-brown spot at the end of the cell of both wings, the costal margin of the primaries irrorated With 
reddish-brown scales: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown, the abdomen with a wide central black 
band extending from the base to the anus; the antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 


One specimen. 


2. Diamuna adrasta, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 20.) 


Primaries dark reddish-brown, thickly irrorated with minute metallic lead-coloured scales, a pale yellowish- 
brown band extending from near the apex to the inner margin slightly above the anal angle, the apex 
and fringe blackish ; secondaries bright orange-yellow, broadly bordered with deep black from the costal 
margin to the inner margin near the anal angle, the fringe black; the underside of the primaries deep 
black, with the base and a wide band beyond the middle bright orange, that of the secondaries as above : 
head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antennw deep black, the tegule black with the base orange. The 
female with the black margin of the secondaries considerably wider than in the male. Expanse, ¢ 1? 
inch, @ 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Patzcuaro (/. D. G.), Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith, 
Aug. 1888), Jalapa (Hoge), Orizaba (Elwes, March 1888). 


This fine species appears to be widely distributed and fairly common in Mexico. 
The specimens from Jalapa and Orizaba are smaller than those fiom the other 


localities. 


8. Diamuna edessa, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. figg. 21, 22.) 


Primaries brown, with a waved submarginal line crossing the wing from the costal margin near the apex to 
the inner margin, a round spot in the cell, and an elongate spot at the end of the cell, all dark brown, a 
large brownish-white patch beyond the cell on the costal margin, but not extending more than halfway 
across the wing; secondaries bright chrome-yellow, bordered with black, more broadly so at the apex ; 
the underside of the primaries black, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to the anal angle 
with a wide yellow band, that of the secondaries the same as above; the fringe of both wings blackish- 
brown: head, thorax, antenns, and tegule dark brown; the abdomen and legs black. Expanse 12 
inch. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 
This species is allied to D. adrasta, from which it may be distinguished by the white 
patch on the primaries, and the narrower black border of the secondaries. 


4. Diamuna elia, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. figg. 23, 24.) 


Primaries dark brown, irrorated with white scales along the costal margin, with two waved lines crossing from 
the costa] to the inner margin (the first close to the base, the second submarginal), a round spot in the 


DIAMUNA.—HYBLAA. 330 


cell, and a large mark at the end of the cell, greenish-brown, a rather indistinct white band crossing the 
wing beyond the middle, the fringe brown and grey; secondaries rich chrome-yellow, broadly bordered 
with deep black, the fringe black; the underside of the primaries black, with the costal margin close to 
the base streaked with yellow, a spot at the end of the cell, and a wide band beyond the cell, the latter 
not reaching either margin, creamy-white, that of the secondaries the same as above; the fringe of both 
wings black and white: head, antenne, and collar black, the thorax and tegule dark brown, the legs 
brownish-black, the abdomen black. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui between 2000 and 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species resembles D. edessa, but differs from it in the colour of the underside. 
Ohe example only has been received. 


CLITIS. 
Chitis, Walker, Cat. xii. p. 961 (1852). 


This genus was established by Walker for the reception of Phaleena Noctua proser- 
pina, Cram., an insect inhabiting Guiana. It chiefly differs from Déamuna in having 
shorter and broader primaries and longer and more slender antenne. From Central 
America we have received one species which we now describe. | 


1. Clitis primulina, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 25.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, darker from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries pale 
yellow, broadly bordered with black from the apex to the inner margin; the underside of both wings 
primrose-yellow, broadly bordered with black, the marginal line yellow: head, thorax, and tegule fawn- 
colour, the underside of the head and the antenne and front legs dark brown; abdomen blackish- brown, 
the sides and under surface yellow ; legs yellow. Expanse 1,% inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (forrer). 


Two specimens. 


Subfam. HY BLAINE, 


HYBLAA. 
Hyblea, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ili. 2, p. 127 (1794) ; Guéneé, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 390 (1852) ; 
Walker, Cat. xii. p. 979. 
One species of this genus is found in Central America, and this possesses a most 
remarkable distribution. 


1. Hyblea puera. 
Phalena Noctua puera, Cram. Pap. Exot, ii. p. 10, t. 103. ff. D, E*. 
Hyblea puera, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p.3890?; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 979°; Butl. P. Z.S. 1878, 
p. 486°; Herr.-Schiaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 185° (sep. copy, p. 23). 
Noctua saga, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 187. 
Hyblea saga, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iti. 2, p. 128. 
Noctua nuxia, Hiibn. Europ. Schmett., Noct. f. 513. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Coatepec (Brooks); Honpvuras?. — Gurana, 


336 HETEROCERA. 


Surinam 1, Cayenne?, Braziu?; Amazons, Para? ; ANTILLES, San Domingo °, Jamaica 34, 
Guadaloupe 2, Cuba>; Mavritius?; Nortu Inpia*, Nepaul?; Ceyton?; Cuina3; 
Java2; Sout AFRICA 3. 


This species is common in most of the warmer parts of the globe, and does not vary 
to any extent. 


Subfam. GONOPTERINA. 


COSMOPHILA. 
Cosmophila, Boisduval, Faune ent. de Mad., Bourb. et Maurice, Lép. p. 94 (1834); Guénée, Sp. 
gén. des Lép. vi. p. 394 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 985. 
Several species are included by Walker in this genus, one being common to North 
and South America, and the others inhabiting the warmer parts of the Old World. 


1. Cosmophila erosa. 

Anomis erosa, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ff. 287, 288; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 249 ; Grote, 
List of North-American Moths, p. 33 (1882) ’. 

Cosmophila erosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 395°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 986°; Butler, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 37%. 

Hab. Nortu America 12, North Carolina.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Cuesta de Misantla 
(M. Trujillo), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), Coatepec (Brooks), Dos Arroyos in 
Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith, Sept. 1888); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion; Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe, mus. Staudinger). — Sourn AMERICA? ; 
CoLoMBIA; VENEZUELA?; Braziu; AMAzons‘4; ANTILLES, Jamaica 3, San Domingo °. 


This species very closely resembles C. canthindyma, Boisd., from Madagascar, Ceylon, 
India, the Eastern Islands, &c. 


ANOMIS. 


Anomis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 249 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 897 (1852) ; 
Walker, Cat. xii. p. 987. 


Walker in his Catalogue includes fifteen species in this genus, all excepting two 
being North, Central, or South American, or from the Antilles. Four are here 
enumerated from Central America. 


1. Anomis argillacea. 

Aletia argillacea, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ff. 8399, 400; Grote, List of North-American 
Moths, p. 33 (1882) *. | 

Mythimna argiliacea, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 79°. 

Anomis argillacea, Herr.-Schaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 177 (sep. copy, 
p. 15)’. 


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Anomis grandipuncta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 400; Walk. Cat. xiii. p- 989°; Butler, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 37°. 
Noctua xylina, Say, Trans. New York State Agr. Soc. 1857, p. 813"; Complete Writings, i. p. 370. 
Hab. Norva America’, North Carolina, California——Mexico, near the city (Hége), 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz (HZ. H. Smith); Guaremata, El Reposo 800 feet (Champion) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger ; Arcé, in mus. D.).—VENEZUELA5 ; 
Braziu**, Bahia?; Amazons®, Santarem®, S. Paulo; Awntittes, Cuba 3, San 
Domingo >, | 
A common and widely distributed insect in the warmer parts of the New World. 
The larva is stated to feed upon the cotton-plant, and is known in the United States 
under the name of the cotton-worm’. A. argillacea varies considerably in colour and 
also in the distinctness of the whitish spot on the primaries, this being obsolete in 
some examples. 


2. Anomis exacta. 

Anomis exacta, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 198. ff 1-4; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 249; 
Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 3991; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 989’; Herr.-Schaff. Corr.-Blatt 
zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 178 (sep. copy, p. 16)*; Grote, List of North-American 
Moths, p. 33 (1882) *. 


Hab. Norra America 4.—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe).—VeEnezueta?; Braziu}, Rio Janeiro; 
Amazons, Para ?, 8. Paulo; ANTILLES, Cuba 3, San Domingo 2. 

Specimens from the Volcan de Chiriqui agree with Hiibner’s figures, and also with 
other examples from South America in my own collection; those from Mexico are 
rather brighter in colour. 


8. Anomis aricina, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 26.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed by several very fine waved greyish-white lines, some greyish-white dots at the 
end of the cell, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries uniform dark blackish-brown, the fringe rather paler : 
head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antenne brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribée). 


An example of this dull-coloured species is also contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collec- 
tion, and from the same locality. 


4, Anomis (?) illita. 
Anomis illita, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 4001; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 9927. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Brazi 12, 
A specimen from Chiriqui, apparently referable to this species, has been forwarded 
to me by Dr. Staudinger for examination. So far as I can judge from a single example, 
A, illita would be better placed in the genus Gonitis. 


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338 HETEROCERA. 


CHYTORYZA. 
Chytorhyza, Grote, Canad. Ent. viii. p. 190 (1876) ; List of North-American Moths, p. 33 (1882). 


This genus is allied to Anomis; it was founded by Grote for the reception of a Texan 
insect, which we are now able to trace southwards to the State of Panama. 


1. Chytoryza tecta. 
Chytorhyza tecta, Grote, Canad. Ent. viii. p. 190*; List of North-American Moths, p. 33 (1882). 


Hab. Norta America, Texas !.—Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet, Atoyac 
in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Coatepec (Brooks); GUATEMALA, San 
Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 

This insect appears to be fairly common in Mexico, but to become rarer southwards, 
one specimen only having been received from each of the other localities mentioned. 
In some examples the white spot on the primaries is much more distinct than in others. 
Our specimens do not differ from those from Texas in the Grote collection now in the 


National Museum. 
Mr. Smith’s examples were captured in the months of February, May, and September. 


HYPSOROPHA. 


Hypsoropha, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 249 (1816); Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 994; Grote, List 
of North-American Moths, p. 34 (1882). 
Monogona, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 402 (1852). 
Tiauspa, Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 995 (1857). 
The two known species of this genus are both from North America; a third is now 


added from Mexico. 


1. Hypsoropha adeona, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 28.) 


Primaries mouse-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales, a white band crossing the wing from the 
costal to the middle of the inner margin, above which is a faint dark line near the inner margin, the 
white band broken into four white spots, and the wing on the outer side of it shaded with greyish- 
white, the fringe dark brown; secondaries yellowish-fawn-colour, the fringe greyish: head, thorax, and 
legs mouse-colour ; abdomen fawn-colour above, whitish beneath. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 


Allied to H. monilis, Hiibner. One specimen. 


GONITIS. 
Gonitis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 403 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 997. 
Numerous species are known of this genus, and it is represented in most parts of the 
world; three are now enumerated from Central America. 


GONITIS —BARYDIA. 339 


1. Gonitis editrix. 

-Gonitis editrir, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 404, Noct. t. 11. £51; Walk. Cat. xill. p. 998’; 
Herr.-Schiff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 178 (sep. copy, p. 16)*. 

Gonitis fractifera, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 998 *. 

Gonitis cosmioides, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1000°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge, M. Trujillo), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion); Honpuras*; Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé).—CoLomBia '? ; 
VENEZUELA *; Ecuapor; Braziu; ANTILLES !2, San Domingo 1, Cuba® #°. 


This insect varies very much in colour. I cannot detect any reason for retaining 
G. fractifera and G. cosmioides, Walk., as distinct ; they are nothing but slight varieties 
of G. editria. 


2. Gonitis reversa. 
Gonitis reversa, Walk. Cat. xxxili. p. 861°. 
_ Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Zapote (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, Ribbe).—Braziu}. 


The type of this species is in the late Mr. Saunders’s collection, now in the Oxford 
Museum. The specimens before me vary considerably, both in colour and size; the 
white discal spot is in some specimens obsolete, and in others very faint. Central- 
American examples are smaller and darker than those from Brazil. We have received 
a specimen of this insect from Dr. Staudinger under the name of G. humeralis, Guén. ; 
this name, so far as I am aware, being an unpublished one. 


3. Gonitis combinans. 
Gonitis combinans, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1001". 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Inp1a and 
CEYLON }. | 
The single specimen received from Chiriqui agrees perfectly with those from India 
and Ceylon in the National Museum. 


Subfam. AMPHIPY RINE. 


BARYDIA. | 
Barydia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 409 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1012; Butler, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 37. 

Guénée included one species only, B. dufo, Guén., from Cayenne, in this genus, 
Butler subsequently adding Phalena Noctua japeta, Cram. (Pap. Exot. iv. t. 346. f. G), 
to it. We have now to notice a third species, which is here described. All three are 
inhabitants of South or Central America. 

2 uu 2 


340 HETEROCERA. 


1. Barydia severa, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 27.) 


Primaries dark brown, thickly irrorated with darker brown and cream-coloured scales, with a waved black 
line near the base crossing from the costal to the inner margin, but not reaching it, several small indistinct 
pale lines along the costal margin, a waved black line extending from the inner margin near the apex 
nearly to the costal margin, a large black spot with two cream-coloured dots on the outer side between 
the black line and the outer margin, two cream-coloured dots near the anal angle and one above close to 
the costal margin, and a marginal row of small cream-coloured dots extending from the apex to the anal 
angle, the fringe dark brown; secondaries pale silky brown, thickly irrorated round the outer margin 
with cream-coloured scales, and with a marginal row of small cream-coloured dots, a waved black line 
crossing about one third of the wing from the inner margin just above the anal angle, the black line 
edged with cream-colour on the outer side and becoming very indistinct about the middle of the wing ; 
the underside pale silky brown, shaded with darker brown, but without any defined markings, the 
marginal cream-coloured spots as above: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the abdomen densely 


tufted at the base ; the antenna, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 2? inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (22bbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana ( Whitely, in mus. D.). 

Our figure is taken from the Guiana specimen, it being in much better condition 
than the one from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 

These examples agree perfectly with each other, allowance being made for the 
difference of condition, one being fresh and the other much worn. JB. severa is not 


very closely allied to B. bufo or B. japeta. 


Subfam. HOMOPTERINAL. 


PHAOCYMA. 


Pheocyma, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 275 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vu. p. 2; 


Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1045. 
Pheocima, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 


This genus has hitherto only contained a single species from North America; a 
second is now added from the State of Panama. 


1. Pheocyma ilia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 1.) 

Primaries dark brown, thickly irrorated with very fine black lines, and with a greyish spot edged with black 
at the end of the cell, a fine straight black line edged with yellowish-brown crossing the wing near the 
base from the costal to the inner margin, a waved black line, broadly bordered on the outer side with 
yellowish-brown, beyond the middle extending from the costal to the inner margin near the anal angle, 
and a submarginal row of lunular markings, the latter black on the inner side, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries dark brown, palest at the base, with a marginal row of small white dots; the underside of 
both wings greyish-brown : head, thorax (except in front), abdomen, and legs dark greyish-brown, the 
collar and the front of the thorax yellowish-brown, the antenne and palpi dark brown. LExpanse 13 


inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champzon). 


This species is allied to the North-American P. lunifera, Hiibn., but differs greatly 
in the markings of the primaries; it also resembles the Chilian Alamis polioides, Guén. 


Some specimens are much greyer in colour than others. 


COXINA.—XYLIS. 34] 


COXINA. 
Coxina, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 297 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 867. 

Walker followed Guénée in placing Covina in the Eriopine; but it appears to me 
to be very much more closely allied to the genus Homoptera, and I therefore include 
it in the Homopterine. Coxina contains three representatives, all from Mexico or 
Central America. 


1. Coxina ensipalpis. 

Coxina ensipalpis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 298, Noct. t. 14. f.5*; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 868°. 

Hab. Mexico! ?, Presidio (Forrer), Mexico city (Hége), Coatepec (Brooks), Atoyac in 
Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Britisa Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaua) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Zapote, Capetillo, 
Panima in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker), Taboga Island 
(Mathew, mus. D.). 

This species is extremely variable in Mexico and Guatemala, where it is very 
common. Mr. Smith’s examples were captured between the months of February and 


April. 


2. Coxina minax. 
Corina minax, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 298°; Walk. Cat. xii, p. 868”. 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan ! 2. 


3. Coxina hadenoides. 
Corina hadenoides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 299’; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 868 *. 
Hab. Mexico 1 2, 
Mons. Oberthiir informs me that Guénée’s type of this and of the preceding species 
cannot be found. It is most probable that they are only varieties of C. ensipalpis. 


XYLIS. 
Xylis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 7 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 1051. 

A single species only, from Brazil, was included by Guénée in this genus ; it appears 
to me to be very closely allied to Homoptera, but to have the primaries slightly longer. 
Homoptera ustipennis, Walk., from an unknown locality, as noted by Butler (cf. Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 41), isa Xylis; this insect, as well as X. setipes, is now known 


to inhabit Central America. 


1. Xylis setipes. 
Xylis setipes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 7, Noct. t. 15. f. 61; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1052’; 
Herr.-Schiff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 191 (sep. copy, p. 29) °*. 


349 - HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbe ; mus. Staudinger).—Braziu !?; 
Cusa 8. 

This species varies slightly. Dr. Staudinger informs me that his specimen from 
Chiriqui was named by Guénée; it is darker in colour than the figure. 


2. Xylis ustipennis. 
Homoptera ustipennis, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1071. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde). 


HOMOPTERA. 
Homoptera (Boisduval), Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 8 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1052 ; 
Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 

This genus includes a large number of species, chiefly American. It is well repre- 
sented in North, Central, and South America, and also in the Antilles. Many of the 
species are extremely variable; and it is more than probable that when they are better 
known the sexes of some of them will prove to have been treated as specifically 
distinct. 


1. Homoptera edusa, var. lunata. 

Phalena Noctua edusa, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 42, t. 24. f. 47. 

Erebus edusa, Westw. ed. Drury, ii. p. 46, t. 24. f. 4. 

Homoptera edusa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 147; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1054°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882); Herr.-Schaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 
1868, p. 191 (sep. copy, p. 29) *. 

Erebus (Omopterus) putrescens, Guér. Icon, Régne Anim. p. 522 (larva, t. 89. fig. 8) °. 

Phalena Noctua lunata, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 40, t. 20. f. 3°. 

Homoptera lunata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 127; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1053°; Druce, P. Z. S. 
1884, p. 323°. 

Homoptera edusa, var. lunata, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42. 

Hab. Nortu America! ?57, United States 38, Carolina °, Virginia &°5—Mexico, Mexico 
city (Hoge), Jalapa (Schaus), Cordova (Riimeli), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Gerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). — 
ANTILLES, San Domingo ’, Cuba 4, Dominica 9. 

This variable species is very common and widely distributed in North and Central 
America and the Antilles; but I have not as yet seen a specimen from south of the 
Isthmus of Panama. The large number of examples before me vary from almost black 
to pale brown, but in no one locality do they appear to be constant in colour or mark- 
ings. We have not as yet received from within the limits of our fauna a specimen 
agreeing with the typical North-American H. edusa, all our numerous examples 
belonging to the variety /unata. 


HOMOPTERA. 348 


2. Homoptera exhausta. 
_ Homoptera exhausta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 147; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 10537; Druce, 
P. Z. S. 1884, p. 323°. 

Hab. Norta America?! 2.—Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Cordova (Riimeli), Cuesta de 
Misantla (M@. Trujillo); Guaremaua, in the city (Rodriguez); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqai (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger) — 
Brazi.!?; Antittes, Dominica 3, San Domingo 2. 


A common species in Mexico. H. exhausta is not included in Grote’s Check-list of 
North-American Moths, and the species probably does not extend into the United 
States. 


3. Homoptera marginalis, 
Homoptera marginalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 878°. 
Hab. Mextco, Oaxaca (Sallé!), Jalapa (Schaus) ; GuatemMata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3000 feet (Champion) ; Panama, ‘Volcan de Chiriqui below 
4000 feet (Champion).—CotomBtia, Bogota. 


A very variable insect. Walker in his Catalogue! states that it is closely allied to 
H. minerea, and that it perhaps is a local variety of that species. 


4. Homoptera terrosa. 

? Phalena lunata, Cram. Pap. Ex. iv. p. 38, t. 308. f. C* (nec Drury). 

Homoptera terrosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 117; Walk. Cat. xiii. p.1058°; Butler, P. Z. S. 
1878, p. 487*; Druce, P. Z.S. 1884, p. 323°; Mischl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, 
p. 400°. 

Homoptera configurata, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 10587. 

Homoptera posterior, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1060 °. 

Hab. Mexico?*7, Tampico in Tamaulipas (Richardson), Jalapa (Hoge, Schaus), 
Coatepec (Brooks), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Chiriqui (fibde, in mus. Staudinger).— 
Guiana, Surinam! 6; Antittes, Guadaloupe ? *, Jamaica ° 4 8, Dominica °. 


This species does not vary to any extent, judging from the large series of specimens 
from numerous localities before me. 


5. Homoptera gradata. 
Homoptera gradata, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1060’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuateMata, Coatepeque (Champion) ; Costa Rica 
(Van Patten, Boucard); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion ).— 
ANTILLES, San Domingo 1, 


A common insect in Central America. The large number of specimens received do 
not show any variation. 


344 HETEROCERA. 


6. Homoptera viridans. 
? Phalena lunata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 88, t. 808. f. C (nec Drury) *. 
Homoptera viridans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 18°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1064’. 
Hab. NortH America, Florida ?.—Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion), Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Guiana, Surinam!; Braziu?, Rio 
Janeiro. 


We have only seen three specimens of this species from Central America; it is very 
widely distributed, but appears to be everywhere rare. 


7. Homoptera viridisquama. 
Homoptera viridisquama, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1797". 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann) ; GUATEMALA, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Braziu }. 


The Central-American specimens before me do not differ from Walker’s type in the 
National Collection. 


8. Homoptera g#mona, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 3.) 


Primaries dark brown, shaded with blackish-brown along the costal and inner margins, with several narrow 
black waved lines crossing the wing from the costal to the inner margin, a marginal row of minute black 
dots, edged with pale brown on the outer side, extending from the apex to the anal angle, and a very 
minute greyish-white spot at the end of the cell, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dark brown, with 
a marginal row of spots on the primaries and two narrow black lines crossing the wing below the middle 
from the inner margin to the apex, below which, about the middle, is a greyish-white W-shaped mark ; 
the fringe dark brown; the underside of both wings pale brown, with several very indistinct darker 
brown bands: head, thorax, and abdomen above dark blackish-brown, beneath pale brown, the second 
segment of the abdomen pale yellowish-brown ; the palpi and antenne dark brown, the legs pale greyish- 
brown. The female similar to the male, but paler in colour. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (M2. Trujillo); Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 
2500 to 3800 feet, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger), 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


The specimens from Guatemala are rather the largest, and are paler in colour than 
those from the Volcan de Chiriqui. Our figure is taken from one of these latter. 


9. Homoptera (?) simplicior. 
Homoptera simplicior, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1065’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann) ; Honpuras (Dyson 1). 


A worn specimen received from Jalisco agrees with the type in the National Collec- 
tion. 1 think it doubtful if this species really belongs to the genus Homoptera. 


HOMOPTERA. 345 


10. Homoptera decessa. 
Homoptera decessa, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1072". 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (£zbde, 


in mus. Staudinger). 


Walker’s type is from an unknown locality !. 


11. Homoptera apicalis. 
Homoptera apicalis, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1066'. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson '). 


Only known to me by the type in the British Museum. 


12. Homoptera discisigna. 
Homoptera discisigna, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1066 °. 
Hab. Honpvuras (Dyson '). 


The type of this species is in very bad condition. 


13. Homoptera subrosea. 
Homoptera subrosea, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1070°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (£756e). 


Of this species we have received one specimen from Chiriqui which agrees well with 
the type in the British Museum ; the locality of the latter remains unknown !. 


14. Homoptera amata, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 4.) 


Primaries dark brown, shaded with bluish-grey, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four waved 
narrow black lines, the costal margin streaked with white, a large white mark at the end of the cell 
extending to the costal margin, a submarginal row of black spots running from the apex to the anal angle, 
the inner side of these spots greyish-white; secondaries dark brown, shaded with bluish-grey, crossed 
from the inner margin to beyond the middle by three waved black lines, and with a submarginal row 
of spots similar to that on the primaries; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside pale 
brown irrorated with dark brown scales, that of the secondaries crossed by two brown lines, the costal 
and outer margins of the wings spotted with white: head and front of the thorax yellowish-brown, the 
rest of the thorax and the abdomen dark brown irrorated with bluish-grey scales, the first four segments 
of the abdomen with a central yellowish-brown spot; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 2,/; 
inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen of this very distinct species was captured by Mr. Champion ; it is 
allied to H. subrosea, Walker. 


15. Homoptera mima. 
Homoptera mima, Harvey, Canad. Ent. viii. p. 155°. 
Eubolina mima, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas 1.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., January 1890. 2 arr 


346 HETEROCERA. 


Our Sonoran specimens agree with others from Texas, so named in the Grote 
collection now in the National Museum. 


YPSIA. 
Ypsia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 16 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xui. p. 1073; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 

Two species from North America were included in this genus by Guénée, Y. wrugi- 
nosa, Guén., and Y. undularis (Drury) ; the first-named, of which we have received an 
example from Mexico, has subsequently proved to be only a variety of the latter. An 
additional species is now added from Central America. 


1. Ypsia undularis. 

Noctua undularis, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 19, t. 9. £4"; Westw. ed. Drury, i. p. 19, t.9. f. 19. 

Ypsia undularis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 18°; - Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1074°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 

Ypsia eruginosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 17°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1074’. 

Ypsia undularis, var. eruginosa, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42. 

Ypsia umbripennis, Grote, Canad. Ent. vill. p. 109°. 

Ypsia undularis, var. umbripennis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42. 

Hab. Nortu America 2456, New York !°.—Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann). 


The single specimen received from Western Mexico agrees perfectly with others 
from North America in my own collection. 


2. Ypsia lineata, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries dark blackish-brown, much the same in colour as in Y. undularis, crossed by black 
lines, which are placed considerably nearer the base than in that species, the primaries with several very 
minute white spots at the end of the cell, on the costal margin near the base, and at the anal angle, the 
primaries and secondaries each with a row of minute white spots extending from the apex to the anal 
angle; the underside of both wings dark brown: head, thorax, and abdomen dark blackish-brown ; 
antennz, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Guaremata, Senahu and San Gerénimo in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


It is quite possible that this insect may prove to be yet another form of Y. undularis, 
from which it chiefly differs in having the lines on the primaries and secondaries placed 
nearer the base; it is also considerably smaller. 


Subfam. HY POGRAMMINA. 


SAFIA. 
Safia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 20 (1852); Walker, Cat. xii. p. 1079. 
This genus was founded by Guénée upon an insect from Guiana described and 


SAFIA.—YRIAS. 347 


figured by Cramer; Walker also included in it two additional species from the 
same country, whence various others have since been recorded by Méschler. One of 
these species is now known to inhabit the State of Panama, and I now describe another 
from the same State. 


1. Safia celia. 
Phalena Noctua celia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 109, t. 346. ff. E, F°. 
Safia celia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 217; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1080°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1879, p. 41 *. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 
feet (Champion).—Gutana °, Surinam !?° ; Amazons, Rio Trombetas ¢. 


2. Safia enia, sp. n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries dark brown, banded from the inner margin to about the middle of the wing with three dark brown 
marks, and with a large dark brown patch shaded with bluish-grey on the costal margin near the apex, 
and a row of minute brown spots extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries dark brown, 
the outer margin broadly bordered with pale brown, and with a submarginal row of small brown spots ; 
the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside pale dusky-brown, with two faint brown lines 
crossing each wing: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft pale brown, the antenne, 
palpi, and legs blackish-brown, the abdomen with a tuft of deep black scales at the base. The female 
similar to the male, but very much darker in colour. Expanse, ¢ 2, 1? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridse, in mus. Staudinger). 
This species is allied to S. celia, but very differently marked. 


YRIAS. 
Yrias, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 21 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1081. 
‘Three species, one from the Antilles and two from Tropical South America, were 
included in this genus by Guénée and Walker; and others from South America have 
subsequently been added to it by Méschler and Felder. ‘'wo are now enumerated 


from Central America. 


1. Yrias progenies. 

Yrias progenies, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 23, Noct. t. 15. f.10'; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 1081’; 
Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 41°; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 408 *; 
Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, 111. p. 30. - 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer) ; Costa Rica, Punta Arenas (J. J. Walker).—Guiana, 
Paramaribo4; Amazons, Lake Juruty?; Anriuizs, St. Thomas”, Guadaloupe? 2. 


Central-American specimens agree perfectly with Guénée’s figure. 


2. Yrias mollis. 
Yrias mollis, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 407, t. 8. f. 3’; Beitr. zur Schmett.- 
Fauna von Surinam, iil. p. 29. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger) —GuIANA, Surinam }..: — 
2x4 2 


348 HETEROCERA. 


_ We are indebted to Dr. Staudinger for kindly sending his Chiriqui specimen for our 
inspection ; the species is quite distinct from any other known to us. 


LEPIDODES. 
Lepidodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 27 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1085. 
It is very doubtful if this genus should be located in the Hypogrammine; but for 
the sake of convenience I provisionally place it here, following the arrangement of 


Guénée and Walker. A single species from Colombia was included in it by Guénée ; 
this extends northwards:into Central America, whence a second species is now added. 


1. Lepidodes limbulata. 
Lepidodes limbulata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 28, Noct. t, 18. f.9'; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1086’. 
Becula gallopavo, Walk. Cat. ix. p. 148°. 
Lepidodes cornifrons, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 112. f. 11, Erkl. der Taf. 112. 
no. 11%. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Co.tomBia ! 2; VENEZUELA 3 4. 


One specimen only of this species has been received by us from within the limits of 
our fauna. 


2. Lepidodes (?) enyra, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 6.) 


Primaries pinkish-brown, thickly irrorated with darker brown scales, with several minute black streaks near 
the inner margin and an indistinct brown mark near the anal angle; secondaries uniformly pale blackish- 
brown, becoming whitish at the base; the fringe of both wings pale brown; the underside pale brown, 
the primaries darker than the secondaries: head, thorax, abdomen, antenna, palpi, and legs pale pinkish- 
brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this species was captured by Mr. Champion. 


PHOSPHILA. 
Phosphila, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 208 (1816). 


Hiibner included two species in this genus, one of these being from North and 
the other from South America; both were doubtfully included in Amphipyra by 
Walker. A third species, from the Amazons, has subsequently been referred to it by 
Butler; this is known to me from as far north as Guatemala, and a fourth is now 
added from the State of Panama. 


1. Phosphila tatosoma. 
Phosphila (?) tatosoma, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 42°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, 
‘Chiriqui (47be).—Amazons, Mauhes River !. 


PHOSPHILA.—CCNIPETA. 349 


Central-American specimens agree perfectly with the type in the National Collection. 
The numerous examples received from Guatemala do not show the slightest variation ; 
these were mostly attracted to light in the month of December. 


2. Phosphila exonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 7.) 


Primaries brown, marked very much as in P. tatosoma, but much paler in the middle, the spot on the inner 
margin near the base larger and darker in colour and the outer marginal waved band considerably 
broader; secondaries dark brown, but not so dark as in P. tatosoma: head, thorax, and abdomen blackish- 
brown, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe). 


This species is closely allied to P. tatosoma, Butl., from which it differs in its paler 
colour and in the form of the antenne of the male. 


COLNIPETA. 
Coenipeta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 260 (1816). 
Cenipeta, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 29; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1090. 
Helia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (partim). 
About fourteen species of this genus are known, all American ; eight are now recorded 
from Central America, one of which is described as new. Some of the species are very 
variable. 


1. Conipeta serapis. 
Phalena Noctua serapis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 222, t. 396. f. F’. 
Cenipeta serapis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vu. p. 337; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1091°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—Gutana, Berbice } 2 3, 
The specimens received from Arcé from Chiriqui are almost identical with Cramer’s 


figure. 


2. Cenipeta lobuligera. 

Cenipeta lobuligera, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 82'; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1091’. 

Cenipeta aniloba, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 33°; Walk. Cat. xii. p. 1093*; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 44°. 

Cenipeta columbina, Walk. Cat. xxxili. p. 892°. 

Cenipeta lilacina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 44’. 

Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, 
Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion).—Brazin 234, Bahia!; Amazons, Rio Tapajos >, 
Borba 5, Santarem ®, Rio Negro®’, Paré?; West Coast oF AMERICA”; ANTILLES, San 
Domingo 2. 

This variable insect is found over a very extended range of country, and with the 
large series of specimens before me it is quite impossible to retain (. aniloba, C. colum- 
bina, or C. lilacina as distinct; they are simply varieties of C. lobuligera. 


350 HETEROCERA. 


3. Conipeta bibitrix. 
Helia bibitriz, Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 26, ff. 343, 344. 
Cenipeta bibitriz, Guén. Sp. gén. des. Lép. vii. p. 31"; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1092 ?. 
Cenipeta glaucescens, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1967’. 

Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (forrer), Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet 
(H. H. Smith), Jalapa (Schaus), Cordova (Hége); Guatemaua, San Gerénimo, Capetillo 
(Champion), Costa Rica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chi- 
riqui below 4000 feet (Champion), Obispo (Salvin).—CotomBia, Bogota?; GuraNa, 
Surinam ! ?, 


This is a common species in our region and a very variable one, hardly two specimens 
from either of the localities being exactly alike. Canipeta glaucescens, Walk., the type 
of which is now in my own collection, is, without doubt, not distinct from C. bibitrir. 
I have not seen a specimen so bright in colour as Hiibner’s figure. 


4. Cenipeta polynoe. | 
Cenipeta polynoe, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 317; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 10932; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 43°. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus); Centra AMERICA?; GUATEMALA, 
San Isidro 1000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).—Ecvapor; Gutana, Cayenne!?; Amazons?; Waust Coast or AMERICA 2, 


We have only received four specimens of this well-marked species from Central 
America. 


5. Cenipeta feronia. 
Canipeta feronia, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 112. £. 7, Erkl. der Taf. 112. no. 77. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet 
(Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Ecuapor; Amazons 1, Santarem. 


Our Central-American specimens of this species are all males, and they are con- 
siderably darker in colour than the female represented by Felder and Rogenhofer ; but 
they have similarly placed black lines on the primaries. Other examples, hcwever, 
from Santarem in my own collection agree perfectly with those from Central America. 
C. feronia is allied to C. polynoe, but is very differently marked beneath. 


6. Conipeta eolia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 9.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two waved black lines, between 
which are two very distinct blackish-brown patches—the first at the end of the cell, the other below it 
and nearer the base on the inner margin, which it does not quite reach,—the outer margin clouded with 
dark brown; secondaries pale brown, broadly bordered with blackish-brown, with a pale yellowish-brown 
line extending from the inner margin close to the anal angle almost to the apex but not. quite reaching it; 
the underside of both wings pale yellowish-brown, the outer margins clouded with darker brown, the 
secondaries crossed by two narrow waved lines which extend from the middle of the costal to the inner 


COENIPETA.—HYPOGRAMMA. , 351 


margin: head, thorax, and abdomen above pale greyish-brown, the under surface and the legs considerably 
paler in colour, the antenne and palpi dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 
Dr. Staudinger’s specimen from Chiriqui is considerably paler in colour than the one 
from Mexico from which our figure is taken, but in other respects it agrees with it. 


7. Coenipeta medina. 

Phalena Noctua damonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 71, t. 324. ff. D, E?. 

Cenipeta medina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 337; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1094°. 

Cenipeta saxosa, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1801 *. 

Hypogramma hemiplagia, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 112. f. 6, Erkl. der Taf. 112. 
no. 6°. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Panama, Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Guiana, Surinam!3; Brazit, 
Pernambuco ”. 


This species is very widely distributed, but appears to be rare in Central America; 
two specimens only were captured by Mr. Champion. 

The locality for C. saxosa was not known to Walker‘; that for Hypogramma hemi- 
plagia is given as “ Amer. mer.” 5, 


8. Conipeta dimidiata, (Tab. XXXI. fig. 10.) 
Cenipeta dimidiata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 44. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Ecuavor ; 
Amazons I, 


Chiriqui specimens agree with the type in the National Collection. (C. dimidiata is 
very differently coloured from any other species of the genus. | 


HYPOGRAMMA. 
Hypogramma, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 34 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1095. 
This is a genus containing a few species distributed in North, Central, and South 
America’ and the Antilles. It is very closely allied to Canipeta, the neuration being 
almost identical ; but the wings are longer and the palpi a little larger. 


1. Hypogramma damonia. 

Phalena Noctua damonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 71, t. 824. ff. B, C’. . 

Hypogramma damonia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 8357; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1097°; Butl. Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 45 *. 

Phalena sulima, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. p. 175, t. 40, ff. 5,5 C’. 

Hypogramma sulima, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 85°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 10967; Méschl. 
Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 413°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 35. 


302 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé).— Cotompia; Ecuapor; Guiana, Surinam ! 2 35 6, 
Cayenne ®’7; Braziu’?; Amazons 4, Santarem’; TRINIDAD. 


This insect is apparently rare in our region, but in Tropical South America it is one 
of the commonest species. Specimens from Ecuador show a considerable amount of 
variation ; in some of them the white marking of the wings is almost obsolete. 


2. Hypogramma suttea. 
Cenipeta suttea, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 30’; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1092’. 
Hypogramma suttea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 45°. 
Hab. GuateMata, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Coatepeque, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 
3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—CotomBia; Ecuapor; 
Braziu!?; Amazons 3, Para 2. 


A wide-ranging species, and very constant in its markings. I follow Butler in placing 
it in the genus Hypogramma. 


DECELEA. 
Decelea, Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1115 (1857). 


Walker in his Catalogue placed four species in this genus—two of them from the 
Antilles, one from the west coast of America, and one for which the locality is not 
stated. The third mentioned I am now enabled to trace to the State of Panama. 


1. Decelea diffusa. 
Decelea diffusa, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11167. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet ( Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger).—West Coast or America (Kellett & Wood 1). 


Our Chiriqui specimens agree perfectly with the type in the National Collection; 
the exact locality for the latter is not recorded. 


Subfam. CATEPHIIN A. 


VESPOLA. 
Vespola, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 185 (1868). 


Walker founded this genus upon a single species from Colombia; this extends along 
the Isthmus of Panama to Chiriqui, whence we have received two male examples. The 
female is unknown. 


1. Vespola ceruleifera, (Tab. XXXI. fig. 12.) 
Vespola ceruleifera, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix, p- 186(¢)’. 


VESPOLA.—PANULA. 353 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBta, 
Bogota 1, 


The type of this beautiful species is now in my own collection. 


STICTOPTERA. 


Stictoptera, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 51 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1180; Grote, List 
of North-American Moths, p. 39 (1882). 


Walker included nine species in this genus, six from Tropical South America or 
the Antilles and three from India or Java; and Grote has since described one from 
North America. The species closely resemble some of the Pyralide. Mr. Butler 
(Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 46) sinks 8. phryganoides, Walk., and Nagara (?) 
steirialis, Walk., as synonymous with S. swbauwrata, Walk.; all three are from the 
Amazons. 

One species only is known to me from Central America. 


1. Stictoptera fenestra. 
Stictoptera fenestra, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p.53, Noct. t. 14. f. 121; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1132”. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Braziu 2. 


Our specimens agree with Guénée’s figure, except that they have the head and front 
of the thorax darker in colour. I think it quite probable that this insect will prove to 
be not distinct from S. clara (Cram.) when we have more specimens for comparison. 


Subfam. BOLININA. 


PANULA. 
Panula, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 59 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1143; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 39 (1882). 


This genus is closely allied to Melipotis, from which it differs in having the primaries 
shorter and the secondaries more rounded. It contains two species from North America, 
one of which extends to the Antiiles and southwards to Honduras. 


1. Panula inconstans. 
Panula inconstans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p.59'; Walk. Cat. xii. p.1144’, and xv. p. 1813°. 
Hab. Norra America } *,—Honpuras °.— ANTILLES 3, Jamaica 3, San Domingo 3, 


We have not received any specimens of this species, and those in the National 
Collection are the only ones we have seen. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., January 1890. 2 yy 


304 HETEROCERA. 


MELIPOTIS. 


Melipotis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 260 (1816); Grote, List of North-American Moths, 
p: 39 (1882). : 
Bolina (Duponchel), Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 60 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1144. 

This genus contains a large number of species which are distributed over North, 
Central and South America, and the Antilles; twenty-two are now recorded from within 
the limits of our fauna. The European species referred to it are probably not really 
congeneric. I follow Grote in adopting Hiibner’s name. | 


1. Melipotis imparallela. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 13.) 
Bolina imparallela, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 65*; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1146’. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Sierra Madre de Tepic (ichardson).—Co.tomBia }. 
We have lately received one specimen of this insect from North-western Mexico ; 
this only differs from the type in being a little brighter in colour. Through the 
kindness of Mons. C. Oberthtir we are enabled to figure the latter. 


2. Melipotis nigrobasis. 
Bolina nigrobasis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 65, Noct. t. 18. f. 8'; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11467. 
Hab. Mexico ! 2. 
This species appears to be closely allied to M. tmparallela, but is, I think, distinct, 
the bands of the primaries being more sharply defined. 


3. Melipotis limitaris. 
Bolina limitaris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 70’; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1146’. 
Hab. Mexico !?. 
Mons. C. Oberthir informs me that he cannot find Guénée’s type of this species, and 
that it is most likely destroyed. 


4. Melipotis famelica. 
Bolina famelica, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 621; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1146°. 
Bolina excepta, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1165 °. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Mexico city (Hége), Cordova (Rémeli), 
Valladolid in Yucatan (Gauwmer), Campeche !?; Guatemaza, in the city (Rodriguez) ; 
Honpuras (Dyson *).— VENEZUELA 8, 


The insect described by Walker under the name of Bolina excepta does not 
differ from Guénée’s B. famelica. 


5. Melipotis fasciolaris. 
Adia fasciolaris, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. p. 15, ff. 448, 4447. 
Bolina fasciolaris, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1147’; Herr.-Schiaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 


MELIPOTIS. 305 


1868, p. 186 (sep. copy, p. 24)°; Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 487‘; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, 
p. 46°; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 323°. 


Melipotis fasciolaris, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 89 (1882) ’. 
Bolina fascicularis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 63°. 


Bolina cunearis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 70°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1150"; Butl. P. Z. S. 
1878, p. 487", 


Bolina illuminans, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11647. 
? Aidia pallescens, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 21, t. 3. f. 5". 
? Melipotis pallescens, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 39"*. 

Hab. Nortu America? !4, Texas !8.—Mextco, Acapulco, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa 
in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Jalapa (Hoge), Coatepec (Brooks), Vera Cruz”; Honpuras? 
(Dyson }?), Ruatan I. (Gawmer); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Champion), 
Chiriqui (Abbe), Taboga I. (J. J. Walker).—Venuzunta!; Brazin?}°, Bahia ?; 
AMAZONS2°; West Coast oF America 20; ANTILLES °, Cuba?®?!0, Jamaica*!!; San 
Domingo? !°; Dominica ®. 

This is a common and very widely-distributed species, and one that is subject to a 
considerable amount of variation. I have a large series of specimens before me, and I 
do not hesitate in including Bolina cunearis and B. illwminans with it. M. pallescens 
(Grote and Robinson), to judge from the examples under that name in the Grote 


collection, is probably not distinct from WM. fasciolaris. Mr. Smith’s Mexican examples 
were captured in the months of March, April, May, and September. 


6. Melipotis separata. 
Bolina separata, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1813*. 
Hab. Mexico}. 


We have not received any specimens agreeing with Walker's type in the British 
Museum. 


