JEMADIA. 261 



l. Jemadia hospita. (Tab. LXXIV. figg. 4, 5, 6 <? .) 



Pyrrhopyga patrobas, Hew. Ex. Butt., Pyrrhopyga, 1, descr. partim nee fig. 1 \ 

 Pyrrhopyga hospita, Butl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1877, xx. p. 128 2 . 

 Pyrrhopyge hospita, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 14 3 . 



Alis cyaneo-nigris ; anticis striis transversis duabus basalibus duabus, ad angulum analem margine interno sub- 

 parallelibus et linea interrupta evanescente submarginali cyanescentibus, macula magna trifida mediana, 

 altera bifida discali lineari, tertia quadripartita arcuata subapicali hyalinis ; posticis lineis tribus approxi- 

 matis a basi prope marginem internum, fascia submarginali yenis divisa ad angulum analem extendente, 

 cyanescentibus : subtus ut supra, macula mediana anticarum ad costam producta ; posticis linea sub- 

 marginali (ad costam latiore) cum altera ad marginem internum juncta, altera transversa subbasali quarta 

 mediana nee costam nee reliquas attingente, cyaneis, omnibus venis nigris divisis ; ciliis inter venas albis ; 

 capite summo albo maculato, thorace quadristriato, abdomine (linea dorsali excepta) albo cincto. 

 2 mari similis, alis minus acutis. 



Hal. Guatemala, Chisoy and Polochic valleys (F. D. G. & 0. S.) ; Nicaragua, 

 Chon tales (Belt) ; Panama, David, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui, Calobre (Arce). — 

 Colombia 1 ; Ecuador ; E. Peru, Ucayali 2 . 



Hewitson, when describing the female of his P. patrobas 1 evidently referred to a 

 specimen of this species as its male, as he says that that sex differs in wantino- the 

 middle blue band of the secondaries. The specimens in his collection, as arranged by 

 him, prove that he had confused the two species together. In cases such as this, where 

 an author has figured one species and described another under the same name, we think 

 it best to retain the name for the figure as giving the best interpretation of the author's 

 views as to the species he was introducing. Ilewitson's name P. patrobas, therefore, 

 should not be applied to this species, but to the very distinct one described below. 

 Mr. Butler's name, based upon specimens collected by Mr. Walter Davis on the Kio 

 Ucayali in Peru, can therefore be used 2 . We have examined the types in the British 

 Museum, and find that our series from Central America and elsewhere agrees very 

 closely with them. J. hospita is the only species in our country which has spots on 

 the prothorax, two united hyaline discal spots on the primaries, and no median blue 

 band on the secondaries. It range is extensive and spreads from Eastern Guatemala 

 through Central America to Panama, and thence southwards to the Valley of the 

 Amazons. 



It is a species of the hot country, its vertical range not exceeding 2000 feet. 



The male genitalia have a short blunt tegumen ending in a double lobe, there is 

 besides an elongated slender lobe on either side directed outwards ; the ventral edge 

 of the harpagones is nearly straight, the end is rounded, blunt, and slightly serrated, 

 and there is a long recurved lobe with a serrate rounded end on the dorsal edge. The 

 scaphium is densely chitinized, the outer edge having a distinctly granular surface. 

 (See Tab. LXXIV. fig. 6.) 



A male from Bugaba is figured. 



