MYSORIA. — AMENIS. 257 



M. galgala is not common in the State of Panama, and the few specimens we have 

 seen all came from the neighbourhood of Chiriqui. 



The harpagones of the male are shorter and more rounded at the extremity but 

 armed with stronger teeth than in Mysoria venezuelw, and have a strong projection on 

 the middle of the disc ; moreover, the spine proceeding slightly backwards from the 

 middle of the dorsal edge is absent ; the lateral piece of the tegumen is more 

 slender, straighter, and directed forwards. (See Tab. LXXIII. fig. 22.) 



Mr. Watson placed this species in Pyrrhopyge, but the smooth dorsal edge of the 

 hind tibiae indicates that it should be removed to Mysoria, though the discocellular 

 nervure of the secondaries meets the median a little beyond the origin of the second 

 branch. The third segment of the median nervure of the primaries is much shorter 

 compared with the second segment than in typical Mysoria. In the style of its colora- 

 tion it stands quite alone. 



AMENIS. 

 Amenis, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 12. 



In many respects this genus resembles Pyrrhopyge, and has the dorsal fringe to the 

 hind tibiae as in that genus, but the third segment of the median nervure of the 

 primaries is short, being considerably less than half the second segment, the second 

 median branch of the secondaries rises at the end of the cell and not before it, and the 

 radial of those wings is more or less developed. The genus contains only two species, 

 one of which occurs in the State of Panama. 



1. Amenis ponina. (Tab. LXXIII. figg. 23, 24 s .) 



Pyrrhopyga ponina, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 57 x ; Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 531 2 . 

 Amenis ponina, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 12 3 . 



Alia chalybeo-nigris, ciliis fulvis ; anticis, praeter marginem externum latum, olivaceis, venis nigris divisis ; 

 macula celulari, altera supra venam submedianam (ambabus nigro cinctis) coccineis ; capite summo nigri- 

 canti-cseruleo ferrugineo maculato ; tegulis linea mediana, thorace postico maculis duabus, coccineis, 

 thorace quoque lineis duabus glaucescenti-rufis ; posticis unicoloribus : subtus anticis area costali glauca, 

 macula cellulari ut supra, ea supra venam subcostalem cervina ; posticis prseter marginem externum et 

 venas glaucescentibus ad basin albicantioribus ; palpis, peetore, maculis abdominalibus et ano ferrugineis. 



Hob. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch, in mus. 8taudinger). — Venezuela 2 . 



This species, which we identify as Herrich-Schaffer's P. ponina *, is closely allied to 

 the better-known A. pionia, but differs in having the fringe fawn-colour instead of 

 white, and in the absence of the glaucous spots near the anal angle of the secondaries. 

 The presence of this species in Central America is proved by a specimen from Chiriqui 

 in Dr. Staudinger's collection ; this he has kindly lent us, and we find that it agrees 

 accurately with a specimen from Merida in Venezuela in our collection. Plotz gives 

 La Guayra, also in Venezuela, as a locality for this species 2 . 



biol. CENTR.-AMEK., Ehopal., Vol. II., April 1893. 2 L 



