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median nervure of the primaries—a character which serves to distinguish it from all 
members of the genus Euptychia, which structurally is its nearest ally. The neuration 
of the primaries is much the same as in Euptychia libye and its allies, two subcostal 
branches being thrown off before the end of the cell (antea, p. 83). The differences 
between Paramecera and Euptychia consist in the greater distinctness of the club of the 
antennee and in the terminal joint of the palpi being more slender and directed forwards 
at a less obtuse angle. They are not very important ; and, considering the diversity 
of the members of the latter genus, the former might well be included in Luptychia. 
However, as the separation has been made, and as a further subdivision of Euptychia is 
almost inevitable, we are content to keep Paramecera distinct. ‘The range of the genus 
is that of its single species as given below. 
Mr. Butler, in his description of the genus, alludes to the upper surface of the wings 
being densely hairy, more so than in any other species of Satyrinee. This peculiarity is 
not obvious to us, as our specimens, though certainly densely clothed with scales on the 
wings, are not more so than is the case with many other species. 
1. Paramecera xicaque. 
Neonympha xicaque, Reak. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 336°. 
Paramecera xicaque, Butl. Cat. Sat. B. M. p. 99, t. 2. f.5”. 
Alis rufescenti-fuscis, marginibus et anticarum plaga submediana obscurioribus ; posticis rotundatis et bene 
dentatis ; anticis ocellis duobus ad apices et posticis serie submarginali ornatis ; posticarum limbo externo 
ad angulum analem rufescente, lineis fuscis margini subparallelis notato; subtus alis magis fulvescentibus ; 
anticis lineis transversis rufis notatis, una per cellulam, altera ultra eam ad angulum analem ducta ; posticis 
fascia lata transversa rufo limbata ornatis, ocellis pagine superioris albo pupillatis et margine externo 
lineis duabus subparallelis ornatis. 
@ mari similis, sed major et plaga fusca anticarum submediana absente distinguenda. 
Hab. Mexico”, near Vera Cruz (W. H. Edwards"), mountains of Oaxaca (Henochio). 
This species, which seems restricted in its range to the southern States of Mexico, 
Vera Cruz, and Oaxaca, was first described by Mr. Reakirt from specimens obtained by 
Mr. W. H. Edwards in the vicinity of VeraCruz. We have since obtained several examples 
from the eastern slope of the mountains of Oaxaca, which were sent us by Don A. Fenochio. 
The species is also represented in the collection of the British Museum ®; and there was 
one in the Kaden collection bearing a MS. name of Herrich-Schaffer’s. As already stated, 
the peculiarity of the colour of this species, coupled with the dark submedian patch on 
the primaries of the male, distinguishes it from all members of the genus Luptychia, to 
which it seems very closely allied. 
LYMANOPODA. 
Lymanopoda, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 401 (1851). 
The head quarters of this genus is the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, where 
