116 EHOPALOCEKA. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu, Rio Sucio (Rogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 

 (Champion), Veraguas (Arce). 



We have many specimens of this species from Costa Rica as well as the State of 

 Panama which we referred at one time to the Peruvian L. zenobina of Hopffer, a 

 species closely allied to L. zenobia, except that the secondaries of the former have a 

 series of marginal white spots between the nervules. L. chiriquensis, however, differs 

 from L. zenobina in the greater width of the whitish band of the primaries, and the 

 more irregular inner edge of the dark margin of the secondaries ; the spots, too, towards 

 the apex of the primaries are more isolated. Like its congeners it is an upland species, 

 Mr. Champion's specimens from the Volcan de Chiriqui having been taken at an eleva- 

 tion of between 4000 and 6000 feet above the level of the sea. 



We have figured a specimen from the slopes of the Volcan de Irazu. 



B. Second subcostal branch of the primaries emitted near the end of the cell. 



CATASTICTA. 



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



The metropolis of this genus is the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia, where probably 

 not less than fifty species are found. The genus is fairly represented in our region by 

 ten species, which are distributed over the whole country from Southern Mexico to 

 Panama. Generally speaking, the different species inhabit the upland forests, and may 

 sometimes be found congregating in some numbers : they settle on or near the ground, 

 and are rather sluggish in their habits. 



The subcostal nervure of the primaries emits three branches — the first some way 

 before the end of the cell, the second at the end, and the third near the apex. The 

 lower and middle discocellulars are subequal ; the subcostal and median sides of the cell 

 are subequal ; the upper radial meets the subcostal at about the same distance from the 

 second branch as the second is from the first. The discocellulars of the secondaries are 

 almost equal and in a straight line. The antennae have about thirty joints, and 

 terminate with rather an abrupt club. The palpi are very hairy anteriorly ; the terminal 

 joint is slender and slightly constricted in the middle — it is shorter than the second 

 joint, which again is shorter than the basal one. The eyes are smooth. The secon- 

 dary male sexual organs have the harpagones simple lobes, setose on the outer surface 

 and rounded at the end, on the ventral edge near the base is a strong spine directed 

 outwards ; the tegumen has a short stout central terminal point. The bursa copulatrix 

 of the female has an oval patch thickly set with short chitinous spinous papillee, the 

 edges of this patch seem to be turned inwards. This female character seems to vary 

 in different species : in C. sisamnus it is as we have described it, while in G. teutila it 

 is oval and constricted in the middle, and thus resembles that of Leodonta. 



