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1. Pedaliodes manis. 
Pronophila manis, Feld. Reise d. Nov., Zool. ii. Lep. Th. iii. p. 469’. 
Pedaliodes manis, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 337 7. 
Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis limbum externum versus dilutioribus; subtus ferrugineo-fuscis, fascia lata submarginali 
pallidiore, interne valde curvata, et atomis albescentibus tinctis, margine interno ferrugineo. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten *).—CoLoMBiA!; VENEZUELA; Ecuapor. 
We have a single example of this species which came in Van Patten’s collection from 
Costa Rica. It agrees fairly with some of the South-American specimens, though, like 
most members of this genus, individuals differ slightly from each other. In some the 
amount of the rufous marking on the underside at the anal angle is greater and more 
concentrated than in others; the submarginal line varies also in its distinctness. 
Dr. Felder’s specimens came from the neighbourhood of Bogota, whence we have 
examples, and also from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, and from Merida in 
Venezuela: these latter have a rather conspicuous ocellus near the anal angle of the 
secondaries beneath, and may be referable to another species. 
2. Pedaliodes pisonia. (Pedaliodes dejecta, Tab. IX. fig. 4.) 
Pronophila pisonia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, 1. p. 6, t. 3. f. 21°. 
Pedaliodes pisonia, Butl. Cat. Sat. B. M. p. 173°. 
Pronophila dejecta, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 179°. 
Pedaliodes lithochalcis, Butl. & Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p.100*; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 338’. 
Alis supra fuscis fere unicoloribus, marginibus externis paulo dilutioribus ; subtus pallidioribus, anticis interdum 
angulum analem versus ferrugineo tinctis et fasciis indistinctis transfasciatis, una per cellulam altera ultra 
eam transeuntibus; posticis nigro irroratis, fascia indistincta valde sinuata ultra cellulam ornatis, ocello 
unico ad angulum analem quoque notatis. 
Q mari similis, sed major et coloribus alarum pagine inferioris multo magis distinctis. 
Hab. Guaremata, Polochic valley (7. D. G. & O. S.3); Costa Rica (Van Patten *?), 
Volcan de Irazu and Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé).— VENEZUELA ? ?. 
Mr. Bates described a single specimen of this butterfly obtained by us in the valley 
of the Polochic, Guatemala, under the name Pronophila dejecta®. Van Patten subse- 
quently sent examples of the same insect from Costa Rica, to which Messrs. Butler and 
Druce gave the name P. lithochalcis 4, comparing it with P. pisonia. We have received 
specimens from Mr. Rogers from the Rio Sucio and the Volcan de [razu in Costa Rica, 
and also from Arcé from Chiriqui; and thus we possess a considerable series from these 
various sources. On a close examination of them we are unable to discriminate more 
than one species. Though there is a slight variation in the intensity of the mottled 
marking of the under surface of the wings, this does not seem to be peculiar to any 
locality. Again, comparing examples of the Central-American insect with Hewitson’s 
types of Pedaliodes pisonia from Venezuela in the British Museum, we do not see how they 
