176 EHOPALOCEEA. 



(Bumeli), Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo), Atoyac, Teapa (//. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, 

 Chisoy and Polochic valleys, Choctum (F. P. G. & 0. S.), Senahu, San Juan in Vera 

 Paz, Panima, Volcan de Atitlan, Las Mercedes (Champion) ; Nicakagua, Chontales 

 (Belt) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten 3 ), Cache (Bogers) ; Panama, Bugaba (ArcS, Champion), 

 Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion, Bible 5 ), Veraguas (Arce). 



Doubleday's description of this insect l was taken from a female obtained by the 

 botanical collector Hartweg, though from what locality is not stated * ; he subse- 

 quently gives it as Mexico. The male was afterwards described by Felder as L. am- 

 phithea, from specimens sent him by M. Salle. We have a good series of examples 

 from Mexico, and from the whole of Central America to the State of Panama, 

 throughout which wide area little or no individual variation can be traced. It inhabits 

 the mountain-slopes to an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet. The female has a 

 colour resemblance to Mechanitis doryssus, a species abundant throughout the same 

 area. 



I), praxinoe is allied to P. amphione of Cramer, with which it was confounded by 

 Messrs. Butler and Druce. 



2. Dismorphia pallidula. (Leptalis pallidula, Tab. LX. figg. 9, 10 6 , 11 ? .) 



Dismorphia pallidula, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 363 \ 

 Dismorphia othoe, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 363 2 (nee Hew.). 



3 alis anticis fuscis, macula costali subovata ad cellule finem, altera minore subapicali et margine interno 

 anguste virescenti-albis ; posticis plaga subcostali ovata fulvo-fusca sericeo-albo cireumcincta, area mediana 

 late virideseenti-alba, margine externo late fusco : subtus flavescentibus, anticis maculis paginae superioris 

 indistincte indicatis, plaga mediana ovata fulvo-ferruginea, sericeo-albo cireumcincta, in area discali et in 

 costa rufo irroratis ; posticis area mediana pallide sulpburea extrorsum in regione costali, apicali et 

 margine externo rufo irroratis. 



§ mari similis, sed alis anticis magis obtusis et maculis majoribus ; posticis costa et area interna flavescenti- 

 albis : subtus anticis (nisi margine externo et macula costali) pallide fuscis. 



Hal. Costa Pica ( Van Patten 1 2 ), Cache, Irazu (Bogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arce), 

 Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



P. pallidula has some resemblance, so far as the position of its markings are con- 

 cerned, to P. othoe, of Colombia and Ecuador, but may at once be distinguished by the 

 sexual alar stigmata of the males being brown instead of white; moreover, those 

 markings which are pale yellow in P. othoe are in the present species white. So far 

 as we know the range of this species is restricted to Costa Rica and the State of 

 Panama, whence we have had numerous specimens sent us. Mr. Champion took it 

 on the slope of the Volcano of Chiriqui as high as 4000 feet above the sea. 



* Hartweg travelled in Mexico between 1836 and 1839 ; in the latter year he went to Guatemala. See 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Bot. IV. p. 126. 



