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primaries having two additional apical yellow spots, and another between the second 
and third branches of the median nervure ; the spot, too, on the hind wing is larger, and, 
beneath, the band passing through the cell of the secondaries is wider and occupies a 
larger portion of the cell. This species or race seems to be fairly constant in these points 
of difference, which are of no great value, but, with the exception of some of Dr. Van 
Patten’s specimens already referred to, seem to be associated with a distinct area; and 
therefore, to give this apparent fact prominence, it isas well that the two races should 
bear distinct names. | 
In Costa Rica 0. cothon appears to be common, as Rogers sent us many specimens. 
It is also probably equally abundant as far south as the Volcan de Chiriqui. 
5. Oxeoschistus puerta. 
Pronophila puerta, Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 358°. 
Pronophila puerta, Hew. Ex. Butt. (Pronophila) t. 2. ff. 10, 11°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z.S. 1874, 
p- 388°, 
Alis fuscis, fascia fulva submarginali, linea mediana punctorum nigrorum ab angulo anali posticarum ad 
apicem anticarum extendente; subtus anticis ut supra, sed dilutioribus, posticis ferrugineis, linea duplici 
transversa argenteo-alba, extrorsum valde serrata, et ocellos albo pupillatos continente, striaque altera 
interiore notatis. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten *).—Co.tomBia?; VENEZUELA}. 
Van Patten sent a single specimen from Costa Rica which agrees closely with our 
Venezuelan and Colombian examples of this species. The three species 0. puerta, 
O. simplex, and O. submaculatus are all very closely allied. The first appears to 
have the widest range and extends from Venezuela and Colombia to Central America as 
far north as Costa Rica. It has a strongly marked row of black spots in the middle 
of the fulvous band of both wings; the ocelli beneath in the posterior wings are far 
more conspicuous. O. simplex isan Andean form, ranging from Ecuador into Colombia, 
and differs from the preceding chiefly in the median row of spots in the fulvous band 
being evanescent, with the exception of one or two towards the anal angle of the secon- 
daries; beneath, the transverse white marking of the posterior wings is more faint and 
the ocelli less prominent. 0. submaculatus, which seems to be restricted to Costa Rica, 
has the apical portion of the submarginal fulvous band of the primaries very narrow 
at the apex, and never reaching the costa. The median row of ocelli in this band are 
either altogether absent or in some specimens only faintly indicated in one or two 
places. 
6. Oxeoschistus submaculatus. (Tab. X. figg. 12, 13.) 
Oxeoschistus submaculatus, But). & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 338°. 
O. puerte similis, sed fascia fulva anticarum apud costam angustissima et haud eam attingente, ocellis medianis 
