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We have not yet met with any representatives in our region of the variety represented by 
Hiibner as Temenis merione, nor yet of that called by Cramer Papilio laothoe. The two 
Central-American varieties are not strictly localized as indicated above ; for in Guatemala 
the dark-tipped insect occurs with the lighter one, though more sparingly. 
Temenis ariadne in Guatemala enjoys a wide range in altitude, being found from 
nearly the sea-level at Teleman to 5000 feet above the sea at Duefias. It is a forest- 
loving species, though not always forest of the densest kind. 
NICA. 
Nica, Hiibner, Samml. ex. Schm. ii. t. 17; Bates, Journ. Ent. i. p. 204. 
Three species are included in Mica, all of which are very closely allied, if indeed they 
are really separable. WV. flavilla is the Brazilian race; WV. sylvestris that of the Amazons 
valley ; and WV. canthara is found in Venezuela and Colombia, and thence northwards to 
Guatemala. 
In its general coloration Nica much resembles the lighter forms of Temenis; but the 
hind wings are more rounded and less produced at the anal angle than in that genus. 
A dark transverse line crosses both wings beneath—a character Mica has in common 
with Peria, but which is not found in Temenis. 
The subcostal nervure in Mica throws off the first branch before the end of the cell, 
the second at the junction of the short upper discocellular; the chords of the middle 
and lower discocellular nervules are in a line running at right angles to the subcostal, 
and meeting the median a little beyond the origin of the second branch; neither the 
subcostal nor the median nervures are swollen at their bases. The front legs of the 
male are slightly hairy; coxa stout, >4 femur-+ trochanter ; tibia thickened at its 
distal end, <femur ; tarsus thickened at its proximal end, <tibia. Eyes smooth. Palpi 
slightly hairy, terminal joint rather >4 middle joint, which is slightly swollen towards 
its distal end. Antenne with 31 joints, the terminal 12 forming a rather abrupt club. 
The male secondary sexual organs have a tegumen with a long central spine, which is 
abruptly depressed into an almost recurved hook; the harpagones project beyond the 
tegumen, are hairy at the end, but have no spines. 
1. Nica canthara. 
Myscelia canthara, Doubl. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 226°. 
Nica flavilla, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 3447. 
Alis posticis rotundatis margine externo sensim undulato; supra alis fulvis, anticarum apicibus fuscis aut 
nigris interdum maculam includentibus; subtus ochraceo-flavidis linea communi transversa extra cellulas 
fusca, lineis undulatis duabus submarginalibus fulvidis, anticarum apicibus ocellis albo pupillatis 
duobus, posticis duobus ad costam extra lineam transversam altero versus angulum analem. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Panan, Pantaleon, San Gerdénimo (Champion), Pacific slopes, 
Motagua and Polochic valleys (F. D. G. & O. S.); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa 
