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secondaries, and specimens are larger. A Panama specimen, however, agrees with 
these, others from the same locality being of the normal type. The Nicaragua examples 
are small, the tawny colour paler, and the primaries are rather more pointed. These, 
too, can be matched in our series from Panama. 
The specimen from Mr. Druce’s collection, called P. claudina®, seems certainly to 
belong here. The name P. claudina is synonymous with P. flavia, and applies to a 
Brazilian species. 
In Guatemala P. anieta ranges to a height of about 4000 feet at Purula, but it seems 
restricted to the valley of the Polochic. 
We have figured a male from Costa Rica. 
16. Phyciodes cluvia, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. figg. 21, 22.) 
P. aniete affinis et ejusdem stature, alarum marginibus et basi multo latius nigris; subtus valde fuscescenti- 
oribus, anticis maculis duabus ochraccis, una magna in regione rami mediani, altera fasciiformi extra 
cellulam. 
Hab. Guaremaa, Purula and Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
We base this species upon two specimens obtained by Mr. Champion in the above 
localities. On the upper surface it much resembles the Guatemala form of P. anveta ; 
but the black borders are still broader. Beneath it differs in having the wings (except 
the region of the median branches and a transverse band across the apex) of a ferru- 
ginous brown instead of tawny. 
It would appear to, be an inhabitant of damp highland districts, ranging between 
4000 and 6000 feet. 
We have figured the specimen from Purula. 
17. Phyciodes fragilis. (Tab. XXI. fig. 23.) 
Melitea fragilis, var. guatemalena, Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 189°. 
P. aniete quoque affinis, sed plerumque major; alis dilutius fulvis, marginibus alarum nigris multo angusti- 
oribus, macula anticarum apicali fulva haud fascia fusca separata. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hoge); Brrrisa Honpuras, Corosal (foe) ; 
GUATEMALA, interior (I. D. G. & O. 8.), Las Nubes (0. S.), Choctum, San Gerénimo, 
Polochic valley (Hague), Zapote, Las Mercedes, Cahabon and Teleman (Champion) ; 
Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely)—Co.ompia; VENEZUELA; LOWER Amazons 1; 
S. Braziu. 
This species, as Mr. Bates has pointed out, is allied to P. diriope, a common butterfly 
in Guiana and many parts of the Amazon valley. The typical form of P. fragilis was 
obtained by Mr. Bates on the banks of the Cupari, a branch of the Tapajos. At the 
time he described it he referred our Guatemalan examples to a local race of the same 
insect as var. guatemalena. Since then we have received a large series of specimens 
which show that the differences between the Cupari insect and those from Central 
