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9. Callithomia hedila, n. sp. (C. hezia, Tab. III. fig. 1.) 
C. hezi: simillima, sed maculis alarum anticarum majoribus et confluentibus, parte nigra posticarum latiore, 
dimidium alarum occupante: subtus ut supra, maculis apicalibus anticarum et quatuor punctis sub- 
marginalibus posticarum albis. 
Hab. Guatemata, forests of Northern Vera Paz, Choctum (Ff. D. G. & O. 8.), Polochic 
valley (H. Hague). 
The Guatemalan race of C. hezia seems fairly separable as a species. A considerable 
series shows that the spots of the primaries are larger and more confluent, and that the 
apical portion of the same wings is in consequence more transparent. The secondaries, 
too, have more black on the apical half, the fulvous portion being restricted to the 
region of the abdominal margin. 
We took several specimens of this butterfly in the forests of the northern portion of 
Vera Paz, both near the Indian village of Choctum and on the road to Peten. They 
were found at an elevation of from 1000 to 2000 feet above the sea, and were usually 
observed flitting along the forest-paths. Other specimens have since been sent us by 
Mr. Hague from the valley of the Rio Polochic. We have no evidence of the 
existence of the species in the forests of the Pacific side of Guatemala. Our figure is 
taken from a female captured in the valley of the Rio Polochic. 
8. Callithomia panamensis. (Tab. II. fig. 2.) 
Callithomia panamensis, Godm. & Salv. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 5, il. p. 257. 
Alis fuscis, dimidio apicali et punctis duobus (uno intra, altero extra cellulam) nigris, macula lata extus 
irregulariter marginata ad terminum cellule posita, et fascia subapicali, venis divisa, flavis ; posticis late 
nigro marginatis. 
Hab. Panama (£ibée). 
This species is a near ally of C. beronilla, Hew. (Ex. Butt., Jth. t. 33. f. 222), of 
Colombia, but differs from it in the much greater breadth of the transverse yellow 
median band of the primaries. We have only as yet seen a single specimen of the 
species, which was captured by Herr Ribbe, and is now in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 
From this our figure and description were taken. 
EPITHOMIA (gen. nov.). 
Costa of secondaries of male highly arched; lower discocellular bent to a right 
angle close to its upper end, where it emits a long recurrent nervule; middle disco- 
cellular simply curved; upper discocellular short, meeting the subcostal at an obtuse 
angle close to its extremity at a point less than two thirds of the costal margin from 
its base ; costal and subcostal nervures slightly divergent, the latter but slightly curved ; 
