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who had it in a case with other insects hung on a wall of a room in his house at 
Aceytuno, near the city of Guatemala. As far as could be ascertained, this specimen 
was captured in the vicinity of the hacienda. Since then Mr. Champion has sent us a 
fine fresh specimen which he took near Purula, in Vera Paz, at an elevation of between 
4000 and 5000 feet above the sea. This second example agrees accurately with the 
type. The species is a remarkably distinct one, as the figure will show, and is the 
largest of its genus. It is probably restricted in its range to the highland forests of 
Guatemala, but is nowhere common. 
PRONOPHILA. 
Pronophila, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 357 (1851, partim); Butl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 3, 
Xx. p. 266. 
Pronophila, as restricted by Mr. Butler, is a compact genus, containing nine not very 
very well-defined species, which are found throughout the Andes as far south as 
Bolivia, one species occurring in our region. The palpi in this genus are very pro- 
minent, the terminal joint being directed forwards; the median joint is densely clothed 
with long hair-like scales. Asin Oxeoschistus, the middle discocellular nervule of the 
primaries is bent to a right angle about the middle, where it emits a strong recurrent 
nervule; the lower discocellular is gradually curved outwards. ‘The upper discocellular 
is short in these two genera, as also in Drucina, and directed slightly forwards ; and the 
eyes in all are densely hairy. 
1. Pronophila timanthes. (Tab. X. figg. 6, 7.) 
Pronophila timanthes, Salv. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vil. p. 412’; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 
1874, p. 338°. 
Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis maculis elongatis submarginalibus quinque rufescentibus medialiter ocellatis ; subtus 
anticis ut supra, sed dilutioribus et ocellis cyaneo pupillatis ; posticis griseo-fuscis, fasciis indistinctis obscu- 
rioribus transvittatis ocellisque submarginalibus serie fere obsoleta notatis. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten ?), Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé 1). 
At the time we described this species it was the only known one of its genus which 
differed from all others in having the submarginal row of elongated rufous spots on the 
primaries; but a short time ago Mr. Buckley brought specimens of a similar insect from 
Granadillas, in Ecuador, which has the same character, and is perhaps hardly speci- 
fically distinct. The only apparently constant differences we can trace are in the 
rufescent spots of the primaries of the Ecuador race being restricted to the outside 
of the ocelli instead of passing inside them as in P. timanthes; the secondaries, too, of 
the latter have a rather less indentated outer margin. 
P. timanthes is the only representative of Pronophila in Central America, and is 
