396 RHOPALOCERA. 
basin coste coccinea ; subtus fuscis undique a cellulis ad margines albo radiolatis, anticis ad basin maculis 
quatuor, posticis octo, pure coccineis nigro marginatis, notatis ; cruribus anticis medialiter viridi-ceeruleo 
micantibus. 
@ alis nigris, fascia submarginali communi coccinea venis divisa in anticis apicem fere attingente; subtus 
fuscis, bitriente distali inter venas albido biradiatis, fascia communi pagine superioris maculosa, macula 
singula coccinea rosaceo-albo circumeincta, maculis basalibus sicut in mare. 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Polochic valley (Hague1), Panzos (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
(Champion). 
This Central-American representative of Lyropteryx is found from Guatemala to the 
State of Panama, its place being taken in Colombia by Z. lyra, the males almost 
exactly agreeing on the upper side; but the two species are readily distinguished by 
the spots at the base of the wings beneath, those of ZL. cleadas being pure scarlet, 
while those of L. lyra have a purple cast, as in Z. apollonia. L. olivia, of Brazil, also 
has these spots pure scarlet; but the female of that species differs from that sex of 
L. cleadas by the red band of the primaries crossing the wing much further from 
the apex. 
Mr. Druce, when describing L. cleadas, states that he had seen a Chiriqui specimen 
from Dr. Staudinger’s collection which agreed with the type of Z. olivia; but we are 
confident that he must have made an error in this identification, as our female from 
Chiriqui agrees in all respects with the type of that sex from Guatemala, and specimens 
of both sexes of L. olivia are in the Berlin Museum from Brazil. ‘The female of L. lyra 
is, we believe, as yet unknown. 
Mr. Champion’s Bugaba specimens were captured about the flowers of a small tree in 
the second-growth woods. 
NECYRIA. 
Necyria, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 482 (1851). 
There are fourteen species belonging to this genus: three of them are found within 
our limits, the remainder extending southwards along the Andes, and one reaching into 
Bolivia. It is a well-marked genus, and is allied to Lyropteryx, both as regards the 
neuration of the wings and the secondary sexual characters in the males. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries of the male in V. manco emits one branch 
before the end of the cell and two after it; the middle discocellular is perfect and meets 
the subcostal at an acute angle close to the junction of the upper radial; the lower 
discocellular is atrophied in the middle and meets the median at an acute angle a little 
beyond the second branch; the costal side of the cell is a little longer than the median 
side. The secondaries have a strong basal nervure; the upper discocellular is perfect 
and meets the subcostal a little beyond the first branch at an obtuse angle ; the lower 
discocellular is atrophied towards its upper end and meets the median a little beyond 
the second branch ; the costal side of the cell is much shorter than the median. 
The front legs of the male have the trochanter inserted about the middle of the coxa; 
