ACTINOTE. 141 
like the toe of a shoe; the penis is a sharp-pointed chitinous rod of moderate length. 
In A. natalica this organ is enormously developed, being *4 inch in length. 
Regarding the neuration of the wings, on which Doubleday laid considerable stress 
when compiling the sections of the genus Acrwa, we find that Actinote does not 
materially differ from Acrea horta. In other Old-World forms important differences 
are observable. 
1, Actinote anteas. (Acrea anteas, Tab. XVI. fig. 1.) 
Acrea anteas, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 142, t. 18. £. 57. 
Actinote anteas, Dist. Pr. Ent. Soc. 1876, p. xiv’. 
Actinote thalia, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 352°. 
Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis maculis duabus intra cellulam alteraque inter venas medianam et submedianam, fascia 
quoque lata subapicali venis divisa flavidis; posticis area interiore ferrugineo-flava, venis et stria inter 
venas nigro notatis ; subtus alis dilutioribus et marginibus flavido et nigro radiolatis. 
Hab. Guatemata, Central valleys (F. D. G. & O.8.), San Gerénimo (Champion), El 
Zambador (Champion) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten®); Talamanca (Gadd 2), San Francisco 
(Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Areé, Zahn, Champion), Calobre (Arcé).—CoLoMBIA ; 
VENEZUELA 1, 
It is open to question whether A. anteas, which was originally described from Vene- 
zuelan specimens, is really separable from A. thalia (Linn.) from Brazil; and the only 
distinction that we can trace is in the greater width of the subapical band of the primaries 
in the northern form, and their yellower less ferruginous colour. But these characters 
fail us when Colombian specimens are examined, both races being apparently repre- 
sented in that country. In Central America we find A. anteas agreeing with the 
Venezuelan insect; but even here some variation can be traced, which chiefly affects 
the extent of the yellow spots of the base of the primaries, as well as the subapical 
band; but these variations seem to be purely individual. We have never as yet seen 
an Actinote of this form from Guiana; and Mr. Bates only captured one specimen at 
Para, which he called Acrwa thalia*. A little further east, at Maranham, this insect 
appears to be much more common, as we have several specimens from there captured 
by the late Mr. T. Belt. These differ more from the true dA. thalia than A. anteas 
does, the rusty yellow of the base of the wings being of greater extent, forming a large 
subtriangular nearly confluent patch. This race should also probably have a name. 
Actinote anteas is abundant in the valleys of the interior of Guatemala up to an 
elevation of about 3000 feet. It is not, so far as we know, found in the forests of the 
low-lying lands; and this may account for its not having been sent us from Nicaragua 
or the line of the Panama railway. 
2, Actinote guatemalena. (Acrwa anteas, Tab. XVI. fig. 2). 
Acrea guatemalena, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 587. 
* Trans. Linn. Soc, xxill. p. 564. 
