254 . RHOPALOCERA. 
Besides the specimens in our collection and those in the British Museum, we have 
seen others in the Museum at Vienna obtained through Lieut. Hedemann and Herr 
Bilimek. 
CALLICORE. 
Callicore, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 41 (1816); Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 237. 
Mr. Kirby in his Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera includes the names of twenty- 
three species in this genus; but many of these were proposed by Guénée in 1872, the 
greater part of which have not been satisfactorily recognized by more recent workers. 
In our own collection we possess some twenty species, which number probably about 
represents the specific strength of the genus. Of these, five are found within our area, 
only two of which, C. astala and C. eupepla, are peculiar to it, the former being generally 
distributed throughout the region from Mazatlan to Panama, the latter being peculiar 
to Costa Rica and Panama. The metropolis of the genus seems to be the slopes of the 
Andes, few species being found in Guiana and Southern Brazil. 
In Callicore the first branch of the subcostal nervure of the primaries is emitted 
beyond the end of the cell, the upper discocellular is absent, the middle curves into 
the lower radial, there being no trace of a lower discocellular. The front legs of the 
male are hairy ; the coxa stout, >% femur+trochanter ; tibia swollen, > femur; tarsus 
(single-jointed)=femur. yes hairy. Palpi hairy, terminal joint=4 middle joint, 
which is not swollen. Antenne with 385 joints, the terminal 12 forming a somewhat 
abrupt club. The secondary male sexual organs are very like those of Cyclogramma: 
they have a pointed tegumen; the harpagones are simply lobed, and there is what 
appears to be an inner lobe starting from near the base of each harpagone. 
a. One or more indistinct spots in the rings of the underside of the secondaries. 
1. Callicore astala. (Tab. XXV. figg. 5, 6 2.) 
Catagramma astala, Guér. Icon. Régne An. Ins. texte, p. 479". 
Callicore astala, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 3447, 
Callicore cornelia, H.-Sch. Samml. aussereur. Schm. ff. 21, 22’. 
Alis supra nitidissime ceruleis, ciliis externis albis, anticarum apicibus nigris maculam albam includentibus, 
plaga sericeo-cerulea discali a cellule fine ad angulum analem transeunte; subtus anticis dimidio antico 
coccineo, preter basin albam dimidio postico nigro apice albo, linecis duabus submarginalibus notatis, 
posticis sericeo-albis, costa et linea submarginali coccincis, hac inter lineas duas nigras posita, lineis 
quoque duabus transversis nigris ad basin, et extra eas duobus annulis figuram 8 habentibus, maculis 
duabus indistinctis inclusis. 
Femina mari similis, colore cxruleo absente et macula sericeo-cerulea majore et viridescenti tincta, atomis 
quoque Viridibus ad anticarum basin notata. 
Hab. Mexico}, Cordova (Riimeli), Oaxaca (Fenochio); Guatemata, San Gerénimo, 
Polochic valley, Choctum (Hague), Senahu, San Gerdénimo, Zapote (Champion), Yzabal, 
Pacific slope, Duefas (£. D. G. & O. S.); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica 
