330 RHOPALOCERA. 
An exceedingly common insect throughout the whole of Central America, frequenting 
open places and the neighbourhood of houses, where they may be seen clinging to 
white-washed walls exposed to the sun. : 
In South America it extends to Paraguay, but it does not, so far as we know, spread 
eastwards through the valley of the Amazons or to Guiana. 
2. Smyrna karwinskii. 
Smyrna karwinskii, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. iii. t—’; Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 46. f. 2”. 
8S. blomfildie simillimus, sed posticarum angulo anali ecaudato, et linea submarginali preter ad angulum 
apicalem absente. 
Hab. Mexico 1”, Jalapa (Hoge), Cordova (Riimeli); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Cham- 
pion), Motagua valley, central valleys, Duefias (7. D.G. & O.S.); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion).—CoLoMBIa. 
This species scarcely differs from the last, except in the absence of the short tail of 
the secondaries, and in the secondary male sexual parts described above. Its distribu- 
tion, however, is somewhat different. The two species are found together throughout 
Central America. Thence we trace it into Colombia, but, so far as we know, it does 
not extend further south. 
PYCINA. 
Pycina, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 805 (1850). 
This genus has long been known from a single species from Colombia and Ecuador, 
described under the name of P. zamba. The species described below is a slight local 
modification of the previously known form. Pycina has a general colour-resemblance 
to Smyrna, but may readily be distinguished by its more elongated primaries and by 
the undulating costa of the secondaries. The second branch of the subcostal of the 
primaries is emitted close to the end of the cell; the upper discocellular is short and 
directed rather backwards, the middle is long and curved, and the lower closes the cell 
obliquely and joins the median some way beyond the origin of the second branch; the 
submedian is slightly swollen near the base ; an atrophied lower discocellular closes the 
cell of the secondaries. The eyes are densely hairy; the terminal joint of the palpi is 
moderately long and tapering, the middle joint is long and of nearly uniform width 
throughout; the front legs of the male are very hairy, and have a comparatively short 
and slender coxa; the femur is long, and with the trochanter =2 coxa; tibia=femur 
+trochanter; tarsus (single-jointed) =2 tibia. The tegumen of the male secondary 
organs has a strong median spine, which is decurved at the point, and depending from 
it are two short strong spines united at their bases, and slightly inclined towards one 
another at their tips; the harpagones are simple lobes, slightly constricted towards the 
tip, where there is a short recurved hook. 
