THAROPS.—LEMONIAS. 457 
Hab. Guatemata, Polochic valley (Hague+); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, 
Bugaba (Champion), Calobre (Arcé ?). 
In describing this species we compared it with 7. menander, and mentioned the more 
purple tint of the wings above; this we now find to be a variable character, as the 
colour in these wings passes from purple to blue without reference to locality. The 
under surface is decidedly whiter and the spots smaller, especially those of the apical 
and anal angles of the secondaries. 
T. purpurata is nowhere a common species, though it has been met with over a 
widish area within our country. 
b. No brush of hairs near the middle of the abdominal margin of the secondaries. 
2. Tharops isthmica. (Tab. XLIV. figg. 13, 14.) 
Tharops isthmica, Godm. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 366°. 
Alis viridi-cyaneis, anticis, costa margine externo late (lineola submarginali excepta), maculis tribus in cellula 
et quatuor infra eam nigris, posticis angulo apicali maculisque submarginalibus aliisque ad marginem 
internum nigris; subtus albidis rosaceo variegatis, maculis tribus in cellula anticarum hujus coloris. 
Hab. Panama, Calobre (Arcé '). 
There are two males only of this species in our collection. It is allied to 7. splendida 
of the Amazons valley, but besides being smaller, the ground colour of the wings beneath 
is nearly uniformly sprinkled with pinkish scales; the allied species has the central 
area of both wings nearly white; there are no conspicuous spots at the apical angle of 
the secondaries. 
3. Tharops picta, sp. nov. 
Alis nigris, ceruleo-viridi maculatis, lineola submarginali et extra eam lunulis coloris eyusdem ; subtus fulves- 
centibus, anticis dimidio anali nigro, dimidio costali et posticis omnino albo maculatis. 
@ mari similis, colore viridi pallidiori ; subtus anticis ad apicem immaculatis, posticis ad marginem externum 
albo atomatis. 
Hab. GuateMaLa, Panzos (Champion) ; Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt).—CoLomBia. 
This species is closely allied to 7. pretus of Guiana and the Amazons valley, from 
which, however, the male may be readily distinguished by the bluer tint of the spots on 
the upper surface; the female is spotted like the male, whereas that sex in the allied 
species has the spots whitish brown with scarcely a shade of green. We have three 
specimens of 7’. pieta, one from each of the localities mentioned above. 
LEMONIAS. 
Lemonias, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 457 (1851) ; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 213 
(1867). 
According to Mr. Bates’s arrangement this genus would contain about seventy species 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhopal., Vol. I., February 1886. 3.N 
