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aliisque minoribus in margine externo quoque flavidis, punctis duobus basalibus coccineis aliisque duobus 

 ad costae basin flavidis. 

 2 mari similis, macula mediana anticarum flavicantiore, macula coccinea posticarum omnino majore, maculis 

 paginae inferioris flavidis saturatioribus. 



Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; Bkitish Honduras, Eio Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala, Polochic valley \ Central valleys (F. D. G. & 0. 8.), San Isidro, Mirandilla, 

 Zapote, Panima (Champion)-, Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten), 

 Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion), Calobre (Arce). 



This is the northern representative of the Brazilian A. terias, its nearest ally being 

 the Colombian and Venezuelan A. critias of Pelder : from this it differs in having the 

 discal spot of the secondaries wholly scarlet instead of partly rose-colour and partly 

 white. In its general coloration it resembles Papilio mylotes, a species distributed over 

 pretty much the same area ; it is also like the form of Heliconius doris, which has red 

 on the inner area of the secondaries. 



A. approximate is widely distributed from the Mexican State of Tabasco to the State 

 of Panama, and is everywhere more or less common. It inhabits the low-lying hot 

 districts up to an elevation of about 3000 feet. It was described by Mr. Butler from 

 a specimen from the valley of the Polochic river, presented by us to the British 

 Museum. 



2. Archonias dismorphites. (Euterpe diamorphitis, Tab. LIX. figg. 1, 2.) 

 Euterpe dismorphites, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 80 1 ; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 357 2 . 



$ alis anticis fusco-nigris, serie punctorum submarginalium, ad apicem majoribus, altera interiore macu- 

 lisque duabus intra cellulam, flavis, margine interno ipso et litura supra eum rubidis ; posticis testaceo- 

 rubidis, plaga costali elongata et margine externo nigricantibus, boc punctis submarginalibus flavis ornatis : 

 subtus fere ut supra, sed dilutioribus, maculis omnibus majoribus, posticis punctis submarginalibus albis 

 (nee flavis) notatis. 



Hab. Costa Rica ( Van Patten x 2 ). 



A single female example, which formed part of Van Patten's Costa- Rican collection, 

 and served as the type of Messrs. Butler and Druce's description, is still the only 

 specimen of the species with which we are acquainted, and is the one we now figure. 

 It as well as the two following species are all allied to A. eurytele of Colombia and 

 Ecuador; they all resemble in their style of coloration such species as Heliconius for - 

 mosus, Eucides vulgiformis, Eresia nigripennis, Ithomeis imitatrix, Enantia deione, Sec, 

 which inhabit the same districts. 



3. Archonias lyceas, sp. n. 



A. dismorphiti similis, sed area interna posticarum et litura ad marginem internum anticarum rufo-aurantiacis 

 (nee testaceo-rubidis), margine posticarum externo nigro introrsum magis serrato ; subtus ut supra, sed 

 dilutioribus et posticis punctis submarginalibus albis. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



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