7. Melipotis russaris. 
Bolina russaris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 69'; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11497. 
Hab. Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker).— ANTILLES, Martinique 12, San Domingo ”. 


One specimen of this very distinct species was obtained by Mr. J. J. Walker near 
the city of Panama. 


8. Melipotis perpendicularis. 


Bolina perpendicularis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 65*; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11507; Butl. P.Z.S. 
1878, p. 487°. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 2).—CotomsBta 12; VENEZUELA 2; ANTILLES, Jamaica 23. 


9. Melipotis ochrodes. 
Bolina ochrodes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 64’; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11512. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer).— VENEZUELA? ; ANTILLES, San Domingo 2, Jamaica 2. 


2 yy 2 


306 HETEROCERA. 


This species is readily distinguished from all others of the genus by the yellow band 
crossing the primaries; the locality was unknown to Guénée }. 


10. Melipotis nigrescens. 
Aidia nigrescens, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 20, t. 3. £. 4°. 
Melipotis nigrescens, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 39 (1882). 

Hab. Norta America, Texas !.—Mexioo, Presidio (Forrer). 

A specimen received from North-western Mexico agrees well with others from North 
America in Mr. Grote’s collection in the British Museum. I. nigrescens is closely 
allied to MZ. manipularis (Guén.); but it is much paler in colour, and the black margins 
of the secondaries are very much narrower, especially beneath. 


11. Melipotis bistriga. 
Bolina bistriga, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1155'; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 323”. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks); British Honpuras, Belize (Blan- 
caneaux); Panama, Colon (Boucard, in mus. D.).—ANTILLES, San Domingo !, Dominica ”. 


I have only seen a few specimens of this species. It is closely allied to JZ. compre- 
hendens (Walk.), and the two may prove to be not specifically distinct when sufficient 
material is obtained for comparison. 


12. Melipotis comprehendens. 
Bolina comprehendens, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1163'. 
Hab. Muxico, near the city (Hodge), Jalapa (Schaus); GuaTEMALA, Capetillo (Cham- 
pion).—Brazit }, 
Central-American specimens agree very closely with Walker’s type. The former 
vary slightly in colour and in the size of the discal spot, this spot being much more 
distinct in some examples than in others. 


13. Melipotis decreta. 
Bolina decreta, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11647. 
Hab. Muxtco, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Presidio (Forrer), Jalapa (Hége); Hovn- 
puRAS (Dyson +). 


A small species allied to M. comprehendens (Walk.). 


14. Melipotis bivittata. 
Bolina bivittata, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1156". 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson +1).—Vennzvusta!; Antittes, San Domingo !, Jamaica}. 


We include this species upon the authority of the specimen from Honduras in the 
British Museum. 


MELIPOTIS. oOT 


15. Melipotis subtilis. 
Bolina subtilis, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1156". 
Hab. Muxico, Presidio (Forrer).—Antities, San Domingo |. 


Our specimen from Presidio agrees well with the type in the National Collection. 


16. Melipotis cellaris. 
Bolina cellaris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 66+; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1159”. 
Bolina turbata, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1160°. 
Panula insipida, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. iv. t. 112. f. 16, Erkl. der Taf. 112. no. 16+. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Cuernavaca (Bilimek*, H. H. Smith), Chilpancingo 
in Guerrero 4600 feet (H. H. Smith), Jalapa (Schaus); Guaremata, San Gerénimo 
(Champion).—CotomBta (2) 12; Venezugwa 8, 


Iam enabled to identify Guénée’s species with certainty, Mons. C. Oberthiir having 
kindly sent me the type for comparison. 


17. Melipotis marmoraris. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 15.) 
Bolina marmoraris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 67°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1159’. 
Hab. Honpuras 12,—Brazin 12, 
We are indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of Guénée’s type, and our figure 
is taken from this example. We have not received any specimens from our country 
that quite agree with it. 


18. Melipotis manipularis. 
Bolina manipularis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 68'; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11597. 
Bolina indomita, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1161 °. 
Bolina ochreifascia (Harvey), Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. v. p. 117+‘. 
Bolina ochreipennis, Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. iii. p. 12, t. 2. f. 10°. 
Melipotis ochreipennis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 39 (1882). 

Hab. Nortu America‘, Louisiana, Texas®.—Mextico, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, 
and Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, in Guerrero, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), Coatepec 
(Brooks), Mexico city (Hége), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Guaremaua, El Reposo 
800 feet, San Gerdénimo (Champion), Guatemala city (Rodrigquez).—Braziu } 2 3, 


In some parts of our country this is one of the commonest insects. Mr. Champion 
obtained a large number of specimens at El Reposo; these were found on the wing 
amongst long grass in open places in the daytime. The example received from 
Yucatan may belong to a distinct species; it is darker in colour and smaller, but is so 
much rubbed and broken that it is impossible to form an opinion without fresh specimens. 
I am quite unable to separate Bolina indomita or B. ochreifascia from M. manipularis. 


358 HETEROCERA. 


19. Melipotis evelina. 
Bolina evelina, Butl. P.Z.S. 1878, p. 4877. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Riimeli).— ANTILLES, Jamaica 1. 


Our Mexican specimen agrees with Butler’s type from Jamaica. 


20. Melipotis stolida. 
Bolina stolida, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1162°. 
fab. Honpuras (Dyson 1). 
The type-specimen of this species in the National Museum is the only one known 
to me. 


21. Melipotis agrotoides. 
Bolina agrotoides, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1166*. 
Bolina agrotipennis, Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 280. 
Melipotis agrotipennis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 39 (1882). 
Hab. Nort America, Texas ?.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hége).— VENEZUELA !. 


A very variable species. The specimens in Grote’s collection under the name of 
Melipotis agrotipennis (Harv.) are quite inseparable from Walker’s type. 


22. Melipotis sinualis. 
Melipotis sinualis, Harvey, Canad. Entom. ix. p.94!; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 39 
(1882). 
Hab. Norta America, Texas 1—Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (MZ. Trujillo), Cordova 
(Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); GUATEMALA, in the city 
(Rodriguez).—CotomBia, Manaure. 


Central-American specimens agree with those from North America in the Grote 
collection. A few examples only have been received; those from Teapa were captured 
in the month of February; those from the city of Guatemala were taken at electric 
light by Don Juan Rodriguez. 


CIRRHOBOLINA. 


Cirrhobolina, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p.117 (1875) ; List of North-American Moths, p. 39 
(1882). 


Two species are included in Cirrhobdolina by Grote and a third has since been added 
by H. Edwards, all from North America or Mexico. The genus appears to me to be 
extremely close to Syneda. 


1. Cirrhobolina deducta. 
Syneda deducta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii. p. 220°. 
Syneda pavitensis, Morr. loc. cit. p. 221”. 


CIRRHOBOLINA.—HYPOCALA. 359 


Cirrhobolina deducta, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p- 117°; List of North-American Moths, 
p. 39 (1882) *. 
Hab. Norta America4, Texas!23,—Murxico, west coast (Mathew, in mus. D.); 
Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker). 


According to Grote, the two insects described by Morrison are the sexes of the 
same species, Syneda deducta being the male and S. pavitensis the female. I have only 
seen two examples of this species from Central America ; the Panama specimen is darker 
and richer in colour than those from further north. 


2. Cirrhobolina mexicana. 
Syneda mexicana, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 26°. 
Cirrhobolina mexicana, var. vulpina, Hy. Edw. Papilio, ii. p. 147. 
Cirrhobolina incandescens, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p- 117°; List of North-American Moths, 
p. 89 (1882). 
Hab. Norta America, Arizona 2, Texas 3.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), 
Cosala near Mazatlan (Bruns !), 


Our specimens from Northern Sonora agree with those from Texas in the Grote 
collection. 


Subfam. HY POCALIN A. 


HYPOCALA. 
Hypocala, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 73 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p- 1173. 


The numerous species of this genus are widely distributed over the warmer parts of 
the globe. One only is known to me from our region, and this is found not uncom- 
monly over the greater part of Tropical South America. 


1. Hypocala andremona. 
Phalena Noctua andremona, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 132, t. 358. ff. C, D?. 
Parthenos andremona, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 278. 
Hypocala andremona, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 78; Walk. Cat. xiii. p- 1173’; Butl. Trans. 

Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 47 °*. . 
Hypocala filicornis, Guén, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 76, Noct. t. 13. £.74; Walk. Cat. xiii. p- 1174’. 
Hypocala pierreti, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 77°; Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 11737. 

Hab. Horpuras**; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Taboga Island 

(J. J. Walker)—Gutana, Surinam1?; Ecuapor; Amazons?; Harré 7, 


This species varies very much in colour and in the distinctness of the markings on the 


primaries. Ihave no doubt that the two insects described by Guénée belong to Cramer’s 
species. From Central America we have as yet only seen two specimens. 


360 HETEROCERA. 


Subfam. CATOCALINA. 


CATOCALA. 


Catocala, Schrank, Fauna boica, ii. 2, p. 158 (1802); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. Ob 
(1816) ; Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, p. 328; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 80; 
Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1179; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 89 (1882). 


This genus contains a very large number of species distributed over Europe, Asia, 
and North and Central America; its head-quarters, however, would appear to be North 
America, no less than ninety-six being included in Grote’s Check-list of 1882. From 
Central America three species only are known as yet. 


1. Catocala electilis. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 8.) 
Catocala electilis, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1209". 
Hab. Mexico}, Jalapa (Schaus). 


The type in the National Collection and the specimen kindly lent us to figure by 
Mr. Schaus are all we have seen of this species. 


2. Catocala cassandra. 
Catocala cassandra, H. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Ac. vi. p. 214 (1876) '; Grote, List of North-American 
Moths, p. 40 (1882) *. 
Hab. Norra America ?.—Mexico, Guadalajara (Baron Terloo 1). 


We have not seen an example of this species. Mr. Edwards states that the secondaries 


are red}, 


3. Catocala ixion, sp.n. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 2.) 


Primaries dark greyish-brown, clouded with very distinct black lines, the base of the wing greyish, a sub- 
marginal row of black spots extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe dark blackish-brown ; 
secondaries bright orange, the band narrow, broadest about the middle, and extending from the costal to 
the inner margin, the outer margin broadly black except at the apex where it is bright yellow, this colour 
extending from the yellow spot to the anal angle, and round the outer margin are several small yellow 
spots, the fringe black and yellow; the underside yellow, with black bands, the outer margins of both 
wings and the apex of the secondaries yellowish-fawn-colour: head and thorax greyish-brown irrorated 
with black scales, the abdomen and legs greyish, the antenne black. Hxpanse 3 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan in Guerrero 7000 feet (. H. Smith). 


This species is allied to C. consors, Abbot and Smith, but the primaries are darker 
and the black bands on the secondaries are narrower. One specimen, captured by 


Mr. Smith in July 1888. 


Subfam. OPHIDERINA. 


OPHIDERES. 


Ophideres, Boisduval, Faun. ent. Madag. Bourb. et Maurice, p. 99 (1833); Guénée, Sp. gén. des 
Lép. vii. p. 109; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 1217. 


OPHIDERES.—LYGNIODES. 361 


The species of this genus are widely distributed over the warmer parts of the globe, 
but are most numerous in India and the Eastern Archipelago. We have now to record 
two from Central America. 


1. Ophideres serpentifera. (Tab. XXXI. fig. 14.) 
Ophideres serpentifera, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1218". 
Hab. Costa Rica (Boucard, in mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde).—Brazit, Rio 


Janeiro!; AntTILLEs, San Domingo}. | 
The three specimens received agree perfectly with Walker’s type in the British 
Museum. Our figure is taken from the Chiriqui example. 


2. Ophideres apta. 
Ophideres apta, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1221*; Druce, P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 8237. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe), Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion).—Gutana ; AMAZONS, 


Santarem!; ANTILLES, Dominica ?. 

This fine species is widely distributed in Tropical South America, but nowhere 
common. ‘The specimens before me show considerable variation in colour and also in 
the markings of the primaries. 0. apta closely resembles the Old-World O. materna 
(Linn.), but the primaries are always darker and the black borders of the secondaries 


wider. 
GRAPHIGONA. 
Graphigona, Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1230 (1857). 
Three species from Tropical South America were included in this genus by Walker ; 
one of these extends northwards into Central America. 


1. Graphigona gubernatrix. 
Ophideres gubernatriz, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép, vii. p. 118, Noct. t. 17. £. 4". 
Graphigona gubernatrix, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1230”. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus).—? CotomBia!; Braziu?, Rio Janeiro?; Amazons, 
Santarem ”. 
Mr. Schaus obtained one specimen of this fine species at Jalapa; it is the only 
example we have seen from within the limits of our fauna. 


LYGNIODES. 
Lygniodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 123 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 1235. 
Of the five species referred to this genus by Walker, four are from the warmer parts 
of Asia and one from Central and South America; Guénée included in it two only, 


both from India. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., January 1890. 2 zz 


362 HETEROCERA. 


1. Lygniodes repellens. 
Lygniodes repellens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 18161. 
Hab. Honpuras 1.—Brazit, Rio Janeiro}, 


Subfam. HREBIN ZA. 


HEMEROBLEMMA. 
Hemeroblemma, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 270 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. 
p. 129; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1240. 


Hiibner placed five species under this generic name, all of them from Tropical 
America or the Antilles; one only of these is known to me from north of the Isthmus 
of Panama. | | 


1. Hemeroblemma dolosa. 

Phalena Noctua dolon, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 8, t. 101. £. F'. 

Hemeroblemma dolon, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p-. 270. 

Hemeroblemma dolosa, Hiibn. loc. cit.; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 12412; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien, 1880, p. 419°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 41 *. 

Hemeroblemma encausticata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 130°. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe; Trotsch, in - 
mus. Staudinger).—GuIANA, Cayenne 25, Surinam! 2345; Braz 2, Bahia ®. 


We are now enabled to trace this rare insect northwards to the State of Panama. 
Chiriqui specimens are not nearly so dark in colour as Cramer’s figure, but they have 
the markings almost similar ; I have not the slightest doubt but that they belong to the 
same species. 

PEOSINA. 
Peosina, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 131 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv, p. 1242. 

Walker included ten species in Peosina, all from Central and South America or the 
Antilles; and others have since been described by various authors. Four are now 
recorded from within the limits of our fauna, each of these being widely distributed in 
Tropical America. 


1. Peosina mexicana. 

Peosina mexicana, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 132, Noct. t. 19. f. 2'; Walk. Cat. xiv. 
p- 1243 (pars) *; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 419°; Beitr. zur Schmett.- 
Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 41 *. . 

? Peosina saundersii, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 183°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1244°. 

fab. Mexico!2; GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; 
Honpuras (Dyson ?); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Gabi, in mus. D.), 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).— 


Guiana, Paramaribo 24; Brazii®, Bahia ®. 


PEOSINA. 363 


This species, though found over an extended range of country, is apparently rare. 
According to Butler (P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 487), the specimens from San Domingo referred 
by Walker? to P. mexicana, Guén., belong to P. numeria (Drury). 


2. Peosina numeria. 

Phalena Noctua numeria, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 48, t. 23. f. 51. 

Peosina numeria, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1827; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1243 (pars)*; Herr.- 
Schaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 192 (sep. copy, p. 80) *; Butl. P.Z.S. 
1878, p. 487° 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus) ; Panama, Chiriqui (2idbe).—AntILLEs, Jamaica! 28, 

Cuba 4, San Domingo (apud Butler®); Brazin, Santa Catarina. 


One specimen, a male, of this species was sent by Ribbe from Chiriqui; it ‘agrees 
well with Drury’s figure and also with examples from Jamaica in my own collection. 
The female is much larger than the male, and is without the white bands on the 
primaries and the white spot at the apex of the secondaries. P. numeria is closely 
allied to P. mexicana. The Venezuelan example treated by Walker ° as belonging to 
this species is quite distinct according to Butler 5, who proposes the name Hypogramma 
confusa for it. 


3. Peosina leontia. 
Phalena Noctua leontia, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 155, t. 84. f. 6%. 
Peosina leontia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1827; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1244°; Méschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 419*; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 41°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt)—Gutana 2, Surinam 4°; Braz 2, Rio Janeiro /3 ; 
TRINIDAD. 
The single specimen received from Central America does not differ from others from 
Trinidad in my own collection, and they all agree well with Stoll’s figure; but I have 
not seen examples from the South-American continent. 


4, Peosina pandrosa. 

Phalena Noctua pandrosa, Cram. Pap. Exot. 1. p. 122, t. 77. f. D’. 

Noctua pandrosa, Fabr. Sp. Ins. 11. p. 200. 

Blosyris pandrosa, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273. 

Peosina pandrosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 184°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1246°; Herr.-Schaff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 192 (sep. copy, p. 80) *; Méschl. Verh. zool.- | 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 419°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 41 °. 

Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Chiriqui (f7bde).—Gotana 2, Surinam 1356 ; 


Brazit (?)?; Amazons, Para; Trinipap; ANTILLES, Cuba 4, 
Of this species we have as yet only received two specimens, both males, from within 


the limits of our fauna. 
2 222 


364 HETEROCERA. 


BLOSYRIS. 
Blosyris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 278 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 185 (1852) ; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1246. 
Thermesia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 270 (partim). 


Walker included nine species in this genus, seven of them from Tropical America 
and two from Tropical or Southern Africa; of these latter, one does not belong to the 
genus and the other is doubtfully of African origin. From Central America we have 
now to record five species. 

Blosyris is extremely close to Peosina, from which it chiefly differs in the slightly 
longer and narrower primaries. 


1. Blosyris acron. 
Phalena Noctua acron, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 59, t. 227. f. B?. 


Blosyris acron, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 138°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1247 °. 
Thermesia acronias, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 270. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (#7}de).—Guiana, Berbice } 2%. 


The specimen received from Ribbe is the only one we have seen from Central 
America ; it differs from Cramer’s figure in being not quite so dark in colour. 


2. Blosyris gootenaria. 
Phalena Geometra gootenaria, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 102, t. 252. f. B*. 
Thermesia gotenaaria (sic), Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 270. 
Blosyris gootenaria, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1867; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1248 %. 
Peosina gootenaria, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 420‘; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iil. p. 42°, 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribble, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Surinam 123, Parama- 
ribo *®; Brazit, Rio Janeiro 3. 


The only specimens we have seen from within the limits of our fauna are those in 
Dr. Staudinger’s collection; they agree perfectly with Cramer's figure. 


3. Blosyris abadirina. 

Thermesia abadirina, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett, ii. p. 12, ff. 237, 238; Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 270. 

Blosyris abadirina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 187'; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 12487; Herr.-Schiiff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 192 (sep. copy, p. 30)°; Méschl. Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 420‘; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 42°. 

Erebus junonius, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. Brasil, p. 161, t. 82. £. 8 (?)°% 

Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde).—Gu1ANa }, 

Surinam 745; Brazin16; AntitiEes, Cuba 3. 


This species varies considerably in colour, some examples being paler than others ; 


BLOSYRIS.—BRUJAS. 365 


we have not, however, seen a specimen so pale as represented by Perty. From Central 
America we have only received two specimens, one from Mexico and one from 
Chiriqui. 


4. Blosyris luscinizpennis. 
Blosyris lusciniepennis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1891; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1249’; Méschl. 
Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 420°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. 
p. 42%. 
Brujas incedens, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1256°. 
Brujas despecta, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1819°. 
Blosyris despecta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 487. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Kcuapor, Sarayacu; Gurana, Cayenne!2, Paramaribo?4; Amazons, 
Para 15, Abacaxis River’; Brazi!2, Santa Catarina; West coast of AMERICA. 


A specimen captured by Mr. Champion and another in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, 
both from Chiriqui, are all we have seen from our region of this species; it is not 
uncommon in Tropical South America, whence we possess a good series of examples. 


5. Blosyris turdipennis. 
Blosyris turdipennis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1881; Walk. Cat. xiv. p- 1249 *. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Cayenne ! 2, 
We include this species upon the authority of an example from Chiriqui in Dr. 
Staudinger’s collection. It is not improbable that B. turdipennis may prove to be not 
distinct from Phalena Noctua scolopacea, Cram. 


BRUJAS. 
Bryjas, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 139 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1250. 
Blosyris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273 (partim). 
Fourteen species were placed in this genus by Walker, all of them from Tropical 
America or the Antilles; and others haye since been described by various authors. 
We have now to enumerate six species from Central America. | 


1, Brujas infans. 
Bruyjas infans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1417; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1250?. 

Hab. Mexico !?. 

This species was described from three very faded specimens. Mons. C. Oberthiir 
informs me that the types are not to be found, and that they were most probably 
destroyed during the later years of Guénée’s life, when his collection was much 
neglected. 


366 HETEROCERA. 


2. Brujas circe. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 11.) 
Brujas circe, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1417; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1251”. 
Hab. Mrxico!?; Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion). 


We are indebted to Mons. C. Oberthtir for kindly lending us the type of this species, 
which we now figure. It is allied to B. malitiosa, Guén. [=opigena, Hiibn. (nec 
Drury) |, but is a much smaller insect. 


3. Brujas malitiosa. 
Blosyris opigena, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. t. 211. ff. 1-4; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 373 (nec 
Drury). 
Brujas malitiosa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 140'; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 12537; Méschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 420°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iil. p. 42‘. 
Hab. GuaTemaLa, Zapote, Panima (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (R7bbe), Bugaba 
(Champion).—Gutana, Surinam 34; Braziu ! 2, 


We have only received a few specimens of this well-marked species. 


4. Brujas rengus. 
Erebus rengus, Poey, Cent. Lép. Cuba, Decade (1832) *. 
Brujas rengus, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 142°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1252”. 
Hab: Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—AntiLLEs, Cuba123, San 
Domingo ?. 
We include this species upon the authority of a specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. 
Staudinger’s collection. 


5. Brujas bigutta. 

Brujas bigutta, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 187°. 
Brwyjas festonata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der N ovara, Lep. t. 114. f. 1, Erkl. der Taf. 114. no. 17. 

Hab. Mexico (Bilimek*), Presidio (Forrer), Teapa in Tabasco (1. H. Smith); Guare- 
MALA, Coatepeque (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Cotomsia, Bogota!; East Perv. 

The type of B. bigutta, Walk., is now in my own collection; and I have no doubt 
that Felder and Rogenhofer’s insect is conspecific with it. 


Our specimens are darker in colour than tbe figure of B, Jestonata, but they have 
the markings quite similar. 


6. Brujas repandens. 
Brujas repandens, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 12577. 


Peosina (?) thalia, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 114. f. 8, Erkl. der Taf. 114. no. 32, 


BRUJAS.—RAMPHIA. 367 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guatumata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, 
Zapote (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
AMAZONS 2, Paré}, 


Central-American specimens agree with Walker’s type in the National Collection, 
and also with Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure of Peosina thalia; but they are slightly 
darker in colour than P. thalia. 


SYPNA. 
Sypna, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 144 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1260. 


Walker included four species in this genus, and many others have since been 
described by Butler and Moore, all of them from the warmer parts of the Eastern 
Hemisphere. We have now to add one species from Central America. 


1. Sypna #xonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 3.) 

Primaries dark reddish-brown irrorated with black scales, crossed in the middle by a wide paler brown band 
(which becomes still wider on the costal margin, and has its outer edge very uneven), and with a narrow 
indistinct pale line crossing from the costal to the inner margin, a pale brown spot edged with black close 
to the anal angle, and a submarginal row of black dots which extends from the apex to the anal angle; 
secondaries dark brown, with some blackish-brown marks at the anal angle and a submarginal row 
of black dots; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside greyish-brown irrorated with black 
scales, a faint fawn-coloured spot at the end of the cell on the primaries: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, 
and legs dark brown. LExpanse 23 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (/’. D. G., Hoge). 
Three examples, two captured by Mr. Godman and one by Herr Hége. 


RAMPHIA. 
Ramphia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 142 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1258. 

This genus is allied to Letis, from which it may be at once distinguished by the 
pectinated antenne in the male and by the shorter and rounder primaries. Guénée 
included in it three species from Tropical South America, and these now prove to be 
forms of one variable insect, which ranges from South Brazil to Yucatan; a fourth 
species was described by Walker, 2. nymphaloides, from the Amazons. 


1. Ramphia albizona. 

Noctua albizona, Latr. in Humb. et Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 186, t. 43. ff. 5, 6 (1811)’. 

Ramphia albizona, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 143, Noct. t.19. f. 3°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1259°; 
Feld. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 114. f. 5, Erkl. der Taf. 114. no. 5°; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. 
Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423’; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, i. p. 45°. 

Ramphia amarygma, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1447; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1259 °. 

Rhamphia evinga, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 143°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1258”. 

Brujas basicincta, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1251”. 

Hab. Mexico, Yucatan !, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); GuaTemaLa, Rio Naranjo, 


368 HETEROCERA. 


Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Chiriqui® ¢ 
(Arcé, in mus. D.; Ribbe & Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Sovutu America !; CoLomBra ? *, Manaure, Bogota; VENEZUELA °3 
Bouivia2; Guiana, Demerara4, Paramaribo >®; Amazons 4, Parad ?7; Brazin® 1°, 
Pernambuco, Santa Catarina. 


This species varies to a very great extent in both sexes; and of the seventeen 
examples before me no two of them are exactly alike. J have not the slightest doubt 
that R. evinga, Guén. (= Bruyjas basicincta, Walk.), is the male of FR. albizona. A 
female specimen received from Guatemala has the typical white spots at the apex and 
at the anal angle of the primaries, the white band only being indicated by a few white 
dots on the costal margin and at the end of the cell, and the white band on the 
secondaries almost wanting, but marked by two rows of small white spots. ‘The 
example from Nicaragua is almost entirely brown, excepting a small white spot at the 
end of the cell and those at the apex and anal angle of the primaries, these spots 
being considerably smaller than they are in any other specimen before me. A male 
from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection has the white band of the female marked 
by a white line. 2. amarygma, Guén., has a narrower white band than typical 
f. albizona, and is, without doubt, only a slight variety of that species. 


LETIS. 


Letis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 274 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 145; Walker, 
Cat. xiv. p. 1263. 


Numerous representatives of this genus inhabit Central and South America and the 
Antilles; and a large number have been described, in several cases the sexes as distinct 
species, by various authors. Twelve are now recorded from within the limits of our 
fauna. - 


1. Letis scops. 

Letis scops, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 155°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1271’. 

Letis alauda, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 154°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1270*; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 49°; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423°; Beitr. zur 
Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, ii. p. 45’. 

Letis trailii, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p- 49°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemata, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, Chon- 
tales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet 
(Champion).—Ecuapor ; Gutana, Paramaribo®’; Amazons® 8, Tapajos?; Brazii?* 4; 
(?) Cuit1®4; Urnucuay, Monte Video!?; TriniDAD; ANTILLES, Jamaica. 

This insect is allied to L. specularis, the type of Hiibner’s genus Letis. It is found 


over a very extended range of country, and is subject to a considerable amount of 
variation in colour, more especially in the female sex. Some specimens have the hind 


LETIS. 369 


wings much marked with white lines. The female example received from Nicaragua 
has more white on the secondaries than any of the others I have seen, An individual 
of the same sex not quite so pale as this, from the Amazons, was supposed by Mr. Butler 
to be a different species and described by him as ZL. trailii; the two other specimens that 
came in the same collection, and which were identified by Mr. Butler as the sexes of 
L. alauda, are both females, one of them being darker than the other; on the under- 
side these three examples show very little variation, and upon comparison with the 
underside of the male it will at once be apparent that they are the same sex of one 
species. Specimens from Trinidad are slightly darker in colour in both sexes and also 
rather smaller, but in other respects they agree with those from South America. 
An example from Jamaica does not differ from others from Ecuador. The locality 
“ Chili,” given by Guénée for LZ. alauda®, requires confirmation, as we have no other 
evidence of the genus Zeéis being represented in that country. 


2. Letis falco. 
Letis falco, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 4251; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von 
Surinam, ii. p. 46’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui ! 2.—Gutana, Paramaribo ! 2. 
This species is quite unknown to me; it was described by Méschler from two males 
and four females from Paramaribo and one female from Chiriqui. 


3. Letis mycerina. 

Noctua mycerina, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 210; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 185. 

Phalena Attacus mycerina, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 115, t. 172. f. B’. 

Syrnia mycerina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273. 

Letis mycerina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1507; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1265°; Moschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423*; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 45°. 

Letis nycteis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 150°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1265”. 

Letis atricolor, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 151°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p- 1266°; Méschl. Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423"; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p- 45%. 

Letis abrupia, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1272”. 

Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemata, Coban (Conradt), 
Panzos, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson); Cosra 
Rica (Van Patten, in mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Cham- 
pion), Chiriqui (Arcé, Fibde)—ConomBia; VeEnezueta!2; Ecuapor; Guiana, ‘Suri- 
nam 13451011, Cayenne 2°; Brazin2; Wuxsr Coast oF AMERICA? 9; Amazons, Para 9; 
ANTILLES, San Domingo 37 8 9, 


This insect is found over a very wide range of country, from Mexico to South Brazil, 
and also extends to the West Indian Islands. It varies very much, but it does not 
appear from the large series of specimens before me to be at all constant in any one 
locality ; the darkest form is that from San Domingo, but even from that island several 

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370 HETEROCERA. 


examples show considerable variation. In our country it is fairly common, and the speci- | 
mens from the more northern localities are the darkest. Owing to the sexes being so 
different on the upperside, the insect has been described under four different names; 
but with the series before me I have no doubt that they all belong to one very variable 
species, 

The locality for L. nycteis was unknown to Guénée®; but Walker’ subsequently 
called examples from the West Coast of America and San Domingo by that name. 


4. Letis xylia. 
Letis zylia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 153'; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1264. 
Hab. Mexico 1 *, Coatepec (Brooks), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus); GUATEMALA, 
San Gerénimo, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA 2. 


This insect is common in Mexico. The wings are similarly marked in both sexes. 


5. Letis fusa. 
Letis fusa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 151°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1265”. 
Letis aptissima, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1272°. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Cotomsia, Bogota ; ANTILLES, 
St. Thomas ! 2. 


A distinct, well-marked, and apparently rare species. The specimen from an unknown 
locality described by Walker under the name of Letis aptissima® is, without doubt, 
the female of L. fusa; the latter may prove to be not distinct from Noctua magna, 
Gmel. 


6. Letis vultura, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg.13,29.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark ochraceous-brown; the primaries clouded with darker brown near the 
apex and on the inner margin near the anal angle, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by five 
indistinct zigzag dark brown lines, the orbicular and reniform spots dark brown edged with black, a 
waved marginal black line extending from the apex to the anal angle; the secondaries crossed from the 
costal to the inner margin by several indistinct waved lines and with a wide dark-coloured submarginal 
band edged on the outer side with a pale ochreous line, the outer margin edged with two narrow waved 
black lines; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside greyish-brown irrorated with black 
scales, with the lines very similar to those above: head, thorax, and abdomen above dark blackish-brown, 
beneath considerably paler in colour; antenne and palpi dark brown; legs pale brown. 

Female. Primaries pale ochreous-brown, clouded with dark brown at the apex along the outer margin and at 
the anal angle, the basal half of the wing crossed by faint zigzag brown lines; secondaries dark brown, 
with a wide pale ochreous band extending from near the apex on the costal margin to the inner margin; 
both wings with a submarginal black waved line extending from the apex to the anal angle; the under- 
side as in the male: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the collar and the base of the abdomen paler 
brown, the underside and the legs greyish-brown, the antenn@ and palpi dark brown. Expanse, ¢ 32, 

Q 32 inches. 


Hab. British Honpuras (Blancaneaux); GuatTeMA.a, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


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Our figures represent a male and a female from the Volcan de Chiriqui. Four 
specimens only have been received. 


7. Letis herilia, 
Phalena Noctua herilia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 39, t. 309. ff. A, B, C*. 
Letis herilia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Leép. vii. p. 1477; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1268°; Méschl. Verh. 

zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 45°. 
Blosyris hersilia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273. 
Letis securivitta, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 187°. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuaTEMALA, in the city (fodriguez), Zapote, San 

- Gerénimo (Champion) ; Honpuras (Schenck, in mus. Staudinger) ; Nicaragua, Chontales 
(Belt); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui 
(Arcé, Ribbe).—Co Lobia, Bogota®; Gutana, Surinam!2345; Eouapor, Sarayacu. 


This insect appears to be not uncommon in Central America; it does not show any 
amount of variation, except that some specimens are slightly darker in colour than 
others. Letis securivitta, Walk., from Bogota, the type of which, a female, is now in 
my own collection, is not separable from L. herilia. An example obtained by Buckley 
in Ecuador differs from all the others before me in having the secondaries of a uniform 
brown colour, the pale yellowish patch at the apex excepted; but on the underside it 
closely resembles the specimens from Guatemala and the State of Panama. 


8. Letis orcynia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg. 46,72.) 

Male. Primaries pale brown, clouded with darker brown near the apex and at the anal angle, with a wide 
white uneven band crossing the wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, across which 
is a narrow line of black lunular-shaped marks, and some white markings close to the apex and at the 
anal angle, the submarginal line black; secondaries pale brown, crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin with darker brown lines, between which are several white lines, and with a large white spot at 
the apex, below which are two white streaks, the submarginal and the marginal lines dark brown ; the 
underside pale greyish-brown, banded with white and dark brown; the fringe of both wings greyish- 
brown: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the antenne and palpi dark brown. The female differs 
from the male in being considerably larger, much richer in colour, and with the markings much more 
distinct; on the underside it resembles the male, but is darker in colour. Expanse, ¢3?, 942 
inches. 


Hab. Mrxico, Cuesta de Misantla (12. Trujillo), Cordova (Hége), Jalapa (Schaus) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Cham- 
pion).—EcuabDor. 

Of this species we have one male and four females before us; the females from 
Chiriqui are paler and slightly redder in colour than those from Mexico, and they 
have the white markings on the primaries narrower. 

A male from Cordova and a female from Cuesta de Misantla are figured. 


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372 HETEROCERA. 


9. Letis buteo. 

Letis buteo, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1521; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1270*; Méschl. Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 423°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iu. p. 45 * 

Letis vittifera, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1273°. 

Letis integra, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1273°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 49°. 

Letis albicans, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1274°. 

Syrnia letiformis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 158°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1278". 

Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks), Omealca near 
Orizaba (If. Trujillo), Mexico city (Boucard, in mus. D.); GuaTemMaa, San Ger6énimo, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa 
Rica (Gabb, in mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 
to 3000 feet (Champion).—VeunezveLa®; Guiana, Surinam 34, Cayenne ® 1°, Demerara !° ; 
Amazons"!0, Tabatinga; Braziu!2, Pernambuco 2, Rio Janeiro ®°; TRiIniDaD. 


This widely-distributed insect appears to be fairly common in most of the above- 
mentioned localities. It is subject to great variation in colour, and has been described 
under no less than five different names; but with the large series of specimens before 
me, including those in the National Collection and Walker’s types °° from Mr. Fry’s 
collection (now in the possession of Mr. Butler, who has kindly allowed me to examine 
them), I am quite unable to recognize more than one variable species. Letis albicans, 
Walk., is nothing but a bleached example of Z. dbuteo. So tar as the numerous 
specimens before me show, the insect is not constant either in colour or marking in 
any one locality. ‘The underside of the wings shows very little variation, though that 
of the female is generally rather darker than that of the male; it is, however, more 
highly coloured in the examples from Costa Rica and the State of Panama than in 
those from Mexico, Guatemala, or Brazil. 


10. Letis cortex. | 
Letis cortex, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 152, Noct. t. 17. f.1(9)?; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1270’. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (mus. Staudinger).—Braziu ! 2. 


The specimen from Cordova under this name in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is a 
male. It is not very like Guénée’s indifferent figure of the female of L. cortex; but 
the latter is represented with an imaginary body which is erroneously coloured yellow. 


11. Letis confundens. 
Syrnia confundens, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1279". 
Letis confundens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 50. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Paso de San Juan (Schaus).—Co.tomBia, Bogota; AMAZONS?, 
Para; West coast oF AMERICA!; ‘TRINIDAD. 


The specimens in Mr. Schaus’s collection are the only ones we have seen from 
Central America. 


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12. Letis hypnois. 
Syrnia hypnois, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 210. ff. 3,4; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273; Guén. 
Sp. gen. des Lép. vil. p. 1571; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 12777. 

Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), Jalapa (Schaus); British Honpuras, Belize, Cayo 
(Blancaneauz); GuatemaLta, Las Mercedes (Champion), Coban (Conradt); PANnaMa, 
Chiriqui (ibe, in mus. Staudinger).—CotomBia 12; Amazons, Para?; Brazin}?, Santa 
Catarina. 


From Central America we have only received a few specimens of this fine species. 
I have not the least doubt that it is a Levis. 


LATEBRARIA. 
Latebraria, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 159 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1281. 


In Central America this genus is represented by one species. Walker, in his 
Catalogue, included six in it; at least three of these belong to other genera or to 
previously known species. ‘The two species described by Guénée are from Tropical 
America or the Antilles. 


1. Latebraria amphipyroides. 

Latebraria amphipyroides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 159, Noct. t. 17. f. 2°; Walk. Cat. xiv. 
p. 1282”. 

Latebraria errans, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1281’. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks), Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet 
(H. H. Smith), Yucatan *, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 
3000 feet, Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 
feet (Rogers).—CotomBia!?; VENEZUELA®; Ecuapor; Brazin+?; Wersr coast oF 
AmERIcA?; ANTILLES, Cuba ! 2, 


This species varies considerably in colour, some examples being much paler than 
others; in our region it is a fairly common insect. Mr. Smith met with it in the 
month of August. 


CYCLOPIS. 


Cyclopis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 274 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 165 ; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1288. 
The single species of this genus found in our region appears to be very common 
in Guatemala, but from the State of Panama we have as yet only received one 
specimen. 


1. Cyclopis cxcutiens. 

Cyclopis cecutiens, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 218. ff. 8, 4; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 274; 
Gueén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 166; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1288’; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien, 1880, p. 429°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iil. p. 51°. 


374 HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Guatemata, Zapote, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA? ; Gutana, Surinam ?4; Brazii??. 


This species varies slightly; in some of the specimens before us the white spots 
on the secondaries are almost obsolete, in others they are very distinct ; none of them 
show any indication of the yellow colour represented on Hiibner’s figure. 


THYSANIA. 


Thysania, Dalman, Kongl. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 1824, p. 407; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 163; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1286. 


This genus includes the largest known Noctue. Two of its species are very widely 
distributed, and found not uncommonly all over the tropical regions of America, one of 
them also extending to the West-Indian Islands; the third, which is here described, 
is known to me as yet only from Costa Rica. 


1. Thysania zenobia. 

Phalena Attacus zenobia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 27, t. 115. ff. A, B’. 

Phalena Bombyx zenobia, Drury, Il. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 54, t. 39. 

Noctua zenobia, Fabr. Sp. Ins. 11. p. 209; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 185; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 28. 

Phalena Noctua zenobia, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2529. 

Syrnia zenobia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273. 

Thysania zenobia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1637; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1287°; Herr.-Schaff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 192 (sep. copy, p. 80)*; Butler, P. Z. S. 1878, 
p. 488°; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 49°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von 
Surinam, ili. p. 517; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42 (1882) °. 

Hab. Norto America §.—MeExico%, Coatepec (Brooks), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa 
(Schaus), Omealca near Orizaba (MM. Trujillo), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Guate- 
MALA, in the city( Rodriguez); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Gabb, in mus. D.); 
PanaMA, Bugaba, David (Champion).—CotomBia, Manaure; GutAna2, Surinam !367; 
Brazit?*, Santa Catarina; Trinipap; AnvILLEs, San Domingo3, Jamaica 25, Cuba 4. 


This species appears to be not uncommon in Central America. It varies a little in 
coloration, some specimens being much more heavily marked than others; freshly 
emerged individuals are of a beautiful pink colour on the underside. The insect was 
described and figured by Drury from a Jamaica specimen. 

Examples of this species, and of 7. agrippina also, have recently been captured by 
Sefor Rodriguez at the electric light in the city of Guatemala. 


2. Thysania tiasa, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 10.) 


Primaries and secondaries ochraceous-brown; the primaries clouded on the costal, outer, and inner margins 
with dark blackish-brown, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by numerous indistinct waved 
lines (those nearest the base the widest), and with a submarginal row of lunular-shaped black marks 
extending from the apex to the anal angle, the orbicular and reniform spots dark brown edged with 


THYSANIA.-—EREBUS. 370 


black ; the secondaries clouded with blackish-brown from the base to about the middle, and crossed from 
the costal to the inner margin by three very indistinct brown zigzag lines, below which are bands of 
black lunular-shaped markings, and between these latter a wide dark slate-coloured band extending from 
the costal to the inner margin and a submarginal row of black markings; the underside pale ochreous- 
yellow, with five zigzag black bands crossing both wings, the fourth band from the base being the widest : 
head, thorax,and abdomen dark blackish-brown above, pale ochreous beneath, the legs pale ochreous, 
the antenne and palpi dark brown. Expanse 5} inches. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


Allied to 7. zenobia (Cram.), from which it may be at once distinguished by the 
entirely different colour of both the upper and undersides. One specimen only has 
been received. 


3. Thysania agrippina. 

Phalena Noctua agrippina, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 136, t. 87. f. A, and p. 138, t. 88. f. A’. 
Thysania agrippina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1647; Walk. Cat. xiv. p.1287°; Moéschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 429°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 51°. 

Noctua striz, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 209; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 135. | 

Phalena Noctua striz, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. 1. 5, p. 2529, 

Syrnia striz, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. 11. tabb. 207, 208. 

See also: Merian, Surin. Ins. p. 15, t. 20; Seba, Mus. iv. t. 39. ff. 12, 14, and t. 57. ff. 7, 9. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus) ; GuateMa.a, in the city (Rodriguez), San Gerdnimo 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten) ; Panama, Bugaba 
800-1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé; Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger).—Ecuapor, Sarayacu ; Guiana, Roraima, Surinam 1745; Brazin 3, 

This is the largest known species of the Noctuz: several of the specimens before me 
measure a little over twelve inches from tip to tip of the primaries. It varies consi- 
derably in colour, some examples being much darker than others, and also shaded with 
brown; others again are almost white, with the lines only black. The underside is 
more or less shot with a rich dark blue colour. 

Mr. Champion informs me that this gigantic insect is common in the month of 
April on the tree-trunks in the dense forest about the Volcano of Chiriqui, at an 
elevation of 4000 feet. It rests with the wings horizontally extended. 


EREBUS. 


Erebus, Latreille, Consid. gén. class. Crust., Arachn. et Ins. p. 365 (1810) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des 
Lép. vii. p. 166; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1289; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 42 
(1882). 

The single species belonging to this genus is one of the commonest forms of Noctue 
in Tropical America, and extends to the Antilles and also northwards to the United 

States. | 


376 HETEROCERA. 


1. Erebus odora. 

Phalena Attacus odora, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 811; Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 374; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 
p. 111, t. 169. ff. A, B; Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 6, t. 3. f. 1. 

Noctua odora, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 210; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 185; Ent. Syst. ni. 2, p. 108; Ohi. 
Encycl. Méth. vii. p. 252. 

Phalena Noctua odora, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. 1. 5, p. 2528. 

Otosema odora, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 206; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 273. 

Erebus odora, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 1677; Walk. Cat. xiv. p.1290°; Herr.-Schaff. Corr.- 
Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 192 (sep. copy, p. 380)*; Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 
lil. p. 234; Caulf. Canad. Ent. v. p. 155°; Butl. P.Z. 8. 1878, p.488°; Mdéschl. Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 429; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 51; Beitr. zur 
Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 567; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 323°. 

