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both sides of the Cordillera. It was also observed in the forests of the Volcano of 
Atitlan at an elevation of between 3000 and 4000 feet. Our specimens from Retal- 
huleu were described by Mr. Bates as I. psyche?, and compared at the time with 
I. victorina and I. cotytto, species having a very similar outward resemblance to it, but 
differing, as Mr. Bates pointed out, in the arrangement of the neuration of the secon- 
dary wings. Subsequent comparison has shown us that J. psyche does not differ 
specifically from J. patilla (a Mexican insect described by Hewitson from apparently 
a female example!), though Guatemalan and southern specimens have the inner 
portion of the dark border to the secondaries tinged with rufous, but to a variable 
degree. 
We have not yet seen specimens of J. patilla from any locality beyond the Isthmus 
of Panama; but in South America allied species occur, the nearest perhaps being 
I. ardea, Hew., of Peru and Bolivia. 
Our figure is taken from one of the types of J. psyche, captured near Retalhuleu in 
1862. 
6. Ithomia leila. (Tab. V. fig. 7.) 
Ithomia leila, Hew. Ex. B., Ith. t. uu. f. 3°. 
I. patille affinis, sed alis posticis multo minoribus, anticis macula elliptica pellucida nigro circumcincta intra 
ramos medianos secundum et tertium distinguenda. 
Hab. Mexico}, Jalapa (Deppe, Mus. Berol.); Guatemaua, Choctum (Hague). 
Of this rare species but little is known. Hewitson’s plate was drawn from a female 
specimen in Saunders’s collection, said to have come from Mexico. From the same 
country we have seen two examples captured by Deppe at Jalapa, which are now 
in the Berlin Museum. Only three specimens have reached us from Guatemala, two 
of which were taken near Choctum, in Northern Vera Paz, by one of Mr. Hague’s col- 
lectors. The third we procured from Herr Ribbe, from a collection of Guatemalan 
insects. Our Choctum specimens are both males; and from one of them the figure 
has been drawn. 
7. Ithomia hippocrenis. (Tab. V. fig. 5.) 
Ithomia hippocrenis, Bates, Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 51’; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 333 *. 
I. patille similis, sed minor, apicibus anticarum magis hyalinis et stria acuta angusta per mediam cellulam 
versus ramum medianum primum ducta distinguenda. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten)?; Panama, 
Santa Fé, Calobre (Arcé), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan’). 
Originally described by Mr. Bates from a single specimen sent in from Lion-Hill 
station by the late James M‘Leannan; we have since received a number of others 
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