180 RHOPALOCERA. 
Hab. Mexico?; Guaremata!®, Yzabal, Motagua valley (f. D. G. & 0. 8.), Tocoy 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Lelt). 
Our original specimens of this peculiar species, one of which is figured, were all 
obtained in the valley of the Motagua, at an elevation of about 1000 feet above the sea, 
and at Yzabal on the shores of the lake of the same name. Since then the only 
Guatemalan examples we have received were procured by Mr. Champion at Tocoy, 
in the Motagua valley; -hence it appears that in Guatemala at least S. melanarge 
has avery restricted range. Our authority for including Mexico within its range rests 
on a single specimen in our possession without authority, said to be from that country. 
Near Chontales it is not uncommon, Belt having captured it in some numbers. 
c. Discal area of secondaries above yellow, base of costa of primaries beneath red. 
5. Synchloe erodyle. (Tab. XX. figg. 3, 4.) 
Synchloe erodyle, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 84°. 
Chlosyne erodyle, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 349°. 
Alis nigris, anticis albo maculatis, posticis area basali irregulariter flavis, macula ad angulum analem (interdum 
pluribus) rubra; subtus ut supra, sed posticis maculis rubris quatuor (interdum quinque), duabus ad 
angulum analem, alteris apicem versus, anticis costa ad basin rubra, palpis nigris lateraliter albis. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek), Oaxaca (Fenochio); GuatreMALa!, Motagua and Polochic 
valleys (F. D. G. & O. S.), Teleman (Champion); Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt); Costa 
Rica (Van Patten”). 
There is some confusion as to the application of this name, which appears to have 
originally been one of the many uncharacterized ones put in circulation by the late 
Dr. Boisduval. Mr. Bates, however, restricted its use to the insect with white spots on | 
the primaries, and thus named specimens obtained by us in various parts of the interior 
of Guatemala}. So far as Guatemala and Nicaragua are concerned, there is little 
variation between specimens of this race, all having white-spotted primaries; but in 
Southern Mexico these have a yellowish tinge, and in this respect approach S. pecile, 
the southern form. These Mexican specimens, however, have the spots of the primaries 
of the same rounded shape as those of S. erodyle; and we therefore place them under 
that name, not, however, without some hesitation. 
One specimen in our collection is peculiar in having the primaries unspotted black ; 
but this we take to be an individual aberration. 
S. erodyle is a lowland form, and is probably not found at a greater elevation 
than 2000 feet above the sea. 
A female, from the Polochic valley, is figured. 
6. Synchloe pecile. (Tab. XX. figg. 1, 2.) 
Synchloe pecile, Feld. Voy. Nov., Lep. p. 396"; Godm. & Salv. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 123”. 
S. erodyle similis, sed anticis flavo (nec albo) maculatis. 
