398 RHOPALOCERA. 
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anticis ad medium marginis interni macula coccinea, posticis maculis duabus hujus coloris ad coste: 
medium ; abdominis lateralibus coccineis. 
Hab. GuateMata (fide Dr. Staudinger). 
The specimen described above was kindly submitted to us by Dr. Staudinger as. 
coming from Guatemala, and in the same box was such a characteristic Guatemalan 
species as Ana excellens. This is the only evidence of the existence of a Necyria from 
that country. 
The specimen referred to was not in good condition and the antenne were missing ;. 
but we nevertheless think it well to give a figure of so interesting a butterfly. 
MONETHE. 
Themone, Section B. Monethe, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 462 (1851). 
Two species have been recognized as belonging to this genus, to which we now add. 
a third ; these are sparingly distributed over tropical America from Nicaragua to South 
Brazil; this latter locality requires confirmation, resting at present on a specimen in 
the British Museum, said to have come from Rio Janeiro. 
The subcostal branch of the primaries in IZ. albertus emits one branch before the 
end of the cell and two after it; the middle discocellular is short and meets the sub- 
costal almost at a right angle; the upper radial meets the subcostal a little beyond the 
cell; the lower discocellular is atrophied towards its upper end, it meets the median at. 
an acute angle beyond the second branch; the costal side of the cell is shorter than 
the median. ‘The secondaries have a basal nervure; the upper discocellular meets the 
subcostal beyond the first branch at a wide obtuse angle; the lower discocellular meets. 
the median at an acute angle beyond the second branch; the costal side of the cell is 
much shorter than the median side. 
The front legs of the male have the trochanter inserted beyond the middle of the 
coxa; the femur >4 coxa, slightly dilated towards the distal end; tibia = coxa, dilated 
in the middle; tarsus short, single-jointed <$ tibia. Terminal joint of palpi very small 
and slender =4 middle joint, which tapers slightly towards the extremity ; basal joint 
short = $ middle joint. 
The harpagones have two short blunt setose lobes towards the extremity on the 
outer side; a central piece arches over the penis and sends outward two blunt setose 
lobes on either side of the middie; a broad filament thickly covered with papille. 
apparently proceeds from the penis; the strap from the base of the penis proceeds out- 
wards as far as the end of the harpagones, it is then splayed out laterally and turned 
back to their base. 
1. Monethe rudolphus, sp. n. 
Alis nigris, area discali et anticis macula subapicali flavis; subtus ut supra sed macula ayticarum apicali multo. 
majore fasciam formante; posticis maculis quinque submarginalibus albis notatis, macula frontali 