Phalena odorata, Clerck, Icon. t. 50. f. 1. 

Phalena Attacus agarista, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 112, t. 170. ff. A, B. 

Otosema agarista, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 2738. 

Erebus marquesi, Philippi, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1871, p. 290, t. 3. f.5°; Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1872, 
p. 363. 

See also: Sloane, Voyage, ii. t. 236. ff. 13, 14. 

Hab. Norta America !, Montreal®, United States, California 4.—Mexico, Ciudad in 
Durango, Mazatlan (forrer), Jalisco (Schumann), Tampico in Tamaulipas, Puebla 
(Richardson), Amoquileca in Guerrero, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), Guanajuato (Boucard, 
in mus. D.), Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus, Hoge); British Honpuras, Belize 
(Llancaneaux); GUATEMALA, in the city (Rodriguez), Coatepeque, Duefias, San Gerénimo, 
Purula, Panima (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten), 
Rio Sucio, Volcan de Irazu 6000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé), Colon (Boucard, in mus. D.).—SoutH AmMeErRtcA12 to 
Paraguay; Cait; Trinipad; ANTILLES, Cuba ?3, Jamaica!267,San Domingo 2, Domi- 
nica ®, Antigua, St. Christopher, Nevis 2, Guadaloupe}. 


This common and very variable insect is universally distributed in the warmer parts 
of America, and I have a series of about one hundred specimens before me. In no one 
locality is it constant in size or colour; and I am quite unable to separate even the 
most extreme forms from the typical one. The females are much more subject to 
variation than the males. The Mexican specimens are the smallest, and agree best 
with those from Paraguay; the largest examples come from the tropical lowlands of 
South America. I cannot but think that we have only one variable species, and not 
five, as Mr. Butler states, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 488. 


Subfam. BENDINZ. 


_ITONTIA. 


Itonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 271 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 211; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1337. 


ITONIA.—BENDIS. 377 


Four species of this genus are known, three from Central or South America and 
one from an unknown locality. 


1. Itonia lignaris. 
Itomia lignaris, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 22, ff. 317, 318. 

Itonia lignaris, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 271; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1888; Méschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 429°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 51. 
Itonia opistographa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 212, Noct. t. 23. £. 4°; Walk. Cat. xiv. 

p. 1338°. 

Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guavemata, El Jicaro in Vera Paz (Champion); Honpuras 
(Dyson?*); Panama, Chiriqui (£7ibde, in mus. Staudinger)—VENEZUELA, Puerto 
Cabello !. 


This species varies considerably in colour, and the males are always the lightest. 
Our specimen from Guatemala closely resembles Guénée’s figure, but is not quite so 
distinctly marked ; it is, no doubt, the male of Hiibner’s J. lignaris. We have a good 
series of examples before us from the above-mentioned Central-American localities. 

Mr. Smith’s examples were captured between the months of February and May, 
and also in September. 


2. Itonia multilinea. 
Itonia multilinea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1823°. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 4), 


BENDIS. 


Bendis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 269 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 213; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 13838. 

Walker in his Catalogue included twelve species in this genus, and others have since 
been described by Méschler. All these are from Tropical America or the Antilles 
except one, B. hinna, Geyer; the latter is from Georgia, and is referred by Grote in 
his ‘ Check List’ to the genus Zrama, Harv. Four are now enumerated from Central 
America, three of which are described as new. 


1. Bendis formularis. 

Bendis formularis, Geyer, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. v. p. 26°; Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. 
Schmett. ff. 903, 904; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 188397; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, 
p. 430°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 52. 

Bendis poaphiloides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 215*; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1841 °, xv. p. 1823 °; 
Druce, P. Z.S. 1884, p. 323". 

Bendis impar, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 217°. 

Bendis fusifascia, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1823 °. 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L, February 1890. 3 bb 


378 HETEROCERA. 


Zethes umbrata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1024. 
Ephyrodes postica, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1071”. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Acapulco (J. J. Walker), Rincon 2800 feet and Dos 
Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; 
GuatemaLa, La Tinta, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3590 feet (Champion); Horpuras 
(Dyson *); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé, Ribde).—Gutana, Cayenne 4°, 
Surinam 2; Trintpap; Braziu!2; ANTILLES, Jamaica? 691, San Domingo ® § 9, Domi- 
nica’, Guadaloupe ®, Martinique ®. 

This common and widely distributed species has been described under six different 
names, owing to the sexes being so unlike each other. The locality for Zethes 
umbrata was unknown to Walker 1°. 


2. Bendis emylia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 8.) 


Primaries pale dove-colour, clouded with brown from about the middle of the outer margin to the apex, and 
also partly along the inner margin, with four very fine zigzag lines crossing the wing from the costal to 
the inner margin and a marginal row of minute black dots, the latter extending from the apex nearly to 
the ana] angle; secondaries dark brown, palest at the base, with two indistinct zigzag dark lines crossing 
about the middle from the costal to the inner margin, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle 
broadly bordered with pale dove-colour, and with a marginal row of minute black dots; the underside of 
both wings dove-colour, crossed by two zigzag dark lines: head and front of the thorax very pale brown, 
the rest of the thorax dove-colour; the abdomen on the upperside dark brown, pale fawn-colour beneath ; 
legs pale fawn-colour ; antenne pale greyish-brown. Expanse 14 inch. . 


Hab. Paxama, Chiriqui (Aibbe, tn mus. Staudinger). 
This species is allied to B. formularis, but quite distinct. We have only seen the 
single female specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, from which our figure is taken. 


3. Bendis enaria. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 6.) 


Primaries and secondaries dark brown, shaded with darker brown beyond the central pale band which crosses 
the middle of both wings, a marginal row of minute lunular-shaped pale markings extending from the 
apex to the anal angle of both wings, the primaries with two very indistinct dark brown lines crossing 
from the costal to the inner margin close to the base; the underside of both wings uniform pale greyish- 
brown, each with a faint line crossing about the middle: head, thorax, and the abdomen above and 
beneath dark brown; the legs, antenne, and palpi brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus); GuaTemata, Capetillo, San Geronimo, San Joaquin 
in Vera Paz (Champion). 

Mr. Champion captured three specimens of this species in Guatemala; the one from 
San Gerdnimo is figured. 


4. Bendis szica, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries dark brown, crossed by three indistinct brown lines, a wide pale-coloured band 
crossing both wings.but not extending to the costal margin of the primaries, the marginal line white, 
the fringe dark brown; tbe underside dark brown, thickly irrorated with yellowish-white scales; the 
costal margin and several spots at the apex and along the outer margin pale yellow: head, thorax, 
abdomen, legs, and antenne dark brown. Expanse 13 inch, 


BENDIS.—OPHISMA. 379 


_ Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


This species is very like B. enaria on the upperside, but quite different beneath. 
One specimen. 


Subfam. OPHIUSINZ. 


OPHISMA. 
Ophisma, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 286 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1367. 
This genus has its head-quarters in the tropical regions of the Old World; it is 
represented in Central America by five species. 


1. Ophisma tropicalis. 
Ophisma tropicalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 2838*; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1868°; Moschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 480°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 52. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—Cotompra!?; Gurana, Surinam 3; 
Braziu!2; Cusal 2. 


The only specimens we have received from Central America are those captured by 
Arcé in Chiriqui. 0. tropicalis is a well-marked species easily distinguished from 
O. lutetplaga and OU. detrahens, Walk., by the two distinct bands on the primaries. 


2. Ophisma detrahens. 
Ophisma detrahens, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1368 °. 
Hab. Panama, Panama Bay (J. J. Walker).— West coast or AMERICA!; ANTILLES, San 
Domingo}. 


A specimen captured by Mr. J. J. Walker in the Bay of Panama agrees perfectly 
with the example in the National Collection received from Captain Kellett from the 
‘“‘ west coast of America.” 


8. Ophisma luteiplaga. 
Ophisma luteiplaga, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1869". 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—CoLoMBiA, 
Bogota !; Brazit, Rio Janeiro!; West coast OF AMERICA}. 


This species is exceedingly close to and perhaps not really distinct from O. detrahens. 


4, Ophisma delunaris. 
Ophisma delunaris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 238°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1370. 
Ophisma turturoides, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 18727. 
Remigia indistincta, Walk. Cat, xxxiil. p. 1009°. 
Hab. Mexico (Boucard, in mus. D.), Omealca near Orizaba (M. Trujillo); Guatz- 
mata, El Reposo 800 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Costa Rica (Gabb, in 
3 bb 2 


380 HETEROCERA. 


mus. D.); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé). 
—CotomBIA, Bogota*; VENEZUELA?; Ecuapor; SouTH-EAST BRAZIL. 


This species varies slightly, the spots on the underside in some specimens being 
much more distinct than in others. Walker’s types of Remigia indistincta are in my 
own collection, and they are not separable from 0. delunaris, Guén. It is also quite 
possible that the latter is only a variety of O. ablunaris, a typical example of which 
I have not seen. The locality for O. delunaris was unknown to Guénéel. —s_, 


5. Ophisma eolida, sp. n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 9.) | 

Primaries pale greyish-fawn colour, with a darker marking at the base enclosed by a S-shaped pale line, a 
dark brown broad curved band edged with a narrow pale line crossing the wing from the apex to the 
inner margin near the anal angle, and a small curved pale line crossing the dark band near the apex from 
the costal to the outer margin; secondaries dark brown, palest at the base; the fringe of both wings 
greyish; the underside pale greyish-fawn colour, clouded with darker brown near the outer margin of 
both wings: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-brown ; the antenne pale brown; the legs greyish. 
Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimen is the only one we have seen of this very distinct species. 


ACHAEA. 


Achea, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 269 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 244; Walk. 
Cat. xiv. p. 1889. 


The species hitherto referred to this genus are all from the warmer parts of the Old 
World, chiefly from Asia, Africa,and the Eastern Archipelago. We have to record one 
species from Central America; this is allied to A. sypnaoides, Butl., from Madagascar. 


1. Achza schausi, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 5.) 


Primaries pale grey shaded with fawn-colour and darker brown, a waved brown line crossing the wing near 
the base from the costal to the inner margin, beyond which is a very pale grey marking, the marking 
only extending to the middle of the wing, and below it and in front of the reniform spot are a number of 
indistinct waved lines, a dark brown line near the apex and one on the inner margin near the anal angle, 
the marginal line black, the fringe pale grey; secondaries pale citron-yellow, broadly bordered with 
brownish-black from the apex to near the anal angle but not reaching it, the anal angle shaded with 
grey and with two rows of V-shaped blackish markings extending upwards towards the base of the wing, 
the marginal line black, the fringe pale grey; the underside of both wings pale brownish-grey, each 
shaded with yellow at the base and along the inner margin and with the outer margin clouded with 
dusky brown: head, tegule, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, the collar pale brown, the legs greyish- 
brown, the antenne and palpi brown. Expanse 3 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus). 


I have named this insect after its captor, Mr. Schaus, to whom I am indebted for the 
pleasure of adding this fine species to our fauna. One specimen, 


ATHYRMA.—OPHIUSA. 381 


ATHYRMA. 


Athyrma, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 267 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 261; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1416. 


This genus is represented in Central America by two species, one of which is distri- 
buted from Mexico to Panama. 


1. Athyrma adjutrix. 
Phalena Noctua adjutriz, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 144, t. 272. ff. BE, F’. 


Athyrma adjutriz, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 267; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 2627; Walk. 
Cat. xiv. p. 1416”. 


Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks) ; Guaremana, Volcan 
de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de 
Trazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui below 4000 feet 
(Champion), Chiriqui (Ridbe).—Gutana, Surinam 123, 


Walker states * that A. dormitrix, Guén., may be a variety of this species. 


2. Athyrma tuberosa. — 
Athyrma tuberosa, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 117. f. 21, Erkl. der Taf. 117. no. 21°. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons 1, 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimen from Chiriqui is slightly darker than Felder’s figure. 


OPHIUSA. 
Ophiusa, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 263 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1418. 
Walker included forty-seven species in this genus, which is represented in nearly all 
parts of the globe ; two only are known to me from within the limits of our fauna. 


1. Ophiusa detinquens. 
Ophiusa delinquens, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1423". 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (J. J. Walker), Cordova (Riimelt); Panama, Bugaba (Cham: 
pton).—VENEZUELA }. 


This species varies very considerably in colour ; some specimens being quite pale and 
others very dark. 


2. Ophiusa antica. 
Ophisma (?) antica, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 954°. 


Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (7. J. Walker).—VEneEzvrta }. 
Our specimen from Acapulco does not differ from Walker’s type in the National 


Collection. I think it most likely that 0. antica will prove to be not distinct from 
O. delinquens. 


382 _ ° HETEROCERA. 


Subfam. HUCLIDIIN A. 


DRASTERIA. 


Drasteria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 280 (1816) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 288 ; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1455. 


The species of this genus are mostly North American; one has been recorded from 
our region. 


1. Drasteria magnifica. 
Drasteria magnifica, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 18°. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus '). 


Mr. Henry Edwards states that this is the largest known species of the genus. 


Subfam. POAPHILINAL. 


POAPHILA. 
Poaphila, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 299 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1467. 

This genus includes a large number of species distributed over North, Central, and 
South America and the Antilles; the majority of these, however, are from North 
America. Of the five species now enumerated from within the limits of our region, 
_we have only received examples of two. 


1. Poaphila bistrigata. 
Ptichodis bistrigata, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 21, ff. 111, 112°. 
Ortholitha bistrigata, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 338. 
Poaphila bistrigata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3037; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1471°. 
Phurys bistrigata, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 41 (1882). 


Hab. Norta America 1 3,—Hownpuras (Dyson ?).—Jamatca 3, 


2. Poaphila amplissima. 
Poaphila amplissima, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14737. 


Hab. Nortn Amenica, East Florida !.—Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde). 


This species is not included in Grote’s ‘Check-List of North-American Moths.’ It 
may be an extreme form of P. bdistrigata, Hiibn. 


3. Poaphila stricta. 
Poaphila stricta, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1476'. 


Hab. Honvuras (Dyson 1).—Amazons, Santarem 1. 


I have searched in vain for the types of this species in the National Collection. 


POAPHILA.—HERMINODES. 383 


4. Poaphila ordinans. 
Poaphila ordinans, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 18377. 
Hab, Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion).—AntTILLES, San Domingo !. 


Our Guatemalan specimens agree with Walker’s type in the National Collection. 


5. Poaphila? paucula. 
Poaphila (?) paucula, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 18381. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 1), 


This species was described by Walker from a single worn example, 


RISTRA. 
Risira, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1842 (1858). 


Walker founded this genus for the reception of a species from Honduras. 


1. Ristra tortuosa. 
Ristra tortuosa, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1842". 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson '). 


RHOSOLOGTIA. 
Rhosologia, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 1003 (1865). 


A single species from Mexico was included in Rhosologia by its author ; this is now 
known to extend southwards to the State of Panama. 


1. Rhosologia porrecta. (Tab. XXXII. fig. 11, 3.) 
Rhosologia porrecta, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1003". 
Hab. Mexico}, Coatepec (Brooks) ; Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet ( Champion). 


Our specimens do not differ from Walker’s type in the National Collection. A 
Mexican example is figured. 


HERMINODES. 
Herminodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 431 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiii. p. 1033. 
This genus is very closely allied to Rhosologia, and both eventually will most likely 
have to be placed among the Deltoides. Three species from Tropical America were 
included in it by Guénée. 


1. Herminodes nigripalpis. 
Herminodes nigripalpis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 481, Noct. t. 18. f.4(9)*; Walk. Cat. 
xi. p. 1033 *. 
Hab. Mexico, Omealca near Orizaba (MZ. Trujillo); Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 3000 


feet (Champion).—Gutana, Cayenne!?; Braziu %, 


384 HETEROCERA. 


One specimen of what I believe to be the male of H. nigripalpis was captured on 
the Pacific slope of Guatemala by Mr. Champion; a second example just received from 
Mexico is considerably smaller, but otherwise agrees with it. 

BANIANA. 
Baniana, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1843 (1858). 

Three species were referred to this genus by its author—one from San Domingo, one 

from Mexico, and one from Hindostan. Euclidia(?) pohli, Feld. & Rogenh., from the 


Amazons, also belongs to it; this is now known to extend into the southern part of 
our region. 


1. Baniana mexicana. 
Baniana mexicana, Walk. Cat. xxxiti. p. 1000'. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé, in mus. Brit. 1). 


2. Baniana suggesta. 
Poaphila suggesta, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14767. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 3). 


This insect may prove to be not distinct from B. mexicana. 


3. Baniana pohli. 
Euclida (?) pohli, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 117. £.3, Erkl. der Taf.117. no. 3 (fo). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet ( Champion).—Amazons }. 


The two male specimens received from Chiriqui are considerably darker in colour 
than Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure, but they agree with it in the markings of the 
primaries. 


PHURYS. 
Phurys, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 303 (1852); Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1478. 
Chalciope, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 268 (pars). 
Walker in his Catalogue included seventeen species in this genus, most of these 
being from Central and South America and the West-Indian Islands. Nine are here 
enumerated. 


1. Phurys helvina. 
Phurys helvina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 307°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14807. 

Hab. Mexico 12, State of Durango (Forrer), Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet, 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo), 
Vera Cruz (Ff. D. G.), Cordova (Réimeli); Brimsh Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blanca- 
neaux); GUATEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 


° 


PHURYS. 385 


2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote, San Gerénimo, Panzos, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Honpvuras, Ruatan Island ( Gaumer); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, 
Cache (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
BraZziu } 2, 

This extremely variable species is very abundant everywhere in our region, and 
in no one district is any form constant. Mons. C. Oberthiir has kindly sent us Guénée’s 
types for examination; they are pale-coloured specimens. In the very large series 
before us the females not nearly so numerous as the males, and they are comparatively 
darker in colour. 

Mr. Smith’s Mexican examples were captured between the months of January and 
May and also in October. 


2. Phurys jugis. 
Phurys jugis, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1481". 
Hab. Mexico!, State of Durango (Forrer) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
8000 feet (Champion). 


I think this is most likely a form of P. garnoti, Guén. 


8. Phurys immunis. 
Phurys immunis, Guén. Sp. gén. des hep. vi. p. 805°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1482°; Druce, P. Z. 8. 


1884, p. 324°. 
Phuris immunis, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 436*; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 


von Surinam, ii. p. 58. 
Perasia immunis, Moschl. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 57°. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Acapuleo, Tierra Colorada 
2000 feet, all in Guerrero (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Gerdénimo, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (fide), 
Taboga Island (J. J. Walker).—Gutana, Surinam °, Paramaribo*+; Trinipap; LowEr 
AMAZONS; ANTILLES, Jamaica >, San Domingo 2, St. Thomas! 2, Dominica *, Guada- 
loupe ! 2, Martinique ! 2. 

This is a common insect in our region. The specimens from Tierra Colorada are 
very richly coloured. P. immunis appears to me to be very closely allied to the North- 


American P. vinculum, Guén. 
Mr. Smith’s Guerrero examples were captured in the months of September and 


October. 


4, Phurys lineolaris. 
Noctua lineolaris, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 454. 
Phurys lineolaris, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 807"; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1483°; Butler, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 51°. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., March 1890. 3 ce 


326 HETEROCERA. 


Phuris lineolaris, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 486‘; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iil. p. 59. , 
Hab. Honpuras?.—Gutana, Surinam ‘4; Amazons, Rio Tapaios?; ANTILLES, Marti- 
nique ! 2. 


We have not received any specimens of this insect from our region. 


5. Phurys garnoti. 

Phurys garnott, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 306, Noct. t. 23. f.3°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14837; 
Butl. P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 488°; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 324%. 

Perasia garnoti, Moschl. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 57°. 

Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith), Paso de San Juan, 
Jalapa (Schaus); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in 
mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—ANTILLES, Jamaica 23 5, 
San Domingo *, Dominica ‘4, Martinique ! 2, 

Specimens from Central America are darker in colour than any of those from the 
Antilles, but otherwise they are similar. 


6. Phurys dissocians. 
Poaphila dissocians, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1477°. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


Walker's type of this species in the British Museum is without any locality 1, Mr. 
Smith met with the insect in the month of September. 


7. Phurys teligera. 
Phurys teligera, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. pp. 181, 1917. 
Hab. GuatEeMaLa, Coban in Vera Paz (Conradt); Panama, Chiriqui ( Ribbe).— 
CoLomsBi4, Bogota!; Ecuapor ; Souru-East Brazit. 


We have only received two specimens, one of each sex, of this species from Central 
America; the one from Chiriqui agrees perfectly with Walker's type, which is now in 
my own collection. 


8. Phurys basilans. 
Phurys basilans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 306"; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1484”, 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson ?).— VENEZUELA 2; AMAZONS, Santarem 2; Brazin}2, 


MOCIS. 
Mocis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 267 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 309; 
Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1488. 
Walker in his Catalogue enumerated eight species of this genus, four of them at least 
being varieties of one ; these are all from Tropical South America or the Antilles, and 
one a common and widely distributed insect in Central America. 


MOCIS.—CZNURGIA. 387 


1. Mocis levina. 


Phalena Noctua levina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 108, t. 346. f. D*; Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. 
v. p. 160, t. 36. f. 27. 

Mocis levina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 267; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p- 311°; Walk. Cat. 
xiv. p. 1490*; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p.436°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iii. p. 58. 

Mocis aurinia, Geyer, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iv. p. 30, ff. 729, 730; Guén. Sp. gén. des 
Lép. vii. p. 310°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1488; Herr.-Schiaff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 
1868, p. 189 (sep. copy, p. 27)”. 

Mocis alvina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 310°; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1489°. 

Mocis pallidior, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 311’; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1490". 

Ophiusa variolosa, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1421”. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, 
Cubilguitz (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Cache, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
CotomBia, Bogota !?; Gurana, Surinam 12345; Brazit 891011, Santa Catarina ; ANTILLES, 
Cuba ®’, San Domingo ?”. 


The large number of specimens received from Central America vary greatiy in colour 
and in size; some of them are very strongly marked, and others almost without mark- 
ings; in fact, hardly two specimens are alike. WV. levina has a very extended range; 
it has been described under at least four names; and Ophiusa variolosa, Walk., is, no 
doubt, a variety of the same species. In the series before me I am able to find speci- 
mens agreeing with the types and with those that are figured. 


CAENURGIA. 
Cenurgia, Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1491 (1858). 


Walker founded this genus upon two species reported to come from North America ; 
they are not included, however, in Grote’s Check-List. The genus is allied to Phurys, 
but the primaries are much longer and narrower. 


1. Cenurgia purgata. 
Cenurgia purgata, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1492'. 
Anaitis (?) togataria, Walk. Cat. xxv. p. 1445’. 

Hab. Nortu America, East Florida 4—Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), 
Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), Orizaba (Sallé, in mus. Brit.?; H. H. Smith, F. D. G.), 
Coatepec (Brooks), Cordova (fiimeli), Jalapa (Hége); GuaTEMALA, San Gerénimo (Cham- 
pion); Costa Rica (Van Patten; Boucard, in mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (2idée). 

This species varies considerably: the examples obtained by Mr. Godman at Orizaba 
are the darkest I have seen. The female was described by Walker under the name of 


Anaitis togataria, and placed by him in the Eubolide. 
3.¢¢ 2 


388 HETEROCERA. 


Subfam. REMIGIINA. 


REMIGIA. 
Remigia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 312 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1493. 

The species of this genus are all very dull-coloured insects, and vary to a great 
extent. emigia is well represented in most of the warmer parts of the world. Five 
species are known to me from Central America, one of which is very abundant; the 
latter, £. diffluens, Guén., has been described five times by Walker, and under two 
different genera. 


1. Remigia latipes. 

Remigia latipes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 814’; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14947; Méschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges, Wien, 1880, p. 436°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 58; 
Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p.57*; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 41 
(1882)°; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 51°. 

Remigia indentata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe. ii. p. 2827, iii. p. 12. 

Hab. Norra America!®, Labrador1, United States, Texas’, Florida (Morrison).— 
Mexico!, Lake Chapala in Jalisco (Richardson); Honpuras, Ruatan I. (Gaumer) ; 
Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Cotomaia !; 
VENEZUELA”; GUIANA, Paramaribo?; Amazons®, Pard?, Santarem?; Brazinu}, Rio 
Janeiro?; ANTILLES, Cuba}, San Domingo ?, Jamaica 4, Martinique }. 


2. Remigia diffluens. 

Remigia diffluens, Guén. Sp. gen. des Lép. vii. p. 8318*; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 14967; Méschl. Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 437°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 59‘. 

Phurys perlata, Walk. 1. c. p. 1480’. 

Phurys optabilis, Walk. 1. c. p. 1485 °. 

Remigia mensuralis, Walk. 1. c. p. 1499”. 

Remigia exscindens, Walk. 1. c. p. 1500 °. 

Remigia subtilis, Walk. 1. c. p. 1501 °. 

Hab. Nort America, Kast Florida ®.—Mexico 1, Rio Papagaio 1200 feet, Acapulco, 
Rincon 2800 feet, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Venta de Zopilote 
2800 feet, all in Guerrero, Cuernavaca, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Vera 
Cruz (F. D. G.), Cordova (Riimelt), San Lorenzo (M. Trujillo), Lake Chapala in Jalisco 
(fichardson), Mexico city (Hoge); Britis Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatn- 
MALA, in the city (Rodriguez), El Tumbador 2500 feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, San 
Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 3000 feet, Zapote, Balheu, 
Panima, Cubilguitz, Cahabon (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson ®7 8); Costa Rica, Volcan de 
Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 
to 3000 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA®; Trintpap; Gurana, Paramaribo 3 4; Ecuapor ; 
AMAZONS, Para ®, Santarem®; Braziu!8; AnTILues, Jamaica’, San Domingo? 8, 


REMIGIA.—NYMBIS. 389 


_ This very common and extremely variable species is found almost everywhere in 
Tropical America. I am quite unable to admit as distinct the numerous so-called 
species described by Walker, hardly two specimens of the large series before me being 
exactly alike. We are indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for the loan of the type of 
R. difluens, and are thus enabled to certainly identify Guénée’s species. Mr. Champion 
bred a large number of specimens at Bugaba, Chiriqui. He states that “the larva 
feeds on the rice-plant, to which it is in some seasons very destructive, and forms a 
sort of cocoon by drawing the opposite edges of the leaf together; it remains only a 
short time in the pupa state.” The name Phurys perlata, Walk., is omitted from 
Grote’s ‘ Check-list of North-American Moths. Mr. Smith met with examples of this 
insect in Mexico, between the months of January and October. 


3. Remigia alipes. 
Remigia alipes, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 117. f. 12, Erkl. der Taf. 117. no. 12+. 


Hab. GUATEMALA}, 


This species is only known to us by Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure ; it may be a 
very extreme form of &. diffluens. 


4, Remigia impressa. 
Remigia impressa, Butl. & Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 117"; Butl. Lep. Exot. p. 177, t. 61. f. 19°. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Cartago (Van Patten 12), 


We have not received any specimens agreeing with the figure of this species. 


5. Remigia disseverans. 
Remigia disseverans, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1495'; Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 489’. 
Remigia persubtilis, Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1497 *. 


Hab. Norta America, East Florida! _—Honpuras (Dyson 3),— ANTILLES, San 
Domingo ! 3, Jamaica 123, | 


The specimen from Honduras in the National Collection is the only one we have 


seen from our region. 


NYMBIS. 
Nymbis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 320 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1513. 


The two species included in this genus by Guénée are both found in our region. 


1. Nymbis iniqua. 
Nymbis i iniqua, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 321"; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1518”. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribble, in mus. Staudinger).—Braziu (?) }2. 


390 HETEROCERA. 


It is most probable that WV. iniqgua will prove to be the female of NV. textilis, Guén. ; 
all the specimens of the former known to us are of this sex. 


2. Nymbis textilis. 
Nymbis textilis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 321, Noct. t. 23. f. 7($)*; Walk. Cat. xiv. 
p. 1514°. 
Phurys coactilis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 117.£.15, Erkl. der Taf. 117. no. 15(¢)*. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann); GuatemaLa, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—Gutana*; Braziu! 2, 


Our Mexican specimen very closely resembles Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure of 
Phurys coactilis. This species varies considerably in colour, and in the size of the 
black spot near the base of the primaries, it being almost obsolete in some specimens. 


ISOGONA. 
Isogona, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 8322 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1515. 
Guénée and Walker include two species in this genus, one from North America and 
the other from Brazil. We are now enabled to trace the southern species northwards 
to Mexico, and to add a new one from our region. 


1. Isogona continua. 
Isogona continua, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 322; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1516°. 
Massava scissa, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1110’. 


Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith); Britisu 
Hoypuras, Belize (Blancaneaur) ; Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. 
Staudinger).— VENEZUELA? ; Brazin } 2, 


This is a common species throughout our region. Mr. Butler states (Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 55) that Massava scissa, Walk.=Tsogona continua, Guén. 


2. Isogona eolia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 1.) 


Primaries pale brownish-fawn-colour, crossed near the outer margin from the costal to the inner margin by a 
wide dark brown band, the latter edged with a pale line on the outer side, and with three indistinct 
waved lines crossing the wing between the base and the dark brown band; secondaries dull brownish- 
fawn-colour, darkest round the outer margin ; the fringe of both the primaries and the secondaries pale 
greyish-brown; the underside of both wings pale dove-colour, crossed beyond the middle by narrow in- 
distinct darker brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown, 
the antenne and palpi pale brown, the legs brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


ISOGONA.—CEROMACRA. 391 


Of this species we have only received one specimen; it agrees with others from 
Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 
The Guatemalan example is figured. 


EPIDROMIA. 
Epidromia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 325 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1518. 
Guénée founded this genus upon two species, both from Brazil; and several others, 
from the Amazons, have since been described by Butler. Some of the Tropical- 


American species referred by Walker to Thermesia also belong to it. Three are here 
recorded from Central America. 


1. Epidromia distincta. 
Epidromia distincta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 537. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazoys }. 
A specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is almost identical with 
Butler’s type in the National Museum. 


2. Epidromia tinctifera. 
Thermesia tinctifera, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1570'. 
Hab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); GuateMata, in the city (Rodriquez), 
Zapote (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson1); Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


This species varies considerably in colour. 


3. Epidromia suffusa. 
Thermesia suffusa, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1561'. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).— ANTILLES, San Domingo 1. 


It is quite possible that this insect is only a pale form of the preceding species. 


CEROMACRA. 
Ceromacra, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 827 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xiv. p. 1519. 
This genus includes one species only, the Phalena Bombyx tymber of Cramer. 


1. Ceromacra tymber. 

Phalena Bombyx tymber, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 109, t. 167. f. D’. 

Ceromacra tymber, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3277; Walk. Cat. xiv. p. 1519°; Butl. Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 54*; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 488°; Beitr. zur 
Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 60. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 


392 HETEROCERA. 


Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Guiana, Surinam !®, Cayenne?*; Amazons‘, 
Manaos. 


Fairly common in our region. Some specimens are of a much redder brown than 


others. 


Subfam. FOCIZLINA. 


FOCILLA. 
Focilla, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 333 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1528, and xxxiii. 
p. 1029. 
Walker included eleven species in this genus—nine from the warmer parts of the 
New World, one from Ceylon, and one from an unknown locality. We have to 
enumerate nine from Central America, six of which are described as new. 


1. Focilla guerini. 
Focilla guerini, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 334, Noct. t. 23. f.12(9)’; Walk. Cat. xv. 
p. 1530°. 
Hab. Mexico, near the city (Hége), Campeache 12; GuaTEMALA, in the city (Rodri- 
guez), San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion), Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Ega ?. 


This species is widely distributed in our region, but nowhere common. 


2. Focilla recurva. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 2.) 
Focilla recurva, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15307. 
Focilla consurgens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15827. 
Hab. GuateMaLa, Cahabon (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion).— 
West Coast of AMERICA (Capt. Kellett!) ; VenezuE.a 2. 


Our specimen from Guatemala agrees with Walker’s type of F. recurva; I am unable 
to detect any reason for separating the Venezuelan insect from it. We figure the 
example from Cahabon. 


8. Focilla (2) laba, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 3.) 


Primaries and secondaries pale brown mottled and shaded with darker brown; the primaries with the costal 
margin streaked with greyish-white, a large indistinct oval spot at the end of the cell edged with black, 
and a dark zigzag brown line crossing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, the base of the 
wing with a greyish shade which does not extend beyond the zigzag brown line; the secondaries with a 
dark brown mark near the anal angle, and one beyond nearest the apex ; the marginal line of both wings 
black, the fringe brown: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown, the front of the thorax streaked 
with dark brown ; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion). 


_ FOCILLA. © J93 


This insect very closely resembles an undescribed species of Lacera from New 
Caledonia in my own collection. I have included it in Focilla with considerable 
doubt; in the form of the palpi the species seems to be intermediate between the two 
genera. Mr. Champion only captured two specimens, one of which is in very poor 
condition. The Atitlan example is figured. 


4. Focilla labecia, sp. n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 4,3.) 


Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, shaded with dark brown at the anal angle and along the outer margin 
nearly to the apex, and with five dark brown waved lines crossing the wing from the costal to the inner 
margin, a minute black dot in the cell, an indistinct oval spot at the end of the cell, and four small pale 
brown spots extending from the anal angle along the outer margin; secondaries with somewhat similar 
markings, the basal half the palest, a yellowish-brown line bordered on the inner edge with dark brown 
crossing the wing from the apex to the anal angle, and a submarginal row of small pale brown dots 
extending from the apex to the anal angle; the underside uniform pale brown, the primaries crossed 
beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by two pale yellowish-brown lines, and with the 
spot in the cell and the spot at the end of the cell pale ochraceous-brown, the secondaries with a very 
indistinct brown line crossing from the costal to the inner margin, both wings with a row of marginal 
white dots:. head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown; the palpi, antenns, underside of the thorax, 
abdomen, and legs dark brown, the anal tuft pale yellowish-brown. The female differs from the male in 
being much greyer in colour, and in having all the lines on the primaries very indistinct, those on the 
secondaries scarcely more prominent than the brown line crossing from the apex to the anal angle; the 
underside also greyer in colour, but otherwise agreeing with that of the male. Expanse, ¢ 21, Q 23 
inches. 


Hab. GuaTeMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of each sex. 

Mr. Champion informs me that this is one of very many species of Noctuse of which 
examples were attracted to light, during the dry season, in the months of December 
and January, at San Agustin, on the slope of the Volcan de Atitlan. 


5. Focilla maxima, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 5.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries rich reddish-brown ; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by two waved greyish lines—the first near the base, the second beyond the cell,—and with a 
distinct waved reddish-brown band (almost broken into spots) extending from the costal margin near the 
apex (where it is widest) across the wing to the anal angle, a row of very minute black dots, which are 
whitish on the outer edge, extending from the apex along the outer margin to the anal angle, and a pale 

greyish oval spot at the end of the cell; the secondaries with two zigzag greyish lines crossing the wing 
to about the middle from the inner margin above the anal angle, and four minute greyish spots on the 
outer margin; the underside pale brown thickly irrorated with bluish-grey scales, the primaries crossed 
beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin with a greyish-brown waved line, the secondaries 
crossed beyond the middle by two bluish-grey lines, the outer line broken into spots, both wings with a 
row of minute white dots and a bright yellowish-brown line on the outer margin ; the fringe bluish-grey : 
head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish-brown, the palpi, the antenne beneath, and the legs brown, the 
front of the head, the tips of the palpi, and the upperside of the antenne whitish. Expanse 22 inches, 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). . 
We are indebted to Dr. Staudinger for the pleasure of adding this fine species to 
our fauna; it is by far the largest member of the genus, and very distinct from any 


known tous. — — . 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1890. 3 dd 


394 HETEROCERA. 


6. Focilla agava, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 6.) 


Male and female. Primaries and secondaries of a uniform rich dark brown colour, each with several indistinct 
darker brown lines crossing from the costal to the inner margin; the underside of both wings considerably 
paler in colour, and the brown lines much: more distinct, the inner margin of the primaries also paler, a 
row of minute white spots crossing each wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin: 
head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark brown. Expanse, d 2, 1? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 


This insect is allied to F. angularis, Moschl.; the only specimens we have seen of it 
are those contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


7. Focilla laczna, sp. n. 

Male and female. Primaries and secondaries brown, with a rich purple gloss in some lights, each with an 
indistinct zigzag greyish-brown line crossing beyond the middle, and a submarginal waved brown line 
extending from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, both wings with a marginal row of 
small black spots, the fringe dark brown; the underside as above, but considerably paler in colour and 
with all the lines and the marginal row of spots much more distinct: head, palpi, antenna, thorax, 
abdomen, and legs brown. Expanse, ¢ 12, 2 2 inches. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, David (Champion). 


Allied to F. agava, but very different in colour both on the upper- and undersides. 
Two specimens. 


8. Focilla lala, sp.n. (Tab. X XXIII. fig. 7.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four 
indistinct darker brown waved lines; the primaries with the line nearest the base greyish, the apex of the 
wing blackish, a greyish-brown oval spot at the end of the cell, and a large round black spot on the inner 
margin about halfway between the base and the anal angle; the secondaries crossed by four waved lines, 
the second line from the base formed by minute black dots; the fringe pale greyish-brown ; the underside 
pale brown, with all the lines crossing the wings black: head, palpi and antenne, and the thorax and 
abdomen above dark reddish-brown, the underside of the thorax and of the abdomen pale greyish-brown, 
the legs greyish. The female similar to the male, but considerably duller, greyer in colour, and with the 
markings on the underside much more indistinct, the black spot on the inner margin of the primaries 
above obsolete. Expanse, 5 9, 1? inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
(Champion). 

This species varies in colour; and the black spot on the inner margin of the primaries 
is only present in the male example. J. lala is allied to F. angularis, Méschl., from 
Jamaica, and may be only a form of that insect; but, as we have not any Jamaican 
specimens for comparison, and it differs very greatly from Moschler’s figure, I have 
treated it as distinct. Our figure is taken from the Bugaba example. 


9. Focilla relata. 
Focilla relata, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1533°. 
Mazacyla fusifera, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 9457 (apud Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 56). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).—West Coast oF AMERICA 


(Capt. Kellett!); Amazons, Villa Nova!; Soutu-East BraziL, Rio Janeiro 2, 


FOCILLA.—TAUTOBRIGA. 399 


One worn specimen of this species was captured by Mr. Champion in Chiriqui; it 
very closely resembles those in the National Museum. In the shape of the wings 
F. relata differs considerably from all the species of Focil/a known to us, the primaries 
being longer and the secondaries more rounded; but the palpi are similar in form to 
those of the other members of the genus. 


AZATHA. 
Azatha, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1534 (1858) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 56. 


Walker founded this genus upon an insect from Honduras; and Mr. Butler, in his 


paper upon the Lepidoptera of the Amazons, also includes Phalena Noctua marcellina, 
Cram., in it. | 


1. Azatha retardens. 
Azatha retardens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1534". 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson '). 


The type in the National Museum is the only specimen we have seen. 


TAUTOBRIGA. 


Tautobriga, Walker, Char. of Undescr. Lep. Het. p. 56 (1869); Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1879, p. 56. 


Tautobriga, the type of which is in the British Museum, is allied to Focilla, but 
differs greatly from it in the form of the palpi and in the shape of the apex and outer 
margin of the primaries. | 


1. Tautobriga euspila. 
Tautobriga euspila, Walk. Char. of Undescr. Lep. Het. p. 56°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond. 
1879, p. 56°. 
Amphigonia (?) erythropus, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 25, Erkl. der Taf. 118, 
no. 25°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1900 feet, Caldera 
1200 feet (Champion).—CotomBia, Bogota*; Amazons, Manaos?; Brazi ®. 


I have not the least doubt that A. erythropus, though the figure is much too highly 
coloured, is conspecific with 7. ewspila. Our specimens show considerable variation in 
colour, some being much darker than others; in all of them the spots are of a brownish- 
grey colour, not pale blue as they are represented by Felder and Rogenhofer. 

- Walker! gives the locality as ‘ Limas,” a place not to be found on any map I have 
seen; many of the other species described by him in the same paper, all of which are 
from Norris’s collection, are from Peru. 


3dd 2 


396 HETEROCERA. 


GALAPHA. 
Galapha, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1544 (1858). 


One species from the Amazons was included in Galapha by Walker ; we now add a 
second from Central America. The genus is allied to Tautobriga. 


1. Galapha ageta, sp.n. (Tab. X XXIII. fig. 8, 3.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark brown, with a greyish shade over them; the primaries with a large oval 
spot at the end of the cell edged with white at the lower end, a rather wide darker brown band crossing 
about the middle from the lower side of the spot to the inner margin, a dark brown spot and a similarly- 
coloured mark closé-to the apex, and several minute pale coloured streaks along the costal margin; the 
secondaries with a dark brown line near the anal angle edged with white close to the anal angle, and with 
a marginal row of small white dots; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside pale brown, 
yellowish at the apex and along the costal margin of the primaries, the spot at the end of the cell 
yellowish-white: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs greyish-brown. The female resembling 
the male, but very much darker in colour. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero (H. H. Smith) ; GUATEMALA, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Honpuras, Ruatan I. (Gawmer); Costa Rica, 
Volean de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). | 

Allied to Focilla bendina, Feld. & Rogenh., but differing very considerably in colour 
and markings. It varies to some extent in the size and colour of the spot at the end 
of the cell of the primaries: in some specimens this is almost white, in others it is 
reddish-brown. The examples from Ruatan Island are the palest; in the single 
specimen from Chiriqui the spot on the primaries is larger than in any of the others 
before us. Mr. Smith’s examples were captured in September 1888. A male example | 
from Dos Arroyos is figured. 


Fam. AMPHIGONIIDA. 


oo AMPHIGONIA. 
Amphigonia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 337 (1852); Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1538, & xxxiii. 
p. 1031. 
Nine species are included in this genus by Walker, four from Tropical America and 
the others from the tropical regions of the Old World. 


1. Amphigonia insana. | 
Amphigonia insana, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3881; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1538”. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Ecuapor, Quito ! 2, 


SYLECTRA. - 397 


SYLECTRA. 


Sylectra, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 341 (1816). 
Teratocera, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3839; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1541. 


Hiibner’s name for this genus must stand: the two species belonging to it are both 
exceedingly common insects in our region and throughout Tropical South America and 
the West-Indian Islands. 


1. Sylectra ericata. 
Phalena erycata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 170, t. 287. £. D ( 2)’, iv. p. 157, t. 370. f. E(¢)?. 
Sylectra ericata, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 440°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iii. p. 62. | 
Syllectra ericata, Moschl. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 58 *. 
Sylectra erycata, Grote, List of North American Moths, p. 42 (1882) ’°. 
Teratocera ericata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 340°; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15427. 
Tetratocera ericata, Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 824°. 
Teratocera erycata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 58’. 
Syllectra mirandalis, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 223. ff. 1,2 (¢), 3,4(2). 
Sylectra mirandalis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 342. 

_ fab. Nowrn America®.—Guatemata, Panzos (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten, 
mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé), Volcan’ de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). — 
CotomBia; Ectapor; Guiana, Surinam ! 2367; " AMAZONS 9; ANTILLES, San Domingo’, 
Jamaica 4&7, Guadaloupe ® 7, Dominica 8. 


This is a widely distributed and common species in the warmer parts of America. It 
varies very much in colour, some specimens being much brighter than others; those 
from the Antilles are generally the brightest (the two examples before me from 
Dominica are bright orange-red), but in all other respects they agree with specimens 
from the mainland, these latter varying in colour from orange-red to dull brown. 


