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to say, as we have no authentic specimens from that country with which to compare it. 
It appears, however, very closely to resemble that species. 
Dr. Felder’s types came from Mexico and the Pacific side of Guatemala, the latter 
having been supplied him by us!. From both these countries we have seen a very large 
number of specimens, it being the only Caligo of this section found in Mexico, and quite 
the commonest of its genus in Guatemala. Thence it spreads over the rest of Central 
America to the State of Panama, and into Venezuela, whence we have a specimen which 
agrees with C. memnon rather than with C. teucer, though the marking of the primaries 
beneath is stronger than is usual with the former species. 
The resort of C. memnon is the forests of moderate elevation down to the sea-level ; 
and it is also found in scrubby forest as high as 3000 feet above the sea. 
When disturbed it takes short flights through the underwood a few feet from the 
ground, settling on the stem of a tree with closed wings, where it is very difficult to see, 
unless marked to the spot where it alights. 
A male from San Gerénimo, Guatemala, is figured. 
5. Caligo telamonius. (Tab. XIV. figg. 2, 3.) 
Pavonia telamonius, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatschr. vi. p. 422; Reise d. Nov. Lep. p. 454, t. 64. f. 1’; 
Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 57°. 
C. memnoni persimilis, sed anticarum basi magis fulvescente et linea submarginali ochracea in mari minus 
distincta, posticis quoque in certa luce multo magis purpurascentibus, hoc colore ad marginem extendente, 
distinguendus. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui and Calobre (Arcé), Lion-Hill Station (/‘Leannan). 
—CoLoMBIA 1. . | 
Boisduval gives Nicaragua as a locality for this species*, a statement we cannot as 
yet support, as we have no tidings of it in that direction beyond Chiriqui, in the State 
of Panama. It was originally described from Colombian examples, whence we have 
specimens from the neighbourhood of Santa Marta. Northern Colombia must be con- 
sidered its head quarters, whence it passes into the narrowest part of the Isthmus of 
Panama. 
As a species C. telamonius is quite distinct, though it has a great general resemblance 
to C. memnon. The more ochraceous primaries, and especially the extent of the blue 
of the secondaries, render it not difficult to distinguish. 
A male from Calobre, Panama, is figured. 
[Boisduval (Lép. Guat. p. 56) has described another species of this group, from 
Honduras and Guatemala, under the name of Pavonia dardanus. We have specimens 
from Mons. Deyrolle, from Colombia, thus designated ; but from them it appears that 
this name is only a synonym of C. prometheus (Koll.), a Colombian insect. As we have 
no other tidings of it in our region, we await specimens from a more trustworthy source 
before inserting it as a member of our fauna. | 
