296 EHOPALOCEEA. 



7. Phocides lilea. (Tab. LXXVI. figg. 23, 24 6 .) 

 Erycides lilea, Reak. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 339 x . 

 Erycides albicilla, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 61 (1869) 2 ; Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, 



p. 406 3 . 

 Dysenius albicilla, Scudder, Rep. Peab. Ac. Sc. iv. p. 67 (1872) \ 



Dysenius cruentus, Scudder, Rep. Peab. Ac. Sc. iv. p. 67 (1872) (nee Phocides cruentus, Hubner) 5 . 

 ? Erycides sanguinea, Scudder, Rep. Peab. Ac. Sc. iv. p. 68 6 . 

 Erycides socius, Butl. & Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 112 ; P. Z. S. 1874, p. 368 7 . 

 Erycides decolor, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, p. xlvi 8 ? 

 P. palemoni persimilis, sed ciliis posticarum omnino albis distinguendus. 



Hah. Texas 6 % — Mexico, Vera Cruz ( W. H. Edwards), Coatepec (Schaus), Cordova 

 (Hoge, Bumeli), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Jalisco (Schumann), Rincon in Guerrero 

 (H. H. Smith), Tehuantepec (Scudder 4 ) ; Guatemala (Scudder 5 ), Chisoy, Polochic 

 and Motagua Valleys (F. B. G. & 0. S.), Tocoy (Champion); Costa Rica (Van 

 Patten 7 ). 



There can be hardly any doubt that all the above names refer to one species. 

 Dr. Staudinger has lent us Herrich-Schaifer's type of E. albicilla and we have the 

 type of E. socius, and they both agree with Reakirt's excellent description. Scudder's 

 D. cruentus we have little doubt was based upon a male ; under any circumstances his 

 name is inadmissible, as cruentus has already been used by Hubner and is a synonym 

 of P. palemon. E. sanguinea of Scudder 6 seems also to belong here, and also E. decolor, 

 Mabille 8 . P. lilea appears to be most abundant in the State of Vera Cruz, but it also 

 occurs in Western Mexico, both in the State of Guerrero and, according to Mr. Scudder, 

 at Tehuantepec 4 ; it also is found sparingly in the valleys of Eastern Guatemala. 



The white fringe of the anal angle of this species as compared with the fulvous fringe 

 of P. palemon is a slight but obvious character ; the secondary sexual male organs of 

 the two forms present no tangible difference. (See Tab. LXXVI. fig. 24.) 



HETEROPIA. 



Heteropia, Mabille, Le Nat. xi. p. 68 (1889) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 22. 



In the general outline of the wings this genus resembles Epargyreus, but the 

 antennae are more sickle-shaped, the club being gradually curved and ending in a sharp 

 point ; the primaries have no costal fold, the lower and middle discocellulars are nearly 

 equal and in a straight line, the third median segment short and there is a recurrent 

 nervule from its extremity ; the second median branch of the secondaries starts before 8 

 the end of the cell ; the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs, and the spines on the 

 underside of the tarsi are not conspicuous. 



Heteropia, which was founded on H. imitatrix, a synonym of H. imalena, is a small 

 but compact genus of three or four closely allied but distinct species. Of these, three 