2. Sylectra congemmalis. 
Syllectra congemmalis, Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 21, ff. 809, 310. 
Sylectra congemalis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 341. 
Teratocera congemmalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 340'; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1542*. 
Teratocera vitrimacula, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 340°; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1542 *. 
Sylectra fictilina, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 440, t. 8. f.14°; Beitr. zur Schmett.- 
Fauna von Surinam, p. 62. 

Hab. Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 
feet, Volcan de Atitlan 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.).— 
Guiana, Surinam!?°, Cayenne?4; Amazons, Santarem*; BraziIL; ANTILLES, Cuba, 
San Domingo 2. 


This is a common insect in Guatemala and the State of Panama: from Mexico we 


898 HETEROCERA. 


have only received one specimen, captured by Mr. Smith in February 1888. This species 
varies very much in colour and in the distinctness of the lines on the wings. Examples 
from Cuba in my own collection are darker, and others from Rio Janeiro are paler 
in colour; but I have not the least doubt that they all belong to one and the same 


species, 


Fam. THERMESIIDZ. 


SYMPIS. 
Sympis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 343 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1548. 
The species placed in this genus by Guénée and Walker are all from the tropical 
regions of the Old World; we have now to record one from Central America. 


1. Sympis agnita, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 9.) 

Primaries and secondaries bright orange-red, thickly irrorated with pale yellow and brown scales, the primaries 
crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three brownish lines, and also with a submarginal waved 
line, the secondaries crossed by two narrow brown lines, the fringe of both wings reddish-brown ; the 
underside pale reddish-yellow, thickly irrorated with brown scales: head, thorax, and the base of the 
abdomen bright orange-red, the rest of the abdomen pale brown ; the antenna, palpi, and legs pale brown. 
Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab, Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Bugaba 800 to 1000 feet, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


A common species in Chiriqui. 


ARGIDIA. | 
Argidia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 845 (1852); Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1549. 

Four species are included in this genus by Walker, and others have since been 
described by Felder and Rogenhofer, and Butler; all these are from Tropical South 
America. 

Three species are now known to inhabit our region, two of them extending as far 
north as Southern Mexico. 


1. Argidia calus. 
Argidia calus, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 346, Noct. t. 23. £.10(9)*; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15517. 
Argidia subrubra, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 28, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 28 (3). 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (Schaus); Guatemava, Zapote (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Cayenne!2; Amazons?; East Perv. 


We cannot agree with Mr. Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 59) in considering 
A. subrubra, Feld. & Rogenh., as conspecific with A. tarchon (Cram.). A comparison 
of the two figures shows they are not in the least alike; but there can be very little 
doubt that A. subrubra is conspecific with A. calus, the figure of the latter having been 
taken from a very dark example. 


ARGIDIA.—ORTHOGRAMMA. 399 


The Central-American specimens received show a considerable amount of variation 
in the colour of the upper, but not in that of the under, side. 


2. Argidia wedelina. 
Phalena Geometra wedelina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 229, t. 397. f. M'. 
Argidia wedelina, Feld. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. £. 29, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 29 (9) ?. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), Coatepec (Brooks); Panama, Chiriqui (ibde).— 
Cotomsia, Bogota?; Guiana, Surinam 1. | 


Cramer’s figure of this insect is a very poor one; but I have very little doubt that it 
is intended for this species. Walker has omitted it in his Catalogue. 


3. Argidia palmipes. 
Argidia palmipes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 83471; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1551’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).— VENEZUELA”; Guiana, Cayenne? ?. 
On the upperside this species very closely resembles some examples of A. calus, 
Guén. ; but on the underside it differs considerably. 


ORTHOGRAMMA. 


Orthogramma, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 347 (1852); Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1552. 
Epitausa, Walker, Cat. x. p. 476, & xv. p. 1712. 

As yet, examples of only two species of this genus have been received from Central 
America. Walker in his Catalogue enumerated eight, seven being placed in Ortho- 
gramma and one in Lpitausa, all from South America or the Antilles; others have 
since been described by Butler, Felder and Rogenhofer, and Méschler. 


1. Orthogramma, coppryi. 
Orthogramma coppryi, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 348°; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1553”. 
Epitausa letabilis, Walk. Cat. x. p. 477°. 
Hab. Guatema.a, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Cayenne!2; Amazons, Paré?; AntiLtEs, San Domingo®. 


This appears to be a scarce insect in our region: we have only received three speci- 
mens, all captured by Mr. Champion. 


2. Orthogramma (?) lamida, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 10.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform chrome-yellow, both wings crossed about the middle from the costal to the 
inner margin by a reddish-brown line edged on the outer side with pinkish-white, the costal margin edged 
with reddish-brown from the base about halfway to the apex, two zigzag indistinct lines crossing the 
primaries between the base and the central line, a faint zigzag submarginal line extending from near the 
apex of the primaries to the inner margin of the secondaries just above the anal angle; the underside 
pale brownish-yellow, the central brown line as above but very faint: head, antennw, palpi, thorax, 
abdomen, and legs pale chrome-yellow. Expanse 1? inch. 


400 ; - HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Guaremaua, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The specimen from Guatemala, from which our figure is taken, is much darker in 
colour than either of those from the State of Panama. It is quite possible that this 
insect may require a new genus for its reception ; but till more examples are obtained 
we prefer to place it provisionally in Orthogramma. O. lamida is apparently allied to 
the insect figured by Herrich-Schaffer under the name of Orthogramma dilina, Guén., - 
a species not mentioned in Guénée’s work. . 


THERMESIA. 


Thermesia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 270 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 353; 
Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1560, xxxiii. p. 1037, & xxxv. p. 1973 (pars). 

Walker, in his Catalogue, included in this genus a large number of species from all 
parts of the world; many of these have since proved to belong to distinct genera, and, 
doubtless, as the others become better known, still more will have to be eliminated 
from it. Several of the species are extremely common throughout Tropical America 
and the West-Indian Islands. Five are here enumerated from Central America. 


1. Thermesia gemmatalis. | 

Anticarsia gemmatalis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 26, ff. 153, 154; Grote, List of 
North American Moths, p. 42 (1882). . 

Thermesia gemmatalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 855"; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15607; Herr.-Schiaff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868 (sep. copy, p. 31) °; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien, 1880, p. 443*; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 65°; Butl. P. Z.S. 
1878, p. 489°; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 627; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884. p. 324°; Méschl. 
Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 59°. 

Thermesia monstratura, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1564"°. 

Azazia monstratura, But). P. Z. S. 1878, p. 489. 

Hypernaria detrahens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1622”. 

Remigia subsignata, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1846”, 

Hypernaria anisospila, Walk. Charact. of undescr. Lep. Het. p. 58”. | 

' Hab. North America, United States !.—Mzxico!, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Tierra 

Colorada 2000 feet, Tepetlapa 3000 feet, all in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco (4. 4. 

Smith), Cordova (Riimeli); GuatEMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 feet, Zapote, San 

Gerénimo, Cahabon (Champion); Honpuras?™, San Pedro (Whitely, in mus. D.); 

Costa Rica (Boucard), Volcan de Irazu-6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan 

de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion)—CoLomBia!; VENezvELA?}?; Guiana}, Surinam, 

Paramaribo 45; Amazons27; Brazit.}; ANTILLES, Cuba °, San Domingo 71°, Jamaica 2 § 9, 

Martinique !, Guadaloupe 1, Dominica ®, Nevis ?. 

This very common and widely-distributed species is found almost everywhere in 
Tropical America. It varies very considerably, both in colour and markings; but with 


THERMESIA.—PANGRAPTA. 401 


a large series before me I cannot separate any as distinct. In some cases the sexes are 
very different. The variation is confined to the upperside only; on the underside all 
the specimens are alike. Walker}? gives ‘“‘ Limas” as the locality for H. anisospitla. 
Mr. Smith’s Guerrero examples were captured in the months of September and 
October, and the Teapa ones in February and March. 


2. Thermesia dares. 
Phalena Noctua dares, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, t. 310. f. G@'; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15677. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(ibbe).— Guiana, Surinam 1 2. 


Our specimens agree fairly well with Cramer’s figure, except that they have the 
brown patch at the apex of the primaries not quite so distinct. 


3. Thermesia costalis. 
Thermesia costalis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1570. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatmmaua, El Reposo 800 feet 


(Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribble; Arcé, mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA !. 


This common Central-American insect varies in colour on the upperside from quite 
dark brown to pale yellowish-brown. Mr. Smith captured a good series of specimens, 
between the months of January and April, 1888. 


4. Thermesia lenis. 
Thermesia lenis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1572". 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (2ibde, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Para}. 


The specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection agrees perfectly with 
Walker’s type in the Oxford Museum. 


5. Thermesia (?) glaucescens. 
Thermesia glaucescens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1571”. 


Hab. GuateMaa, Coatepeque 13800 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 
5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 feet, Zapote (Champion).—Amazons, Para}. 


Our Guatemalan specimens do not differ from Walker’s type; the species will 
probably have to be separated from the genus Thermesia. 


PANGRAPTA. 


Pangrapta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 343 (1816) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 68. 
Chabora, Walker, Cat. xxxii. p. 1114. . 
Azeta, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 358 (pars). 

The known species of this genus are all from the American continent or the Antilles. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1890. 3 €@ 


402 HETEROCERA. 


1. Pangrapta repugnalis. 
Pangrapta repugnalis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. p. 37, ff. 575,576; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 63°. 
Azeta vampoa, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 360, Noct. t. 24. f. 3 (9)?; Walk. Cat. xv. p.1581°. 
Azeta rhodogaster, Guén. loc. cit. p. 360(g)*; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1582°. 
Azeta mirzah, Guén. loc. cit. p. 360°; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15797; Druce, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 325°. 
Thermesia fusilinea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1564°. 
Chabora undulifera, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1114 
Thyridospila (?) suffusa, Walk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1971". 

Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (J. J. Watker), Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, Dos Arroyos 
1000 feet, both in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Cordova (Riimelt), Vera 
Cruz °, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); Guaremaua, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (2ibbe).—VennzunLa 11; Guiana, Cayenne2?; Amazons!; Braziu; 
ANTILLES, Haiti®’, San Domingo? 910, Jamaica? 9, Dominica 8. 


This common and variable species is found over a very extended range of country. 
Mr. H. H. Smith captured examples of it in the months of April, September, and 
October, 1888. From Guatemala we only received one specimen, taken at San Isidro 
by Mr. Champion. The locality for Azeta rhodogaster is not stated by Guénée ‘. 


2. Pangrapta hypopyrina. 
Azeta hypopyrina, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 19, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 19 
(3) * (apud Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 63). 

Hab. Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann), La Venta 300 feet, Venta de Zopilote 2800 feet, 
Tierra Colorada, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, all in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco (H. ZH. 
Smith), Coatepec (Brooks) ; GuatEMAta, Coatepeque 1300 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet, 
El Jicaro, Panima, Cahabon (Champion), Coban (Conradt); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, 
Ribbe), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Panama city (J. J. Walker), Colon ( Boucard, 
mus. D.).—Guiana1; Prrv. 


A very common insect throughout our region. It varies ‘considerably in colour and 
size; some of the Mexican specimens are quite pale, with a pinkish tinge showing 
through from the underside. 


| 8. Pangrapta leucoma. 
Azeta leucoma, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. £. 20, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 20? 
(apud Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 63). 
Hab. GuatemaLa, El Tumbador 2500 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 
1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 8000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Arcé, Ribbe).— 
Ecuador ; Amazons!; ANTILLES, Jamaica. 


This species varies greatly in colour and in the distinctness of the spots and markings. 


HELIA.—METALECTRA. 403 


HELIA. 
Helia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (1816). 


Under this generic name Hiibner placed three species, all from Tropical America ; 
one of these belongs to Canipeta. 


1. Helia calligramma. 
Helia calligramma, Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 27, ff. 157, 158; Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 259; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 637. 
Cenipeta calligramma, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1093?. 
Homoptera (?) albirena, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 891°. 
Hab. Panama, Obispo (Salvin, mus. D.).—Gutana, Surinam2; Amazons}. 


Specimens from Obispo agree well with Hiibner’s figure. The locality for Homoptera 
albirena was unknown to its describer 3. 


2. Helia compotrix. 
Hela compotrix, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 29, ff. 177, 178; Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259. 
Cenipeta compotriz, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1093’. 
Hab. Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker).—Gutana, Surinam 1. 


3. Helia lampetia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 11.) 


Primaries and secondaries resembling those of H. compotria, Hiibn., but with the markings more indistinct ; 
the primaries with a waved zigzag black line, edged on the outer side with bluish-white, crossing the 
wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, the outer margin pale fawn-colour; the 
secondaries with a wide black band extending from the anal angle across the wing towards the apex but 
not reaching it: head, antenne, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen. 
METALECTRA. 
Metalectra, Hiibner, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 29 (1823) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1879, p. 63. 

This genus is closely allied to Selenis. One species, MW. precisalis, from Surinam, 
was included in it by Hiibner; and two others, from the Amazons, have since been 
added by Butler. Metalectra proves to be numerous in species in Central America, 
whence eleven are now recorded ; of these six are described as new. 


1. Metalectra precisalis. — 
Metalectra precisalis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 29, ff. 367, 368°. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 
to 3000 feet (Champion).—Gutana, Surinam }, 
Two specimens agreeing well with Hiibner’s figure have been received from our 


region. 
3 ¢¢ 2 


404. HETEROCERA. 


2. Metalectra dotata. 


Homoptera dotata, Walk. Cat. xiii. p. 1067°. 
Metalectra dotata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 63°. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de 


Chiriqui 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).—Amazons ?, Santarem !. 


This insect is extremely close to M. precisalis, Hiibn.; indeed, the only difference I 
am able to detect is that the underside is very much paler in colour. 


3. Metalectra agathia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 12.) 


Primaries and secondaries dark blackish-brown, each with two distinct waved black lines crossing about the 
middle from the costal to the inner margin, the primaries with a brownish spot at the end of the cell and 
a submarginal pale brown line, the secondaries thickly irrorated with reddish-brown from the middle to 
the outer margin; the underside of both wings pale brown, crossed by very indistinct lines of a darker 
colour: head, thorax, and abdomen above dark blackish-brown, beneath very much paler; antenna, 
palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Janson) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet 
(Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Four specimens are all we have received of this small dull-coloured species ; it is 
allied to MZ. dotata, Walk. <A Chiriqui example is figured. 


4. Metalectra zonata. : 
Homoptera zonata, Walk. Cat. xxxiil. p. 878'; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 40’. 
Metalectra zonata, Butl. loc. cit. p. 64. 


Hab. Norta America, United States !1—Mexico, Presidio (Forrer); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Amazons ?. 


This species was described by Walker from specimens said to have come from the 
United States ; it is not included by Grote in his Check-list of North-American Moths. 


5. Metalectra scitior. 
Homoptera scitior, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 880°. 
Homoptera perpusilla, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 881”. 
Hab, Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Presidio (Forrer); Honpuras (Dyson! 2), 


We have carefully compared Walker’s types, and find that they belong to one and 
the same species. 


6. Metalectra aglaia, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries of a uniform very pale fawn-colour, both wings crossed by narrow zigzag brown 
lines, the marginal line dark brown, the fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside whitish, without any 
markings: head, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour; antenna, palpi, and legs brownish. Expanse 
1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
Allied to M. scitior, Walk., but very different in colour.. 


METALECTRA.—MULELOCHA. 405 


7. Metalectra. lacerta, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries of a uniform brownish-black colour, crossed by indistinct narrow black lines, the 
submarginal line of both wings brown; the underside of a uniform blackish-brown, without any markings, 
except a few yellowish spots along the costal margin of the primaries: head, antenne, palpi, thorax, 
abdomen, and legs dark brownish-black. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 
Three specimens of this distinct species were captured by Mr. Smith, in October 1888. 


8. Metalectra lineata, sp. n. 

Primaries and secondaries pale greyish-brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin of the 
primaries to the inner margin of the secondaries by a narrow dark brown line edged on the outer side 
with a pale greyish line, both wings with a yellowish-brown submarginal line and a dark brown marginal 
line, the fringe greyish-brown; the underside pale brown, each wing with a very indistinct pale band 
beyond the middle: head, antenne, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale greyish-brown. Expanse 
12 inch. 

Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 


‘Two examples. 


9. Metalectra lampea, sp. n. 
Very similar in colour and form to M. lineata. Primaries and secondaries dull brown, without marking of 
any kind either on the upper or undersides. Expanse 1¢ inch. 


Hab. Cogra Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Two specimens. Very close to WV. lineata, but without the lines on the wings. 


10. Metalectra (?) agilaria, sp. n. 

Primaries pale greyish-brown, a spot at the end of the cell and a band of spots beyond the middle dark brown, 
the latter edged with a yellowish-brown line on each side, the marginal line dark brown; secondaries 
uniformly pale brown; the fringe pale brown; the underside of both wings pale brown, palest on the 
costal margin of the primaries and at the anal angle of the secondaries: head, antenne, palpi, thorax, 


abdomen, and legs pale brown. Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo, Cahabon (Champion). 


This species: appears to be common at San Gerdnimo; it varies considerably, the 
dark brown spots being almost obsolete in some specimens. 


11. Metalectra (?) ypsilon. 
Metalectra (?) ypsilon, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 64". 


Had. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus, Staudinger).—AMazons *. 
One specimen from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, agreeing well with 
Mr. Butler’s type in the National Museum. This species can scarcely be retained in 


the genus Metalectra. 
MULELOCHA. 
Mulelocha, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 1103 (1865); Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 64. 


Walker founded this genus upon an Amazonian insect which he had previously 


406 . HETEROCERA. 


described under a different generic and specific name. I also refer to it Selenis vitri- 
luna, Guén. 


1. Mulelocha extranea. 
Homoptera (?) extranea, Walk. Cat. xxxiil. p. 881 °. 
Mulelocha extranea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 64°. 
Mulelocha frontalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1108°. 
Var. Blanona (?) dives, Walk. loc. cit. p. 1106 *. 
Var.? Selenis compacta, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 1, Erkl. der Taf. 118. 
no.1(?)’. . 
Hab. Guatemaua, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet ( Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons 25, Pard 134, 


Two specimens captured by Mr. Champion on the Pacific slope of Guatemala and 
two from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are all we have seen from Central 
America. Walker described the species three times, and on each occasion placed it in 
a different genus, Mr. Butler states? that Selenis compacta, Feld. & Rogenh., is 
probably an extreme variety of WM. extranea, and in this we quite agree with him. 


2. Mulelocha vitriluna. 
Selenis vitriluna, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3641 ; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1584°; Méschl. Verh. zool.- 
bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 447°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 69+. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Gutana, Cayenne }2, Surinam ?4; Amazons, Paréa 2. 


In Dr. Staudinger’s collection the male of this insect is labelled 8. reductiluna, Guén. ; 
but this name, I believe, is an unpublished one. The species is much better placed in 
the genus Mulelocha; it is, in fact, very closely allied to MU. extranea, Walk. 


SELENIS. 
Selenis, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 361 (1852); Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1582. 


The species of this genus inhabit Tropical America or the West-Indian Islands; seven 
are now recorded from within the limits of our fauna. They are all obscure, and as 
yet we have not received anything like sufficient material to make them out satisfac- 
torily. 


1. Selenis sueroides. 

Selenis sueroides, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 362’; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15837; Herr.-Schaff. 
Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868 (sep. copy, p. 32)°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1879, p. 67¢. 

Hab. Mexico, Tepetlapa in Guerrero 3000 feet (H. H. Smith), Cordova (Riimeli) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).—TRiIniDaD ; Ecuapor ; 
Amazons‘, Pard!; Braziu}*, Rio Janeiro; ANTILLES, San Domingo?, Cuba3, Mar- 
tinique !. 


SELENTS. 407 


A common species in Tropical South America and the West-Indian Islands, but 
apparently rare in Central America. The pale costal streak varies very considerably 
in colour; in some specimens it is very much brighter than in others. Examples from 
Rio Janeiro in my own collection are greyer in colour than any from Central America. 


2. Selenis lanipes. 
Selenis lanipes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 363, Noct. t. 24. £.4(¢)*; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1584. 
Hab. GuaTeMata, Coban (Conradt); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.), Bugaba 
1000 feet (Champion). 


Specimens from Chiriqui agree well with Guénée’s figure; the one from Coban is 
darker in colour and rather larger, but I have no doubt that it belongs to the same 
species. We have only received one specimen from each of the above localities. 
Guénée’s type was from an unknown locality 1. 


3. Selenis dentata. 
Seienis dentata, Walk. Cat. xxxii. p. 1067’. 
' Selenis anguinea, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 2, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 2( 9)’. 
Hab. GuateMata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Co.omBi4, Bogota!; Ecuapor ; Braziu 2. 


Judging from the series before me, this species varies very much in colour, though 
none are quite so pale as Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure. Walker’s type is now in 
my own collection. 


4. Selenis agarrha, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 13.) 


Primaries pale brownish-white at the base and along part of the costal margin, the apex and the rest of the- 
wing dark brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a waved black line, 
exterior to which are several indistinct brown lines, the spot at the end of the cell white and A-shaped, a 
marginal row of small greyish spots extending from the apex to the anal angle; secondaries pale brownish- 
white, crossed between the base and the middle by three waved lines—the first two brown, the third 
black,—below which two indistinct pale lines cross towards the apex, the costal margin broadly bordered 
with dark brown; the underside fawn-colour, clouded with dark brown along the outer margin of the 
primaries and at the apex of the secondaries: head (except in front), thorax, the base of the abdomen, and 
the anus pale greyish-brown, the rest of the abdomen brown ; the antennz, the front of the head, and palpi 
dark brown ; the legs and the underside of the thorax and abdomen pale greyish-brown. Expanse 17 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen of this pretty little species was captured by Mr. Smith in March 1888 ; 
it is not closely allied to any other known to us. 


5. Selenis agna, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, shaded with darker brown, with a dark brown band extending from the apex to 
the inner margin close to the anal angle, a large brown mark (almost like an inverted V) between the 
band and the base on the inner margin, two narrow brown lines crossing close to the base from the costal 
to the inner margin, a white streak at the end of the cell, and beyond this a faint pale-coloured line; 
secondaries the same colour as the primaries, crossed beyond the middle by two narrow whitish lines ; the 


408 HETEROCERA. 


outer margin of both wings edged with a narrow black line; the underside very much as above, but consi- 
derably paler in colour: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale brown, the antenne and palpi brown. 
Expanse 1,1, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Presidio, near Mazatlan (Forrer); Panama, Chiriqui (idbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


Our figure is drawn from the Chiriqui specimen. 


6. Selenis lacia, sp. n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 15.) 


Primaries and secondaries pale reddish-fawn-colour, both wings crossed by very fine slightly darker waved 
lines; the primaries at the base and along the costal margin almost to the apex shaded with bluish-white, 
the end of the cell streaked with white ; on the outer margin of both wings about the middle is a large 
bluish-black spot; the underside considerably paler than above, with the lines much more distinct : head, 
thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen of this very distinct species has been kindly communicated to us by 
Dr. Staudinger. 


7. Selenis laonome, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 16.) 


Primaries and secondaries fawn-colour; the primaries from the base to the apex broadly bordered with dark 
brown, crossed by paler lines, a brown spot at the end of the cell edged with white, and two dusky brown 
spots on the inner margin close to the anal angle; the secondaries crossed beyond the middle from the 
apex to the inner margin by several dark brown lines; the underside dusky fawn-colour, thickly irrorated 
with black scales, both wings crossed by indistinct brown lines ; the fringe fawn-colour: head and thorax 
dark brown, the abdomen and the four hinder legs fawn-colour, the front legs dark brown, the underside 
of the head and thorax pale fawn-colour, the antenne dark brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Senahu in Vera Paz 2800 feet (Champion). 


A single example of this distinct species was captured by Mr. Champion ; it is allied 
to S. dentata, but very distinct. 


THYRIODES. 
Thyriodes, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 364 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1586. 
Guénée founded Thyriodes upon an insect received from Mexico ; this is now known 


to extend southwards to the State of Panama, but we have no evidence of its occur- 
rence in the northern part of South America. 


1. Thyriodes flabellum. 
Thyriodes flabellum, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3651; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1586”. 

Hab. Mexico1?, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Volcan de Atitlan 
2500 to 3500 feet, San Gerénimo, Senahu (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 3500 feet (Champzon), 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

We are indebted to Mons. C. Oberthiir for kindly sending us Guénée’s types of this 
species, both of which are males. The female varies very considerably. In some 
specimens the pale lines crossing the primaries are almost obsolete ; those from Costa 
Rica are the smallest we have seen. 


EPHYRODES. 409 


EPHYRODES. 
Ephyrodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 365 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1587, and xxuiii. p. 1070. 
Walker included eleven species in this genus, nine from Tropical South America or 


the Antilles and two from Ceylon, several of them being of very doubtful value. Five 
species are known to us from Central America. 


1. Ephyrodes cacata. 
Ephyrodes cacata, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 366, Noct. t. 24. f.7(¢)'; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1587’. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Gabd, mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.).—Cotomstia !?; 
VENEZUELA? ; ANTILLES, Cuba !2, San Domingo ?. 


This species varies very much in colour, many specimens being much darker than 
Guénée’s figure. Apparently a common insect in Tropical America. 


2. Ephyrodes implens. _ 
Ephyrodes implens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1588’. 
Ephyrodes jurgiosa, Walk. loc. cit. p. 1590?. 

Hab. GuateMaua, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 8000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe).— VENEZUELA? ; ANTILLES, 
San Domingo 1. 

Also a variable species in size and colour. Examples communicated to me by 
Dr. Staudinger were labelled Thermesia nobilis. 


8. Ephyrodes similis, sp.n. (Tab. X XXIII. fig. 17.) 


Primaries and secondaries reddish-fawn-colour, the former with a dark blackish-brown spot at the end of the 
cell ; both wings crossed beyond the middle by a white line edged on the inner side with dark brown, and 
with a submarginal row of minute white spots; the underside pale fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with 
black scales: head, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour, the antenne and palpi pale brown, the legs 
fawn-colour. The female similar to the male, but a little more dusky in colour. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.; Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Some specimens of this insect are very much paler than others. 


4, Ephyrodes lena, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 18, ¢.) 


Primaries and secondaries pale pinkish-brown, darkest at the base, the primaries crossed from the costal to the 
inner margin by two waved very narrow brown lines; both wings with a dark brown line crossing beyond 
the middle, a submarginal row of minute brown dots "extending from the apex to the anal angle, and the 
outer margin edged with dark brown, the secondaries with two minute brown spots in the cell: head, 
thorax, abdomen, and legs pale pinkish-brown, the antenne and palpi brown. Expanse 1,5 inch. 


_ Hab. Mzxico, Rio Papagaio in Guerrero 1200 feet (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). | 

One example from each locality, both males. The Mexican specimen agrees with 
the one from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection, but is considerably brighter in 
colour ; our figure is taken from the former. | 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1890. 3 ff 


410 HETEROCERA. 


5. Ephyrodes bipunctata. 
Thermesia bipunctata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1048* (apud Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 62). 
Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith), Paso de 
San Juan (Schaus); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, 

Chiriqui (Ribbe).— Amazons, Ega !. 


Mexican specimens are greyer than any of the others we have seen. 


FREILLA, gen. nov. 


Male. Body long and slender, extending considerably beyond the wings; palpi broad, ascending above the 
head, the third joint long, almost the length of the second; antenne slender, slightly pectinated ; legs 
stout; primaries long and rather narrow, the outer margin slightly concave to the middle and thence to 
the anal angle very oblique ; secondaries much dentated from the apex to the anal angle. Female. Body 
considerably shorter than in the male, hardly extending beyond the hind wings; the palpi smaller and 
more slender ; the antenne simple. 


Two species from Central America are referred to this new genus, which is perhaps 
nearest allied to Ephyrodes. 


1. Freilla variabilis, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 19, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries pinkish-fawn-colour, palest near the base; the primaries with two or three 
white streaks along the costal margin, and crossed by several faint reddish lines; the secondaries with a 
dark central line extending from the costal to the inner margin, below which are two rows of reddish- 
brown spots, and with two small dark brown dots at the end of the cell ; the fringe of both wings reddish- 
brown: head, and the thorax and abdomen in great part, pinkish-fawn-colour, the base of the thorax and 
of the abdomen fawn-colour, the anal tuft yellowish-brown, the antenne and legs brown. ‘The female is 
similar to the male, but very much duller in colour. Expanse, g 13, 2 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Arcé, Ribbe), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Apparently a common insect in Mexico and Guatemala. It is extremely variable in 
colour. Our figure is taken from a bright-coloured male specimen captured by Mr. 
Smith at Teapa in February 1888. 


2. Freilla humeralis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 20.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries greyish-brown, thickly irrorated with grey scales; the primaries crossed by 
four indistinct waved brown lines (the fourth from the base reddish-brown), and with a spot in the cell 
and one at the end of the cell blackish-brown, the outer margin near the apex dark brown; the secondaries 
with a black dot at the end of the cell, and crossed below the middle by two rows of reddish-brown spots ; 
the fringe of both wings reddish-brown ; the underside much the same as above, but slightly paler in 
colour: head, thorax, and abdomen above and beneath greyish-brown, the palpi, antenne, and legs darker 
brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown. The female is generally paler in colour than the male, and has 
the spot at the end of the cell on the primaries usually more distinct. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremaa, San Isidro 1600 feet, 
Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, Ribdde), 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


FREILLA.—MARMORINIA. 411 


The Mexican specimens of this insect, captured by Mr. H. H. Smith in February 
1888, and from one of which our figure is taken, are all darker in. colour than those 
from more southern localities, and in some of them the underside is shot with a pink 
tinge. 

CALLISCOTUS. 
Calliscotus, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 489. 
Butler founded Calliscotus upon an insect from Jamaica, which is now known to us 


from our region. It bears a slight resemblance to the Geometrid genus Scotosia, as 
noted by its author. 


1. Calliscotus bowreyi. 
Calliscotus bowreyi, Butl. P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 489°. 
Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, both i in Guerrero 


(H. H. Smith); Guatemata, in the city (Rodriguez).— ANTILLES, Jamaica 1. 


Our specimens are almost identical with Mr. Butler’s type in the National Collection. 
The Mexican examples were captured by Mr. H. H. Smith during the months of 
September and October 1888; the one from Guatemala is very much stained, but I 
have no doubt it belongs to the same species. 


MARMORINIA. 
Marmorinia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 370 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1597. 


Guénée included four species in this genus, two from North America and two from 
India; a fifth is now added from Central America. The North-American species, one 
of which is said to be from Georgia, are omitted from Grote’s Check-list. 


1. Marmorinia curviluna, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 21.) 

Primaries and secondaries dull greyish-fawn-colour, slightly darker round the outer margin’; .the primaries 
crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two narrow waved yellowish-brown lines (the first near 
the base, the second beyond the cell); the secondaries ‘erossed’ about the middle by a yellowish-brown 
straight line extending from the middle of the costal margin-to just above the anal angle, where it forms 
the outer limit of a large black spot; both wings with a submarginal row of minute black spots extending 
round the outer margin, and a white lunular-shaped mark at the end of the cell; the underside paler than 
above, with the white markings more distinct: head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-fawn-colour, the 
antennew and legs brown. ‘The female is duller in colour than the male, and has the black spot at the 
anal angle of the secondaries very much smaller. Expanse, ¢ ?, 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (fl. #. Smith); Guaremata, Volcan de Atitlan 
2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote, San Gerdnimo, Panima (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

This small insect has a very wide distribution in our region. Our figure is taken 
from a Chiriqui specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 

3 ff 2 


412 . HETEROCERA. 


HEMEROPLANIS. 


Hemeroplanis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (1816). 
Mandela, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. pp. 181, 192. 

Mandela was founded by its author upon a single species, M. crocea, from Bogota. 
This is nearly allied to Hemeroplanis pyraloides, Hiibn., and cannot, I think, be 
separated generically from it. Walker’s types are now in my own collection. 


1. Hemeroplanis pyraloides. 
Hemeroplanis pyraloides, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259. 
Hemeroplanis pyralis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 28, ff. 127, 128°. 
Heliothis pyralis, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 687 *. 
Thermesia aurora, Walk. Cat. xxxili. p. 1039 °*. 
Pleonectyptera pyralis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 41 (1882) *. 

Hab. NortH America‘, Georgia!?, Florida! ?.—Mexico, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, 
Chilpancingo 4600 feet, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, all in Guerrero, Cuernavaca, Atoyac 
in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—AntILLEs, San Domingo °. 


This is a very common and exceedingly variable insect in Mexico and Guatemala. 
Some specimens agree exactly with Hiibner’s figure, while others are a pale straw- 
colour, with only the faintest indication of the dark margins to the wings, these 
extremes being connected by intermediate forms. The females are generally darker 
than the males. 

| GIGIA. 
Gigia, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 941 (1865) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 48. 

Walker founded this genus upon a worn specimen from an unknown locality ; subse- 
quently Mr. Butler identified an insect from the Amazons with it, and we have now to 
record its occurrence from within our southern limits. 


1. Gigia obliqua. 
Gigia obliqua, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 942 ; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 48°. 
Brotis (?) stenogaster, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 119. f.5, Erkl. der Taf. 119. no.5(¢)’. 

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger) —Gutana2; Amazons 1, 

. Two specimens in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are all we have seen from Central 
America. 

| MASSALA. 
Massala, Walker, Cat. xxxiil. p. 977 (1865). 

A single species, from Jamaica, was included in Massala by Walker ; this, according 
to Mr. Butler, being identical with the previously-described Azeta quassa of the same 
author. The typical. species is now known to inhabit Central America, whence one 
— other is here described. 


MASSALA.—CAPNODES. 413 


1. Massala quassa. 
Azeta quassa, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1581 (1858)*. 
Massala dimidiata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 977? (1865) (apud Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p.63). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet ( Champion). —ANTILLES, Jamaica 12, San 
Domingo '. . 


2. Massala larina, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 22.) 


Primaries with the base, the costal margin, and a large space near the apex bright reddish-brown, the other 
part of the wing pale brown clouded with greyish-white, a greyish-white rather broad band extending 
from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, and a dark brown waved line crossing the wing 
about the middle from the costal to the inner margin; secondaries pale brown, with a very indistinct 
submarginal greyish-white band extending from the apex to the anal angle; the underside dark brown, 
both wings slightly greyish at the base, the secondaries with three faint brown lines crossing from the 
costal to the inner margin: head and thorax reddish-brown, the tegule tipped with greyish-white, the 
abdomen above and beneath pale brown, the antenne and palpi reddish-brown, the legs dark brown 
banded with white. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Guatemata, Coban (Conradt). 


One specimen. ‘This distinct species is allied to IW. guassa (=dimidiata), Walk. It 
may be an extreme form of Azeta obvertens, Walk., examples of which are before me 
from Ecuador. The latter, without doubt, should be placed in the genus Massala: 
according to Mr. Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 63) it is a Capnodes, and 
C. turtur, Feld. & Rogenh., belongs to the same species. 


CAPNODES. 


Capnodes, Guéneée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 374 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1600, and xxxiii. p. 1072; 
Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 68; Grote, List of North American Moths, p. 42 (1882). 
Gerisa, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 612. 


This genus includes a large number of species, the majority of which are from 
Tropical America or the Antilles. We have to record twenty-one from Central 
America. 


1. Capnodes rufinans. 

Capnodes rufinans, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 877, Noct. t. 24. £ 98)" ; Walk. Cat. xv. 
p- 1603°; Méschl. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, p. 60°. 

Gerisa discerpta, Walk, Cat. xv. p. 1612° (apud Moschl. Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Jamaica, 
p. 60). 

Thermesia torrida, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1044° (apud Méschl. loc. cit., and Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1879, p. 62). 

Hab. Honpuras? (Dyson 4*).—Braziu!?; ANTILLES, Jamaica 3. 


We have not received any specimens of this insect. 


2. Capnodes imitans. 
Capnodes imitans, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1606; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 68°. 


414 HETEROCERA. 


Capnodes exhilarans, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1609°. . 
Capnodes uncinata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 119. f. 10, Erkl. der Taf. 119. no. 10 ( 2)‘. 
Noctua abydas, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett., App. f. 565. 
Mazacyla abydas, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 56°. 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Honpuras!; Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
CoLomBiA; Ecuapor; AMazons?5; Brazi 4, 


This species varies slightly: among the large series of specimens before me several 
agree with Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure of C. uncinata, but I am unable to separate 
them from C. imitans, Walk. Mr. Smith captured one female example of this species 
in February 1888; it is considerably duller in colour than the male. The locality for 
C. exhilarans was unknown to its author 3. 


3. Capnodes sobria. 
Thermesia sobria, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1044°. 
Capnodes sobria, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 69°. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger).—AMazons 2. 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimen is the only one we have seen from our region; it agrees 
fairly with Walker’s type, now in the British Museum. The locality for the latter is 
given as “ Limas” J, 


4, Capnodes orbiculata. 
Capnodes orbiculata, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 118. f. 14, Erkl. der Taf. 118. no. 14 (3)'s 
Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p, 69’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—ConomBia, Bogota; Gurana, 
Surinam!; Amazons ! 2, 


There is a single example of this species from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection ; 
it agrees with numerous others we have received from Tropical South America. 


5. Capnodes anyx. 
Capnodes anyx, Guén. Sp. gén, des Lép. vii. p. 878*; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 16047. 
Hiab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (2bbe), Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Braziy } 2. 


This seems to be a variable insect, judging from the specimens before us. 


6. Capnodes lara, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 23.) 

Primaries and secondaries brown, palest at the base, both wings crossed from the costal to the inner margin 
by two waved rows of minute yellow spots and with the outer margins edged with minute black dots, 
the fringe brown; the underside considerably paler in colour: head, thorax, and abdomen brown, the 
legs pale brown ; the palpi brown, the third joint tipped with black ; the antenne dark brown, Expanse 
J inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
One specimen. Allied to C. anyx, Guén. 


CAPNODES. 415 


7. Capnodes subcinerascens. 
Hypernaria subcinerascens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1614’. 

Hab. Guatemaua, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Cham- 
pion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
—Ecuapor ; ANTILLES, San Domingo !. 

H. subcinerascens, Walk., without doubt, belongs to Capnodes and not to Hypenaria 
(=Aypernaria, Walk.) ; it is allied to C. anyr, Guén. Chiriqui specimens differ from 
those from the other localities in being slightly brighter in colour, and more shaded 
with dark brown on the underside of the secondaries. 


8. Capnodes sterope. 

Phalena Noctua sterope, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 40, t. 309. £. E, and t. 312. f. C’. 

Capnodes sterope, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vil. p. 378°; Walk. Cat. xv. p.1604°; Butl. Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 68*; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 453°; Beitr. zur_ 
Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 75°. 

Capnodes obliterata, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1600’. 

Capnodes sufficiens, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1606°. 

Thermesia bipustulata, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 192’. 

Capnodes steropioides, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 453°; Beitr. zur Schmett.- 
Fauna von Surinam, iil. p. 75”. 

Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote (Champion) ; Hon- 
puRAS (Dyson §); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 3000 feet (Champion).—CoLomBia, 
Bogota ®; Guiana, Surinam}? 3, Paramaribo®§ 111; Amazons4; ANTILLES, San 
Domingo?/. 

This species varies considerably, not only in size but in colour. The type of Thermesia 
bipustulata, Walk., is now in my own collection ; it is not separable from C. sterope. 
According to Méschler, Cramer’s figures represent two species, but in this I do not 
agree with him, the large series of specimens before me showing every grade from one 
to the other. 


9. Capnodes lacteigera. 
Capnodes lacteigera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 70°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).—Amazons, Rio Negro 1. 


Our numerous Chiriqui specimens agree well with Butler’s type in the National 
Museum. C. dira, Feld. & Rogenh., from Venezuela, is very closely allied to C. 
lacteigera. 


10. Capnodes laranda, sp. n. 
Primaries pale brown, crossed by three very indistinct darker brown lines, and with two white streaks on the 
costal margin ; secondaries brown, crossed by indistinct darker brown lines, and with a black dot at the 
end of the cell; the underside pale brown, both wings crossed by indistinct brown lines and with a black 


416 HETEROCERA. 


dot at the end of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen brown, the same colour as the wings; artenne 
reddish-brown ; legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Allied to C. lacteigera, Butl., from which it is at once distinguished by the entire 
absence of the red markings on the wings. 


11. Capnodes sexplagiata. 
Capnodes sexplagiata, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 16077. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Santarem }. 


I have retained Walker’s name for this insect, though Mr. Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1879, p. 73) considers it to be conspecific with Phalena Pyralis pueritia, Cram., 
from the coast of Coromandel; I have not, however, seen any eastern specimens. 
Dr. Staudinger’s example from Chiriqui does not agree well with Cramer’s figure, and 
it is hardly likely to belong to the same species. 


12. Capnodes linula. 
Capnodes linula, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 3781; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1608. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ride), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


A small dull-coloured species, of which we have only received three specimens. 
The locality was unknown to Guénée }, 


13. Capnodes agrotera, sp. n. 


Primaries and secondaries uniform dark brown, without markings of any kind, the underside slightly paler in 
colour: head, thorax, abdomen, antenna, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen of this very dull-coloured insect is contained in Dr. Staudinger’s 
collection ; it is not nearly allied to any other species of the genus known to us. 


14. Capnodes leucospila. 
Capnodes (?) leucospila, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1076". 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
3000 feet (Champion). 


The type in the National Collection is from an unknown locality 1. 


15. Capnodes subrutilans. 
Thermesia subrutilans, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15677. 
Capnodes incarnans, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t.119. £. 14, Erkl. der Taf. 119. no. 14(¢)?. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaur); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D.). 
—Amazons?, Para, Ega 1. 


We have only received two specimens of this insect from our region; it varies consi- 
derably in colour. 


CAPNODES. ALT 


16. Capnodes melanea, 
Phalena Geometra melanea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 130, t. 357. f. E ; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1603'. 
Capnodes melanea, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p- 453°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iii. p. 75 * (uec Guénée). 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger).—Gutana, Paramaribo 22; Braziu}. 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimen from Chiriqui is very like Cramer's figure above quoted ; 
it has, however, all the spots rather larger, but 1 have no doubt that it belongs to the 
same species. 


17. Capnodes inconspicua. 
Capnodes inconspicua, Herr.-Schiff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868 (sep. copy, p. 33)". 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger).— ANTILLES, Cuba}. 


This species is included in our fauna upon the authority of Dr. Staudinger, who has 
sent us his Chiriqui specimen labelled as above. 


18. Capnodes alceste, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 24.) 

Primaries and secondaries dark cream-colour, thickly irrorated with reddish-brown scales, the primaries with 
a dark brown band crossing from the costal to the inner margin close to the base and a dark brown mark 
on the costal margin close to the apex, the outer margin of both wings pale reddish-brown; the under- 
side pale cream-colour, almost without any brown scales: head and thorax cream-colour, thickly speckled 
with brownish-black scales, the abdomen cream-colour, the antenne and palpi pale brown, the legs 
cream-colour. LExpanse 1,), inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 


A very distinct little insect, not allied to any other species of Capnodes known to us. 


