294 EHOPALOCERA. 



3. Phocides distans. (Tab. LXXVI. figg. 19, 20, 21 * .) 



Erycides distans, Herr.-SchiifE. Prodr. iii. p. 60 l ; Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 410 s ; Mab. 



Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii. p. Iii (1883) 3 . 



E. pygmalioni similis, sed alis angustioribus anticis lineis duabus margini interno parallelibus medialiter 

 interruptis. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Arce, Champion), Chiriqui (Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger). — 

 Cuba 2 . 



Dr. Staudinger has lent us a specimen of this species named as above, and we have 

 three others exactly similar, all being from the neighbourhood of Chiriqui. In 

 outward appearance it closely resembles P. pygmalion, but the secondary male sexual 

 characters show that the two insects are perfectly distinct. In P. distans the tegumen 

 has a short process on either side, the extremity of which falls far short of the end of 

 the central piece. They are also present in P. pygmalion, but are much longer, 

 reaching to the end. The harpagones in P. distans are simple lobes with teeth at 

 the extremity. In P. pygmalion the whole of the rounded extremity is distinctly 

 serrated ; this serration is continued in a line along the inner face of the lobe. (See 

 Tab. LXXVI. fig. 21.) 



According to Plotz 2 P. distans is found in Cuba. 



4. Phocides urania. (Tab. LXXVI. fig. 22 s .) 



Erycides urania, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 79. f . 1 l ; Scudder, Rep. Peab. Ac. Sc. iv. 

 p. 67 (1872) 2 ; Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 408 3 ; Aaron, Ent. News, i. p. 23 (1890) \ 



Alis nigris ; anticis inter venas undique viridibus, fasciis duabus semihyalinis, una per cellulam trifida, altera 

 ultra earn bifida, maculis quinque subapicalibus bene separates quoque semihyalinis ; posticis lineis 

 quatuor a basi radiantibus, maculis septem submarginalibus, aliisque duabus ad costam glauco-viridibus : 

 ciliis inter venas albis : subtus maculis semihyalinis ut supra, colore viridi minus obvio ad marginem 

 externum prsecipue indicato ; posticis maculis omnibus caerulescentioribus. 



Hab. Texas 2 4 .— Mexico l 4 , Ventanas (Forrer), Jalapa (Hoge, Schaus, Trujillo), Putla 

 (Rebouch) • Guatemala 2 , Polochic valley (F. P. G. & 0. S.) t San Geronimo (Champion). 



This species has long been known as an inhabitant of Mexico, having been figured 

 in Westwood and Hewitson's ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera ' in 1852. Several 

 collectors have since obtained it in many parts of that country, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of Jalapa ; but it is not confined to the eastern portion of Mexico for 

 Mr. Forrer secured an example at Ventanas in the Sierras of Durango. 



Mr. Scudder has recorded a specimen from Texas obtained during the Boundary 

 Survey by Capt. Pope 2 . 



From Mexico it spreads southwards through Guatemala, occurring in the Polochic 

 valley and at San Geronimo at an elevation of 3000 feet above the sea. It has 



