28 : RHOPALOCERA. 
3. Napeogenes pedaretus. (Tab. IV. figg. 4, 5.) 
Napeogenys pedaretus, Godm. & Salv. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 5, ii. p. 257. 
d alis flavo-hyalinis nigro circumdatis, anticarum area vene median fulvo lavata, macula triangulari nigra 
ad cellule finem, area apicali venis nigris divisa; posticarum margine nigro, intus fulvo tincto, apicibus 
albo punctatis: subtus sicut supra, sed marginibus externis albo punctulatis. 
mari similis, sed anticis fuscescentioribus, area apicali maculis elongatis semihyalinis inter venas notata et 
una subquadrata concolori intra cellulam; posticis ferrugineis margine nigro ad angulum analem fere 
obsoleto, maculis duabus semihyalinis ad angulum analem vix apparentibus. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu and Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
Of this beautiful species a pair alone have reached us. These were collected in the 
above localities by Mr. H. Rogers. The male bears a close resemblance to the same 
sex of Ithomia xenos, while the female has the pattern of that sex of Dircenna relata. 
The peculiar neuration of the secondaries at once distinguishes them from either of 
those species. 
Both specimens are represented in our plate. 
DIRCENNA. 
Dircenna, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 119 (1847). 
Tarsus of front leg of female with four joints, a pair of spurs on each of the second 
and third joints (sometimes also on the first); primaries with recurrent nervule on 
the lower discocellular; a strong recurrent nervule on lower discocellular of secon- 
daries; middle discocellular of secondaries of male gradually curved and directed out- 
wards, upper discocellular absent; upper radial anastomosing with subcostal at the 
end of the cell; costal and subcostal strongly arched ; cell of secondaries short, and 
lower segment of discocellular directed inwards. 
The genus Dircenna was established by Doubleday to receive D. klugi and another 
South-American species. Since then, numerous /thomie have been placed in it; and 
the definition of the genus has become obscured by these additions. ‘The hairiness of 
the palpi, upon which Doubleday placed much stress, does not seem to be a character 
to be relied upon as distinctive of the genus. The joints of the tarsus of the female, 
four in number, coupled with the shortness of the cell of the secondaries, seem to be 
associated in no other group of Jthomia; and we therefore restrict the term Dircenna 
to the insects having these characters. The genus as thus restricted has a wide range, 
extending from Brazil to Mexico. Five species are found within our limits, of which 
one reaches Mexico and two Guatemala; the rest are found in the more southern parts 
of the Isthmus. 
1. Dircenna klugi. 
veratinia klugit, Geyer, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schm. f. 801, 802°. 
Dircenna klugi, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 121°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 331°. 