19. Capnodes alcinoe, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 25.) 

Primaries dark brown, the outer margins streaked with grey lines, a wide dusky-fawn-coloured band crossing 
the wing about the middle from the costal to the inner margin; secondaries from the base to beyond the 
middle dusky-fawn-colour, the outer half dark brown, crossed by very fine greyish waved lines; the 
marginal line of both wings dotted with black; the fringe pale brown; the underside pale brown, both 
wings crossed by dark brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-brown, the antenne and legs 
brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
We have only seen one specimen of this pretty little Capnodes ; it is quite unlike any 
other Central-American member of the genus. : 


20. Capnodes lappa, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. fig. 26.) 


Primaries and secondaries dark fawn-colour, thickly mottled with darker brown ; the primaries with a row of 
minute black spots crossing from the costal to the inner margin, two large black spots on the costal 
margin (the first close to the base, the second the largest and near the apex), and a black spot close to the 
base on the inner margin ; the secondaries crossed about the middle by a row of small black dots, below 
which are two rows of indistinct brown lines ; the underside paler than above and crossed by faint brown 
lines: head, thorax, and abdomen dark fawn-colour, the base of the thorax blackish, the abdomen paler 


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418 HETEROCERA. 


beneath, the antennze and palpi almost black; the front legs black, the others fawn-colour. Expanse 
3 An 
fy inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this distinct species was captured ; it is allied to C. alceste. 


21. Capnodes (?) argina, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 27.) 


Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, crossed about the middle by two broken lines of dark brown spots, 
beyond which are several rows of indistinct brown lines, the marginal line formed of black dots, the 
fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside paler than above, but with the lines almost similar: head, thorax, 
abdomen, legs, antennz, and palpi fawn-colour. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 


C. argina is doubtfully included in the genus Capnodes: it differs in having the wings 
slightly longer, and the third joint of the palpi longer and more pointed. One 
specimen. 


PARANYMPHA. 
Paranympha (Cramer), Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 73. 


Paranympha was proposed by its author to include two species, Phalena toxea, Cram., 
and Paranympha albocostata, Butl., both from Tropical South America, the former 
being now known from as far north as Southern Mexico. 


1, Paranympha toxea. 
Phalena Noctua toxea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 133, t. 358. ff. G, H’. 
Plaxia torea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1627’. 
Paranympha toxea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 73. 
Thermesia (?) generatrix, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1051 °. 
Ctypansa megaspila, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1079 *. 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (1. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Belize (Blanca- 
neaux); GuatemaLa, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Senahu, Panzos (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Co.tomBia, Bogota*+; GurANA, 
Surinam !?; Amazons, Ega °. 


Exceedingly variable in colour : some specimens are pale mouse-colour and others 
dark brown, with almost every intermediate shade. A few examples have a large black 
spot on the secondaries, which gives them a very different appearance; but we have 
others that just show a black dot in the middle of the usual greyish spot on these 
wings. In our country P. toxea is a common species, and Mr. Champion has sent us a 
large series of examples. Ctypansa megaspila, Walk., the type of which is in my own 
collection, is inseparable from it. 


HYPENARIA, 419 


HYPENARIA. 
Hypenaria, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 381 (1852), 
Hypernaria, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1618, & xxxiii. p. 1080. 

Walker, in his Catalogue, included thirty-nine species in this genus, and others have 
since been described by Felder and Rogenhofer, Butler, Méschler, &c., all from Central 
or South America or the Antilles. Differently-coloured specimens of the same species 
have in numerous cases been described as distinct by Walker; and many others placed 
in the genus by this author do not belong to it. Several of these latter have been 
referred to other genera by Mr. Butler. I have a very large series of specimens before 
me of some of the species, and find that they vary to a great extent in colour. Of the 


four from Central America here referred to Hypenaria, two are only provisionally 
included in it. | 


1. Hypenaria augusta. 

3. Phalena Geometra augusta, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 227, t. 397. £. F’. 

Hypenaria augusta, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 383°; Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, 
p. 460°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 82. 

Hypernaria augusta, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 16174. | 

3. Phalena eulalia, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. p. 54, t. 12. £. 2°. 

Hypenaria eulalia, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 884°. 

Hypernaria eulalia, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 16177. 

3. Hypenaria miniopila, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 382, Noct. t. 23. f. 8°. 

Hypernaria miniopila, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1616°. 

Hypenaria miniophila, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 460"; Beitr. zur Schmett.- 
Fauna von Surinam, iii. p. 82. 

9. Hypenaria binocula, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 884". 

Hypernaria binocula, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1617”. 

. Hypernaria unanimis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1613. 

. Hypernaria concordans, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1619“. 

. Hypernaria gemina, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1081”. 

. Hypernaria tenebrifica, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 10847*°. 

. Aypernaria interlineata, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1084”. 

. Hypenaria ampelina, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 119. f. 30, Erkl. der Taf. 119. 

no. 30”, . 

Hab. Mexico (Sallé 1%), Cuesta de Misantla (Jf. Trujillo), Paso de San Juan, Jalapa 

(Schaus), Teapa in Tabasco (4. H. Smith); Guatemata, El Tumbador, Las Mercedes 

3000 feet, San Isidro 1600 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 feet, Zapote, San Gerdnimo, 

Balheu, Cubilguitz (Champion) ; Costa Rica (Gabé, mus. D.); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde ; 

Trotsch, mus. Staudinger ; Arcé, mus. D.), Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 3500 feet (Cham. 

pion), Panama city (J. J. Walker).—Co.omsia, Bogota 1517; VunzzunLa 4, Puerto 

Cabello?; Guiana, Surinam 12456710, Cayenne §91!12, Paramaribo? ; Amazons, 

Para 16; Brazin7 18, 


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399 2 


420 HETEROCERA. 


With a very large series of specimens before me of this exceedingly variable insect 
from our region, I am quite unable to separate any of the above as distinct species: of 
several I have the types, and of the others examples that have been compared and 
named from the types. In no locality is any one form constant; and if I were to 
admit the above-named forms as distinct species, I should have to name at least 
another dozen. On the underside, all the specimens are similar, except that some have 
a more reddish tinge than others. Mr. Butler’s remarks (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, 
p- 74) respecting Hypenaria binocula, Guén., are misleading: Guénée gave no reference 
to Cramer, beyond putting ‘‘ C.” after the specific name ; neither does he “ declare that 
he described the species from a figure,” but from two female specimens from Cayenne 
in coll. Feisth. An example named from these is now before me, and it is, without 
doubt, a female of H. augusta (Cram.*); therefore, Walker’s view was the correct one, 
and the “‘ mirage ” must have been in Mr. Butler’s mind, as his remarks partly seem to 
refer to H. eulalia, which Guénée states that he described from Stoll’s figure. 


2. Hypenaria fellearis. 
Apistis fellearis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samm]. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 30, ff. 379, 880°. 
Hypernaria (?) fellearis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1619”. 
Hypenaria pheocycla, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 385 °. 
Hypernaria pheocycla, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1618 %*. 
Hypernaria metastigma, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1621°. 
Hypernaria rudis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1081, & xxxv. p. 1973°. 
Hypernaria rubripalpis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 10807. 

Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.), Paso de San Juan (Schaus), Atoyac, Vera Cruz, 
Teapa in Tabasco (#. H. Smith); GuatTemata, Coatepeque, San Isidro 1600 feet, 
Zapote, Cubilguitz, Panima (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.). 
—CoLomBiA, Bogota; VENEzuELA®; Guiana; Amazons, Santarem ®, Eea?; Brazin (34), 
Bahia !2; TRINIDAD. 


This insect is exceedingly common in Central America, whence we have received a 
large series of specimens. It varies to a very great extent on the upperside, not only 
in colour but in the size and shape of the black spots on the primaries, these spots in 
some of the males being greenish instead of black. ‘The underside is similar in both 
sexes and shows very little variation, some examples being merely a shade darker than 
others. Specimens of Hypenaria pheocycla, determined by Guénée, are before me, and 
they are, without doubt, the males of H. fellearis. Mr. H. H. Smith captured a large 
number of examples in Mexico, between the months of February and May, 1888. 


8. Hypenaria (?) tenebrosa. 
Hypernaria (?) tenebrosa, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1089’. 


* Not angusta as written by Butler (loc. cit.). 


HYPENARIA.—CHAMINA. A421 


Hab. Guatema.a, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet ( Champion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion).—Amazons, Ega!. 


One worn specimen from each locality. 


4, Hypenaria (?) umbrigens, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 1.) 

Male, Primaries and secondaries reddish-brown; both wings crossed by a central dark reddish-brown line 
shaded on the inner side with pinkish-brown, and with a submarginal row of minute reddish-brown 
spots ; the primaries with a reddish line near the base, an indistinct reddish-brown mark at the end of 
the cell, and the costal margin blackish at the base ; the underside uniformly brown, with a darker brown 
line crossing both wings; the fringe dark reddish-brown: head and collar blackish-brown ; the thorax, 
tegule, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown; the front legs furnished with a large brush of 
reddish-brown hairs. The females similarly marked to the males, but (in the three specimens before me) 
much paler in colour. Expanse 23 inches, 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


A very variable species, no two examples of which are exactly alike. The one 
figured is a dark form from the Volcan de Chiriqui. ‘There is a specimen of this insect 
in the National Museum labelled with a ticket in Walker’s handwriting, which I am 
unable to decipher with any certainty; but I believe it to be “ wmbrigens,’ though, so 
far as I am aware, it has not been described under that name. 


CHAMINA. 


Chamina, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 271 (1816). 
Thermesia, Groupe iii., Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 357. 
Varia, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 190. 
A well-marked genus in no way resembling Thermesia, with which Guénée associated 
it. It contains a few species from Central or South America or the Antilles. 


1. Chamina ceramina. 
Chamina ceramina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 271. 
Chamyna ceramina, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 205. ff. 1-4. 
Thermesia ceramina, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 357; Walk. Cat. xv. p. 15677. 
Plaxia sera, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1628’. 

Hab. Mexico, Omealca near Orizaba (1. Trujillo); Guatmma.a, in the city (Rodri- 
guez), San Isidro 1600 feet, Zapote, San Gerdénimo (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson *) ; 
Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 
1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 3500 feet, David (Champion).—VENEZUELA !; 
Braziu (?+); ANTILLES, Dominica. 

A common insect in our region. It is exceedingly variable in colour, both on the 
upper and undersides; and is not at all constant in any one locality. One or two 
specimens from Guatemala have quite a green shade on the wings. Plaxia sera, Walk., 
is nothing but a dark form of the same species. 


422, HETEROCERA. 


2. Chamina homichlodes. 
Chamina homichlodes, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 271. 
Chamyna homichlodes, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 204. ff. 1-4. 
Varia rubiginea, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 190°. . 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe ; Trotsch, mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 5000 feet (Champion).—CotomBIA, Bogota 1, 


Some of our specimens of this species are much darker than others. Varia rubi- 
ginea, Walk., the type of which is now in my own collection, is inseparable from 
C.. homichlodes. 


3. Chamina (?) lamponia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 2.) 

Primaries and secondaries greyish-brown ; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two 
reddish-brown lines (the first near the base, the second beyond the middle), and with a number of minute 
yellowish-white dots on the outer edge of the second of these, a large yellowish-white spot on the inner 
margin, several reddish-brown lunular-shaped markings close to the apex, a large pale reniform spot at 
the end of the cell, and below the latter a faint reddish-brown waved line extending to the inner margin ; 
the secondaries crossed about the middle by a reddish-brown line edged on the outer side with a row of 
very minute yellowish-white dots, and with a submarginal row of reddish-brown spots with black points 
extending from near the apex almost to the anal angle; the fringe of both wings brown above, pinkish 
beneath ; the underside of the primaries pale brown, that of the secondaries greyish-white, the latter 
brownish along the costal margin and at the apex, both wings crossed about the middle by an indistinct 
brown line, the secondaries with a dark brown spot at the end of the cell: head and part of the thorax 
and abdomen greyish-brown, the sides and under surface of the thorax and abdomen, and the last two 
segments of the latter yellowish-white; the legs brown, white on the inner side ; the antennx and palpi 
reddish-brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet 
(Champion). | 

Our description and figure are taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimen, the one 
captured by Mr. Champion being in very poor condition ; the latter is rather darker in 
colour. 

. ORSA. 

Orsa, Walker, Cat. xxxiil. p. 1112 (1865). 

Walker founded this genus upon an insect from the Amazons, which is now known 
to us from as far north as Guatemala; a second, from the State of Panama, is provi- 
sionally added. 


1. Orsa erythrospila. 
Orsa erythrospila, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1112°. 
Hab. Guaremaa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui 


(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, Kga ?. 
From Guatemala we have received one specimen of this insect, and there are two 
from Chiriqui in the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 


ORSA.—MACRODES. 423 


2. Orsa (2?) agola, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 3.) 


Primaries and secondaries dark brown, thickly speckled with greyish scales, an indistinct brown line crossing 
both wings about the middle from the costal to the inner margin, the primaries with several rather large 
greyish spots near the apex, the fringe brown ; the underside pale brown, with very faint lines crossing 
both wings: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs brown, paler on the underside. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


This insect is provisionally referred to the genus Orsa, from which it differs in 
having the primaries more rounded. 


Fam, DELTOID. 
Subfam. PLATY DIN. 


MACRODES *, 
Macrodes, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. [2 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 4. 
Euclystis (pars), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 341. 
Guénée included three species in this genus, and others have since been described. 
Macrodes seems to be peculiar to Tropical America ; some of its species are found over 
a very extended range of country, but they are nowhere common. 


1. Macrodes cynara. 
Phalena Geometra cynara, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 23, t. 15. ff. C, D'. 
Euclystis cynara, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 480°; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
vou Surinam, i. p. 102. 
Geometra cynata, Fabr. Syst. Gloss. p. 128. 
Euclystis cynaralis, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 224. ff. 3,4 (9); Verz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 341. 
Macrodes cynaralis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 18°; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 5°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—Ecvapor; Guiana, Surinam !?3, Cayenne !3; 
Amazons, Para 4. 


2. Macrodes columbalis. 
Euclystis cynaralis, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. t. 224. ff. 1, 2 (¢). 
Macrodes columbalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 14°; Walk. Cat. xvi. p.57. | 
Euclystis columbalis, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 480, t. 8. fig. 6°; Beitr. zur 
Schmett.-Fauna von Surinam, ii. p. 102, t. 8. fig. 6. . 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Vunt- 
ZUELA 2; Guiana, Cayenne 17; BRaziu 2. 


A rare species, of which we have only received two specimens from our region, both 
females. 


* The name Macrodes is preoccupied in Coleoptera ; but it is not adopted in the Munich Catalogue, 


494 HETEROCERA. 


3. Macrodes gyges. 
Phalena gyges, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 9, t. 102. £. B*. 
Euclystis gyges, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 1037; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iii. p. 103. 
Macrodes gygesalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 14°; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 5‘. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Bel¢); Panama, near the city (J. J. Walker).—VEnNE- 
ZUELA 4; GuIANA, Surinam 128 4, 


Two males of this species are all we have seen from our region. 


4. Macrodes myodes. 
Euclystis myodes, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 119. fig. 22, Erkl. der Taf. 119. 
no. 22 (¢)'. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Brazin!; Amazons}, 


Two specimens received from Chiriqui seem to belong to this species. 


5. Macrodes leyna, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 4.) 


Primaries and secondaries pale purplish-brown, darkest towards the costal margins and at the base; the 
markings very much like those of WM. myodes, Feld. & Rogenh., but not so distinct, the central band being 
of a yellowish-brown colour ; the costal margin of the primaries narrowly edged with pale fawn-colour : 
head, thorax, and abdomen purplish-brown, the anal tuft yellowish; antenne and legs pale brown. 
Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger). 


Allied to M. declinata, Méschl., from which it may be at once distinguished by the 
narrower primaries and the entirely different colour. We are indebted to Dr. Staud- 
inger for lending this insect to us for description. 


AMETRIS. 
Ametris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 303 (1816); Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 387 ; 
Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 6. 
Two species were placed in this genus by Guénée, one of these being of very doubtful 
value; both are from Tropical America. 


1. Ametris netrix. 
Phalena netrix, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 87, t. 151. f. E. 
Phalena netrata, Fabr. Syst. Gloss. p. 186. 
Ametris netricaria, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 303; Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 388, 

Phalénites, t. 15. f.1(g)}. 
Ametris netricalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 6°. 

Hab. GuateMaLa, Cubilguitz and San Juan in Vera Paz, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 

3500 feet, Zapote (Champion).—CoLomBia ; VENEZUELA 2; Gurana, Berbice 1; Brazi.2 ; 
ANTILLES?, : 


AMETRIS.—GUSTIANA. 425 


This species appears to be generally rare, but from Guatemala we have received a 
fair number of specimens. 


2. Ametris cordovaria. 
Ametris cordovaria, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 388 (3 )’. 
Ametris cordovalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 6”. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Vera Cruz !?. 


CANATHA. 


Canatha, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1125 (1865). 

Walker states that this genus is “allied to Platydia, from which it may be distin- 
guished by the structure of the palpi”; the two species he included in it are both from 
Tropical America, one from the Amazons, the other from Honduras. 


1. Canatha subangularis. 
Canatha subangularis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1126°. 
Hab. Honvuras (Dyson '). 


GUSTIANA. 


Gustiana, Walker, Cat. xxiv. p. 1099 (1862). 
Gaala, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1128. 

Walker founded the genus Gustiana upon a Brazilian insect which he had already 
described as a Platydia, with which it does not agree; we therefore retain the generic 
name used by him when describing the species a second time in the Geometride. 


1. Gustiana abditalis. 
Platydia abditalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 11 (1858)’. 
Gustiana subflexata, Walk. Cat. xxiv. p. 1100’. 
Herminia (?) figuralis, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 112°; Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1158 *. 
Gaala dispunctalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1129”. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion).—Braziu 234°, Rio Janeiro 1. 


I have compared the types of Walker’s species and find that they are without doubt 
conspecific ; all his specimens are from South-east Brazil. 


2. Gustiana libitina, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 1, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two yellowish-brown 
lines (the first near the base, the second beyond the middle), a very faint waved submarginal line extend- 
ing from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, and a blackish streak at the end of the 
cell; secondaries uniformly greyish-white, the marginal line brown, the fringe grey: head, thorax, and 
upperside of the abdomen greyish-brown, the underside of the latter and the legs yellowish-brown 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1., December 1890. 3 hh 


426 HETEROCERA. 


antenne greyish, rather deeply pectinated. The female similar to the male, but slightly lighter in colour 
and with simple antenne. Expanse, 5 17, 9 144, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith), 
Jalapa (M. Trujillo). 

Mr. Herbert Smith met with this insect in the months of June and August, 1888 
the specimens from Omilteme are considerably the largest. ‘The species is allied to 
G. abditalis. A male example from Omilteme is figured. 


3. Gustiana limeza, sp. n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 2, 3.) 


Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four faint brown waved lines 
(the first near the base and the other three beyond the middle), a row of minute black dots extending 
from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe dark greyish-brown ; secondaries uniformly greyish-brown, 
the fringe rather darker : head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown, the underside of the latter and the 
legs yellowish-brown, the palpi dark brown. The female similar to the male but palerin colour. Expanse, 
3d 2,1 inch. 

Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


A small species allied to G. liditina, from which it is at once distinguished by the 
different position of the bands on the primaries. 


Subfam. HY PHENINAE. 


PTERHEMIA. 


Pterhemia, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 23 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 19. 
Pessida, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1641 (1858). 


This genus is represented in Central America by a single species, a specimen of which 
is contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


1. Pterhemia ameriola, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 3, ¢.) 
Male. Primaries dark brown, paler near the base, an indistinct narrow waved brown line crossing the wing 
near the base from the costal to the inner margin, a round yellowish-white dot in the middle of the cell 
and a similarly-coloured fine waved line crossing from the costal margin near the apex to the inner 
margin, the outer margin broadly banded with pale brown, an elongated dark brown spot close to the 
apex; secondaries pale brown, darkest on the inner margin, several indistinct yellowish-white lines 
partly crossing the wing from the anal angle; the underside uniform pale dusky brown, both wings 
crossed beyond the middle by a yellowish-white line somewhat broken into spots: head, thorax, and 
abdomen pale brown, the anus yellowish; antenne brown; palpi and legs dark brown. Expanse 
1,3, inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Allied to P. multilatalis, Guén., from Cayenne, but entirely different in colour. 
We are indebted to Dr. Staudinger for kindly lending us the specimen to describe and 


figure. 


HYPENA. 427 


HYPENA. 
Hypena, Schrank, Fauna Boica, p. 163 (1802); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 21. 

Representatives of this genus are found all over the world, and some of them are 
extremely variable. In Tropical America many of the species are very common. 
Thirty-nine are here recorded from Central America, twenty-two of which are described 
as new. It is possible that some of these latter may have been named by Walker; 
but as the types of several of his species are not to be found in the National Collection 
or in the Oxford Museum, I am unable to speak of them with certainty. 

The Hypene are almost always found in shady places in woods. 


i. Hypena lividalis. 

Pyralis lividalis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. vi. t. 2. fig. 11 (¢), t. 29. fig. 186 (¢). 

Ophiuche lividalis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 344. 

Hypena lividalis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii. p. 33; Duponch. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr., Noct. v. 2, 
p. 55, t. 218 (Pyral. t. 8), fig. 3; Herr.-Schiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 426; Guén. Sp. gén. des. 
Lép. viii. p. 382; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 26°. 

Hypena abjuralis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 68 *. 

Hypena scissalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1133 °. 

Hab. Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero 2000 feet (H. H. Smith); Panama, 


Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger).— ANTILLES, Cuba'?, San Domingo °.—SovtH 
Europe 123; Srcry +2. 

Our specimens from Mexico and Chiriqui are almost identical with others from 
Europe; it is quite impossible to separate them, H. abjuralis, Walk., was described 4 
from an example from an unknown locality, and it does not differ in the least from 
H. lividalis (Hiibn.). H. scissalis, Walk., from San Domingo, agrees precisely with 
Central-American specimens. In our region the insect appears to be rare; we have 


only seen four examples. 


2. Hypena manalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 5.) 


Hypena manalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 83 (3), p- 79 (2)? 
Hypena (Bomolocha) manalis, Grote, List of North- American Moths, p. 43 (1882) °*. 
Hab. Norta America, United States 122—Guvaremata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 


3500 feet (Champion). | 
Guatemalan specimens closely resemble others from North America in the. National 


Collection. 


8. Hypena abrasalis. 
Hypena abrasalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 89 (3) ’- 


Hab. Mexico (Sallé '). ; 
3 hh 2 


428 HETEROCERA. 


Walker states that the male of this species is like Hormisa absorptalis, Walk., from 
the United States, in structure. The specimen in the National Collection is the only 


one we have seen. 


4, Hypena pilosalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 6.) 
Hypena pilosalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 83 (¢)°. 
Hypena subidalis, Guén. loc. cit. p. 32 (2?) *; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 40°. 
Hypena megaspila, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 193 *. 

Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Honpvuras, 
(Miller ®),—Cotomsia, Bogota*; Brazin?, Rio Janeiro?; ANTILLES®, San Domingo *, 
Haiti}. 

We have received examples of both sexes of this insect from Mexico, captured in 
the months of February and May, 1888, by Mr. Herbert Smith. The males have a 
tuft of pale yellowish hairs on the abdominal margin of the secondaries, the insect 
thus differing from the typical Hypena. Walker’s type of H. megaspila, a female, is now 
in my own collection; it does not differ from the same sex of H. pilosalis. Guénée 
also described the female under a different name. A Mexican specimen is figured. 


5. Hypena andraca, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 7.) 

Primaries pinkish-brown, with a large V-shaped dark brown mark about the middle of the costal margin 
edged on both sides with a pale narrow line, the outer margin from the apex to the middle of the inner 
margin ‘broadly banded with brown, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dull dark brown, the fringe 
slightly paler in colour ; the underside of both wings uniformly pale greyish-brown, without markings of 
any kind: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. LExpanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 3000 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


Allied to H. pilosalis. but very different in colour ; it shows very little variation in 
marking. <A specimen from the Volcan de Atitlan is figured. 


6. Hypena lua, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 8.) 


Primaries pale brown, with a dark brown almost circular mark edged with pale brown near the apex, a large 
‘dark brown marking on the inner margin about the middle—extending to the base but not quite reaching 
it, and across the wing almost to the costal margin—edged with yellowish-white, and two minute black 
points, edged with yellow on the outer margin, above the anal angle; secondaries dark brown; the fringe 
of both wings brown ; the underside of both wings pale brown, the secondaries crossed from the costal to 
the inner margin by a dark brown line: head and thorax pale brown, the antenna, palpi, legs, and abdo- 
men dark brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (forrer); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 
feet (Champion). 

Not closely allied to any species of the genus known to us. A Chiriqui specimen is 
figured. 


HYPENA. 429 


7. Hypena variabilis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. figg. 9-20.) 


Primaries varying in colour from dark reddish-brown to very dark brown, or from almost black to pale grey, 
usually crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two brown lines (in some specimens these are close 
together, and in others they are wide apart, in several they are wanting altogether or the band nearest 
the base is absent), sometimes pale brown at the base with the outer half very dark in colour, sometimes 
with these colours reversed; secondaries uniformly dark brown ; the fringe of both wings brown, that of 
the primaries varying in colour according to the tint of the wing ; the underside of both wings dull dark 
brown, but not showing the slightest variation in colour in any of the different varieties: head, thorax, 
abdomen, antennz, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Milpas in Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), Amula 6000 feet, Xucuman- 
atlan 7000 feet, both in Guerrero, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H#. H. Smith); GuatmMata, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Panajachel 5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 
feet, Calderas, Duefias, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


This species varies to any extent. We have a very large series of specimens before 
us, and cannot in any way separate the different forms or varieties into species. Nearly 
all the examples received from Mr. Herbert Smith were captured in the month of 
August, 1888. We have figured twelve of the most distinct-looking varieties, selected 
from our series of 130 specimens, scarcely two of which are exactly alike. Mr. Cham- 
pion found this insect commonly on the pine-clad slopes of the Chuacus mountains, 
above San Gerénimo; he states that in the daytime it appears to secrete itself amongst 


the fallen pine-needles or under low bushes. 


8. Hypena livia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 21.) 


Primaries dark reddish-brown, mottled with reddish-brown along the outer margin and at the anal angle, the 
costal margin from the base to the apex blackish-brown, a large subtriangular black mark extending 
from the base across the middle of the wing, the inner margin and fringe reddish-brown ; secondaries 
dull blackish-brown, the fringe pale yellowish-brown ; the underside of both wings pale blackish-browu : 
head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the palpi and antenne black, the legs brown. Expanse 
12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 
to 5000 feet (Champion). 

Allied to H. variabilis, but a larger and differently-shaped insect ; the palpi are also 
longer and more slender. Our figure is taken from the example from the Volcan de 


Chiriqui. 


9. Hypena anemosa, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 22.) 

Primaries pinkish-brown, the costal margin broadly bordered with reddish-fawn-colour, a dark brown streak 
near the apex, the basal half of the wing bronzy-green, the inner margin edged with white, some minute 
black spots near the anal angle; secondaries pale brown; the fringe of both wings brown; the underside 
pale brown, without markings of any kind: head, palpi, and thorax greyish-brown, the abdomen brown, 
the antenne and legs pale brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujillo); Guatemaua, Zapote (Champion). 


The Mexican specimen is figured. 


430 HETEROCERA. 


10. Hypena vetustalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 23.) 
Hypena vetustalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 85 (?)*; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 407. 
Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Rio Papagaio 1200 feet, both in Guerrero, 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in 
mus. Staudinger ).—ANTILLES, San Domingo 2, Haiti }. 


Our Mexican specimens agree with those from San Domingo in the British Museum ; 
the former were captured at various times between the months of January and October, 
1888. 


11. Hypena dispunctalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 24.) 
Hypena dispunctalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1144 (¢)’. 


Hab. GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Stau- 
dinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Brazit, San Paulo. 


In our region this is a common insect. Walker’s type in the National Collection is 
from an unknown locality’. The species varies considerably in colour, from light to 
dark brown ; according to Walker it is allied to A. laceratalis, from Hindostan and 
Ceylon. 


12. Hypena securalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 25.) 
Hypena securalis, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 85 (¢)*; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 44% 
Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers).— VENEZUELA? ; Braz 2. 


Our Costa Rican specimen does not differ from the one from Venezuela in the 
National Collection. 


13. Hypena pacificalis. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 26.) 
Hypena pacificalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 45 (g)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Rio Papagaio 1200 feet, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, both in Guerrero, 
Teapa in Tabasco (//. H. Smith); Guatmmata, San Gerénimo, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 
feet (Champion).— West Coast of Ammrica (Capt. Kellett 4). 


Guatemalan specimens are similar to Walker’s type in the National Collection; 
those from Mexico vary considerably, both in colour and in the distinctness of the 
markings. Mr. Smith’s specimens were captured in the months of January, Februaty, 
September, and October, 1888. A Guatemalan specimen is figured. 


14. Hypena lanassa, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. fig. 27.) 

Primaries dark brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two pale brown waved lines which are 
edged on the inner side with black and on the outer side with bluish-white (the first near the base, the 
second beyond the middle), a black dot in the cell, the wing thickly irrorated with minute bluish-white 
scales at the base and along the inner margin, a spot at the apex and one close to the anal angle pale 


HYPENA. 431 


yellowish-brown, the fringe pale brown; secondaries pale blackish-brown, the marginal line black, the 
fringe pale brown ; the underside brown, with darker brown lines crossing the wings, these lines more 
distinct in some specimens than in others; head, thorax, palpi, antenne, and legs dark brown, the 
abdomen pale brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann), Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, San Gerénimo 
(Champion). 

Varies considerably in colour, the Mexican specimens being the darkest. Our figure 
is taken from a Guatemalan example. 


15. Hypena andria, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 4, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries pale purplish-brown, with a wide dark brown band across the middle, a waved dark brown 
line crossing from the costal to the inner margin close to the base, a white dot in the middle of the cell, 
and a submarginal row of very small brown dots extending from the costal margin close to the apex to 
the anal angle, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dusky brown; the underside of both wings pale brown, 
the secondaries crossed beyond the middle by two dark brown lines: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, 
palpi, and legs dark brown. The female darker than the male, and without the white spot in the cell of 
the primaries. Expanse, ¢ 2,14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 
feet, San Geronimo (Champion). 
/;In Guatemala this species appears to be pretty common. ‘The numerous speci- 
mens obtained show a considerable amount of variation in colour and in the 
distinctness of the markings ; in some of the males the white spot on the primaries is 
almost obsolete. 


16. Hypena levana, sp. n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 5.) 

Primaries dark brown, with a dark reddish-brown marking extending over the wing from the middle of the 
costal margin (somewhat in the shape of a large Y, but very much dentated on the outer side), a pale 
greyish-brown line crossing near the base from the costal margin to the middle of the inner margin, a very 
indistinct submarginal line extending from near the apex to the anal angle, and a slightly lighter brown 
marking close to the apex, the fringe dark reddish-brown ; secondaries uniformly dusky brown, with the 
marginal line and the fringe paler ; the underside of both wings pale brown, slightly irrorated with a few 

’ greyish scales: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
One example. A species quite unlike any other of the genus known to us. 


17. Hypena exceptalis. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 6.) 
Hypena exceptalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 46 (?)*. 
Petiala tenebrosa, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1005 (¢)?. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Schaus); GuatemMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3000 feet, 


Pantaleon 1700 feet, Zapote (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu (Logers) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet 
(Champion).—VENEZUELA 12; AMAZONS, Kga }. 


A common species throughout our region ; some specimens are darker in colour than 


432 HETEROCERA. 


others. Our figure is from a Guatemalan example. Walker described the sexes 
as distinct species, and founded a genus upon the male; but I cannot discover any 
character by which to separate it from Hypena. 


18. Hypena andrapana, sp. n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 7.) 

Primaries dark brown, crossed by several indistinct darker brown lines, a submarginal row of dark brown 
spots extending from the apex to the anal angle, a long blackish-brown streak at the end of the cell ; 
secondaries dusky brown; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside brown, the secondaries 
crossed about the middle by a narrow waved line: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, and legs dark brown. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
The Costa Rican specimen is in very poor condition, but I have very little doubt that 


it belongs to this species. 


19. Hypena lebonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 8.) 


Primaries reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by several indistinct narrow waved lines, 
a rather wide dark brown band crossing the wing from the middle of the inner margin to the apex, a 
small white dot (much larger in some specimens than in others) on the inner side of the band below the 
middle, and a white streak on the inner margin, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dusky brown, with 
the fringe and marginal line paler; the underside pale brown, the costal margins of both wings irrorated 
with dark brown scales: head, thorax, and palpi reddish-brown, the abdomen and legs dusky brown, the 
antenne brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

Varies considerably in colour and in the size of the white dot on the primaries, also 
in the distinctness of the dark brown band, this latter in Dr. Staudinger’s specimen 


being almost obsolete. 


20. Hypena pacatalis. 
Hypena pacatalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 80( 2) °. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. G.).—AntTILLEs, San Domingo }, 


A specimen in very poor condition, captured at Orizaba in December 1887, appa- 
rently belongs to this species. 


21. Hypena ammonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 9.) 

Primaries reddish-brown, with a >-shaped mark close to the base, a dark reddish-brown line edged on the 
outer side with greyish-white scales crossing beyond the middle from the costal margin near the apex 
to the middle of the inner margin, and a submarginal row of dark spots extending from the apex to the 
inner margin close to the anal angle, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dusky brown, with the fringe 
paler; the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown: head, thorax, antenne, and palpi reddish-brown, 
the abdomen and legs dusky brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


_ Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Orizaba (Ff. D. G.). 


HYPENA. 433 


One example from Orizaba, captured in December 1887, and several from Atoyac, 
captured in April 1888; the former is duller than the others in colour. 


22. Hypena obditalis. 
Hypena obditalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 48 (¢)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Gerdnimo, Las 
Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson1); Panama, Chiriqui (Rzbde, in 
mus. Staudinger). 


Guatemalan specimens agree with Walker’s type in the National Collection; those 
from Mexico are paler in colour. 


23. Hypena ancara, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 10.) 


Primaries greyish-brown, darker brown along the outer margin, with a yellowish-brown zigzag line crossing 
the wing close to the base from the costal to the inner margin, beyond which in the middle of the cell is 
a minute black dot, and beyond the middle of the wing a rather wider yellowish-brown line, edged on the 
outer side with pale greyish-brown, extending from the costal margin near the apex to the middle of the 
inner margin; secondaries uniformly greyish-brown; the fringe of both wings brown, that of the prima- 
ries the darkest ; the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown, almost slate-coloured : head, antenne, 
palpi, thorax, and abdomen greyish-brown, the legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Tamahu, San Gerdnimo, and Santa Barbara in Vera Paz (Cham- 
pion). 

Allied to H. obditalis, Walk., from which it may be at once distinguished by the 
straight oblique line on the primaries. The specimen from Tamahu is figured. 


24. Hypena lipara, sp.n. (Tab. XXXYV. fig. 11, s.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniformly blackish-brown, the primaries crossed beyond the middle from the 
costal to the inner margin by a zigzag reddish-brown line; the underside of both wings greyish-brown : 
head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs blackish-brown. Expanse 1-3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen of this dull-coloured species was captured by Mr. Smith in September 


1888. 


25. Hypena hemonalis. 


Hypena hemonalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 228 (2)". _ 
Hypena sclerialis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 120. fig. 82, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 


no. 82 (¢)’. on, 
Hab. Guamanata, Volean de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); . Panama, 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
—AMazons?; Brazil. Oo 
Our Guatemalan specimens differ from Walker’s type in having the band crossing 
the primaries considerably wider, but those from Chiriqui agree well withit. The insect 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., December 1890. 3 it 


434 HETEROCERA. 


figured by Felder and Rogenhofer is acai! darker in colour than the Central- 
American examples. 


26. Hypena androna, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 12.) 


Primaries greyish-brown, with a minute black dot in the cell, a brown line edged on the outer side with 
greyish-white crossing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a submarginal fine 
greyish-white zigzag line extending from the apex to the anal angle, the marginal line black, the fringe 
dark brown ; secondaries blackish-brown, the fringe paler; the underside uniformly pale greyish-brown : 
head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs greyish-brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Rio Papagaio in Guerrero 1200 feet (H. H. Smith); GuatTeMa.a, San 
Gerénimo (Champion), Guatemala city (Rodriguez); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 
to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui, 
2000 to 3000 feet (Chanupion). 


_ This species varies considerably in colour and in the distinctness of the markings. 
Mexican examples are greyer than those from the more southern localities. Our 
figure is taken from a specimen captured by Mr. Champion on the Volcan de Chiriqui. 


27. Hypena 2 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


A single specimen of a very distinct-looking species, but too imperfect for description. 


28. Hypena abscisalis. 
Hypena abscisalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 49". 
Hab, Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San Isidro 1600 feet 
(Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe).—Amazons, Pardé!. 
We are now able to trace this species northwards to Southern Mexico, where a few 
specimens were captured by Mr. Smith in January and February 1888. 


29. Hypena anicina, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 13.) 


Primaries purplish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two brown bands (the first narrow 
and close to the base, the second considerably wider and in the middle of the wing), a submarginal row 
of small brown spots extending from the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle; secondaries 
uniformly dusky brown; the underside of both wings greyish-brown, the primaries with two small 
white spots close to the apex, the secondaries crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner 
margin by a faint brown line: head, antennz, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs brown. Expanse 
1,4; inch. 

Hab, Guatema.a, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


Two specimens of this species were captured by Mr. Champion. It is allied to 
H. abscisalis, Walk. 


HYPENA.. 435 


30. Hypena leuctra, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 14.) 


Primaries yellowish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two grey ish-brown bands (the 
first beyond the cell, the second submarginal), with a yellowish-brown line crossing the wing close to the 
base and a second line at the end of the cell, the marginal line black edged with greyish-brown on the 
inner side, a minute black dot in the middle of the cell; secondaries dusky brown, palest at the base, 
the fringe dark brown ; the underside of both wings uniformly dusky brown: head, antenne, palpi, thorax, 
abdomen, and legs dark brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; 
GuaTeMaALA, Coban in Vera Paz (Conradt). 


The Mexican examples captured by Mr. Herbert Smith during the months of 
February and March, 1888, show a considerable amount of variation, some of them 
being very much darker than others. Our figure is taken from a Teapa specimen. 


31. Hypena loxo, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 15.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed about the middle by a rather wide pale brown band, a marginal and a sub- 
marginal row of minute white dots extending across the wing from the costal to the inner margin; 
secondaries dusky brown, slightly paler at the base; the fringe of both wings brown: head, palpi, 
antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs brown. LExpanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet 
(Rogers). 

One specimen from each locality. ‘The species is allied to the preceding, H. leuctra. 
The Costa Rican example is figured. 


32. Hypena anda, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 16.) 


Primaries pale brown, crossed about the middle by a waved dark brown line, beyond which is a rather wide 
greyish band, a greyish spot at the apex, the wing also irrorated with dark brown scales; secondaries 
pale brown, the fringe dark brown; the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown, thickly irrorated 
with dark brown scales: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs greyish-brown. Expanse 
1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (Hf. H. Smith). 


This species varies very considerably, both in markings and colour. 


33. Hypena lollia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 17.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by. a rather wide 
pale brown band edged on both sides with a dark reddish-brown’ waved line, a dark brown line extending 
across the wing close to the base, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries uniformly dusky ‘brown, slightly 
paler along the costal margin; the underside of both wings pale brown, the primaries with a small white 
spot close to the apex, the secondaries irrorated with greyish scales: head, thorax, abdomen, antenna, 
palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujillo), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote, Duefias, 
Tamahu in Vera Paz(Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan 
de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


3 tt 2 


436 HETEROCERA. 


This species varies very much in colour, from dark brown to quite pale brown, also 
in the distinctness of the markings. Some of the examples from the Volcan de Chiriqui 
show a slight bluish-grey edging to the dark brown lines crossing the primaries. Our 
figure is taken from a specimen captured by Mr. Champion at Cerro Zunil. 


34. Hypena citata. 
Hypena citata, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. pp. 101, 309 (?)*. 
Hypena (Euhypena) citata, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 44 (1882) ?. 
Hypena trituberalis, Zell. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxii. p. 469, t. 2. fig. 6 (9)*. 

Hab. Nortu America ?, Alabama 1, Texas °,—Muxico, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Venta 
de Zopilote 2800 feet, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, all in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco (HH. 
H. Smith), Jalapa (Hoge), Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. G.); Guatemana, San Geronimo 
(Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—BraziL, San Paulo. 


This insect is very widely distributed, both in Central and South America; in 
Mexico it appears to be very common. Our specimens are almost identical with 
those in the Grote collection now in the National Collection: they vary slightly in 
colour, some examples being darker than others. 


35. Hypena locusta, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 18.) 


Primaries dark brown, crossed hy several very indistinct narrow whitish lines, the costal margin near the apex 
streaked with white, the fringe dark brown; secondaries blackish-brown, with a few whitish scales close 
to the anal angle, the fringe whitish ; the underside greyish-brown, the secondaries crossed from the costal 
to the inner margin by two dark brown lines: head, palpi, antennsx, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark 
brown. Expanse 1,1, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen. 


36. Hypena muscosa, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 19.) 


Primaries and secondaries almost uniform pale greyish-brown, a spot at the end of the cell and a waved 
submarginal line darker brown; the secondaries crossed about the middle by a very indistinct waved 
brown line; the underside greyish-brown, with the lines on the secondaries very like those on the 
upperside, but slightly more distinct: head, palpi, thorax, and antenn pale greyish-brown; (abdomen 
wanting); legs greyish-white. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Las Vigas (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen. 


37. Hypena(?) angitia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. tig. 20.) 

Primaries pale brown, with a large dark brown patch at the apex, a dark brown spot at the end of the cell 
and a smaller one below it nearer the inner margin, and a marginal row of very minute black dots edged 
with white on the inner side, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dusky brown; the underside of both 
wings pale brown, the primaries with two small white dots close to the apex: head, thorax, antenne, 
palpi, and abdomen uniform pale brown, the legs dusky brown. Expanse'1,%; inch. 


HYPENA.—SOTIGENA. 437 


Hab. Guarumata, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion). 


A very distinct species, not altogether agreeing in form with Hypena. 


38. Hypena(?) jactatalis? (Tab. XXXV. fig. 21.) 
Hypena jactatalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 49( 3)”. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). —CoLomB1A, Frontino 
in Antioquia; VENEZUELA}. 

Walker's type in the National Collection is in very poor condition ; our examples 
from Chiriqui, are, I believe, females of the same species. In these latter the primaries 
are similar to those of H. jactatalis, Walk., but the secondaries are greyish-white at 
the base (which is not the case in Walker’s type); on the underside the specimens are 
almost identical. H. jactatalis hardly belongs to Hypena, but till more examples are 
obtained it is advisable to retain it in that genus. 


89. Hypena inclyta. 
Hypena inclyta, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 80°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus *). 


Unknown to us. 


METINA, gen. nov. 


Allied to Hypena. Primaries with the costal margin quite straight, the apex pointed, the outer margin 
slightly curved outwards, then receding inwards to the anal angle, which is rounded, the inner margin 
quite straight ; secondaries rather long and broad, rounded at the apex and at the anal angle. Head 
small, thickly clothed with hairs between the eyes; the palpi large, erect, the third joint pointed and 
tufted, with hairs on the upperside. Thorax fairly broad, and thickly clothed with hairs. Abdomen 
slender, with two small erect tufts of hair on the two basal segments, Legs slender and moderately 
long, the anterior and posterior tibia clothed with rather long hairs. The antenne more than half the 
length of the wing, very slender, and sparsely clothed with fine hairs at the base. 


Type Bleptina hirtipalpis, Walker. 


1. Metina hirtipalpis. 
Bleptina hirtipalpis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 242 (¢)’. 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Cahabon (Champion) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Ribée, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet 
(Champion).— VENEZUELA }. 

This species varies considerably in the depth of colour of the markings. In our 


region it is fairly common. — 


SOTIGENA, gen. nov. 


