378 RHOPALOCERA. 
b. No ocellus at the end of the cell of the primaries. 
5. Kurybia halimede. 
Limnas subtilis halimede, Hiibn. Sammi. ex. Schmett. i. t. on, 
Eurybia halimede, Bates, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 4157. 
Alis fuscis, serie duplici macularum submarginalium, exteriori punctis nigris fulvo marginatis, interiori punctis 
in anticis albo in posticis testaceo pupillatis, anticis ad cellule finem maculis indistinctis notatis sed ocello 
sicut in £. salome etc. haud ornatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (76ge) ; GuateMALA, Polochic river (Hague), Panima, Miran- 
dilla, San Isidro, Cerro Zunil (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, 
Cache (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba, David (Champion), Calobre 
(Arcé), Panama city (J. J. Walker).—Conomsia ; AMazons?; Braziu ?. 
This is perhaps the commonest species of Eurybia in our country, and may be 
distinguished from all its allies by the absence of the ocellus on the primaries, though 
its position is indicated by some dark marks. 
As will be seen above, its range is very extensive. Mr. Champion obtained many 
specimens both in Guatemala and in the State of Panama, and captured it in shady 
forests as high as 4500 feet on the slopes of Zunil. It was equally common in the low- 
lying hotter districts. 
MESOSEMIA. 
Mesosemia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 20 (1816) ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 453. 
This is also a strictly tropical genus, containing upwards of one hundred species which 
are spread from South Mexico to South Brazil. Sixteen species are found within 
our limits, whereof only two reach as far north as Southern Mexico; as we proceed 
southward the number of species increases, as we find thirteen between Nicaragua and 
the State of Panama. Ten out of the sixteen species are peculiar, and of the remaining 
six, three are not known to pass beyond the limits of Colombia, one reaches as far as 
Venezuela, and two Guiana, one of the latter being also found in Ecuador. It is 
somewhat singular that not a single one occurs in the Amazons valley so far as we 
know. In dividing out this genus we have used certain colour characteristics which 
will be found a convenient help in distinguishing the species. Underlying these we have 
little doubt other differences will be found; but our dissections at present only include 
three species. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries in Mu grandis emit two branches before the 
end of the cell and two beyond it; the discocellulars are atrophied towards their 
junction with the lower radial; the middle discocellular and the upper radial meet the 
subcostal at the same point, the former at an acute angle; the lower discocellular meets 
the median some way beyond the origin of the second branch; the costal and median 
sides of the cell are subequal. The secondaries have a strong basal nervure; the upper 
