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3. Dismorphia medora. 



Leptalis medora, Doubl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 420 x ; Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 5. 



f. 4 2 . 

 Leptalis casta, Koll. Denkschr. Ak. Wiss. Wien, i. p. 360, t. 45. ff. 9, 10 3 . 



c? alis fuscis, anticis macula obliqua irregulari ad cellulse finem, duabus minutis subcostalibus, tertia in margine 

 interno flavis ; posticis plaga subcostali sordide ochracea, nitente margaritaceo ciroumcincta, litura discali 

 flava : subtus flavidis, anticis plaga mediana ovata sordide cretacea, nitente margaritaceo circumcincta, 

 macula in costse medio et fascia subapicali rubescentibus ; posticis plaga irregulari a costa ultra cellulam 

 extensa, aliisque minoribus per alam diffusis quoque rubidis. 



$ mari similis, sed maculis tribus (nee duabus) subapicalibus ; posticis area interna ultra cellulam prolongata 

 flava, marginibus fuscis : subtus anticis macula costali sicut in pagina superiore fusco et ferrugineo circum- 

 cincta, posticis undique leviter rufo irroratis. 



Hab. Panama, Veraguas (Arce). — Colombia 1 ; Venezuela. 



This species was based upon Colombian specimens, and has since been traced over a 

 large portion of South America, including Venezuela, the Andes of Ecuador and Bolivia, 

 and the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro in Brazil, and we see no tangible points of differ- 

 ence between examples from these widely distant localities. Our authority for including 

 it in this work rests upon a single male specimen sent us from the State of Panama 

 by Arce. It agrees accurately with Colombian examples. 



4. Dismorphia fortunata. (Leptalis fortunata, Tab. LXI. figg. 1, 2 d , 3 $ .) 



Leptalis fortunata, Luc. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1854, p. 55, t. 3. ff. 1, la \ 

 Leptalis antherize, Hew. Ex. Butt., Leptalis, t. 3. f. 12 2 . 



<3 alis anticis chalybeo-fuscis, vittula elongata intra cellulam hyalina, macula subapicali transversa albida ; 

 posticis hyalinis regione costali et subcostali margaritaceis, vena mediana et ramis ejus cum margine 

 externo fuscis : subtus ut supra, sed dilutioribus, anticis dimidio posteriore margaritaceo, punctis ad apicem 

 albis ; posticis regione subcostali brunnea, vittula albida ad costse basin, maculis tribus ad apicem, prima 

 permagna, secunda et tertia rotundatis aliisque elongatis in margine ipso, fascia submarginali rufo-fulva, 

 puncto fulvo-ochraceo in costa ad basin. 



$ mari similis, sed colore cbalybeo absente ; anticis vittula hyalina majore et infra venam medianam 

 extendente : subtus anticis fere ut supra et posticis sicut in mari, sed costa fusca (nee albida) maculis 

 albis ad apicem et in margine externo minoribus. 



Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (M. Trujillo), Jalapa (Hbge), Tabasco (Morelet l ) ; 

 Guatemala, Choctum, Polochic valley (F. 1). G. & 0. 8.), Panima, Sabo (Champion); 

 Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Rica ( Van Patten), Irazu, Cache (Rogers) ; 

 Panama, Bugaba (Arce, Champion), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Veraguas (Arce). 



D. fortunata is the only Dismorphia, with the exception of D. ribbei, resembling an 

 Ithomia within our region, where it is by no means uncommon from Southern Mexico 

 to the State of Panama. It is found in the lower forest-regions in company with Leuco- 

 thyris victorina, to which it bears, especially the female, an exceedingly close general 

 resemblance. Specimens vary but little ; we notice, however, that the transverse discal 

 band, especially in the males, is narrower and shorter in some specimens than in others. 



biol. centb.-amee., Rhopal., Vol. II., November 1889. 2 a 