Primaries with the costal margin nearly straight to the apex, which is rounded, the outer margin slightly 
angular, the inner margin straight, and with a very distinct fringed lobe close to the anal angle (similar 
to that present in many of the species of Notodontide), the discoidal cell long (almost two-thirds the 


438 HETEROCERA. 


length of the wing) and rather broad at the end; secondaries large, much rounded from the apex to the 

anal angle, the costal margin almost straight, the fringe very long. Head small ; the thorax and abdomen 
slender, the latter not extending beyond the wings. Palpi large, projecting straight out in front of the 
head, the third joint very minute. Antenne about half the length of the wing, slightly pectinated. Legs 
long and very slender, without any tufts of hair. 


Type Sotigena notodontoides. 


This genus in some respects is allied to Hypena; but it may be at once distinguished 
from all others of the family known to us by the fringed lobe on the inner margin of 
the primaries. The two species referred to it are both from Mexico. 


1. Sotigena notodontoides, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 22.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, thickly irrorated with minute darker brown scales, a small raised tuft of white 
scales in the middle of the cell, a waved green line edged with brown on the outer side crossing the 
wing at the end of the cell from the costal to the inner margin, beyond which, nearer the apex, is a sub- 
marginal row of five indistinct black dots, the marginal line black with a few pale brown points on the 
inner edge, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries creamy- white, slightly shaded with brown about the middle 
of the outer margin, the marginal line black, the fringe brownish-white ; the underside of the primaries 
dusky brown, darkest at the apex and along the costal margin, that of tho secondaries the same colour as 
above, with a central brown line almost broken into spots crossing the wing from the costal to the inner 
margin: head, thorax, palpi, and antenne dark brown; the abdomen yellowish-brown, with a narrow 
dark brown line extending from the base to the anus; the legs brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Coatepec (Brooks), Las Vigas (coll. Schaus). 


Mr. Schaus informs us that he captured several specimens of this insect during the 


month of May. Our example from Coatepec has the green line crossing the primaries 
more distinct than in the others we have seen from Las Vigas. 


2. Sotigena dulcis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 23.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, clouded with darker brown along the costal margin and at the end of the cell, 
and slightly irrorated with dark brown scales, with a number of minute brown streaks along the costal 
margin, and a submarginal row of small black spots crossing the wing from the costal margin near the 
apex to the inner margin, the fringe yellowish-brown ; secondaries pale greyish-brown, palest at the base 
and along the costal margin; the underside pale greyish-brown, the secondaries crossed in the middle 
from the costal to the inner margin by an indistinct pale line: head, antennew, palpi, thorax, abdomen, 
and legs pale greyish-brown, the basal segments of the abdomen with a tuft of hairs. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen of this distinct species was captured by Mr. Schaus, who has kindly 
placed it at our disposal to describe and figure. 


BOANA. 
Boana, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 8rd ser. i. p. 110 (1862) ; Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1145. 
Walker founded this genus upon a female example of a Brazilian insect; but the 
species had been figured long before by Herrich-Schaffer under the name of Hypena 
cataleuca. Boana is very distinct from Hypena, and I have, therefore, retained 
Walker's generic name. The primaries in the male are thickly clothed with long 


BOANA.—OGOAS. 439 


whitish hairs on the underside of the costal margin, and have also a round patch of 
black hairs near the base on the inner margin; the antenne in the male are slightly 
tufted in the middle. 


1. Boana cataleuca. 
Hypena cataleuca, Herr.-Schaff. Samm]. aussereur. Schmett. p. 69, fig. 452°. 
Boana semialba, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 110 (9) *, & Cat. xxxiv. p. 1145°. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith)—Amazons!; Braziu 23, 


Examples of this species were captured by Mr. Smith in Mexico during the months of 
February, March, and April, 1888. In the males the whitish lines are very indistinct, 
the primaries being also considerably narrower than those of the females. Walker's 
type of B. semialba is now in the Oxford Museum. 


AGANZAGARA. 
Aganzagara, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1146 (1865). 


This genus was founded by Walker upon an insect from Honduras in the National 
Collection. It is the only example known to us. 


1, Aganzagara disparatalis. 
Aganzagara disparatalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1146°. 
Hab. Honpuras, Limas }. 


OGOAS, gen. nov. 


Primaries with the costal margin nearly straight, but slightly curved close to the base, the outer margin curved 
to the anal angle, the wing narrow at the base and broad from the apex to the inner margin ; secondaries 
large, the costal margin straight to the apex, then very much rounded to the anal angle, the inner margin 
straight, the costal margin clothed with long silky hairs from the base almost to the apex. Head small, 
the eyes prominent; the palpi slender, the third joint very minute; the thorax and abdomen slender, 
the latter not extending beyond the wings; legs slender, bare; antenne simple, about half the length 
of the wing. 

Type Ogoas albipunceta. 


1. Ogoas albipuncta, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 24, 3.) 


Male. Primaries dark brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a narrow 
waved white line, on the outer side of which and at the apex the wing is thickly irrorated with minute 
white scales, the marginal line black; secondaries dark brown, the costal margin from the base to the 
apex broadly silky-white and clothed with a thick tuft of pale yellowish-brown hairs, a pale greyish line 
crossing the wing from about the middle of the inner margin to the white costal margin, the outer 
portion of the wing thickly irrorated with very minute white scales; the fringe of both wings dark brown; 
the underside of both wings dark greyish-brown, the inner margin of the primaries broadly bordered with 
silky-white, the secondaries crossed below the middle by an indistinct brown line: head, thorax, palpi, 
antenne, abdomen, and legs dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Guaremata, Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Two male specimens of this very distinct species were captured by Mr. Champion on 


440 HETEROCERA. 


the densely-forested Atlantic slope of Guatemala. It is in all respects very different 
from any other member of the family known to us, but comes nearest to Boana cataleuca 
(Herr.-Schaff.). 


TOMYRIS, gen. nov. 


Allied to Ogoas, from which it differs as follows :—The primaries are narrower and slightly longer, and more 
pointed at the apex, and on the inner margin on the underside they have a tuft of long hairs; the 
secondaries are shorter and more rounded ; the antennw are considerably longer, being two-thirds the 
length of the wing; the palpi are much larger and longer, projecting out straight from the head. The 
thorax and the abdomen are slender, the abdomen extending beyond the wings ; the legs are long and 
slender, and not clothed with hairs. 

Type Tomyris nigropuncta. 

The tuft of long hairs on the inner margin of the primaries beneath distinguishes 
the genus from Ogoas, which has the tuft of hairs on the costal margin of the secon- 


daries above. 


1. Tomyris nigropuncta, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 25, 3.) 


Male, Primaries fawn-colour, shading to dark brown along the costal margin, apex, and outer margin, a very 
faint line crossing the wing beyond the cell, and a submarginal row of black spots extending from near 
the apex to the inner margin close to the anal angle, the last two spots in the submarginal row considerably 
larger than any of the others; secondaries blackish-brown, the costal margin broadly bordered with pale 
silky-brown, a small black spot edged with white below the middle of the wing and nearest the anal 
angle, the marginal line black; the fringe of both wings dark brown ; the underside of both wings 
uniform pale blackish-brown, the inner margin of the primaries almost to the anal angle silky-white : 
head, antennz, and thorax pale brown, the palpi black; the abdomen above blackish-brown, beneath and 
the legs pale brown, Expanse 1,8, inch. 


Hab. Guatemana, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Panama, Caldera 
in Chirigui 1200 feet (Champion). 

We have only received two specimens of this insect, both males; the one from 
Caldera is considerably paler in colour. The specimen from the Volcan de Atitlan is 
figured. 

HORMISA. 
Hormisa, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 74 (1858), & xxxiv. p, 1144. 


Walker founded this genus upon an insect from North America, and afterwards 
added to it a second species from the same country; two others are here described, both 
from Chiriqui. Grote does not mention either of Walker’s species in his Check-list. 


1. Hormisa absorptalis. 
Hormisa absorptalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 74( 3) 1. 
Hab. Nortu America, United States \—Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
Panama, Taboga Island (Mathew, in mus. D.). 


Of this insect we have received two specimens, these being almost identical with 
Walker's type in the National Collection. 


HORMISA,—HYPENODES. 441 


2. Hormisa andaca, sp.n. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 26.) 


Primaries and secondaries creamy-white, the primaries crossed beyond the middle by two very indistinct bands 
of pale brownish-yellow spots and with two black dots in the cell; the underside of both wings uniform 
creamy-white, with a black spot at the end of the cell: head, thorax, and palpi creamy-white, the abdomen 
slightly darker in colour, the legs pale brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this very distinct species has been received ; I believe it is a 
female. 


3. Hormisa larymna, sp.n. (Tab. XX XV. fig. 27.) 


Primaries and secondaries creamy-white ; the primaries thickly irrorated with minute brown scales and crossed 
from the costal to the inner margin by two faint brown lines, a row of very small black dots on the outer 
margin ; the secondaries slightly clouded with pale brown on the outer margin near the apex; the under- 
side pale creamy-white shaded with brown, a pale brown line crossing both wings from the costal to the 
inner margin: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs creamy-white. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
The two specimens of this insect in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are all we have seen; 
one of them is much paler in colour than the other. 


HYPENODES. 


Hypenodes, Doubleday, Syn. List Brit. Lep. p. 14 (1850); Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 41; 
Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 69. 

Cledeobia, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iv. p. 20 (1834); Herrich-Schiffer, Syst. Bearb. Schmett. 
Europ. i. p. 442 (1845). 


The species included in this genus are all of small size. 


1. Hypenodes macula, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 1.) 

Primaries pale greyish-brown, darker along the costal margin, crossed from the apex to the inner margin by a 
rather pale yellowish band, and with a waved darker line along the outer margin, the fringe greyish- 
brown; secondaries creamy-white, with the outer margin and fringe slightly yellowish: head, thorax, 
abdomen, palpi, antenne, and legs pale yellowish-brown. Expanse 4 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (bbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Two specimens of this little species are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection ; one 
of them is considerably darker than the other. 


2. Hypenodes (?) lysizona, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 2.) 


Primaries brownish-white, crossed from the apex to the inner margin by a straight dark brown line, which is 
edged on the outer side with a narrow white line, and on the inner side with a row of very minute black 
dots, two small black dots at the end of the cell, and a dark brown mark about the middle of the inner 
margin which extends partly across the wing ; secondaries considerably paler in colour than the primaries, 
and with the dark and light lines more waved: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish-white. 
Expanse 3 inch, 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen, apparently a female. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., Aprid 1891. 3 kk 


442 HETEROCERA. 


8. Hypenodes (?) apis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 3.) 


Primaries and secondaries uniform pale grey, the primaries with three dark brown spots on the costal margin, 
and under the third of these a narrow brownish line which extends to the inner margin, the secondaries 
crossed below the middle by a faint waved brown line: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs 
pale grey. Expanse } inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Balheu in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (27bbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 

Two specimens. The Guatemalan example is darker in colour and more heavily 
marked than the one from Chiriqui; our figure is taken from the latter. 


LAMETIA. 
Lametia, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 77 (1858). 


This genus was founded upon a female specimen from Ega, Walker subsequently 
again describing the same species from a Colombian example under a different name. 
In his description of Z. retusa he states that the Colombian specimen is a female ; 
but this is a mistake, the type, which is now in my own collection, being without doubt 
amale. The male is very easily distinguished from the female (which has been well 
figured by Herr.-Schiiffer) by having two tufts of black hairs on the primaries—one on 
the costal margin close to the apex (which is considerably more pointed than in the 
female), the other below it and nearer the middle of the wing; it also has the palpi 
considerably larger. On the underside the costal margin of the primaries is thickly 
clothed with short hairs, these being entirely absent in the female. 


1. Lametia ignitalis. (Tab. XX XV. fig. 28, 3.) . 
Lametia ignitalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 77 (2) °. 
Tamyra penicillana, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 83, t. 79. f. 453 (¢ ). 
Lametia retusa, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 193” (3). 
Hab. Muxico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemana, San Juan in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Panama, Taboga Island (J. J. Walker)—CotomBia, Bogota ?; 
Amazons, Egai; Brazit, Rio Janeiro. 


Mr. H. H. Smith captured one specimen at Atoyac,a fine male, in April 1888. We 
figure this, to show the tufts of hair on the primaries. 


2. Lametia anemolia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 5, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries brownish-black ; the primaries crossed by two darker waved lines (the first 
near the base, the second beyond the cell), and with a yellow spot in the middle and two white dots at 
the end of the cell, the basal half thickly irrorated with minute white scales (which give the wing a 
greyish tinge), the costal margin close to the apex streaked with white; both wings greyish along the 
outer margin, and each crossed from the apex to the inner margin by a submarginal row of small white 
dots; the underside pale greyish-brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle by a narrow dark brown 
line, the submarginal spots as above but much more distinct: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and upper- 
side of the abdomen dark greyish-brown, the latter beneath and the legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 


LAMETIA.—RIVULA. 443 


One specimen of this interesting species was captured by Mr. Herbert Smith in 
April 1888. On the underside Z. anemolia closely resembles Thermesia gemmatalis, 
Guen. 


MYRTALE, gen. nov. 


Male. Head and thorax rather broad; the abdomen slender, about one-third longer than the wings, and with 
a tuft of hair on each side close to the base. Eyes prominent. Proboscis very short and slender. Palpi 
large, erect; the first joint short and rather stout; the second joint long and slender, excepting at the 
end, where it is flattened, and thickly tufted with hair; the third joint very minute, hardly extending 
beyond the tuft of hair at the apex of the second joint. Antenne short, simple. Legs slender, not thickly 
clothed with hairs, the spurs rather long. The primaries rather long and narrow, the costal margin 
slightly curved, the outer margin rounded; the secondaries broad, much rounded from the apex to the 
inner margin above the anal angle, the inner margin near the base thickly clothed with long hairs. 

The female differs from the male in having the palpi simple and quite small, and the legs more sparsely 
clothed with hair; the tufts of hair at the base of the abdomen and on the inner margin of the secondaries 


are also entirely wanting. 
Type Myrtale imitata. 


This genus is not closely allied to any other known to me; the palpi are in some 
respects formed like those of Lametia. 


1. Myrtale imitata, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 6, 64,3; 7,2.) 

Male and female. Primaries brown, clouded from the base along the inner margin and across the middle of the 
wing to the costal margin with silvery-grey, and with a large silvery-grey spot on the outer margin just 
below the apex; secondaries blackish-brown, paler at the base and along the inner margin; the fringe of 
both wings pale brown: palpi and front of the head pale brownish-fawn-colour, the collar and base of 
tegule reddish-brown; the thorax and base of the abdomen pale greyish-white, the rest of the abdomen 
blackish-brown, the anal tuft fawn-colour; the legs reddish-brown. The female is altogether slightly 
darker in colour than the male. Expanse, ¢ 13, 2 144 inch. 

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger) —Sovutu-East Brazit, Rio Janeiro. 
This insect is an exact mimic of Perigea palpalis, Walk.; in fact, it is almost 

impossible to distinguish the females of these species from each other. There is a 

specimen of MV. imitata from Espirito Santo in the National Collection, where it is 

placed in the Limacodide, near the genus Scopelodes, by Mr. Butler. It seems to me, 
however, to be better assigned to the Deltoide, but its exact position is at present very 
doubtful. The example from Rio Janeiro in my own collection is considerably paler 


in colour than those from Chiriqui. 


Subfam. HERMINIINA. 


RIVULA. 
Rivula, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 47 (1854). 
Guenée founded this genus upon the common European R. sericealis, and also 


included in it a North-American species. Two are now added from our region. 


3 kk 2 


444 HETEROCERA. 


1. Rivula orobena, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 8.) 


Primaries pale fawn-colour, a spot at the end of the cell, a streak from this to the apex, and the outer margin 
shaded with darker brown; secondaries blackish-brown, paler at the base and along the costal margin; 
the fringe of both wings brown: head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen fawn-colour, the abdomen becoming 
brown near the anus; antenne and legs brownish-fawn-colour. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion). 


I have only seen three specimens of this insect ; it is allied to R. sericealis. 


2. Rivula mandaune, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 4.) 


Primaries very pale fawn-colour, with a large black spot on the middle of the costal margin, beyond which the 
Wing is crossed from the costal to the middle of the inner margin by a pale brown line (this being paler 
on the outer side), a fainter second submarginal waved line extending from the apex to the anal angle, 
and between the two lines a row of very minute black elongated points, the outer margin of the wing 
dusky ; secondaries uniform pale greyish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour. Expanse 
1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus). 


The specimen kindly lent us by Mr. Schaus is the only one I have seen of this 
insect. 


SASERNA, gen. nov. 


Male. Head and thorax rather broad; the abdomen slender, with the anal tuft long but not extending beyond 
the wings. Eyes large. Palpi long, slender; the third joint rather flattened. Antenne about half the 
length of the primaries, very slightly pectinated. Legs long and slender. The primaries broad, much 
rounded at the anal angle, the costal margin straight, the apex pointed; the secondaries broad, very 
much rounded from the apex to the anal angle, the inner margin straight. 

Type Hypena scissilinea, Walker. 


This genus is allied to Menecina, Walk. 


1. Saserna scissilinea. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 9,3.) 
Hypena (?) scissilinea, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. i. p. 261°. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers).—Brazit, Rio Janeiro 1. 


This species was described by Walker from a specimen in Mr. Fry’s collection. The 
type is now in the Oxford Museum ; our Costa-Rican example agrees perfectly with it. 


2. Saserna lyde, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 10,¢; 11,9.) 


Male, Primaries and secondaries dull brown, with a slight greyish tinge, a large oval black spot on the 
primaries at the end of the cell, from which a dark line extends to the costal margin, a faint, very narrow, 
yellowish-brown line crossing both wings beyond the middle, the primaries with a very indistinct submar- 
ginal waved band of dark blackish-brown spots extending from the apex to the anal angle; the underside 
paler in colour, with the markings all very indistinct: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs 
dark brown. 

Female, Primaries and secondaries pale brownish-fawn-colour, almost cream-colour on the costal margin near 
the apex, both wings irrorated with minute black dots, and crossed by a faint line, which is broken into 
spots: head and front of the thorax dark brown, the rest of the thorax, the tegule, abdomen, and legs 
pale fawn-colour. Expanse, ¢ 1}, 9 13 inch. 


SASERNA. 445 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), Paso de San Juan (coll. Schaus) ; GUATEMALA, San 
Isidro 1600 feet (Champion). 


The female specimen in Mr. Schaus’s collection is considerably paler in colour than 
our example from Coatepec, but I have not the slightest doubt that it belongs to the 
same species. We figure a male from San Isidro, and a female from Coatepec. 


3. Saserna (?) antias, sp.n.* (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 12, 2.) 

Female. Primaries and secondaries reddish-fawn-colour, darker along the costal and outer margins, the costal 
margin of the primaries blackish-brown close to the base, both wings crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by dark brown waved lines, a round spot in the middle and an ill-defined oval mark at the end 
of the cell; the underside yellowish-fawn-colour, with all the markings much more distinct, the greyish- 
brown bands being broken into spots: head and front of the thorax blackish-brown, the rest of the 
thorax, the abdomen, and legs reddish-fawn-colour, the anal tuft brighter in colour; the palpi black, 
thickly irrorated with grey, the tip yellow; the antenne black to about the middle, yellowish-brown 
beyond. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


4, Saserna (?) anyte, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 13, 2 .) 

Female, Primaries and secondaries pale brownish-cream-colour, thickly irrorated with darker brown scales ; the 
primaries with a dark brown band extending from the base to the apex, but not touching the costal 
margin, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three very faint narrow waved brownish lines, 
a small dot in the middle of the cell; the secondaries with a rather large reddish-brown mark at the end 
of the cell ; the underside very similar to the upperside, but without the dark brown band on the primaries : 
head, thorax, abdomen, legs, antenne, and palpi the same colour as the wings. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


I have two specimens of this species before me, both of them females. 


5. Saserna (?) arbuscula, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 14, 2.) 

Female. Primaries and secondaries pale reddish-fawn-colour; the primaries thickly irrorated with dark brown, 
and with three short brown streaks, a minute dark brown spot at the base, a similarly coloured spot in 
the middle of the cell, a large oval reddish-brown spot edged with dark brown at the end of cell, a pale 
streak beyond the cell extending to the apex, and on the inner margin near the apex two or three fine 
white streaks; the secondaries similar in colour to the primaries, irrorated with dark brown at the anal 
angle and along the inner margin; the underside paler in colour than the upperside, and with all the 
markings very indistinct: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, antennz, and palpi pale reddish-fawn-colour. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (2ibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
One specimen. 
* Of this and many other species of Deltoide we have only received female examples, and as it is almost 


impossible to determine their true generic affinity in the absence of the male sex, they can only be provisionally 


placed at present. 


446 | HETEROCERA. 


MENECINA. 


_ Menecina, Walker, Cat. xv. p. 1585 (1858). 
Blanona, Walker, Cat. xxxili. p. 1105 (1865). 


Walker founded this genus upon a male insect from Ega, and subsequently described 
it under another name from a specimen of the same sex from the same locality. 
Hydrillodes (2) tunicula, Feld. & Rogenh. (Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 120. fig. 30), from 
the Amazons, also belongs to it. 


1. Menecina bifacies. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 15, ¢.) 
Menecina bifacies, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1585 (3). 
Blanona selenisoides, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1105 ( 3)”. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ibbe ; mus. Staudinger).—Amazons, liga +2, 


Two specimens from Chiriqui, a male and female, are before me; the female is 
larger than the male and slightly duller in colour, and has the antenne simple ; both 
examples are almost identical with the types in the National Museum. The male, 
from which the figure is taken, is contained in our own collection. 


ZORZINES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small; thorax rather broad; abdomen slender, not extending beyond the wings, the anal tuft 
small. Palpi long, porrect, rather broad, flattened on the inner side, and thickly clothed with long hairs 
on the outer side, the hairs giving it a plumose appearance. Antenne about two-thirds the length of the 
primaries, very finely pectinated, tufted about the middle. Fore legs rather short, densely covered with 
long hairs; the middle and hind legs long, rather slender, and with long spurs. Primaries with the 
costal and inner margins straight, the apex pointed, the outer margin convex; secondaries with the 
costal margin straight, rounded from the apex to the anal angle, the inner margin almost straight. 

Type Zorzines plumula. 


The single species referred to this genus resembles Saserna in form; but the extra- 
ordinary shape of the male palpi at once distinguishes it. 


1. Zorzines plumula, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 16, 164, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, shaded with darker brown, with a faint pale yellowish waved line crossing 
the wing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, a small yellow dot at the end of the cell, a 
very indistinct waved dark brown line beyond the cell, a yellowish line extending from near the apex to 
about the middle of the inner margin (but curving inwardly towards the costal margin), two brown spots 
(the lower one more distinct than the one above) on the outer side of this line about the middle of the 
outer margin, and a marginal row of black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe 
blackish-brown ; secondaries dark brown, shading to yellowish-brown on the outer margin, with a 
rather wide yellowish line, edged on the inner side with a dark brown line, crossing the wing just below 
the middle, two small black dots at the end of the cell, and a marginal row of minute black spots; the 
underside pale brownish-yellow, both wings crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner 
margin by a dark brown line (this being broken into dots) and with black spots at the end of the cell: 
head and anal tuft yellowish-brown, the thorax and abdomen dusky brown; legs pale yellowish-brown, 
the front pair clothed with long pale yellowish-brown hairs; the palpi on the inner side dark brown, the 


ZORZINES.—SIMPLICIA. 447 


upperside and the base of the long hairs pale fawn-colour, the outer part of the hairs dark brown; the 
antennz dark brown, yellowish at the tip. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (fibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This very distinct and curious species is quite unlike any other Deltoid known to me. 


I have only seen one specimen. 


SIMPLICIA. 
Simplicia, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 51 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 95. 

This genus was founded by Guenée upon a species from Eastern Europe; he also 
included in it two others, one from the Isle of Bourbon, the other from Abyssinia. 
I use the name Stmplicia in the sense adopted by Felder, not having been able to 
see examples of any of Guenée’s species. 


1. Simplicia tibialis. 
Simplicia tibialis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 120. fig. 43, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 
no. 43 (9)? 

Hab. Muxico, Coatepec (Brooks), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemana, San 
Isidro 1600 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ridhe).— 
Braziu !. 

Widely distributed and not uncommon in Central America. 


2. Simplicia aonia, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 17, 17a, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries dark reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin beyond the cell by two very 
indistinct darker brown lines, an orange-brown line also crossing near the base and a submarginal waved 
grey line from the costal to the inner margin, the colour of the wing itself very much duller on the outer 
side of the grey line (in some specimens the submarginal line is not nearly so much waved as in others, 
and some have the marginal part of the wing thickly irrorated with grey scales); secondaries dark 
blackish-brown, paler at the base and along the costal margin; the fringe of both wings dark brown, but 
that of the secondaries a little lighter in colour ; the underside of the primaries pale brown, paler on the 
inner margin, a small grey line partly crossing the wing near the apex, that of the secondaries brown, 
thickly irrorated with grey scales from the base to beyond the middle, crossed by two darker brown lines, 
and with a dark brown dot at the end of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; the palpi 
brown, with the tuft of hair very much darker in colour than it is in the same sex of S. tibialis ; the 
antenne and legs dark brown. Expanse 2,1, inches. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion), Coban in Vera Paz 
(Conradt) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 

Of this species we have only received male examples. These show considerable 
variation in the form of the submarginal grey line: in some specimens it is almost 
straight ; in others waved, as in the Guatemalan example figured. 


3. Simplicia lycambes, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 18, 184, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries dull brown, nearly the same colour as in S. tibialis, crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by very narrow indistinct waved brown lines, and with three minute black dots at the end of the 


448 HETEROCERA. 


cell, the outer margin from near the apex to the anal angle with a greyish-white border which is waved 
on the inner edge (in S. tebialis it is straight); secondaries brown, but paler in colour than the primaries, 
the outer margin faintly streaked with grey; the fringe of both wings pale brown: head, thorax, abdomen, 
antenne, palpi, and legs pale brown. The female very similar to the male, but considerably paler in colour 
and with the greyish marginal band of the primaries very indistinct. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Schaus); Panama, Chiriqui (Rzbbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Closely allied to S. tibialis, Feld. & Rogenh., but altogether a smaller and paler 
insect. Four examples, three males and one female. 


4. Simplicia (?) lysandria, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 19, 194, 3.) 

Male. Primaries pale purplish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two broad dark brown 
bands, and also with two narrow waved dark brown lines ; secondaries uniformly dull brown; the fringe 
of both wings pale brown; the underside pale brown, crossed by darker brown lines, that of the second- 
aries with a submarginal row of small yellowish-brown spots: head, thorax, and abdomen dark purplish- 
brown, the tegule brown ; the palpi large, the third joint tufted with pale yellowish-brown hairs; the 
antennz and legs brown. The female very similar to the male, but with small slender palpi. Expanse, 
3 2,12 inch. 

Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus); GuatemaLa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet 

(Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridse, in mus. Staudinger), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, 


Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Nine examples, one male and eight females. The Mexican specimen in Mr. Schaus’s 
collection is a female; it is paler in colour than any of the others before me. 


5. Simplicia (?) anysis, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 20, 20a, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform dusky brown; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by four indistinct waved darker lines, the fourth of which is submarginal and flecked with white 
on the outer side, a marginal row of very minute black dots extending from the apex to the anal angle ; 
the secondaries with the submarginal line very indistinct, and the white dots very minute; the fringe of 
both wings dark brown: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and legs dusky brown. ‘The female very similar 
to the male, but with simple palpi. Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


Mr. Herbert Smith captured a male of this species in March 1888, and from this 
our figure is taken. The male and female from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection 
are rather paler in colour, but they agree in other respects with the Mexican 
specimen. 


6. Simplicia (?) mera, sp. nv. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 22, 22a, ¢; 23, 2.) 

Male, Primaries and secondaries uniform dull brown; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by two darker brown lines—the first straight and close to the base, the second curved outwards 
beyond the middle—and with a submarginal row of minute white dots extending from the costal margin 
close to the apex to the anal angle, and a small white dot at the end of the cell; the secondaries with a 
very indistinct brown line crossing below the middle; both wings with a marginal row of very minute 
black dots, and with the fringe dark brown: head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark blackish-brown. 


The female altogether darker in colour, and with the markings very indistinct, Expanse, ¢ 2, 
1i inch . 
4 , 


SIMPLICIA.—MAMERTHES. 449 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Dr. Staudinger’s specimens are all we have seen of this species, of which we figure 
both sexes. 


NARCZEA, gen. nov. 


Male, Head and thorax rather broad; the abdomen slender and only extending very slightly beyond the 
wings. Eyes large. Tegule long, extending over the base of the abdomen, and clothed with long hairs. 
Palpi large, curved backwards over the head and thorax, thickly clothed with hairs. Antenne simple, 
about half the length of the primaries. Fore legs stout, very thickly tufted with long hairs; the middle 
and hind legs long and slender, with the spurs elongate. The primaries are rather long and narrow at 
the base ; the costal margin is nearly straight, but slightly curved near the apex, which is pointed ; the 
outer margin is rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin is quite straight ; the discoidal cell is small 
and rather short; on the underside of the wing on the costal margin close to the base is a tuft of hair. 
The secondaries are rather large ; the costal margin is arched about the middle, then straight to the apex ; 
the outer margin is rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin is straight and clothed with rather 
long hairs. The fringe of both wings is short. 

In the female the primaries are a little shorter and broader ; the first joint of the palpi is quite small, the 
second long and rather broad, the third long and very fine, and curved backwards over the head; the 
antenne are rather finer; and the legs are shorter, the front pair not tufted with hair. 


Type Narcea villosa. 


In this new genus the male has an exceedingly large tuft of hair on the fore legs, 
and long and hairy palpi; these characters separating it from the allied forms. 


1. Narceea villosa, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVI. figg. 21, 21a, 3; 24, 9.) 


Male. Primaries dull brown, slightly darker along the costal margin, with a rather large dark brown spot at 
the end of the cell, a waved pale brown line crossing the wing near the base, a straight pale brown line 
crossing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a fine waved submarginal line 
extending from the costal margin close to the apex to the anal angle, the fringe brown ; the secondaries 
similar in colour, but rather paler on the costal margin, with a pale brown line extending partly across 
the wing from the inner margin above the anal angle, and a pale waved submarginal line; both wings 
with a number of very small black points round the outer margin; the underside considerably paler than 
above, and almost without markings of any kind: head, thorax, and abdomen similar in colour to the 
primaries, the anal tuft pale brown; the palpi, the tufts of hair on the legs, and the legs themselves pale 
brown, with a slight yellowish tinge; the antenne brown. The female very like the male, but with the 
lines crossing the wings much more waved; also with very differently formed palpi and fore legs. 
Expanse, ¢ 24, Q 24 inches. ; 

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


The only specimens we have seen of this species were kindly lent to us by Dr. 


Staudinger to describe and figure. 


MAMERTHES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head and thorax small; the abdomen slender, not extending beyond the wings. Eyes moderately 
large. Tegule short, not reaching the base of the abdomen. Palpi long, curved over the head and 
thorax; the first joint short and rather stout; the second joint long and slender, thickly clothed with 
short hairs ; the third joint moderately long and forming a sort of sheath for a long tuft of fine hair. 
Antenne about half the length of the primaries, rather thick, and slightly ciliated. Fore legs mode- 
rately stout and pilose ; the middle and hind legs long and slender, the spurs on the hind pair elongate. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1891. 3 il 


450 ; ; HETEROCERA. 


The primaries are long and narrow at the base; the costal margin is almost straight, but is slightly 
curved just before the apex ; the inner margin is quite straight ; the outer margin is considerably rounded 
from the apex to the anal angle. The secondaries are rather large; the costal margin is quite straight to 
the apex ; the outer margin is very much rounded ; the fringe is very short. 

The female is very similar to the male, but the eyes and antenne are smaller; the second and third joints of 
the palpi are long and very slender, the third joint tapering to a very fine point ; and the fore legs are 
not pilose. 

Type Mamerthes nigrilinea. 


Allied to Simplicia, Guen., but with the palpi of the male shorter, and those of the 
female longer and more slender ; other minor differences are mentioned above. 


1. Mamerthes nigrilinea, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. figg. 1, 1a, 4; 2,2.) 


Male. Primaries darkish brown, the costal margin yellowish-brown, a small black spot near the base of the 
cell, and a large one at the end of it, beyond which the wing is crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by a very distinct waved black line, a number of yellowish-brown points between the black line 
and the outer margin, the outer margin edged with black, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dull 
brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by a very faint dark brown line; the underside of 
both wings pale brown, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales, and crossed beyond the middle by two 
waved brown lines, a large black spot at the end of the cell of the secondaries: head, thorax, abdomen, 
and legs dark brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown; the antenne pale brown; palpi with the first 
joint dark brown, the second joint bright yellowish-brown, the third joint and the large tufts of hair 
darker brown. The female considerably darker in colour than the male, with the antenne finer, the 
palpi differently formed, and the legs without hairs, Expanse, g 9, 13 inch. 


Hab. GuatTeMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Trdtsch, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Cham- 


pion). 
A very distinct species. Six examples—one, a male, from Guatemala, the others, 
all females, from Chiriqui. We figure both sexes. 


NICETAS, gen. nov. 


Allied to Mamer thes, from which it differs in the slightly shorter primaries and more rounded secondaries. 
The palpi of the male are broader and a little longer, those of the female being almost similar; the 
antenne are rather long and very deeply pectinated in the male (only slightly ciliated in Mamerthes) ; 
the abdomen is long and slender, and extends beyond the hind wings. 

Type WMicetas panamensis. 


1. Nicetas panamensis, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVII. figg. 3, 30,3; 4, 2.) 


Male, Primaries dark brown, with a greyish shade extending along the costal margin and crossing the wing 
beyond the middle to the inner margin, a spot about the middle of the cell and one at the end of it very 
dark brown, the wing crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four very fine waved yellowish- 
brown lines which are edged with black on the inner side, the marginal line black, the fringe dark brown; 
secondaries dull brown, paler at the base and along the costal margin, crossed from the costal margin to 
the anal angle by two faint brown waved lines, the marginal line black, the fringe brown; the underside 
uniform pale brown, both wings crossed by two dark brown waved lines, the fringe paler than on the 
upperside: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown; the palpi large, 
rather broad, and clothed on the inner side with a large tuft of very pale yellowish-brown hairs; the 
antenne about half the length of the primaries, brown, and rather deeply pectinated ; the legs pale brown, 


NICETAS.-—STRATHOCLES. 451 


long, and slender, the spurs elongate. The female similar to the male, but with the antenne simple, and 
the palpi long, the third joint of the latter very fine and pointed (as in the same sex of Mamerthes niqri- 
linea). Expanse, g 13, 9 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Our descriptions and figures are taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimens. We have 
only received female examples, one from each locality. 


2, Nicetas annon, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVII. figg. 5,5a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries dull brown with a purplish tinge, crossed by two waved black lines—the first near the base, 
the second beyond the middle,—and with an elongate black mark in the cell; secondaries dull brown, 
paler at the base and along the costal margin, an indistinct brown line crossing the wing from about the 
middle of the costal margin to the inner margin just above the anal angle; the underside pale greyish- 
brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a dark brown line, 
and with a dark brown spot at the end of the cell, the spot on the primaries very faint: head, thorax, 
and abdomen dull brown; the antenne brown, deeply pectinated; the palpi very long, curving back- 
wards nearly to the middle of the abdomen, the outer side yellowish-brown, the inner side clothed with 
long yellowish-white hairs. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus). 


Allied to WV. panamensis, from the same sex of which it may be distinguished by its 
much duller colour, and by the markings on the primaries being fewer in number; 
there is only one line crossing the wings on the underside (instead of two, as in 
N. panamensis), and the antenne and palpi are longer. One specimen only. 


3. Nicetas lycon, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. figg. 6, 6 a, 3.) 

Male. Primaries pale greyish-brown, erossed from the costal to the inner margin by two very fine waved 
black lines, and with a large black spot at the end of the cell, from which a narrow curved brown line 
extends to the inner margin, a small round black spot near the base of the cell, and a submarginal row 
of very indistinct minute pale yellowish-brown points extending from the apex to the inner margin ; 
secondaries dull brown, paler from the inner margin to about the middle, crossed from the costal margin 
to the anal angle by a waved black line, and with a submarginal band of pale yellowish-brown points as 
on the primaries ; the marginal line of both wings black, the fringes brown; the underside uniform pale 
greyish-brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle by two dark brown waved lines, and each with a 
black spot at the end of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; the antenne and legs brown ; 
the palpi long and broad, and with a large tuft of creamy-white hairs on the inner side. The female 
very similar to the male, but very much smaller. Expanse, ¢ 13, 9 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

The only specimens we have seen of this insect were communicated to us by 
Dr. Staudinger. It is allied to the two preceding species, but is altogether smaller 
and very differently marked. 


SFRATHOCLES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the eyes prominent ; the thorax rather broad; the tegule long; the abdomen slender, not 
extending beyond the wings. Antenne not pectinated, about half the length of the primaries. Palpi 
large; the first joint small; the second and third joints long, thickly covered with fine hairs, the third 


3 U2 


452, HETEROCERA. 


with a large tuft of hair on the inner side. The fore legs long, the tibize thickly clothed with hairs, the 
tarsi very slender ; the hind legs long, extending slightly beyond the wings, and very thickly clothed with 
long silky hairs almost to the claws, the spurs very long. The primaries long and rather narrow ; 
the costal margin slightly concave about the middle; the apex rounded; the outer margin nearly 
straight to beyond the middle, then much rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin quite straight. 
The secondaries rather large, and much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the costal margin 
straight. 

The female very similar to the male, but without any hair on the legs or palpi, excepting a very minute tuft 
just behind the tip of the latter (in other respects the palpi closely resemble those of the females of the 
genus Nicetas). 

Type Strathocles ribbe. 


1. Strathocles ribbei, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVII. figg. 7, 7a, 3; 8, 2.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries almost uniformly dull brown; the primaries with a lighter brown mark at 
the end of the cell, beyond which are two rather large blackish-brown spots joined together by a slightly 
waved line, the marginal line black; the secondaries with a very faint submarginal pale brown line 
extending from the costal margin slightly above the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle; the 
underside pale greyish-brown, that of the primaries darker near the apex, both wings crossed beyond the 
middle by two very faint brown waved lines: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; the fore legs, 
antenne, and palpi paler brown, the tuft of hairs on the palpi and the hairs on the hind legs pale 
yellowish-brown. The female slightly darker in colour than the male, and altogether a smaller insect ; 
its other differences are pointed out in the generic description. Expanse, ¢ 25, 2 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in ‘Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, in mus. D. ; 
Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


I have named this species after Herr Ribbe, who has discovered so many curious 
species of Deltoide. Our figure of the male is taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimen, 
that of the female from one in our own collection, both of which were captured by 
Herr Ribbe. The Mexican specimen is the darkest; it was captured in February 
1888. 


2. Strathocles imitata, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 9, 2.) 


Female. Primaries pinkish-brown, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a wide 
dark brown band, this band being edged on both sides by a narrow black waved line, and becoming 
narrower and darker towards the inner margin, the outer margin shaded with dark brown, a large black 
spot at the end of the cell, and a very indistinct submarginal waved pale brown line extending from the 
costal margin near the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle, the marginal line yellowish-brown 
with black points, the fringe brown; secondaries dull brown, paler on the costal margin, partly crossed 
from the anal angle by two pale brown lines which do not extend more than halfway across the wing, 
and with a marginal line as on the primaries; the underside greyish-brown, that of the primaries with a 
yellowish tinge along the costal margin, both wings crossed: by two pale yellowish-brown lines: head, 
palpi, thorax, and antenne pale brown, the abdomen dusky brown, the legs brown. Expanse 2 inches. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Taboga I. (coll. Dognin). 
Somewhat resembles Nicetas panamensis in the pattern of the primaries, but entirely 


different in colour. The small tuft of hair on the third joint of the palpi at once shows 
that this insect is the female of a species allied to Strathocles ribbet. 


HERMINIA.—PYRGION. 453 


HERMINIA. 
Herminia, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins. iii. p. 418 (1802) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 96. 


Most of the species included in this genus are European or North-American. 


1. Herminia (?) flacillalis, 
Herminia (?) flacillalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 856 '. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 4). 


Walker’s type is a female; it is the only specimen we have seen. 


MARIMATHA. 
Marimatha, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (1865). 


Walker founded this genus upon the female of a species that he had previously 
described under the name of Herminia rhodarialis (the locality for which was not 
known), at the same time including in it two from Honduras, and others from West 
Africa and Southern India. It is very doubtful if they are all congeneric. 


1. Marimatha dinumeratalis. 
Marimatha dinumeratalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (3). 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 1), 


This species is only known to us from Walker’s type in the National collection. 


2. Marimatha (?) nigripalpis. 
Marimatha nigripalpis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (¢)’. 
Hab. Honvuras (Dyson !). 


The only specimen of this species we have seen is the type in the British Museum. 


PYRGION, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small; the eyes very prominent; the thorax broad; the tegule long. Abdomen long and slender, 
extending quite one third of its length beyond the wings. Antenne about half the length of the 
primaries, slender, and very slightly pectinated. Palpi large, curved back over the head and thorax, 
densely clothed with hair, and thickly tufted on the third joint. Legs long and slender, the fore pair 
clothed with hairs. The primaries broad, excepting at the base; the costal margin straight from the 
apex almost to the base, where it is rather sharply curved ; the apex pointed; the outer margin nearly 
straight, but slightly rounded at the anal angle; the inner margin. straight; on the underside the costal 
margin from the base to beyond the middle is thickly tufted with hairs, which curve inwards, the tufts 
being much thicker in some specimens than in others. The secondaries large ; the costal margin straight ; 
outer margin much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the inner margin short, and clothed with 
rather long hairs. . 

Type Bleptina menippusalis, Walk. 


Walker described the female only of B. menippusalis; the male at once shows that 
it belongs to a very distinct genus from Bleptina. 


454 _ HETEROCERA. 


1. Pyrgion menippusalis. (Tab. XXXVII. figg. 10, 10a, ¢; 11, 2.) 
Bleptina menippusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 126 (2) °. 


Male. Very similar to the female, but generally darker in colour, with slightly thicker antenna, very differ- 
ently formed palpi, and a much longer and more slender abdomen. Expanse, 3, 17 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla 
(M. Trujillo); GuateMaa, Capetillo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 
to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
VENEZUELA |. | 


Varies considerably in the colour of the primaries; in some specimens they are 
quite dark brown and in others pale yellowish-brown, but in no one locality does any 
form appear to be constant. In Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica the species seems 
to be rare, as we have only received one or two specimens from each of the 
localities mentioned. In Panama it is common, especially the female. Our figure of 
the male is taken from a Mexican specimen; that of the female from a Chiriqui 
example. The latter is almost identical with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 


SCOPIFERA. 


Scopifera, Herrich-Schaffer, Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1870, sep. copy, pp. 38, 44; 
Felder & Rogenhofer, Reise der Novara, Lep., Erkl. der Taf. 120. no. 35. 


1. Scopifera longipalpis. 
Scopifera longipalpis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 120. fig. 35, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 
no. 35(¢ 92)’. . 

Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Chacoj (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio 
Sucio, Volca de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (2ibbe, in mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA!; Soutu- 
EAST Braziu}. 


Most of our specimens are darker in colour than Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure ( ¢ ), 
but in other respects they agree well with it. 


