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a near ally in the islands of Porto Rico and San Domingo which we described as 

 E. pyres, and another in Costa Rica which is mentioned below *. 



The male genitalia have the short lateral lobes to the tegumen as seen in P. distans ; 

 the harpagones end in two points — the upper one is long and serrate at its base, the 

 lower one is shorter and blunter. (See Tab. LXXVI. fig. 22.) 



5. Phocides vida. 



Erycides vida, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 86'$ Lep. Ex. p. 187, t. 64. f. 4 2 ; But). & Druce, P. Z. S. 



1874, p. 368 3 . 

 P. uranice similis, sed anticarum dimidio apicali fusco-nigro immaculato, fasciis et maculis semihyalinis nullis. 



Hab. Costa R-ica (Van Patten 123 ); Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger). 



Mr. Butler's type \ which formed part of Van Patten's large Costa Rican collection, 

 is still the only one we possess ; but Dr. Staudinger lias submitted to us another, taken 

 by his collector Trotsch in Chiriqui, which differs in no way from the type. The 

 species evidently has a restricted range and probably does not pass the limits of Costa 

 Rica and the adjoining State of Panama. 



b. Secondaries above and beneath, except the fringe, black. (Dysenius.) 



6. Phocides palemon. 



Papilio palemon, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 131. f. F 1 . 



Erycides palemon, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 406 2 ; Mab. Bull. Eut. Soc. Fr. 1880, p. xlvi 3 . 



Alis chalybeo-nigris ; anticis costa et basi viridi-caeruleo striatis, ciliis albis, macula costali bifida nigro cincta 

 sanguinea ; posticis ciliis late albis ad angulum analem fulvis ; thorace viridi-cseruleo quadri-striato ; capite 

 postico, palpis et genis sanguineis ; capite summo nigro-caeruleo punctate 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Calobre (Arce). — South America from Colombia 

 and Guiana to South Brazil. 



This well-known South-American species occurs in our country throughout the 

 State of Panama but not beyond, for in Costa Rica and thence northward its place is 

 entirely taken by its very near ally P. lilea, from which, however, it is readily distin- 

 guished by the fulvous margin at the anal angle of the secondaries. 



M. Mabille has described a species allied to P. palemon under the name of 

 P. spurius 3 . Its locality is not recorded. 



The male genitalia of P. palemon have short lateral lobes to the tegumen ; the 

 harpagones are simple, obliquely truncate, with the outer edge indistinctly serrate. 



* Mr. Scudder has described a species of tbis genus under the name of Erycides texana (Report Peab. Ac. 

 Sc. iv. p. 68, 1872). It is said to differ from P. urania in the total absence of the green markings of the 

 upper surface of the primaries and in having the markings of the secondaries very pale dull yellow-brown 

 instead of bright green. The type was obtained during the Mexican Boundary Survey by Capt. Pope. 

 We have no specimen answering to this description. 



