288 KHOPALOCEEA. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa, Coatepec, Einconada (Schaus), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Valladolid 

 in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; British Honduras, Corosal (Roe) ; Guatemala, Volcan de Santa 

 Maria (Richardson); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba (Champion).— 

 South America from Colombia to South Brazil. 



All our specimens from the State of Vera Cruz have a very bright shade of green on 

 the upper surface and a paler tint of the same colour on the under surface ; in more 

 southern examples the green of the upper surface is not nearly so bright, and nearly, 

 if not entirely, wanting beneath. The transverse white band, too, on the underside of 

 the secondaries varies considerably in width : in our Mexican specimens it is wide, as 

 in Cramer's figure ; our Guatemalan specimens vary in this respect, and great diversity 

 is found in our series from more southern districts. So, too, with the tails, which vary 

 from a just perceptible tooth to a fairly defined tail. 



The male genitalia have a short terminal point to the tegumen, the scaphium being 

 long, nearly straight, and well-developed ; the harpagones have a deep fissure on the 

 dorsal edge, just in front of which is a series of teeth set backwards ; the end of the 

 harpagones is rounded, and there is a ventral line in the middle of the disc with a tooth 

 in the middle. (See Tab. LXXVI. fig. 1.) 



2. Goniurus talus. (Tab. LXXVI. fig. 2.) 



Papilio talus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 176. f. D 1 . 

 Eudamus talus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 501 2 . 

 Epargyreus talus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 24 3 . 



Alis fusco-brunneis ; anticis ad basin, posticis fere omnino, capite et corpore lsete viridibus ; anticis fascia 

 transversa venis quadripartita (macula ad costam bifida), macula subquadrata ultra earn et punctis tribus 

 semihyalinis : subtus ochraceo-brunneis ad basin viridi lavatis ; anticis ut supra; posticis maculis duabus 

 discalibus indistinctis ochraceis ; palpis albis, squamis viridibus intermixtis ; abdomine albido trans- 

 fasciato. 



$ mari similis. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (F. D. G., W. Schaus), Atoyac (H. H. Smith) ; Nicaragua, 

 Chontales (Belt); Costa Kica (Van Patten). — Colombia; Guiana l ; Amazons Valley; 

 Cuba ; Haiti ; Porto Rico. 



G. talus was described by Cramer from Surinam specimens l ; it was found by Bates 

 throughout the Amazon Valley, and it occurs in Colombia and some of the larger West- 

 Indian Islands. In our country it appears to be comparatively scarce, its northen 

 limit extending to Jalapa in the State of Vera Cruz. 



On the upper surface G. talus closely resembles G. ccelusoi Cramer, but may at onc« 

 be distinguished by the absence of the broad straight white line on the under surfac 

 of the secondaries of the latter insect. 



The male genitalia resemble those of G. coelus as regards the harpagones, and in thi 

 respect are also like those of Eudamus proteus ; the tegumen and scaphium differ, th 



