452 RHOPALOCERA. 
P. tenera seems to be common throughout Central America, as Mr. Champion 
obtained a large series of specimens, all of which he captured in the hot country, the 
species frequenting the sunny openings in the forest, and sometimes to be seen in 
numbers in one little spot; the insect rests on the upper sides of the leaves, and has 
much the habit of Mesosemia. | 
Mr. Butler considers the Guiana form of this species to be the Papilio tullius of 
Fabricius; but this identification is open to great doubt. 
d'. Palpi, especially those of the female, projecting beyond the forehead*. 
BALOTIS. 
Beotis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 21 (1816) ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 451 (1851). 
Beotis, Bates, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. 395 (1868). 
. There are about twelve species of this. genus, which spreads to South-eastern Brazil, 
one only occurs within our region, it is generally, though sparingly, distributed from 
Southern Mexico to Panama. 
The subcostal branch of the primaries in B. zonata emits two branches before the 
end of the cell and one after, the middle discocellular meets the subcostal close to its 
junction with the upper radial, the lower the median just beyond its second branch, 
the costal side of the cell is considerably longer than the median side. The secondaries 
have a strong basal nervure, the upper discocellular meets the subcostal some way 
beyond the first branch, the lower the median a little beyond the second branch, the 
costal and median sides of the cell are subequal. 
The front legs of the male have the trochanter inserted beyond the middle of the 
coxa, the femur, tibia, and tarsus are all very short but thick, the tarsus is a little 
shorter than the femur, the tibia longer than either of them. The palpi are rather 
long, the terminal joint bulbous and not attenuated, = about } middle joint. The 
antenne have thirty-seven joints, of which the terminal twelve form a moderate 
club. 
The harpagones of the male secondary sexual organs are elongated and appear to have 
two small lobes at the extremity, both of them setose, and a piece stretching across above 
the penis in the form of an arch, beneath in the middle line is a long slightly upturned 
rod, terminating in a blunt upturned point, on either side of which is a pair of strong 
hooks starting backwards and bending upwards, the strap from the penis runs directly 
into this rod instead of curving backwards to the harpagones. 
The structure of these parts is extremely different from that of Charis and its allies, 
with which Leotis has usually been associated. 
* The following genera also belong here :—Huerycina, Catagrammina, Uraneis, and Stalachtis. 
