312 EHOPALOCEKA. 



(Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (ArcS, Champion; Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger), Veragua 

 (ArcS), Bugaba (Champion), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — Colombia; Venezuela; Guiana 2 

 to Paeaguay. 



A well-known wide-ranging species, found over nearly the whole of Tropical America 

 except the West-Indian Islands. It was first described by Walch in 1775, and though 

 the figure accompanying his paper is a very bad one, there can be little doubt that it 

 refers to the species described subsequently by Cramer under the same name, by 

 Fabricius as H. mercatus, and by Sepp as P. fulminator — the figure by the last-named 

 writer being evidently taken from a female specimen. 



The neighbourhood of Tampico is the most northern record we have of this species, 

 but it ranges to the considerable altitude of 5000 feet in the mountains of Mexico and 

 Guatemala. 



The male genitalia resemble to a great extent those of Eudamus proteus and 

 Telegonus anaphus. The tegumen is cleft, the scaphium well developed, the harpes 

 bluntly pointed, with a distinct dorsal fissure. (See Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



2. Thymele enotrus. (Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Papilio enotrus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 364. ff. G, H \ 



Alis fusco-nigris vix purpureo lavatis, ad basin nitide caeruleis ; anticis fascia transversa, venis quinquepartita 

 et macula ultra earn semihyalinis, punctis subapicalibus nullis : subtus brunnescentioribus, anticis ad 

 apicem et posticis sparsim ochraceo-atomatis, plaga alba ad angulum anticarum analem et macula parva 

 ochracea ad eellulse posticarum finem ; palpis et pectore saturate cinereis ; plica costali obvia. 



2 mari similis, anticis latioribus, posticis minus elongatis, plaga costali nulla. 



Hab. Mexico, Paso de San Juan (W. Schaus); Guatemala, Panima (Champion); 

 Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).— South America, Amazons Valley, Trinidad I., Guiana, 

 Brazil, Paraguay. 



Cramer's figure x of this species is accurate, and we have no difficulty in identifying 

 our specimens. One of the characters by which T. enotrus may be distinguished from 

 its immediate allies (with the exception of T. fulviluna) is the absence of the subapical 

 spots in the primaries. Within our region this species would appear to be rare ; the 

 only Mexican specimen we have seen is a male in Mr. Schaus's collection, and only 

 three examples have reached us from other parts of Central America. 



The male genitalia differ from those of T. fulgerator in having the points of the 

 tegumen more depressed. The harpes are more elongated, and terminate in a blunt 

 end, the upper corner of which is prolonged into a short erect spine ; there is a small 

 dorsal fissure. (See Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



3. Thymele eniopeus, sp. n. (Tab. LXXVIII. figg. 3, 4 <$ .) 



Telegonus naccos, Druce, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 247 \ 



T. enotro similis, sed anticis punctis subapicalibus quatuor aut tribus; posticis ad basin casruleo minus lavatis 



