LIMNAS. 409 
The front legs of the male have the trochanter inserted beyond the middle of the 
coxa; the femur is <4 coxa, dilated towards its distal end; tibia=coxa dilated in the 
middle; tarsus (two-jointed)=femur-+trochanter. The terminal tarsal joint of the 
female=second joint ; the first, second, third, and fourth joints terminate beneath with 
strong spines; there are other spines beneath on the first and second joints. The 
terminal joint of the palpi is short, about =} middle joint, the basal joint is much 
dilated and =} middle joint. Antenne with forty joints, of which the terminal fifteen 
form a moderate club. 
The tegumen in the secondary organs of the male is normal; the harpagones are 
lobes terminating in a slightly upturned point, and are setose on their outer surface 
towards the end; above the penis is an arch armed externally with a setose lobe on 
either side; the strap which proceeds from the base of the penis reaches forward as far 
as the end of the harpagones; it is there splayed out and returns abruptly to the base 
of the harpagones. The penis itself is bent almost to a semicircle, and terminates in 
an abrupt point, a little before which are two small dentations on the upper side, and 
a filament of uncertain shape proceeds from the orifice a little further back. 
1. Limnas pixe. 
Limnas pize, Boisd. Sp. Gén. t. 20. f.1'; Lép. Guat. p. 267; Butl. & Druce, P.Z.S. 1874, 
p- 853°. 
Alis nigris, anticarum apicibus flavis, macula ad basin, altera ad posticarum basin et serie submarginali coccineis ; 
subtus omnino similis; abdominis lateralibus coccineo maculatis. 
© mari similis, anticis magis rotundatis. 
Obs. Ale anticee maris interdum ad angulum analem maculis una duabus aut tribus coccineis ornate. 
Hab. Mexico! (Sallé?, Deppe), Cordova (Riimeli, Hoge), Valladolid in Yucatan 
(Gaumer); Brirish Honpvras, Corosal (Roe), Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GuaTEMALA, Polo- 
chic valley and Central Guatemala (Ff. D. G. & O. S.), Panima, Chiacam, Cahabon, 
Zapote, Paraiso (Champion) ; Honpuras 2; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa 
Rica (Van Patten®); Panama, Bugaba (Champion, Arcé), Calobre (Arcé). 
Boisduval says in his Lepidoptera of Guatemala?, that the specimen he figured in 
his “ Species Général” was obtained in Mexico, by M. Sallé ; but some years previously 
Deppe had sent examples to the Berlin Museum, where we saw them a short time 
ago. Limnas pixe is a common insect in Southern Mexico, and throughout Central 
America, as far as the district of Veraguas, in the State of Panama. It frequents the 
hotter forest country, up to an elevation of about 3000 feet. 
There is considerable variation in the size and number of the red spots at the anal 
angles of the primaries in this species. These spots do not exist in Mexican specimens. 
In Guatemala some are without them, others have as many as three, and the same is 
the case in examples from the State of Panama. The Calobre individuals have all the 
red spots large, and of rather a yellower shade than is usual. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhopal., Vol. I., January 1886. 3G 
