308 KHOPALOCEKA. 



5. Telegonus chiriquensis. (Tab. LXXVII. figg. 15, 16 <j .) 



Telegonus chiriquensis, Staud. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. Ill (1875) l ; Exot. Tagf . p. 290, 



t. 98 \ 

 Eudamus meretriw, Hew. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xviii. p. 350 (Oct. 1876) 3 . 



Alis nigricanti-brunneis ad basin viridi-casruleo lavatis ; anticis fasciis f uscis indisfcinctis tribus notatis, proxima 

 a costa per cellulam, media ab angulo anali costam baud attingente, tertia subapicali : subtus fuscis ; 

 anticis maculis ut supra ; posticis fasciis duabus, una cellulari, altera discali, et macula basali obscurioribus, 

 area juxta marginem externum ochracescente. 



5 mari similis, anticis latioribus, posticis minus elongatis bis area marginali subtus magis ocbraceis. 



Hal. Mexico, Paso de San Juan ( W. Schaus), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; Hondukas 

 (mus. Staudinger) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Eica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui (Bible, in mus. Staudinger). — South America from Colombia to Brazil; 

 Jamaica. 



Dr. Staudinger has kindly lent us his type of this species, and also a male which he 

 considered to belong to T. elorus of Hewitson, but we feel convinced that they represent 

 sexes of one species. We are able to trace its range northward to the Mexican State 

 of Vera Cruz and southward to Brazil, thus showing that it, like so many Hesperiidae, 

 spreads over nearly the whole of Tropical America. It also appears that the Ecuador 

 insect described by Hewitson as Eudamus meretriw 3 must be referred to T. chiriquensis, 

 Dr. Staudinger's title having a slight priority. 



T. chiriquensis may readily be distinguished from T. elorus by the bands of the 

 primaries beneath ; the outer and middle bands as seen in the former insect unite to 

 form a continuous band more or less parallel to the outer margin. 



We took our Jamaica specimen at Moneague, in the centre of the island, in 1861. 



The male genitalia, like those of T. creteus, resemble those of T. apastus. 



6. Telegonus grullus. (Tab. LXXVII. figg. 17, 18 <$ .) 



Thymele grullus, Mab. Le Nat. x. p. 147 (1888) \ 



T. chiriquensi similis, sed posticis subtus ad marginem externum albidis nee ochraceis distinguendus. 



Hal. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger 1 ). — Colombia. 



We have a specimen from the Cauca Valley, Colombia, which agrees with the type 

 lent us by Dr. Staudinger. The species appears to be closely allied to T. chiriquensis, 

 but may be readily distinguished by the white colour of the outer margin of the 

 secondaries beneath. 



7. Telegonus alardus. (Tab. LXXVII. fig. 19 <? .) 



Papilio alardus, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. t. 39. f. 7, 7 p 1 . 



Telegonus alardus, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 367 2 ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 26 s . 



Eudamus alardus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 90 4 . 



Alis fusco-nigricantibus ad basin cum capite et tborace nitide viridi-caeruleis ; posticarum ciliis albis : subtus 