BLEPTINA. 
Bleptina, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 66 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 119. 

Guenée included seven species in Bleptina, all from North or South America or the 
Antilles; but he described four of them from the. female sex only. Walker added a 
large number of species, nearly all of which will have to be assigned to other genera. 
The species placed first in the genus by Guenée, B. confusalis, is found throughout 
the greater part of our region ; it has the palpi nearly alike in both sexes. 


BLEPTINA. 459 


1. Bleptina confusalis. | 
Bleptina confusalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 67, Delt. et Pyral. t. 9. f. 2 (9)1; Walk. Cat. 
Xvi. pp. 124 (2) ?, 241 (g)%. 

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (fF. D. G. & H. Hf. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla, Jalapa (MZ. Tru- 
jitlo), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Guaremaza, San Gerénimo and Panima in 
Vera Paz (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); 
Panama, Volcan de -Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—VENEZUELA 23; Braziu }, 


Mr. Smith’s specimens were captured during February, March, and April 1888. A 
variable and common species in Central America. 


2. Bleptina philetesalis. 
Bleptina philetesalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 127 (?)*. 


Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 1). 


As the male is unknown, it is impossible to determine with any certainty if this 
species is rightly placed in the genus Bleptina. The specimen in the National Museum 
is the only one we have seen. 


3. Bleptina malia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 12, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform dull brown; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by three very faint darker brown waved lines, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle 
broadly bordered with greyish-brown, a very minute white dot at the end of the cell; the secondaries 
with a faint line of very minute dark brown dots crossing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner 
margin: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs almost the same colour as the primaries. The female 
very similar in colour to the male. Expanse, ¢ 2, 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (f7dde, in mus. Staudinger). 


Our figure is taken from the male specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


4, Bleptina (?) lasza, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIL. fig. 13, 2.) 

Female. Primaries and secondaries pale dull brown ; the primaries with a rather large round dark brown spot 
at the end of the cell, beyond which a similarly coloured zigzag waved line crosses the wing from the 
costal to the inner margin, three dark brown spots along the costal margin, a narrow brown line below 
the middle extending from the costal margin to the middle of the inner margin, and a minute white dot 
edged with dark brown at the end of the cell; the fringe of both wings brown; the underside very 
similar to the upperside, but considerably paler in colour: head, thorax, abdomen, and antenne brown ; 
the palpi brown, with numerous scattered white hairs; the legs pale brown, banded with greyish-white. 
Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger). | 
One specimen of this distinctly marked insect is contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collec- 
tion; it is the only example we have seen. 


456 HETEROCERA. 


5. Bleptina (?) antinoe, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 14.) 


Primaries yellowish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two very faint brown lines, a 
rather indistinct orange-brown spot near the anal angle, and a minute white dot at the end of the cell ; 
secondaries dull brown ; the fringe brown, that of the primaries a little darker than that of the second- 
aries ; the underside of both wings very pale brown: head and thorax yellowish-brown, the abdomen 
darker brown, the anal tuft pale brown; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (2zbbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen. 


6. Bleptina (?)magas, sp. n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 15, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries uniform dull brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle from the costal 
to the inner margin by a narrow brown line, which is edged with paler brown on the outer side, and with 
a submarginal row of small darker brown dots (with minute whitish-brown points) and a white streak at 
the end of the cell; the underside very similar to the upperside, but considerably paler in colour : head, 
thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen, 


7. Bleptina (?) antelia, sp. n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 16, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries dark brown; the primaries with the costal margin from the base to the 
apex creamy-white, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two rather wide creamy-white 
lines—the first near the base, the second beyond the middle; the secondaries partly crossed from the anal 
angle to about the middle of the wing by a creamy-white line; the outer margin of both wings edged 
with a black line, the fringes dark brown; the underside pale brown, with the lines very faintly indi- 
cated: the collar, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the front of the head, the palpi, antennex, and legs 
creamy-white. Expanse 1# inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. * Staudinger). 


One female example. 


8. Bleptina (2) aratus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIL fig. 17,2.) 


female. Primaries fawn-colour, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by two rather faint 
waved reddish-brown lines, a small dark brown spot on the costal margin near the base, a large angular 
dark brown spot edged. with a pale yellowish-fawn-coloured line (more distinct on the outer than on the 
inner side) close to the apex, and several very minute black dots below the angular spot; secondaries 
dull brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two darker brown lines—the first just below 
the middle of the wing, the second submarginal and paler than the other; the marginal lines of both 
wings black, the fringe fawn-colour; the underside very similar in colour to the upperside, but without 
the dark brown markings at the apex of the primaries, and with all the lines very indistinct: head, thorax, 
palpi, and antenne fawn-colour, the abdomen and legs dull brown. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde, in mus. Staudinger). 


Two specimens of this distinct species, both females, are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s 
collection. 


9. Bleptina (?) macedo, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 18, 2.) | 
Female, Primaries and secondaries pale pinkish-fawn-colour; the primaries with three brown streaks on the 
costal margin, a large round reddish-brown spot at the end of the cell, a faint waved brown line crossing 


BLEPTINA.—ARISTARIA. 457 


near the base from the costal to the inner margin, and a faint submarginal line extending from near the 
apex to the anal angle, the marginal line black, the fringe pale fawn-colour; the secondaries more dusky 
in colour, especially near the apex, crossed by two indistinct pale lines which are edged with darker brown 
on the outer side; the underside very similar to the upperside in colour, but without the dark marking on 
the primaries: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, antennee, and legs fawn-colour, the head and palpi a little 
darker than the other parts. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribdde, in mus. Staudinger). 


One female specimen. 


10. Bleptina (?) lyceus, sp. n. (Tab. XXXVII. fig. 19, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries brownish-fawn-colour, the primaries darker along the costal margin, both 
wings crossed beyond the middle by a rather wide dark brown line, which is edged on either side with a 
narrow waved whitish line, and with the marginal line black and the fringe fawn-colour; the underside 
much more dusky in colour than the upperside, and almost without markings: head, thorax, palpi, and 
antenne brownish-fawn-colour, the abdomen and legs dull brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


. CRYMONA. 
Crymona, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 3, 1. p. 117 (1862). 


Walker founded this genus upon a male example of a Brazilian species, C. receptalis, 
Walk., the type being now in the Oxford Museum. Herminia rhetusalis, Walk., seems 
best placed here. 


1. Crymona rhetusalis. 
Herminia rhetusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 110 (¢)’. 

Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo); Guatumata, in the city (Rodriguez), 
San Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VENE- 
ZUELA!; AMAZONS, Egat. 

In our region this is a very common insect. It is extremely variable, both in 
size and colour: some specimens are dark brown, others quite pale fawn-colour. 
Mr. Herbert Smith captured his specimens between the months of February and May, 
and again in August 1888. Examples from the Volcan de Chiriqui are larger than 
those from more northern localities. 


ARISTARIA. 
Aristaria, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 70 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 129. 

This genus was defined by Guenée from the male of a Brazilian insect, the type of 
which I have not seen. One species from Central America agrees fairly well, however, 
with the characters given by the author, and I venture to include it in his genus; 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1891. 3mm 


458 HETEROCERA. 


seven others are doubtfully referred to it. The female of A. /ydia has the antenne 
quite simple and the palpi rather small. 


1. Aristaria lydia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. figg. 20, 20a, 3.) 


Male, Primaries dark brown, with a small black spot at the end of the cell, which has a few minute greyish 
scales on the outer side, a greyish-white submarginal line crossing the wing from the costal to the inner 
margin, and the space between it and the outer margin thickly irrorated with greyish-white scales (these 
in some specimens being almost obsolete); secondaries uniformly brown, slightly paler than the primaries, 
and with a short greyish-white line close to the anal angle; the marginal line of both wings black, the 
fringe brown; the underside pale dull brown, the greyish-white lines showing very faintly as above: head, 
thorax, abdomen, and legs dark brown; the antenne and palpi reddish-brown, the hairs on the antennz 
and at the end of the palpi yellowish-brown. The female similar to the male in colour and markings. 
Expanse, ¢ ?, 14 inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio, Caché (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui 
(ftbbe), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


A few specimens only have been received. Our figure is taken from a Chiriqui 
example. 


2. Aristaria (?) lysis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVII. fig. 21, 2.) 

Female. Primaries and secondaries dull brown; the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
two narrow waved darker brown lines—the first near the base, the second beyond the cell,—and with a 
variable rather large oval pale yellowish-brown spot (larger and brighter in colour in some examples) at 
the end of the cell; both wings with a submarginal row of minute yellowish-white dots, these being more 
distinct in some specimens than in others: head, thorax, palpi, antenne, abdomen, and legs dull brown. 
Expanse 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus); GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 
feet (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 


Varies considerably in colour and in the distinctness of the markings. The specimen 
from Mexico is duller in colour than any of the others before us. Our figure is taken 
from a Guatemalan example. 


3. Aristaria (?) pentheusalis. 
Bleptina pentheusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 128 (9)'. 


Male, Very similar in colour to the female, but with a reddish-brown spot at the end of the cell; the antenne 
tufted about the middle (unfortunately the palpi are broken off). 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Venezvueta!. 


Our female specimen agrees with Walker’s type in the National Museum. 


4. Aristaria (?) ? | 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen, apparently a female, in very poor condition, without abdomen. 


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5. Aristaria ? 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


One worn specimen, apparently belonging to a distinct species. 


6. Aristaria (?) lycaon, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIL. fig. 22, 2.) 

Male. Primaries pale brown shaded with darker brown, with three dark brown lines crossing from the costal 
to the inner margin, two blackish-brown spots close to the apex—the first rather large, the second small,— 
and a fine waved indistinct submarginal yellowish-brown line extending from the costal margin close to the 
apex to the anal angle; secondaries dull brown, with a faint rather darker brown line crossing the middle 
from the costal to the inner margin; the underside of both wings uniform pale dusky brown: head, 
thorax, abdomen, palpi, antenna, and legs dull brown. The female very similar to the male, but more 
uniform in colour, and with all the markings more indistinct. Expanse, g 14, ? 1,3; inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San 
Geronimo, Capetillo (Champion). 


Mr. Herbert Smith captured a male of this insect in August 1888 ; it is rather darker 
in colour than the male and female before me from Guatemala. A male from San 
Gerdnimo is figured. 


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7. Aristaria (?) apicata, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVII. fig. 23, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries dark fawn-colour, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two dark brown lines which 
are edged with paler brown on the outer side—the first close to the base, the second beyond the middle,— 
two black spots at the end of the cell, and a pale waved submarginal line extending from near the apex 
to the anal angle; secondaries blackish-brown; the fringe of both wings yellowish fawn-colour; the 
underside almost uniform dull brown, slightly irrorated with a few greyish scales: head, thorax, abdomen, 
palpi, antenne, and legs brown. The female very similar to the male, but usually very much paler in 
colour, and with simple antenne. Expanse, ¢ 2, 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (Forrer), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); GuareMaa, San 
Gerénimo (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Caché (Rogers). 


Varies considerably in colour, the females being generally the lightest. Mr. Herbert 


Smith captured specimens in March and April 1888. Our figure is taken from a Costa 
Rican male. 


8. Aristaria (?) mera, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 24, 3.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries pale brown; the primaries crossed before the middle from the costal to the 
inner margin by a rather wide dark brown band, an oval spot of variable size and colour at the end of the 
cell (in some specimens greyish-yellow, in others black, and in some almost obsolete), and a submarginal 
row of very minute yellowish-white dots extending from near the apex to the inner margin just above the 
anal angle; the fringe of both wings pale brown; the underside uniformly brown. The female very 
similar to the male, but with the antenne simple. Expanse, ¢ 9, 1} to 1; inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 1000 feet, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 
Coatepec, Rinconada in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann, 
H. H. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), Taboga I. (J. J. Walker). 

3mm 2 


460 HETEROCERA. 


In Mexico this appears to be a very common and variable species. Mr. Herbert 
Smith’s specimens were captured in January and September 1888. Our figure is taken 
from a male from Atoyac. 


THEOTINUS, gen. nov. 


Male, Head small; the thorax and abdomen slender, the latter not extending beyond the wings. Palpislender ; 
the second joint rather long; the third joint small. Antenne long, tufted with long hairs about the 
middle. Legs rather long and slender, the front pair clothed with hairs. The primaries long and narrow; 
the costal margin nearly straight from the base almost to the apex, where it is slightly rounded; on the 
costal margin above near the base is a large tuft of thick hairs which projects almost straight out from 
the wing; the outer margin considerably rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin quite straight. 
The secondaries much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the costal margin straight; the inner 
margin thickly clothed with hairs. 

The female differs from the male in the costal margin of the primaries not being tufted and in the simple 
antenne. 

Type Bleptina virbiusalis, Walker. 


1. Theotinus virbiusalis, (Tab. XXXVIII. fig. 1,3.) 
Bleptina virbiusahs, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 126 (¢)’. 
Hab. Guatemata, Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 
6000 to 7000 feet, Caché (Rogers).—VENEZUELA !. 


Our specimen from Guatemala, a female, is altogether darker in colour than those 
from Costa Rica; it is in very poor condition, and may prove to belong toa + distinct 
species. A male from Costa Rica is figured. 


2. Theotinus lycimnia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 2, 2.) 


' Female. Primaries and secondaries dark brown; the primaries with the central portion pale brown, crossed by 
several indistinct darker brown lines, a small oval brown spot at the end of the cell edged with pale 
yellowish-brown, and a submarginal pale yellowish-brown waved line extending from the costal margin 
close to the apex to the inner margin near the anal angle, the marginal line black ; the secondaries partly 
crossed near the anal angle by two fine yellowish-brown lines ; the fringe of both wings alternately dark 
brown and pale yellowish-brown: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. Expanse | 
1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus). 
Allied to 7. virbiusalis, Walk. One specimen. 


TORTRICODES. 


Tortricodes, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 71 (1854); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 180’; Warren, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, pp. 217, 254.7, 255. 

“‘Fore wings (of the male) with the costa excavated on each side of a thick crest of 
hairs in the middle; exterior border deeply notched” 1. Female with the costal margin 
almost straight to the apex, without any tuft of hairs, the outer margin not lobed as 
in the male. For Tortricodes and two other genera, Gaberasa, Walk., and Pteroprista, 
Warr., Mr. Warren has proposed ? the family “Pteropristide.” From our region we 


TORTRICODES. 461 


have examples of three species of Tortricodes and four of Gaberasa, including both 
sexes of all but one of them, represented by over 100 specimens. Mr. Warren 
remarks? that all the examples at present known of Tortricodes, Gaberasa, and 
Pteroprista are males; the females, however, have been known for years in some 
collections, including that of the Oxford Museum. He has omitted the allied genus 
Lascoria, Walker, from his family Pteropristide ; it has the wing cleft as in Tortricodes. 
We do not adopt the family name proposed by Mr. Warren for the five male specimens 
in the British Museum (two only of which I have been able to find), because to be 
consistent it would be necessary to make a large number of additional families, 
without having sufficient material for so doing. 


1. Tortricodes pterophoralis. 
Tortricodes pterophoralis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 72, Delt. et Pyral. t. 7. fig. 2 (¢)° 
Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 130°; Warren, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 255. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Azbbe, in mus. 


Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor ; Braz} ?. 


The female is very similar to the male, but is without the tuft of hair on the costal 
margin and the cleft on the outer margin of the primaries. In our region 7. pitero- 
phoralis appears to be a fairly common species, of which the females seem to be more 


numerous than the males. 


2. Tortricodes aon, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 8, 3a, 3; 4,2.) 
Male. Primaries pale brown, the tuft of hair on the costal margin pale yellowish-brown and less dense than in 
T. pterophoralis, the wing crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four fine waved brown lines, 
that nearest the base and joining the costal tuft shaded with very pale brown on the inner side, two small 
dark spots close to the apex (the first smaller than the second), the outer margin cleft as in T. ptero- 
phoralis, but with a semihyaline elongated spot just above the basal end of the cleft between it and the 
costal margin ; secondaries pale dusky brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two very 
faint brown lines; the underside of both wings pale brown irrorated with greyish scales, the fringe pale 
brown: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antenne brown; the palpi dark brown, considerably longer 
than in 7’. pterophoralis. The female very similarly marked to the male, but altogether rather paler in 
colour, and differing (as all the females of this group do) in the entire absence of the cleft in the outer 
margin of the primaries. Expanse, ¢ 1,45, 9 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); GuaTEMa.a, Cerro Zunil 4000 
feet, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Pamama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger). 

Closely allied to 7. pterophoralis, from which it may be easily distinguished by its 
larger size and paler colour, and by the semihyaline spot just above the cleft on the 
outer margin of the primaries ; in some specimens, however, this spot is not so distinct 
as it is in others. 


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462 HETEROCERA. 


3. Tortricodes alucitalis? (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 5, 5a, 3; 6, 2.) 
Tortricodes alucitalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 73 (¢) *; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 1317; Herr.- 
Schiff. Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1870, sep. copy, p. 43°; Warren, Trans. Ent. Soc. 


Lond. 1889, p. 254%. 

Hab. GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (idbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Amazons*; Braziu}2; Cusa?. 

Mr. Champion captured one male of this insect in Guatemala; both sexes are con- 
tained in Dr. Staudinger’s Chiriqui collection. The specimen from the Amazons in 
the National Museum is a small one and in poor condition. Our figures are taken 
from Chiriqui examples. 


GABERASA. 
Gaberasa, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1197 (1865) ; Warren, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, pp. 254, 255. 


This genus was founded by Walker upon the male of a species from North America, 
but it is not included in Grote’s ‘Check-list of North-American Moths.’ Gaberasa 
is allied to Tortricodes, from which it is at once distinguished by the entire absence of 
the tuft of hair on the costal margin of the primaries of the male; in all other respects 
the two genera are very much alike. 


1. Gaberasa anxa, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIII. figg. 7, 7a, ¢; 8, 2.) 


Male. Primaries deeply cleft on the outer margin, pale brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
three dark brown bands—the first wide, the third simply a waved line at the base of the cleft,—and with 
a pale yellow spot, bordered on the apical side with dark brown, on the outer margin; secondaries dull 
brown, paler at the base, and crossed beyond the middle by two faint brown lines ; the underside pale 
brown, both wings crossed by a submarginal narrow waved whitish line: head, thorax, abdomen, and 
legs brown, the palpi and antenne dark brown. The female very similar to the male, but generally 
darker in colour and with the submarginal line more distinct on the upperside. Expanse, ¢ 12, 
© 1 inch. 


Hab. GuateMata, San Isidro 1600 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde). 


Mr. Champion captured a fine series of both sexes of this species in Guatemala ; it 
is allied to G. ambigualis, Walk. 


2. Gaberasa manes, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 9, 9a,¢; 10,2.) 

Male. Primaries rather widely cleft on the outer margin, pale brown, with a narrow pale yellowish-brown line 
crossing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, broadly bordered on the outer margin (from 
the inner margin to the middle of the wing) with dark brown, a large pale yellowish-brown spot just 
above the cleft, and a submarginal pale brown line extending from near the apex to the anal angle, the 
fringe dark brown; secondaries uniformly dull brown, slightly paler at the base and along the costal 
margin, two submarginal indistinct pale brown lines extending from the costal margin near the apex to 
the inner margin above the anal angle, the marginal line black with white points, an indistinct small 
brown spot at the end of the cell, the fringe dark brown; the underside of both wings pale greyish-brown, 
the submarginal line white and very distinct, the spot at the end of the cell on the secondaries deep 


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black : head, thorax, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown; the abdomen brown, but considerably paler 
beneath. The female very like the male, but paler in colour. Expanse, ¢ 14, 2 1,3, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus); GuateMaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


We have only seen two males of this insect, one from Mexico, the other from Costa 
Rica. Our figures are taken from Costa Rican examples. This species is by far the 
largest in the genus. 


8. Gaberasa albibasalis. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 11,6; 12,9.) 
Bleptina albibasalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1160". 
Hab. GuatEMaa, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA}. 


Walker described this species from a Venezuelan specimen, which is, without doubt, 
a female and not a male as stated by him!. We have examples of both sexes: the 
discovery of the male shows that it belongs to the genus Gaderasa, this sex differing as 
usual from the female in the cleft outer margin of the primaries. 


4, Gaberasa (?) albipunctalis, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 18, 13 a, ¢ .) 


Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a wide 
brownish band edged on both sides with a waved black line, the black line bordered with a white line, a 
dark brown tuft of hairs at the base of the cleft on the outer margin, and a submarginal row of rather 
large white spots extending from near the apex to the inner margin by the anal angle; secondaries 
creamy-white, with a faint brown line crossing the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a 
short white streak edged on both sides with dark brown close to the anal angle; both wings with a 
marginal line of small black spots; the fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside pale greyish-brown, with 
the markings very indistinct : head, thorax, palpi, antenne, abdomen, and legs pale greyish-fawn-colour. 
Expanse, ¢, 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimelt), Jalapa (Hdge). 

I place this insect in the genus Gaberasa with considerable doubt: the palpi (¢ ) 
are rather more thickly clothed with hairs and the outer margin of the primaries is 
much more angular than usual; but with only two specimens, both males, one of 
which is not in good condition, I think it better for the present to provisionally 
include it in this genus. 


LASCORIA. 
Lascoria, Walker, Cat. xix. p. 838 (1859). 

Walker founded this genus upon a male insect from Brazil. It is allied to Toréri- 
codes and Gaberasa; but differs from both in its narrower and longer primaries, smaller 
and more slender palpi, and slightly more prominent eyes. The sexes differ as in the 
allied genera. From our region we have a good series of specimens of both sexes of 
Walker’s species. 


464 HETEROCERA. 


1. Lascoria phormisalis. (Tab. XXXVIII. figg. 14, ¢; 15, 9.) 
Lascoria phormisalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 839 (3) °. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus); GuatemMaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet 
(Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Sovtu-East Brazit, Rio Janeiro !. 


It may be useful to note here that the types of many species described by Walker 
from Mr. Fry’s collection, including that of the present insect, are now in the late 
Mr. Saunders’s collection in the museum at Oxford. 


OTACES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head, including the eyes, small ; the thorax rather broad ; the tegule long ; the abdomen stout, extend- 
ing slightly beyond the wings. Palpi large, porrect; second joint long and flat, thickly clothed with 
hairs ; third joint small and very fine. Proboscis short and slender. Antenne about half the length of 
the primaries, very slender, and tufted with hair near the end. Legs long and slender, with long spurs. 
The primaries with their costal margin straight, slightly rounded at the apex ; the outer margin angular 
and deeply cleft near the anal angle ; at the base of the cleft is a tuft of short hairs similar to that present 
in the genus Lascoria; on the underside the costal margin is thickly clothed with short hair from the 
base almost to the apex, and there is a tuft of long appressed silky hairs extending across the wing from 
near the inner margin. The secondaries large and very much rounded from the apex to the anal angle. 
The fringe of both wings rather long. | 

Type Otaces lineata. 


This genus is allied to Gaberasa and Lascoria, from both of which it may be at once 
distinguished by the shape of the primaries, the differently formed palpi, and the tufted 
antennee in the male. 


1. Otaces lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 16, 16a, 3.) 


Male, Primaries dark brown, with the costal margin from the base almost to the apex broadly edged with pale 
yellowish-brown, three dark brown lines crossing the wing from the costal margin (which they do not 
quite touch) to the inner margin, and a large somewhat oval grey spot close to the anal angle, above 
which a faint yellowish-brown line extends almost to the apex, the fringe and the tuft of hair at the base 
of the cleft brown; secondaries dull brown, paler at the base, the fringe yellowish-brown; the underside 
brown, that of the secondaries irrorated with greyish scales and crossed by two dark brown lines: head 
in front, palpi, and sides of the thorax yellowish-brown, the rest of the thorax, the antenne, and tegule 
dark brown ; the abdomen dull brown, similar in colour to the secondaries; the legs pale brown. The 
female very similar to the male, but with simple antennz and without the cleft in the primaries. Expanse, 
3 9,14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Azbbe; mus. Staudinger). 


Our description and figure are taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimens, those in our 
own collection being very much worn. 


SITOPHORA. 
Sitophora, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lep. viii. p. 74 (1854); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 181. 


This genus was founded by Guenée upon the male of a Brazilian insect. It is 


SITOPHORA.—EPIZEUXIS. 465 


allied to Tortricodes, the costal tuft of hairs being very similar ; but the outer margin 
of the primaries in the male is not deeply cleft. The second joint of the palpi in 
the male is exceedingly long, fully half the length of the costal margin, and the third 
joint is sickle-shaped. 


1. Sitophora (?) lyces, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 17, 17a, ¢ .) 


Male. Primaries dark brown, slightly shaded with purplish along the inner margin, with a darker brown 
band crossing the wing near the base from the costal to the inner margin, a rather large pale yellowish- 
brown subapical spot, and a pale marginal line extending from the apex almost to the anal angle, the 
tuft on the costal margin and the fringe dark brown; secondaries uniform dark brown, the fringe 
similarly coloured; the underside. paler brown, that of the secondaries with a submarginal waved 
greyish line extending from the apex to the anal angle: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs dark 
brown ; the palpi dark brown, with the third joint yellowish-brown. Expanse, ¢, 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen only of this distinct species was captured by Mr. Champion. I 
include it in Sttophora with some doubt, not having seen the type; the insect, 
however, agrees well with the generic description. 


GLENOPTERIS. 


Glenopteris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 255 (1816); Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vill. p. 79; 
Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 135. 
This genus hardly seems to belong to the Deltoides. In pattern the primaries 
closely resemble those of several species of Cenipeta. One species only is known. 


1. Glenopteris oculata. 
Phalena oculata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 71, t. 824. fig. F*. 
Glenopteris oculifera, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. ii. t. 200. figg. 1,2 (6), 8,4 (9)7; Verz. bek. 

Schmett. p. 255. 
Glenopteris oculiferalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 80°; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 186°. 
Glenopteris herbidalis, Guen. loc. cit. p. 80, Delt. et Pyral. t. 4. fig. 4 (2) °. 

Hab. Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de 

Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor ; Guiana, Surinam 14; Amazons *; 
Braziu ® 4. 


Widely distributed, but apparently nowhere common. Guenée’s description? of 
G. oculiferalis is taken from Hiibner’s figures 2; no locality is mentioned by either of 
these authors. 


EPIZEUXIS. 


Epizeuxis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 346 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 182; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 43. 
Helia, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 75 (1854). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1891. 3 mn 


466 HETEROCERA. 


Hiibner included four species in his genus Epizeuxis, one of which occurs in our 
region; we now provisionally place three others in it. 


1. Epizeuxis zemula. 
Idia Dolosa emula, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. i. t. 213. figg. 1, 2 (3), 8, 4 (9). 
Epizeuxis emulalis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 346 ; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 184 (¢)’. 
Helia emulalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 78 (2) *. 
Epizeuxis emula, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 43 *. 
Hab. Norra America! 2 3, Colorado, [linois.—MExico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer). 


The single specimen captured by Mr. Forrer in N.W. Mexico agrees with others 
from Colorado and Illinois in my own collection. 


2. Epizeuxis (?) anticlea, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 18.) 


Primaries and secondaries dull greyish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by several very 
fine waved white lines, a marginal row of minute black dots with white points on the inner side extend- 
ing from the apex to the anal angle of both wings, the fringe dull greyish-brown ; the underside pale 
brown, with darker brown lines crossing both wings: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, palpi, and antennz 
dull greyish-brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab, GuatemMata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (fzbbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 


This insect appears to be allied to L. emula. Mr. Champion captured two specimens, 
both of which I believe to be females. 


8. Epizeuxis (?) maceria, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 19.) 

Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, with a greenish tinge in certain lights, crossed from the costal 
to the inner margin by four very fine waved pinkish-brown lines edged with silvery-white on the inner 
side, two dark pinkish-brown spots at the end of the cell of the primaries, and a marginal row of small 
black dots extending from the apex to the angle of both wings, the marginal line pinkish-brown, the 
fringe pale fawn-colour: head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour. Expanse 1 
inch. 


- Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. 
Staudinger). 

The two examples in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are considerably worn, but I 
believe them to be conspecific with the insect now described. 


4, Epizeuxis (?) anser, sp.n. (Tab, XXXVIII. fig. 20.) 

Primaries and secondaries pale greyish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four narrow 
waved darker brown lines, a black spot edged on the inner side with white close to the apex ot the 
primaries, and a very similar spot at the anal angle of the secondaries, a marginal row of very minute 
black dots with white points extending round both wings, the fringe greyish-brown; the underside very 
pale grey-brown, both wings crossed by a darker brown line: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, 
and legs pale greyish-brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (£76de). 


EPIZEUXIS.—MEGATOMIS. 467 


We have a good series of specimens of this species from Mexico, captured by 
Mr, Herbert Smith between the months of January and April 1888. One example 
only from Panama. 


MEGATOMIS. 


Megatomis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 342 (1816); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 142, & xxxiv. 
p- 1165. 
Homogramma, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vill. p. 88 (1854). 


Palpi of the male curved over the head and thorax, the second joint very long. 


Walker in his Catalogue includes twelve species in this genus, and others have since 
been described by Felder and Rogenhofer. Four are now added from Central America, 
all of which appear to be undescribed. 


1. Megatomis anna, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 21, 21 a, 3; 22, 2.) 


Male. Primaries pale fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales, a small yellowish streak near the 
apex and a dark brown spot at the end of the cell, the outer margin edged with a row of small black 
points, the fringe pale fawn-colour; secondaries a little darker in colour than the primaries, with a faint 
submarginal line extending from near the apex to the anal angle, the marginal line black, the fringe 
pale fawn-colour: head, thorax, and abdomen fawn-colour, rather darker than the wings, the legs and 
antenne brown; the palpi fawn-colour, the hairs on the third joint very pale. The female very 
similar to the male, but with much finer antenne, and shorter and more slender palpi. Expanse, $13, 
@ 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Three specimens. The description and figure of the male are taken from an 
example in our own collection, that of the female from one in Dr. Staudinger’s 


collection. 


2. Megatomis lysizona, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIII. figg. 23, 23 a, 3; 24, 2 .) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries dark brown, crossed about the middle by a yellowish-white line; the 
primaries edged along the costal margin from the base to the apex with pale brown, with two short 
white streaks and a small black dot close to the apex, and a rather longer white streak on the outer 
margin just below it; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside fawn-colour, shading to 
darker brown towards the outer margin, both wings with a submarginal very fine waved line extending 
from the apex to the anal angle, the primaries crossed beyond the middle by one, the secondaries by 
two dark brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, on the underside considerably paler in 
colour; the legs, antenne, and palpi dark brown, the third joint of the latter tufted with whitish hairs. 
The female very similar to the male, but with the line crossing the wings much narrower, the palpi 
shorter and very slender, and the antenne very fine. Expanse, ¢ 1,3, 2 1;'p inch. 


Hab. Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (£2bde, in mus. 
Staudinger). 

Two males of this species were captured by Mr. Herbert Smith at Teapa, one in 
February and one in April 1888, The description and figures are taken from a ‘pair 
in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


3 nn 2 


468 HETEROCERA. 


3. Megatomis anthippe, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 25, 25a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark brownish fawn-colour ; the primaries crossed from the costal to the 
inner margin by two narrow waved pale lines—the first close to the base, the second beyond the middle,— 
the discoidal mark pale yellow, a small black spot at the apex, and a submarginal row of very minute 
indistinct pale dots extending from the costal to the inner margin, the outer margin with minute black 
points ; the secondaries crossed about the middle by a pale yellowish-white line, with a submarginal row 
of dots as on the primaries, but slightly more distinct ; the fringe of both wings dark brown ; the under- 
side uniform pale yellowish-brown, crossed by very faint lines: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, and 
antenne dark brownish-fawn-colour, the legs and the underside of the thorax and abdomen pale yellowish- 
brown. Expanse ;%, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen. 


4, Megatomis antonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXVIII. figg. 26, 26a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries brown, crossed below the middle by a darker brown line, on the inner side of 
which is a pale yellowish-brown line, this latter on the primaries not extending to the costal margin, the 
primaries with a dark brown dot at the apex, the fringe dark brown; the underside paler than above : 
head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and legs brown, the palpi pale yellowish-brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Two specimens, both males. 


PERIPHRAGE, 
Periphrage, Herrich-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 69 (1855). 


This genus is not mentioned by Walker in his Catalogue. It is closely allied to 
Megatomis, from which it may be distinguished by the much shorter and smaller palpi, 
shorter antenne, and rather narrower primaries. The single species included in the 
genus by Herrich-Schaffer came from Brazil, and we now have examples of it from our 
region ; two additional species are here added, both from Mexico. 


1. Periphrage barbatula. 
Periphrage barbatula, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pp. 69, 82, fig. 396°. 
Hab. Guatemata, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger ).—Braziu 1. 


We have received two specimens of this insect, and there is a third in Dr. Staud- 
inger’s collection. These examples are a little yellower in colour than Herrich-Schaffer’s 
figure, which represents a female ; those before us are all males, having a very small 
tuft of hairs almost at the end of the antenne. 


2. Periphrage mago, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 27, 27a, 3.) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries pale brown, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales ; a white streak at the 
end of the cell on the primaries, below which is an ill-defined light-coloured band that extends to the 
inner margin and crosses the middle of the secondaries, a submarginal narrow white line extending from 


PERIPHRAGE.—MASTIGOPHORUS. 469 


the apex to the anal angle of the primaries, the secondaries with a black spot at the end of the cell and 
several very narrow dark brown lines crossing below the middle; the fringe pale brown; the underside 
of both wings pale yellowish-fawn-colour: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, antennz, and legs pale brown. 
Expanse +4, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Two specimens. This species resembles to some extent Megatomis remutcens, Feld. 
& Rogenh., but is altogether a smaller insect. 


8. Periphrage anyte, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 28, 28a, ¢.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dark brown, crossed beyond the middle by two very distinct greyish-brown 
zigzag lines; the primaries with the costal margin pale brown from the base almost to the apex, a pale 
brown line crossing near the base, a greyish-brown spot at the end of the cell, another on the outer 
margin below the apex, and one at the anal angle; the marginal line of both wings black, the fringe 
brown ; the underside paler than the upperside and very similarly marked: head, thorax, palpi, antenne, 
and legs brown; the abdomen brown, banded with paler brown, the anus pale brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Two examples, both males. 


MASTIGOPHORUS. 
Mastigophorus, Poey, Cent. Lép. Cuba, 1° decade (1832) ; Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) ii. 
p. 358. 
Mastigophora, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 93; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 149. 
Charmodia, Méschler, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxii. p. 356 (1881) ; Beitr. zur Schmett.-Fauna 
von Surinam, iv. p. 56. 

This genus was described, and the male and female figured, by Poey, who included 
in it a single species from Cuba. The male differs from the corresponding sex of 
nearly all other known genera of Deltoides in the great length of the palpi, and in these 
organs having a large brush-like tuft of hairs on the third joint. The Amazonian 
species placed by Felder and Rogenhofer in Mastigophorus (Reise der Novara, Lep. 
t. 120. fig. 11) cannot be included in it, this insect having tufted antenne, a character 
foreign to either sex of the present genus. 


1. Mastigophorus lycagusalis. 
Mastygophora lycagusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 150°. 
Bertula (?) monstrosalis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 120. fig. 38, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 
no. 83 (3 )’. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Costa 
Rica, Rio Sucio, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA 1 ?. 


To judge from the large series of specimens before me, this variable insect is common 
in Costa Rica and the State of Panama. Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure is paler in 
colour than most of the Central-American examples. 

The female is very similar to the male, but has quite small palpi. 


470 HETEROCERA. 


2. Mastigophorus lygdus, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 1, la, 3.) 

Male. Primaries dark brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two narrow slightly waved yellow 
lines—the first close to the base, the second beyond the middle,—beyond which is a very faint zigzag pale 
line, the marginal line with black points, a whitish streak at the end of the cell, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries pale greyish-brown, crossed below the middle by three pale brown bands: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown, the antenne and legs paler brown; the palpi very long, the first joint dark brown, 
the second joint almost white, the third joint tufted with long yellowish-brown hairs. Expanse 12 inch. 


Hab. GuatTemaa, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 


Allied to M. mirabilis, Butl., from Jamaica, from which it may be at once distin- 
guished by having only two lines crossing the primaries. 
Three male specimens, found in the pine-woods of the Los Altos region of Guatemala. 


3. Mastigophorus antorides, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 2, 2a, 3.) 

Male. Primaries dark brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three waved darker brown lines— 
the first close to the base, the second beyond the middle, and the third submarginal, the second line edged 
on both sides with paler brown,—a minute dot in the cell and a short streak at the end of it pale yellowish- 
brown; secondaries uniform dark brown, crossed below the middle by two fainter brown lines; the 
marginal line of both wings black and the fringe dark brown; the underside much paler in colour, that 
of the secondaries with the dark brown lines more distinct, and also with a large black dot at the end of 
the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen above dark brown, the underside and the legs pale brown; the palpi 
very long and slender, the outer side and the tuft of hairs dark brown, the inner side pale brownish- 
white ; antenne dark brown, rather deeply pectinated. The female generally paler in colour than the 
male, and with small palpi. Expanse, ¢ ?, 14; inch. 


Hab. Mexico, State of Durango (Forrer), Cuesta de Misantla (MV. Trujillo), Coatepec 
(Brooks, Schaus), Jalapa (coll. Schaus) ; Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa 
Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


A common insect in Costa Rica. The large series of specimens before me show a 
considerable amount of variation in the colour and position of the markings. Our 
figure is taken from a male from Cuesta de Misantla. 


4. Mastigophorus (?) anthores, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 3, .) 


Male. Primaries pale brown, slightly irrorated with grey scales, crossed between the base and the end of the 
cell from the costal to the inner margin by two waved indistinct brown lines, a large oval reddish-brown 
spot at the end of the cell, beyond which a distinct dark brown line crosses the wing, a dark brown spot 
close to the apex, the marginal line black, the fringe brown ; secondaries dull brown, considerably greyer 
in colour than the primaries, crossed from the costal to the inner margin below the middle by a faint 
brown line, the marginal line black, the fringe dark brown; the underside much paler than the upper- 
side, with the lines crossing the wings very similar to those above: head, thorax, abdomen, antennz, and 
legs brown ; the palpi pale yellowish-brown on the inner side, dark brown on the outer side. Expanse 
1}; inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


One male specimen. ‘This and the following three species very closely resemble the 
typical Mastigophorus in form; but they differ in having the second joint of the palpi 
in the males very much shorter. 


MASTIGOPHORUS.—NEOHERMINIA. 471 


5. Mastigophorus (?) lysaniax, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 4, 4a, 3.) 

Male. Primaries pale brown, crossed near the base by a dark brown line, a small pale spot at the end of the 
cell, beyond which the wing is crossed from the costal to the inner margin just above the anal angle by 
two narrow dark brown lines, the fringe pale brown ; secondaries dull brown, slightly greyish along the 
costal margin, with two dark brown lines, edged on the outer side with paler brown, partly crossing the 
wing from the anal angle ; the underside very pale brown, with all the lines very indistinct : head, front 
of the thorax, antenne, palpi, and legs pale brown, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen darker brown. 
Expanse 1} inch. ; 

Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

The three male specimens captured by Mr. Champion in Guatemala show consider- 
able variation, not only in colour but in the distinctness of the lines crossing the wings ; 
one example is of a pale buff colour, with the lines very faint on the primaries. The 
Chiriqui specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection is similar to the one figured. The 


female remains to be discovered. 


6. Mastigophorus(?) mallophora, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 5, 5a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries dull whitish-brown, slightly darker round the outer margin, an indistinct 
brown spot at the end of the cell on the primaries, both wings crossed by a submarginal dark brown line 
(on the primaries from the costal to the inner margin, on the secondaries from the costal margin to the 
anal angle) and with the marginal line marked with very fine black points; the underside very similar in 
colour to the upperside, but with the submarginal line very indistinct: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, 
antenne, and legs pale brown. LExpanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus). 


Of this dull-coloured species I have only seen the male specimen captured by 
Mr. Schaus, who has kindly placed it at my disposal to describe and figure. 


7. Mastigophorus(?) aonia, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 6, 6a, 3.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries from the base to beyond the middle dark brown, where both wings are 
crossed by a narrow brownish-white line bordered on the outer side with pale brown (this colour shading 
to dark brown on the outer margin), a faint brownish-white line crossing the primaries from the costal 
to the inner margin near the base, a zigzag faint submarginal line extending from the costal margin near 
the apex to the inner margin of both wings, the marginal line of the primaries and secondaries black, 
the fringe dark brown; the underside pale brown, with a few indistinct markings: head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown, the latter banded with pale brown ; the antenna and palpi brown, the tuft of hair 
on the latter pale brown; the legs brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 

Two specimens of this distinct species, both males, were received from Mr. Champion, 
one being considerably paler in colour than the other. Our figure is taken from the 
darker of the two. 


NEOHERMINIA, gen. nov. 


Head and eyes small; antenne fine, rather more than half the length of the costal margin. Palpi of the male 
short, turned back over the head and tufted with hairs at the end; those of the female shorter and 
simple. Thorax small; abdomen slender, extending slightly beyond the wings; legs rather long and 
slender, the front pair in the male tufted with hair. Wings moderately small and rather broad; the 


472 a HETEROCERA. | 


primaries with the costal margin straight, slightly rounded at the apex, and the exterior margin angular 
in the middle, more so in the male than the female ; the secondaries considerably rounded from the apex 
to the middle, then nearly straight to the anal angle. 

Type Neoherminia pyramusalis, Walk. 


1. Neoherminia pyramusalis. 
Herminia pyramusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 106 (3) ’. 
Bleptina cepioalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 866 (d) ’. 

Hab. Norra America, United States+.—Muxico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), 
Jalapa, Cuesta de Misantla (17. Trujillo), 'Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatn- 
MALA, Purula, San Gerénimo, Duefias (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 
to 7000 feet, Caché (fogers); Panama, Chiriqui (22bde), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Braziu, Rio Janeiro 2. 


A very common insect in Central America. It varies considerably in colour, from 
light to quite dark brown, but in no one locality is any form constant. Mr. Herbert 
Smith captured a large number of specimens during the months of January, February, 
and March, 1888. Walker described! Herminia pyramusalis from a specimen said to 
come from the United States, but the species is not included in Grote’s ‘ Check-List of 
North-American Moths.’ The type of Bleptina cepioalis, Walk., is now in the Oxford 
Museum. 


2. Neoherminia ceusalis. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 7.} 
Bleptina ceusalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 868 (?)°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Brazit, Rio Janeiro 1. 
The only specimen we have seen of this insect from our region is the one kindly 
communicated by Dr. Staudinger; it is almost identical with the type, now in the 
Oxford Museum. 


3. Neoherminia diruptalis. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 8.) 
Bleptina diruptalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1161 (¢)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus), Jalapa (I. Trujillo), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. 
Smith); Guatemata, El Reposo 800 feet, Zapote (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de 
Irazu 6000 to 7000-feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ridde).—Brazi}. 


Not uncommon in our region. It varies greatly in colour, the females generally 
being much darker than the males. A specimen in Mr. Schaus’s collection is the 
darkest I have seen, but on the underside it agrees with others before me from 
several of the above-mentioned localities: 


4, Neoherminia (?) bisignalis. 
Hypena bisignalis, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. i. p. 108 (¢) ’. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; 


NEOHERMINIA. 473 


GuatemaLa, Cahabon in Vera Paz (Champion); PANAMA, Chiriqui (Rzbbe, in mus. 
Staudinger).—Braziu }. 

Our specimens agree with Walker's type, which is now in the Oxford Museum. The 
females are more distinctly marked than the males. 


