PEBEUTE. — LEODONTA. 115 



some of our male examples from Merida in Venezuela the band of the primaries 

 beneath is almost wholly red as in the female, these are associated with males of the 

 ordinary type in which the band is wholly yellow. Again, in an example from the 

 Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta the band in question is orange, thus showing that there 

 exists a gradual passage from one form to the other. Examples from Ecuador and 

 Peru are of the normal type, but the hind wings are perhaps a trifle darker. 



The female was first figured by Boisduval 1 under the name of Euterpe charops ; sub- 

 sequently the male was figured by Doubleday and Hewitson 3 as E. marina, but the 

 relationship of the two was recognized in the text of their work. 



2. Pereute cheops. 



Pereute cheops, Staud. Ex. Schmett. p. 23 l . 



P. charopi similis, sed posticis subtus maculis basalibus coccineis notatis. 

 Bah. Panama, Chiriqui (Bible l ). 



We have but a single female example of this species, sent us by Dr. Staudinger. 

 There can be no doubt that the species is distinct from P. char ops, to which it bears 

 the same relationship that P. leucodrosime does to P. callinice of Felder. Its range 

 appears to be restricted to the slopes of the Volcano of Chiriqui. 



LEODONTA. 



Leodonta, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. pp. 34, 55 (1870). 



This is an Andean genus containing about six species, only one of which enters our 

 country, reaching as far north as the mountains of Costa Rica. 



In general structure this genus resembles Pereute, having the same wing-neuration, 

 and showing no material difference in the secondary male appendages. The wings, 

 however, have a different outline and carry a strong marginal prominence both on the 

 primaries and secondaries. The female has a well-defined chitinous patch in the bursa 

 copulatrix, rounded at each end and constricted in the middle, and covered with strong 

 spinous papillae ; we have not found any such structure in Pereute. 



1. Leodonta chiriquensis. (Euterpe zenobina, Tab. LIX. figg. 5, 6.) 

 Pereute chiriquensis, Staud. Ex. Schmett. p. 23, t. 15 \ 



Alia nigris, anticis plaga subtriangulari infra cellulam, ad marginem internum latiore, lactescenti-albis, 

 macula in cellula, duabus ultra earn serieque submarginali, colons ejusdem ; posticis dimidio basali lactes- 

 centi-albis ad basin et extrorsum marginem internum versus griseo tinetis, maculis ad marginem ipsum 

 intra venas albis : subtus anticis fere ut supra, sed dilutioribus, maculis ad apicem et in costa ultra 

 cellulam flavis ; posticis rufescenti-fuscis, fascia arcuata discali irregulari venis divisa per cellulae finem 

 transeunte flava, macula coloris ejusdem ad costae basin, duabus coccineis prope earn, linea irregulari 

 exteriore obsoleta maculisque ad marginem squamorum flavorum. 



2 maris similis, sed anticis plaga ad cellulae finem majore. 



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