454 RHOPALOCERA. 
from the distal ends of the under surface. The terminal joint of the palpi is very 
slender = about 4 middle joint, which is rather stout. Antenne with thirty-eight 
joints, the club being not abrubtly thickened at the extremity. 
The tegumen in the male sexual organs is bilobed, each lobe being setose on its outer 
surface, towards the ends there is a central keel and two strong lateral hooks. The 
harpagones are small with simple points and setose ends. Above the penis is a hood- 
shaped piece with two lateral lobes on either side from the end of the upper one, and 
from the base of the lower one are strong sete; a long strap proceeds from the base of 
the penis and thence bifurcates to the harpagones, and beyond again continues in a strong 
deflexed spine ; the penis itself is long and slender, slightly deflexed towards its extre- 
mity, bent to a right angle towards its base, which is bulbous. The bursa copulatrix 
of the female has two mamme-like projections with granular surfaces. 
1. Metacharis victrix. (1. nigrelia, Tab. XLIV. figg. 9,10 ¢, 11, 129.) 
Charis victriz, Hew. Equat. Lep. p. 501. 
g alis supra saturate ferrugineis ceruleo plus minusve purpureo lavatis, bitriente basali nigro irregulariter 
maculatis, anticarum apicibus maculis duabus nigris rufo circumcinctis, striolis utrinque plumbeis ; 
posticis maculis submarginalibus rufis et inter eas lineolis plumbeis; subtus latissime chalybeo- 
cyaneis. 
Q alis ferrugineis undique nigro maculatis, striolis plumbeis inter maculas submarginales; subtus ut supra sed 
alis multo pallidioribus maculis nigris magis obviis. 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba ( Champion). 
—CoLomBia; Ecvapor}. 
This species seems to be rather variable as regards the colour of the males, and this 
without reference to locality. Some specimens are more ferruginous on the upper 
surface of the wings, and the primaries are more elongated, beneath the shade of blue 
is not quite so pure and has a greenish tint. 
Mr. Champion obtained many specimens of both sexes of this insect in sunny open 
places in the dense forest. This species rests with the wings expanded on the upper 
surface of the leaves, but when disturbed it hides itself beneath. Our Colombian 
examples were recently taken by Mr. Wheeler, and the types from Ecuador by Buckley 
at Saryack. 
We have figured a male from Bugaba and a female from Chontales, Nicaragua. 
LASATA. 
Lasaia, Bates, Journ, Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 397 (1868). 
There are two species belonging to this genus, one confined to the Amazons valley 
and the other extending from Mexico to South-east Brazil. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries in LZ. meris emits two branches before the end 
of the cell and one after it; the discocellulars are atrophied, the middle meets the 
