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longer than the three segments of the median nervure ; costal and subcostal nervures 
divergent, but approximating towards their distal ends. Tarsus of front leg of female 
five-jointed, second and third joints strongly spurred. (Type Jthomia salvinia, Bates.) 
In this section of the old genus /thomia the secondaries of the male have the full 
complement of nervules; but the cell is differently shaped from that of Leucothyris, 
being much shorter, and the upper discocellular so short that the upper radial lies close 
to the terminal segment of the subcostal. We are acquainted with fifteen or sixteen 
species belonging to this form, which range over a wide area from South Brazil to 
Mexico. 
1. Episcada salvinia. (Tab. III. fig. 19.) 
Ithomia salvinia, Bates, Ent. M. Mag. i. p. 34°. 
Alis hyalinis (venis divisis) omnibus anguste rubiginoso circumcinctis, anticis macula eodem colore ad cellule 
finem et vitta extra cam subquadrata alba ornatis: subtus ut supra, sed partibus rubiginosis paulo 
dilutioribus ; antennis omnino nigris. 
© mari similis, sed alis brevioribus. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Deppe, Mus. Berol.), Oaxaca (Fenochio); Britiso Honpuras, 
Cockscomb Mountains (Llancaneau); GuatemaLa, Volcan de Fuego (0. S.), Zapote 
(Champion), San Gerénimo (Lf. D. G. & O. 8.1), Chisoy and Polochic Valleys (JZague).— 
COLOMBIA. 
Mr. Bates’s description of this species was based upon a female specimen taken by 
us near San Gerdnimo in Vera Paz. Subsequently we received the male insect, which 
proved that the location assigned to the species by its describer was quite correct, and 
that it belongs to the group containing /thomia sylvo and other allied forms. 
E. salvinia is an upland species, seldom perhaps descending below an elevation of 
2000 feet. The specimens taken in the Volcan de Fuego were found in one of the 
deep ravines clothed with dense forest lying on the north-east side of the mountain, at 
an elevation of about 6500 feet. Here they were quite common in July. One of 
our Mexican specimens was taken by Mr. Fenochio in the State of Oaxaca, on the east 
side of the Cordillera. Three specimens from Jalapa, taken by Deppe, and now in the 
Berlin Museum, perhaps mark the limit of the northern range of the species. The 
only evidence we have of the species being found southwards of Guatemala is 
a specimen, formerly in Mr. Bates’s collection, marked as coming trom “ New 
Granada.” 
Our figure is taken from a female caught at San Gerénimo. ‘This and a male from 
the Rio Chisoy are also described. 
2. Episcada apuleia. 
Ithomia apuleia, Hew. Ex. Butt., Ith. t. xxvi. f. 163°. 
Pteronymia salvinia, Butl. & Druce, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 332 (nec Bates)’, 
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