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1. Bxotis zonata. 
Beotis zonata, R. Feld. Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. 1869, p. 469°. 
Mesene simbla, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 22”. 
Charis libna, Butl. Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 364°; Lep. Ex. p. 40, t. 14. f£1°%. 
Alis flavidis marginibus externis late fuscis, maculas duas flavidas includentibus, fascia communi obliqua 
marginem posticarum internum haud attingente et anticarum costa, fuscis, lineola submarginali et maculis 
ad angulum posticarum analem plumbeis; subtus pallidioribus, lineola et maculis plumbeis absentibus ; 
corpore supra fusco, subtus cum cruribus flavidis. 
Hab. Mexico 3, Potrero (Hedemann'); Guatemata?, Polochic valley (Hague); Costa 
Rica, San Francisco (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Calobre (Arcé). 
—CoLoMBIA. 
We compared our Panama specimens with the types in the Vienna Museum and 
found that they agreed. It is nowhere a common species though widely distributed. 
We havea single example from Guatemala, though Mr. Champion did not meet with it. 
We have the type of Mr. Butler’s C. lidna, they differ in no way from B. zonata, and 
Boisduval’s type of Mesene simbla kindly lent us by Mons. C. Oberthiir belongs to the 
same species. 
METACHARIS. 
Metacharis, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. iti. p. 174 (1867). 
_ This genus contains seven or eight species distributed throughout Tropical America, 
only one occurring within our borders. It was separated from Charis by Mr. Butler, who 
included it in five species. To these Mr. Bates in his synopsis of the family added five 
others, but restored Charis cadmeis to the genus Charis, he also placed with Metacharis 
three members of Hiibner’s genus Echenais, which, from their coloration alone, seem 
fairly separable. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries of I. victrix emits the first branch before the 
end of the cell, the second close to the end, and the third a long way beyond it; the 
lower radial meets the subcostal some way beyond the end of the cell, the discocellulars 
are both atrophied and curved slightly inwards, the upper leaves the subcostal just 
beyond the origin of the second branch, the lower meets the median just beyond the 
second branch; the costal side of the cell is longer than the median side. The 
secondaries have a basal nervure; the discocellulars are atrophied, the upper leaves the 
subcostal a little beyond the first branch, the lower meets the median a little beyond 
the second branch; the costal side of the cell is longer than the median side. 
The front legs of the male have the coxa considerably produced beyond the 
trochanter joint ; the femur is short and dilated towards its distal end; the tibia =2 
femur; tarsus = femur, single-jointed. In the front legs of the female, the terminal 
joint of the tarsus is longer than the three preceding joints together, and has a setose 
pad on the under surface ; the second, third, and fourth joints have each a long spur 
