156 RHOPALOCEKA. 



3 alis laete aurantiis, costa anticarum et venis fere omnibus nigro-fuscis : subtus anticis area posteriore pallide 

 aurantiis, costa, apice et posticis omnino flavo-ochraceis, his indistinete rufo maculatis. 



$ mari similis, sed alis ochraceis (nee aurantiis), anticis dimidio distali, costa tantum et margine externo 

 posticarum indistinete fusco notatis. 



Eab. Nokth Ameeica, Texas. — Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), 

 Ventanas (Forrer), Acapulco, Tierra Colorada, Omilteme, Bincon, Hacienda de la 

 Imagen, Dos Caminos, Soledad, Tepetlapa, La Venta, Acaguizotla, Rio Papagaio, Dos 

 Arroyos (H. H. Smith), Oaxaca (Fenochio), Ciudad Victoria (Richardson), Cordova 

 (Rumeli), Atoyac (II. H. Smith), Valla dolid in Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer) ; Guatemala, San 

 Geronimo, Polochic valley (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Duefias, San Gerdnimo (Champion) ; 

 Honduras (Zcettling 4 ) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Eica (Van Fatten 5 ), Rio 

 Sucio (Rogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), Bugaba, Chiriqui, Calobre (Arce). — - 

 Colombia ; Ecuador ; Cuba ; San Domingo. 



This species has very much the same range as T. gundlachia, being generally distri- 

 buted throughout our country, and extending northward into Texas, and southwards to 

 Ecuador, its range in the Antilles being restricted to Cuba and San Domingo. Its 

 range in altitude also corresponds with that of the allied species, being found at the 

 sea-level in Yucatan and elsewhere, and in the mountain chains as high as 5000 feet. 

 One of the characteristics of this species in the male is the veins of both wings being 

 black, especially towards the outer margins, and by this feature it is readily recognized 

 from T. gundlachia : some variation is observable in this respect, for though the outer 

 portion of the veins of the wing are always black, those surrounding the cell are not 

 always so ; but we are unable to trace this variation in any particular district, though 

 examples from Mexico and Guatemala usually have the veins rather blacker than those 

 from more southern districts. Females vary in the width of the dark border of the 

 secondaries, northern examples being rather wider in this respect than those from more 

 southern places. 



3. Terias gundlachia. 



Terias gundlachia, Poey, Mem. Cub. i. p. 246, t. 24. ff. 1-3 x ; Street. Cat. Butt. N. Am. p. 85 2 . 

 Terias longicauda, Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. i. p. 32 3 ; Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. II 4 . 

 Pyrisitia gundlachia, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 359 5 . 



c? anticis ad apicem acutis, posticis prolongatis subcaudatis, laete aurantiis, anticis costa, apice et dimidio 

 marginis externi, venisque marginem externum versus fuscis : subtus dilutioribus, anticis striga costali a 

 basi flava, costa apice anguste et area tota posticarum valde ferrugineo irroratis maculisque indistinctis in 

 area discali coloris ejusdem notatis. 



5 mari similis, sed alis ochraceoribus, anticis costa in dimidio apicali tantum fusca. 



Hah. Noeth Ameeica, Texas 2 . — Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan- Hepburn), 

 Ventanas (Forrer), Tepetlapa, Venta de Zopilote, Acaguizotla, Kincon, Tierra Colorada, 

 Dos Caminos (H. H. Smith), Orizaba, Jalapa (F. D. G.) ; Guatemala, Chuacus, Polochic 

 valley (F. B. G. & 0. S. 3 ), San Geronimo (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; 