5. Neoherminia (?) apsinthes, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 9, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries dull pale brown, crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner 
margin by two faint narrow waved brown lines, a black spot at the end of the cell on the primaries, the 
fringe pale brown; the underside very similar to the upperside, but paler in colour: head, thorax, and 
abdomen brown, the antenne, palpi, and legs rather lighter brown. Expanse 1,/p inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
Two specimens, both females, are all I have seen of this species. It is allied to 
N. bisignalis, Walk. : 


6. Neoherminia (2) anchisa, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIX. fig. 10.) 


Primaries pale greyish-brown, with a pinkish tinge in certain lights, crossed from the costal to the inner 
margin by three darker brown bands—the first close to the base, the second at the end of the cell, and 
the third submarginal,—a small round dot about the middle and an oval spot at the end of the cell, both 
blackish-brown, a waved row of very minute black spots crossing the wing from the costal to the inner 
margin just beyond the cell ; secondaries uniformly dull brown; the marginal line of both wings with 
black points ; the underside considerably paler in colour than the upperside: head, thorax, abdomen, 
antenne, palpi, and legs pale greyish-brown. LExpanse 1/5 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen, which I believe to be a female. 


7. Neoherminia (?) angitia, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIX. fig. 11.) 

Primaries pale brownish-fawn-colour, shaded with darker brown along the costal margin close to the apex, 
crossed near the base from the costal to the inner margin by a dark brown waved line, and also with 
avery indistinct line beyond the cell, a rather large almost round black spot on the inner margin 
slightly above the anal angle, and a faint brown submarginal waved line extending from near the apex 
to the anal angle, the marginal line with black points; secondaries uniform blackish-brown ; the fringe 
of both wings pale brown; the underside very much paler than the upperside, and almost without 
markings, a brown line crossing the middle of the secondaries excepted: head, thorax, legs, and abdomen 


pale brown (antenne and palpi wanting). Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen only, apparently of the female sex. 


8. Neoherminia (2) stalemusalis. (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 12, 12a, 6; 13,2.) 


Bleptina stalemusalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 869 (g)’. 
Hab. Guaremata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet ( Champion).—SovuTH-EAST 


Braziu, Rio Janeiro }. 
Our specimens do not differ from Walker’s type, now in the Oxford Museum. We 


figure both sexes. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L., May 1891. 3 00 


474 HETEROCERA. 


9. Neoherminia (?) thisbesalis. 
Bleptina thisbesalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 127 (2)?. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion).— VENEZUELA }, 
In the form of the wings, especially in the male, this species has much the appear- 
ance of a Palthis; but the palpi are not tufted as in the males of that genus. Perhaps 
generically distinct from Neoherminia. 


PALTHIS. 
Palthis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 342 (1816) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p- 151, & xix. p. 886. 
Clanyma, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 94. 
Walker included nine species in this genus, five of them with doubt. From our 
region we have received examples of five species. 


1. Palthis spectalis. 
Clanyma spectalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 95, Delt. et Pyral. t. 9. fig. 1 (g)1. 
Palthis spectalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 153°. 
Bertula insignalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 246 (¢)*. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Jalapa (coll. Schaus); GuatEMALa, 
Purula, San Gerénimo, Duefias ( Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 
7000 feet, Caché (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Cham- 
pion).—Braziu } 2, 

Not uncommon in Central America. The female differs from the male in having 
the palpi simple, not tufted with hairs. The locality for Bertula insignalis was 
unknown to Walker 3. 


2. Palthis (?) pretusalis. 
Palthis (?) pretusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 155 (d)*. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson), 


This and the following species are only known to us by the types in the National 
Collection. 


3. Palthis (?) orasiusalis, 
Palthis (?) orasiusalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p- 886 (¢)*. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson). 


4. Palthis ——? 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan ( Forrer) 


Two specimens of a small species not in sutiiciently good condition for identification. 


PALTHIS.—BERTULA. A4T5 


5. Palthis bizialis. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 14, 14a, ¢; 15, 2.) 
Bleptina bizialis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 865 (3) °. 

Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); GUATEMALA, 
Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Costa 
Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Caché (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, 
in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Brazit, Rio 
Janeiro 1, 


Mr. Champion captured a large number of specimens of this species at San Agustin, 
on the slope of the Volcan de Atitlan, in December 1880. The type is now in the 
Oxford Museum ; our specimens are almost identical with it. 


NEOPALTHIS, gen. nov. 


Male. Head and eyes small; the thorax rather broad ; the abdomen slender, not extending beyond the wings, 
the anal tuft rather large; the antenne somewhat short and thick, very finely pectinated ; front legs 
small; hind legs elongate and slender, with the spurs long. Palpi with the first joint very small; the 
second joint long, rather flattened, and curved upwards; the third joint ‘about half the length of the 
second, tufted with fine hairs, The primaries long, very pointed at the apex ; the costal margin slightly 
concave about the middle; the outer margin straight, receding to the anal angle; the inner margin 
straight. The secondaries rather broad, rounded at the apex, and slightly angular at the anal angle. 

The female similar to the male, but with the palpi very different in shape, the first two joints projecting 
straight out from the head; the third joint turned upwards and club-shaped, but very finely pointed at 
the tip, thickly clothed with large scales (not hairs). 

Type Neopalthis madates. 


1. Neopalthis madates, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 16, 164, 6; 11, 17a, ¢ .) 
Male. Primaries pale reddish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three very fine waved 
white lines, the outer margin thickly irrorated with white scales, the marginal line with small black 
points, a large white dot at the end of the cell, and a curved white line crossing the wing close to the 
apex from the costal to the outer margin, the fringe white; secondaries paler in colour than the 
primaries, and crossed below the middle by two narrow zigzag white lines, the apex and outer margin 
thickly irrorated with white scales, the fringe brownish-white ; the underside darker brown, with the 
white markings very similar to those above: head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the segments of the 
abdomen banded with white, the antenne pale brown; the palpi brown, the tuft of hairs slightly 
yellowish ; the fore legs brown, the hind legs whitish. The female similar to the male, but generally 
larger, and with the palpi very differently formed and dark brown in colour. Expanse, ¢ 1, 2? 13% 
inch. 


Hab. Merxtco, Coatepec (coll. Schaus); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 


feet (Champion). 

Mr. Champion captured a large series of this very distinct species “at light” in 
Chiriqui. A single specimen from Mexico in Mr. Schaus’s collection differs from all 
the others in having the veins white between the white lines on the primaries. 


BERTULA. 


Bertula, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 162 (1858), & xxxiv. p. 1167 (1865). 


Amongst the numerous species included by Walker in this genus four only are from 
300 2 


476 _HETEROCERA, 


Tropical America; but it is quite possible that when the American representatives are 
better known it will be found that they are not congeneric with those from the Old 
World. Two are now recorded from our region, one of which is described as new. 


1. Bertula talausalis. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 18, 18a, 3; 19, 2.) 
Bertula talausalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 168 (3) °. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Isidro 1600 feet, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— VENEZUELA ! ; 
Ecuapor. 


In some examples the pale outer margin of the primaries is much more distinct than 
in others. Our figures are taken from Guatemalan specimens. 


2. Bertula lycas, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 20, 20a, ¢ .) 


Male. Primaries rich dark reddish-brown, the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle broadly bordered 
with pale brownish-fawn-colour, the inner edge of the pale band very deeply waved and edged with a 
faint black line; secondaries dusky brown, paler near the base, a narrow white line near the anal angle ; 
the fringe of both wings fawn-colour; the underside dusky brown, that of the secondaries crossed about 
the middle by a dark brown line: head and thorax dark reddish-brown, the abdomen dusky brown, the 
fore legs yellowish-brown, the hind legs dark brown; the palpi dark brown on the outer side, pale 
yellowish-brown on the inner side, the tuft of hairs very dark brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Guarnmata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 

One male specimen. Allied to B. talausalis, Walk., from the corresponding sex of 
which it may be at once distinguished by its smaller size, richer colour, more distinct 
pale marginal band on the primaries, and considerably smaller and much darker palpi. 


BOCANA. 
Bocana, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 170 (1858). 

Walker gives B. manifestalis (2), from Ceylon, as the type of this genus, at the 
same time including in it numerous species from very widely separated localities. He 
divided the genus into four groups, placing the two South-American species at the end of 
the fourth. Bocana appears to be well represented in Central America, whence eleven 
species are now recorded. 


1. Bocana pharusalis. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 21, 21a, ¢.) 
Bocana pharusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 185 (g 2)’. 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (orrer), Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (HZ. H. 
Smith) ; British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 
to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion), 
Chiriqui (bbe, in mus. Staudinger).—VENEZUELA }. 


A rather common insect in our region. 


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BOCANA. 47 


2. Bocana malis, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 22,9.) 


Female. Primaries rich dark brown, the costal margin edged with white, the outer margin broadly banded 
with greyish-white from near the apex to the anal angle, the outer edge of the band dusky, the marginal 
line black, the fringe brown ; secondaries dull brown, paler at the base and along the costal margin to 
the apex, a small greyish-white band near the anal angle, this band not extending halfway to the apex ; 
the underside pale brown, irrorated with greyish scales near the base, a submarginal waved white line 
partly crossing the primaries from the apex but not extending more than halfway to the anal angle, and 
a white line crossing the secondaries from the apex to the anal angle: head in front and the base of the 
antenne white, the rest of the head and the thorax dark brown, the abdomen pale brown; the first and 
second joints of the palpi dark brown, the third joint white; the legs brown, banded with white. 
Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Rihbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Allied to B. pagasusalis, Walk., but easily distinguished from it by the costal margin 
of the primaries being white (instead of yellow), the primaries themselves darker in 
colour and with a whiter outer border. I have only seen two female specimens of 
this species, both of which are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


8. Bocana theroalis. (Tab. XXXIX. fig. 23, 9.) 
Bleptina theroalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 248 (?)’. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion).—VenEzvue.a 1. 


Two specimens, both females, have been received from Chiriqui; they are almost 
identical with the type. The male is unknown. 


4, Bocana pagasusalis, (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 24, 24a, 3; 25,9.) 
Bleptina pagasusalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 870 (¢)'. 

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége); Guatemata, Senahu, San Gerdnimo (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Rio Sucio, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui 
(Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).— 
- Ecuapor; Brazit, Rio Janeiro !. 

The long series of specimens before me from Central America show a considerable 
amount of variation, both in colour and in the width of the pale line along the costal and 
outer margins of the primaries, this line in some of the females being almost obsolete. 
The type of B. pagasusalis is now in the Oxford Museum. Our figures are taken from 


Costa Rican specimens. 


5. Bocana lyse, sp. n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 26, 26a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by very fine darker brown lines, 
a minute dot in the cell and a mark at the end of it greyish, a large greyish-white spot on the outer 
margin just below the apex, from which two greyish waved lines extend to the anal angle, the fringe 
yellowish-brown ; secondaries uniform dull brown, the fringe brown; the underside brown, that of the 
secondaries crossed about the middle by a darker brown line: head and thorax yellowish-brown ; the 
abdomen dull brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown ; the antenne and legs dark brown; the palpi dark 
brown, the third joint tufted with pale yellowish-brown hairs. The female very similar to the male, but 
generally paler in colour and without any tuft of hairs on the palpi. Expanse, g 144, 2 13 inch. 


478 | HETEROCERA. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 
feet (Champion). 

Our figure is taken from a male specimen captured by Mr. Champion on the Volcan 
de Chiriqui. 


6. Bocana antorides, sp. n. (Tab. XX XIX. figg. 27, 274, ¢ .) 

Male. Primaries almost uniform pale brown, a greyish-white streak at the end of the cell, and a submarginal 
similarly coloured waved line extending from the costal to the inner margin, the fringe dark brown ; 
secondaries dusky brown, with the fringe rather darker: head, thorax, and abdomen brown; the 
antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. The female similar to the male, but with the palpi simple. 
Expanse, ¢ ¢, 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


Closely allied to B. lyse, but distinguished by its darker colour and by the entire 
absence of the large grey spots on the outer margin of the primaries close to the apex. 


7. Bocana (2) anteros, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 1, 1a, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three very narrow waved 
greyish-white lines—the first near the base, the second just beyond the cell, both faint, the third sub- 
marginal and much more distinct,—a greyish crescent-shaped mark at the end of the cell, and a marginal 
row of white spots with black points extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe alternately 
brown and white; secondaries dull brown, with marginal spots as on the primaries but much more in- 
distinct : head, thorax, and abdomen brown; the palpi brown, edged with white on the inner side; the 
antennee brown, white on the inner side to about the middle, where they are tufted with dark brown 
hairs ; the legs pale brown, the fore tarsi white. The female very similar to the male, but rather paler 

in colour, and with simple antenne and palpi. Expanse, ¢ 2, 17 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet 

(Champion). 

Our figure of the male is taken from a specimen in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 
‘Mr. Champion only met with a single female example. 


8. Bocana lycaste, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIX. figg. 28, 28,3; 29,2.) 


Male. Primaries very dark brown, pale yellowish-brown at the base, a faint yellowish-brown line crossing the 
wing beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a greyish-white spot on the outer 
margin just below the apex; secondaries dull brown, slightly paler at the base ; the fringe of both wings 
dark brown: head, thorax, palpi, antenne, and legs dark brown, the abdomen paler brown. The female 
very similar to the male, but generally with the base of the wings dark brown, the palpi simple. Expanse, 
3 1,3, 2 14 inch. . 

_ Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); GUATEMALA, 

Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Zapote (Champion); 

Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (£766¢), 


Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


A common and variable insect in our region. In some specimens the base of the 
primaries is pale yellowish-brown, in others quite dark brown; the greyish-white spot 


BOCANA. 479 


on the outer margin is entirely obsolete in some examples, shows slightly in others, and 
is very distinct in those figured. The female specimen from Jalapa in Mr. Schaus’s 
collection is the darkest we have seen. 


9, Bocana maia, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 2, 2a, ¢.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform dark blackish-brown, with a greyish shade round the outer margin ; 
the primaries crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three very narrow dark brown waved lines 
_the first close to the base, the second beyond the cell, the third submarginal—and between the 
first and second of these by a dark brown band; the secondaries crossed about the middle from the 
costal to the inner margin by an indistinct rather wide dark brown band; the fringe of both wings 
dark brown; the underside brown, not quite so dark in colour as the upperside, and without markings of 
any kind: head, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark brown ; the palpi brown, with the tuft of hair 
pale brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Pawama, Chiriqui (Aide, in mus. 
Staudinger). 

We have received three males of this dark-coloured species. Dr. Staudinger’s 
Chiriqui specimen is larger than any of them. A male from Teapa is figured. 


10. Bocana (?) arbona, sp. n. (Tab. XL. fig. 3, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries dull blackish-brown, slightly irrorated with grey; the primaries crossed 
from the costal to the inner margin by three dark brown waved lines and also with a submarginal greyish 
line, a pale yellowish-brown streak at the end of the cell; the secondaries with a submarginal greyish 
line like that of the primaries ; the marginal line of both wings black with white points, the fringe dark 
blackish-brown ; the underside considerably paler than above, and with the submarginal lines whiter : 
head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, and palpi dark brown, the legs pale brown. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Pantaleon 1700 feet 
(Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


The specimens we have received of this insect appear to be all females. ‘Those 
captured at Teapa by Mr. Herbert Smith during the months of January and April, 
1888, do not differ from the Costa Rican examples. Our figure is taken from one of 
the former. 


11. Bocana (2?) marpesia, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 4, 2.) 

Female. Primaries dull brown with a grey tinge, a minute white dot in the middle of the cell and a small 
white line at the end of it, and four dark brown lines crossing the wing from the costal to the inner 
margin, the fourth line broad and edged with paler colour, the marginal line black with pale brown points, 
the fringe brown ; secondaries darker in colour than the primaries, and partly crossed from the anal angle 
and inner margin by darker brown waved lines; the underside uniform dark brown, both wings crossed 
about the middle by a darker brown waved line: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark 
brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 


Two specimens, both females. This and the preceding species will most likely 
require to be placed in a different. genus as soon as the males are known. 


480 HETEROCERA. 


MARGITES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the thorax broad, the tegule long; the abdomen moderately stout, extending slightly 
beyond the wings. Palpi porrect, very thickly clothed with large scales; the first joint small; the 
second joint extending beyond the eyes; the third joint very broad, turned back over the head and tufted 
with rather long hairs. Antenne about half the length of the primaries, fine, and very slightly pectinated. 
Fore legs long, densely covered with hairs ; the middle and hind legs slender. The primaries long and 
narrow ; the costal margin straight almost to the apex, where it is slightly rounded; the outer margin 
very angular in the middle; the inner margin straight. The secondaries rather long, angular on the 
outer margin, much rounded at the anal angle. The fringe of both wings rather long. 

Type Margites bugaba. 


Allied to Bocana, but separable therefrom in the male sex by the very different form 
of the palpi and by the angular outer margin of the primaries. 


1. Margites bugaba, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 5, 5a, 2.) 

Male. Primaries brown with a purplish shade, with three faint darker brown lines crossing from the costal to 
the inner margin, a large greyish spot at the end of the cell, and a number of greyish-white spots at the 
apex and along the outer margin, the fringe brown ; secondaries dull brown, lighter along the costal margin, 
the outer margin with white points; the underside pale greyish-brown, both wings crossed beyond the 
middle by a narrow darker brown line: head, thorax, and palpi dark purplish-brown, the tuft of hair on 
the latter very pale yellowish-brown, the abdomen dull brown, the legs brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Very distinct from any other Deltoid known to me. The two specimens received 
appear to be both males; one, unfortunately, is in a very damaged condition, having 
lost the palpi and abdomen. 


ARGANTA, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the thorax somewhat broad, the tegule short; the abdomen stout, not extending beyond 
the wings. Palpi slender; the first joint short; the second joint long, reaching the top of the head; the 
third joint about the length of the second, slightly tufted with fine hairs. Antenne simple, about half 
the length of the primaries. Legs rather short and stout. The primaries moderately long; the costal 
margin sharply arched close to the base, then nearly straight to the apex, thickly tufted with long 
scales from the base to near the middle ; the outer margin rounded to the anal angle; the inner margin 
quite straight. The secondaries rather long and broad, considerably rounded from the apex to the anal 
angle; the inner margin straight. 

The female differs from the male in having the costal margin of the primaries quite straight and without tuft 
of scales, and the palpi small, 

Type Argania pilosa. ; 

This curious genus is quite unlike any other Deltoid known to me. In the shape of 


the primaries of the male it very closely resembles Symmachia in the Lemoniine. 


1. Argania pilosa, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 6, 6a, 3; 7, 2.) 

Male. Primaries yellowish-brown, with a large tuft of long scales on the costal margin, a grey streak on 
the outer margin below the apex, and several indistinct grey spots near the anal angle, the marginal line 
and the fringe greyish ; secondaries rather darker in colour than the primaries, very thickly clothed with 
brown scales about the middle: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs brown, the palpi and antenne pale 
yellowish-brown. The female altogether darker in colour; the primaries with two very faint brown 
lines crossing from the costal to the inner margin, and the grey lines and spots on the outer margin more 
distinct. Expanse, ¢ 92, 1,3, inch. 


ARGANTIA.—ARIPHRADES. 48] 


Hab. Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet 
(Champion). 

The female of this species is very similar to the corresponding sex of Bocana (*) 
anteros, from Chiriqui; but the males are very distinct. We figure both sexes. 


HYPOECHANA, gen. nov. 


Male. Head and thorax small; the abdomen slender, not extending beyond the wings. Palpi covered with 
hairs; the first joint small; the second joint three times the length of the first ; the third joint small and 
pointed. Antenne rather more than half the length of the primaries, very slightly pectinated, and tufted 
in the middle. Legs slender. ‘The primaries with the costal margin slightly curved near the base, then 
straight to the apex; the outer margin rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the inner margin 
straight ; on the costal margin about the middle is a large tuft of long scales, this being curved backwards 
over the wing and almost covering the end of the cell. The secondaries large; the outer margin rounded 
from the apex to the anal angle; the inner margin straight, and clothed with rather long hairs. 

Type Hypoechana fuliginosa. 


1. Hypoechana fuliginosa, sp. n. (Tab. XL. fig. 8, ¢ .) 


Male. Primaries brown, crossed before the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a wide darker brown 
band, this being edged on each side with a narrow black line, and beyond the band from the middle to the 
inner margin much paler in colour, the tuft of long scales on the costal margin dark blackish-brown, the 
outer margin with black points; secondaries dull blackish-brown, paler along the costal margin, a faint 
dark brown line crossing the wing about the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a faint sub- 
marginal yellowish-brown line extending from the apex almost to the anal angle, where it is much more 
distinct, the outer margin with black points; the fringe of both wings dark brown; the underside 
greyish-brown, almost without markings: head, thorax, abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs dark brown. 
Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (coll. Schaus), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (/. 
H. Smith); Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion); Panama, 
Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

Varies considerably in colour, Panama specimens being paler than those from 


Mexico. 


ARIPHRADES, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the eyes very prominent; the thorax narrow; the abdomen slender, extending slightly 
beyond the wings. Palpi large, porrect, thickly clothed with long hairs ; the first joint small; the 
second joint long and broad; the third joint very small. Antenne rather thick, slightly pectinated, and 
tufted beyond the middle (the apical portion wanting). Legs short and stout, the fore pair covered with 
hair. The primaries long, rather broad from the apex to the anal angle; the costal margin almost 
straight, but a little rounded at the apex ; the outer margin slightly rounded ; the inner margin straight ; 
between the end of the cell and the outer margin is a tuft of long scales that almost reaches the outer 
margin. The secondaries rather long and narrow; the costal margin straight; the outer margin very 
angular; the inner margin and the abdominal fold thickly covered with fine hair. 

Type Ariphrades setula. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. L, May 1891. 3 pp 


482 HETEROCERA. 


1. Ariphrades setula, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 9,9 a, 3.) 


Male. Primaries and secondaries uniform pale brown ; the primaries crossed about the middle from the costal 
to the inner margin by a narrow dark brown band, a black spot at the end of the cell, a large elongated 
tuft of pale brown scales just beyond it, and a submarginal indistinct waved greyish-brown line extending 
from the costal margin close to the apex to the inner margin, the marginal line dark brown ; the fringe 
of both wings brown; the underside paler brown, that of the secondaries crossed below the middle by 
two faint brown lines: head, thorax, and abdomen brown; the antenne paler brown, with the tuft 
blackish-brown ; the palpi brown, with some greyish scales on the second joint; the legs brown. Ex- 
panse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion). 


This species is not very closely allied to any other Deltoid known to me; the tuft of 
long scales at the end of the cell on the primaries in the male at once distinguishes it. 
One specimen only, a male, was captured by Mr. Champion. 


IPNEA. 
Ipnea, Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 190 (1858). 


Walker founded this genus upon a female insect from Pard. Of one of the species 
" now added we have specimens of both sexes. 


1. Ipnea marina, sp. n. (Tab. XL. fig. 10, .) 


Male. Primaries pale yellowish-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by numerous waved darker 
brown lines, two only of which (one near the base, the other beyond the end of the cell) are well defined, 
a row of three black spots extending from the anal angle towards the apex, and beyond them in a line 
are two very minute black dots on the costal margin close to the apex, the marginal line with black 
points, the fringe dark brown; secondaries dull brown, with an indistinct spot in the cell, and a narrow 
line crossing the middle of the wing from the costal to the inner margin, the fringe greyish-brown ; the 
underside paler than above, that of the primaries clouded with darker brown: head, thorax, palpi, and 
antenne;pale yellowish-brown; the abdomen dark brown, with the anal tuft yellowish-brown ; the legs 
pale brown. The female very similar to the male, but generally paler in colour. Expanse, ¢ 2, 
13 inch. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet, Panajachel 5000 feet, Volcan 
de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor, Loja. 


This species varies considerably in colour, some examples being much darker than 
others. A specimen from Ecuador in M. Dognin’s collection resembles the darker 
individuals from Guatemala. 


2. Ipnea ardalus, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 11, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries uniform dark brown, the primaries with an elongate broad orange-coloured 
band on the inner margin which does not reach the base or the anal angle, the fringe of both wings dark 
brown; the underside uniform pale brown, without any markings: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, 
antenne, and legs brown. Expanse 1% inch. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). ° 
One specimen. 


IPNEA.—PCNA. 483 


3. Ipnea (?) mapeta, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 12.) 

Primaries very pale fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with yellowish-brown scales, the costal margin from the 
base to near the apex edged with yellowish-brown, and crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
three faint waved yellowish-brown lines—the first near the base, the second about the middle, and the 
third beyond the cell,—a submarginal waved greyish line extending from near the apex to the inner margin 
close to the anal angle, the marginal line with black points; secondaries pale fawn-colour, the base and 
the inner margin pale yellow; the fringes of both wings brownish-fawn-colour; the underside pale 
yellowish-fawn-colour, without markings of any kind: head and front of the thorax yellowish-brown, 
the rest of the thorax and the tegule fawn-colour, the abdomen and legs yellow, the antenne pale brown, 
the palpi dark brown. Expanse 1? inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith). 


A few specimens. This insect appears to be allied to Zpnea, but the palpi are more 
slender and the outer margin of the primaries is more rounded; I only include it 
provisionally in this genus. 


DIDUGUA, gen. nov. 


Female. Head large, the eyes prominent, the thorax broad; the abdomen stout, not extending beyond the 
wings. Palpi long, slender, and porrect, clothed with rather long scales ; the first joint small, the second 
joint long, the third joint more than half the length of the second. Antenne rather short, quite simple. 
Legs slightly thickened. The primaries long and broad, with the costal and inner margins straight, the 
outer margin nearly so, but slightly rounded at the anal angle; secondaries with the costal aud inner 
margins almost straight, the outer margin rounded at. the anal angle; the fringe of both wings rather 
long. 

Type Didugua argentilinea. 


The species for which this new genus is proposed has, at first sight, much the 
appearance of a Noctuid, but the form of the palpi at once shows that it is more closely 
allied to the Deltoides ; its true position in the latter is, however, very doubtful, the 
only specimens before me being females. 


1. Didugua argentilinea, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 13, 2.) 

Female. Primaries brown, darker along the middle from the base almost to the outer margin, a silvery-white 
notched streak extending from near the base almost to the outer margin, the outer margin with two fine 
lines extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries brown, darker round 
the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe pale brown; the underside uniformly pale 
brown, without markings of any kind: head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the antenne and palpi 
yellowish-brown, the legs brown. Expanse 13 inch. 

Hab. Guatumata, in the city at the electric light (Rodriguez), San Gerénimo 

(Champion). — _ 

Our figure is taken from the San Gerénimo specimen. The example from Guatemala 
city is slightly larger and also darker in colour. 


PENA, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the thorax and abdomen slender, the latter extending beyond the wings. Palpi small, very 
short, porrect ; the first joint small, the second joint large, the third joint very small, Antenne rather 
long, more than half the length of the primaries. Legs short, thickly clothed with hairs. The primaries 
long and narrow, with the costal and inner margins quite straight, the apex pointed, and the outer margin 


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2 Bl 


484 HETEROCERA. 


slightly rounded to the anal angle ; the secondaries rather narrow, and rounded near the anal angle; the 
fringes of both wings long. 
Type Hypena porrectalis, Guen. 


1. Pena porrectalis? (Tab. XL. fig. 14.) 
Phalena porrectalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 2, p. 223. 
Hypena porrectalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 37 (¢)*; Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 46 (2)* 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Isidro 1600 feet, 
Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan 
de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VunnzvELA?; Gutana, Cayenne!; Amazons, 
Ega?; Braz}, 

This insect varies considerably in size and colour. Our specimens are almost identical 
with those named Hypena porrectalis in the National Museum; but I do not feel 
quite certain that they belong to the species described by Guenée, not having seen 
the type. 


2. Pena tessellata, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 15.) 


Primaries brown, shaded with darker brown about the middle, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
several waved narrow pale lines, and with two small brown spots close to the apex, the marginal line pale 
brown with black points, the fringe brown; secondaries dull brown, crossed about the middle from the 
costal to the inner margin by a faint brown line, the fringe brown: head, thorax, and abdomen dark 
brown, the antenng and legs pale brown (the palpi wanting). Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 


The single specimen received is without palpi, and is apparently of the female 
sex; but in general form and in the length of the antenne it closely resembles 
P. porrectalis. 


3. Pena (?) albomarginata, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 16, ¢ .) 

Female. Primaries very pale brown, broadly bordered from the apex to the anal angle with greyish-white, a 
small black spot at the end of the cell, beyond which a curved row of very minute blackish dots crosses 
the wing from the costal to the inner margin, the marginal line with black dots, the fringe greyish-white ; 
secondaries uniform dull brown, with the fringe ‘slightly paler: head, thorax, abdomen, antenna, palpi, 
and legs pale brown. Expanse 1} inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Two examples. These somewhat resemble small specimens of P. porrectalis, but 
they have the outer margin of the primaries straighter. The Guatemalan example is 
figured. 


LEDZEA. 
Legna, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 1102 (1865) (nomen preocc.). 


Walker founded this genus upon the male of an insect said to have come from 
Georgia, but it is not included by Grote in his ‘ Check-List of North-American Moths.’ 
The generic name Legna has been used by Walker three times—in Coleoptera, 


LED#A.—RHESCIPHA. A485 


Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera, that in Coleoptera having the priority. Two new 
species from our region are added to the genus, and a third is included with consi- 


siderable doubt. 


1. Ledea arduine, sp. n. (Tab. XL. figg. 17, 17 a,¢; 18,2.) 

Male. Primaries and secondaries pale brownish-cream-colour ; the primaries crossed beyond the middle from 
the apex to the centre of the inner margin by a dark brown line edged on the outer side with a fine 
somewhat yellowish line, a dark brown streak partly crossing the wing from the inner margin before the 
middle, a small black dot at the base, one in the middle of the cell, and two at the end of it, and between 
the brown line and the outer margin two very faint narrow waved lines which extend from the apex to 
the inner margin; the secondaries crossed by four faint lines, those nearest the base not reaching the 
costal margin, and with a black spot in the cell; the marginal line of both wings with black points, and 
the fringe cream-colour: head, thorax, and abdomen slightly darker in colour than the wings, the palpi, 
antenne, and anal tuft yellowish-brown, the legs pale brown. The female very similar to the male, but 
with all the markings very indistinct. Expanse, ¢ 2, 153; inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


In the form of the palpi this species closely resembles Legna semilineata, Walk. 


9. Ledea marcella, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 19, 3.) 


Male. Primaries deep yellowish-fawn-colour, a dark brown streak partly crossing the wing towards the outer 
margin from the inner margin close to the base, and a dark brown line extending from the apex to the 
inner margin, the wing beyond this line nearly to the outer margin of a much darker brown ; secondaries 
blackish-brown, excepting at the anal angle and round the outer margin; the underside pale yellowish- 
brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle by a dark brown line and with a brown spot at the end of 
the cell: head, thorax, palpi, and antenne yellowish-fawn-colour ; the abdomen blackish-brown, the anal 
tuft yellowish-brown ; the legs dark brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers). 
Allied to ZL. arduine, from which it may be at once distinguished by the different 
colour and by the position of the lines crossing the primaries. One specimen. 


3. Leda (2) arciva, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 20.) 


Primaries dull yellowish-brown, crossed by two or three very indistinct brown lines, a small black dot at the 
end of the cell and the marginal line with black points ; secondaries darker in colour than the primaries ; 
the fringe of both wings yellowish-brown ; the underside dusky brown, without markings: head, thorax, 
and abdomen brown, the palpi, antenne, and legs dark brown. Expanse 14 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 

This insect is only provisionally placed in the genus Ledwa. The primaries are 
much more rounded than in the preceding species, and the secondaries are slightly 
angular; the palpi are similarly formed. 


RHESCIPHA. 
Rhescipha, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1194 (1865). 
This genus was founded by Walker upon a female example of an insect obtained by 
Mr. Wallace in Brazil; we have received two specimens of the same sex of this species 
from Mexico. 


486 HETEROCERA. 


1. Rhescipha obtusa. (Tab. XL. figg. 21, 21a, ¢.) 
Rhescipha obtusa, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1195 (@)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Coatepec (Brooks).—Braziu!. 


The two specimens from our region do not differ from the type in the National 
Museum. Our figure is taken from the Jalapa example. 


OROSCOPA, gen. nov. 


Female. Head small, the thorax broad; the abdomen stout, extending slightly beyond the wings. Palpi: the 
first joint quite small; the second joint long, rather flat; the third joint nearly as long as the second, 
very finely pointed, and with a small tuft of scales about the middle. Antenne simple, about half the 
length of the primaries. Legs long and slender, the spurs on the hind tibiee very long. The primaries 
long and narrow; the costal margin almost straight ; the outer margin angular and deeply dentated; the 
inner margin curved, forming a small lobe at the apex. The secondaries long and rather narrow; the 
costal margin slightly concave from the base to about the middle, then angular to the apex; the outer 
margin deeply dentated ; the inner margin much rounded at the anal angle, and clothed with long hairs. 

Type Oroscopa concha. 


This genus is not closely allied to any other Deltoid known to me. 


1. Oroscopa concha, sp.n. (Tab. XL. figg. 22, 22 a, 2 .) 

Female. Primaries pale greyish-fawn-colour, crossed from the costal to the inner margin beyond the middle by 
several very broken curved brown lines, the outer part of the wing being very thickly irrorated with 
brown scales, a whitish spot at the end of the cell, the marginal line with black and white points, the 
fringe pale brown; secondaries pale greyish-fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with brown scales, a waved 
line of small brown dots crossing the wing about the middie from the costal to the inner margin, and a 
rather dark brown dot at the end of the cell; the underside of both wings heavily marked with dark 
brown blotches: head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-fawn-colour, the antenne and palpi darker 
brown, the legs pale greyish-brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ibde, in mus. Staudinger). 
We have only seen one specimen of this curious species. In some respects it slightly 


resembles certain Geometride; but the form of the palpi at once shows that it does not 
belong to that family. 


2. Oroscopa punctata, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 23.) 


Primaries and secondaries very pale greyish-brown, thickly irrorated with darker brown scales, a dark brown 
patch on the.outer margin of the primaries just below the apex, the secondaries with a brown spot at the 
end of the cell: head, thorax, and abdomen the same colour as the wings, the antenne, palpi, and legs 
pale whitish-brown. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 


One worn example only. 


3. Oroscopa 2 
Had. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 


One specimen, not in sufficiently good condition for identification or description. 


SORYGAZA. 487 


SORYGAZA. 
Sorygaza, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1181 (1865). 


This genus was founded by Walker on the male of a Venezuelan insect. Numerous 
species are here added to it from Central America, where Walker’s species, 8. didymata, 
also occurs. | 


1. Sorygaza didymata. (Tab. XL. fig. 24.) 
Sorygaza didymata, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1181 (¢)’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ride, in mus. Staudinger).—VENEZUELA!, 


The specimens from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are almost identical with 
Walker's type, which is now in the Oxford Museum. | 


2. Sorygaza area, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 25, 2.) 

Female. Primaries and secondaries pure white; the primaries crossed about the middle by a rather wide waved 
brown band, and with a small brown spot at the base and one on the costal margin close to the apex ; the 
secondaries irrorated with brown scales at the apex and round the outer margin; the underside white, 
very thickly irrorated with brown scales: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs white, the palpi and antenne 
pale brown. Expanse # inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 
This little species is allied to S. didymata, Walk., but it is very different in colour 


and markings. 


3. Sorygaza mardia, sp.n. (Tab. XL. fig. 26, 2.) 

Female. Primaries pale grey, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two dark brown lines—the first 
near the base, the second about the middle,—beyond which are two very indistinct waved whitish lines, 
the fringe pale grey; secondaries pale grey, but rather darker than the primaries, partly crossed below 
the middle by an indistinct whitish line ; the underside pale greyish-brown, slightly irrorated with darker 
brown scales: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale grey, the antenne and palpi dark grey. Expanse 
? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ridbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen. 


4, Sorygaza arbela, sp. n. (Tab. XL. fig. 27, 2.) 

Female. Primaries white, crossed about the middle from the costal to the inner margin by a wide brown band 
edged on both sides with a fine waved black line, and with several indistinct brown markings near the 
apex and along the outer margin, the marginal line with black points, the fringe pale brown; secondaries 
pale brownish-white, paler at the base, two white lines partly crossing the wing from the anal angle; the 
underside of both wings white, thickly irrorated with brown scales: head, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale 
brownish-white, the antennz and palpi pale brown. Expanse 2? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


A very distinct species. The primaries are slightly rounded on the outer margin. 


5. Sorygaza armasata, sp. n. (Tab. XL. fig. 28, 2.) 
Female. Primaries cream-colour, crossed from the costal to the inner margin beyond the middle by a narrow 
pale yellowish-brown band, beyond which is a submarginal waved white line partly edged on the inner 


488 HETEROCERA. 


side with a narrow broken brown line, the apex and outer part of the wing irrorated with yellowish- 
brown scales, two minute brown dots at the end of the cell, the fringe cream-colour; secondaries almost 
pure white, excepting round the outer margin, which: is cream-colour, thickly irrorated with brownish- 
yellow scales, the fringe cream-colour; the underside of both wings almost white, with the costal and 
outer margins broadly bordered with pale yellowish-brown: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, palpi, and 
antenne pale cream-colour. Expanse 1 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen. 


6. Sorygaza manto, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. fig. 1, 2.) 


Female. Primaries and secondaries very pale brownish-white, crossed from near the apex to the middle of the 
inner margin by a rather wide pale brown band, on the outer side of which are two brown spots, the 
marginal line with black spots; secondaries crossed about the middle by a dark brown line, and with two 
dark brown spots in the cell, the outer half of the wing crossed by very fine indistinct lines: head, thorax, 
and abdomen pale brownish-white, the antennee almost white, the palpi very pale brown, the legs white. 
Expanse 2 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


One specimen. 


7. Sorygaza (?) argandina, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. fig. 2, 2.) 
Female. Primaries and secondaries pale brownish-white, irrorated with brown scales, both wings crossed beyond 
the middle by an indistinct brown band, a narrow whitish waved submarginal line extending from the 
apex to the anal angle of the primaries; the underside much the same colour as the upperside, but not 


so much irrorated with brown scales: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, antennx, and legs pale brownish- 
white. Expanse ? inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger). 


Two specimens of this little species are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. It 
hardly belongs to the genus Sorygaza, the outer margin of the primaries being rounded 
and not angular as in that genus; the palpi, however, are very similarly formed. 


8. Sorygaza (?) judicatalis. (Tab. XLI. fig. 3, 2.) 
Megatomis (?) judicatalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 882 ( 9)’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger ).—ANTILLES, San Domingo}. 


One specimen, a female, nearly agreeing with Walker’s type in the National Museum. 
The species is entirely distinct from Megatomis, in which genus Walker placed it with 
doubt; it seems to be much more closely allied to Sorygaza. 


9. Sorygaza (?) marica, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. fig. 4, 2.) 

Female. Primaries pale brown, the basal half (except the costal margin) pale yellowish-brown, a wide 
similarly-coloured band crossing from the costal to the inner margin above the anal angle, two narrow 
yellowish-brown lines also crossing the wing near the base, and two black dots at the end of the cell, the 
marginal line dark brown with black points, the fringe dark brown; secondaries the same colour as the 
primaries, and also with a wide band crossing them, a black dot at the end of the cell, the marginal line 
dark brown with black points; the underside very similar to the upperside, but considerably paler in 


SORYGAZA.—PLYNTERIA. 489 


colour, and with all the bands very indistinct: head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, antennw, and legs pale 
yellowish-brown, the collar and base of the tegule dark brown. Expanse 1,4, inch. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


One specimen. 


PLYNTERIA, gen. nov. 


Male. Head small, the eyes very prominent; the thorax rather broad; the abdomen slender, not extending 
beyond the wings, the anal tuft small. Palpi long and slender; the first joint small, the second long, 
the third joint almost as long as the second, very slender and pointed. Antenne slender, about half the 
length of the primaries, very slightly pectinated. Legs long, slender, and with the tibial spurs very 
elongate. The primaries rather short ; the costal margin quite straight from the base to the apex; the 
inner margin straight ; the outer margin very slightly rounded. The secondaries short, rather broad, 
and very much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the costal and inner margins almost straight. 


The female very similar to the male; but with the thorax and abdomen stouter, the latter considerably 
shorter, and the antenne simple. 


Type Plynteria marginata. 


1. Plynteria marginata, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. figg. 5, 5a, 3; 6,9.) 

Male. Primaries dull brown, the costal margin from the base to the apex broadly streaked with white, and 
crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two indistinct rows of very minute white dots, a small 
white dot at the end of the cell, the marginal line dark brown, the fringe paler brown; secondaries dull 
brown, and crossed by two lines of minute white dots, the marginal line dark brown, the fringe paler 
brown ; the underside uniform pale brown, without markings of any kind: head, front of the thorax, 
and abdomen pale brown, the thorax crossed about the middle by a wide white streak, the anal tuft, the 
antenne, palpi, and legs pale brown. The female very similar to the male, but of a darker and redder 
brown colour, and with the small white dots on the wings much more distinct. Expanse, ¢ 2, 1 inch. 


Hab. PanaMa, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion). 


Our description and figures are taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimens; the only 
example captured by Mr. Champion is a female. 


2. Plynteria lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. figg. 7, 7a, 3.) 


Male, Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, the costal margin of the former broadly streaked with 
pinkish-white ; both wings crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two narrow pinkish-white 
lines edged on the inner side with dark brown, and with a submarginal row of minute pale dots with 
dark brown points extending from the costal to the inner margin, the marginal line of each wing dark 
brown with black points ; the fringe dark fawn-colour ; the underside pale brown, that of the secondaries 
paler than the primaries and crossed in the middle by a darker brown line, both wings with a submarginal 
row of dots as above: head and collar dark reddish-brown ; the thorax, abdomen, and legs fawn-colour, 
the front of the thorax streaked with pinkish-white ; the antenne brown; the palpi dark brown, the 
apex of the second joint annulated with white, the tip of the third joint also white. The female 
similar to the male but larger. Expanse, ¢1, 912 inch. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde, in mus. Staudinger). 


Both sexes of this distinct species are contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. I., May 1891. 399 


490 HETEROCERA. 


DIDA, gen. nov. 


Male (?). Head and eyes small ; the thorax and abdomen slender, the latter only extending very slightly beyond 
the wings. Palpi porrect, formed very much as in the genus Hypena; the first joint very small; the 
second joint long, rather flattened, and thickly clothed with scales; the third joint more than half the 
length of the second, finely pointed. (Antenne broken, but the small part remaining appears to be 
simple.) Fore legs slender, with tufts of hair; (the hind legs wanting). The primaries rather long, 
narrow at the base, wide from the apex to the anal angle; the costal and inner margins straight; the 
apex pointed; the outer margin almost straight, but slightly rounded near the anal angle. ‘The 
secondaries short, rather broad, and considerably rounded from the apex to the anal angle, the inner 
margin also rounded near the anal angle. The fringe long. 

Type Dida cidaria. 


1. Dida cidaria, sp.n. (Tab. XLI. fig. 8.) 

Male (?). Primaries pale olive-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three waved darker 
brown lines—the first near the base, the second about the middle, the third almost submarginal,—the 
marginal line with dark brown points, the fringe dark olive-brown; secondaries very pale brown, 
slightly paler near the base; underside pale brown, both wings pinkish-brown round the margins: head, 
thorax, and abdomen pale olive-brown, the palpi and antenne brown. Expanse 13 inch. 


Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (coll. Schaus). 


One specimen.