316 EHOPALOCEEA. 



Alis nigris viridi-purpureo nitentibus; anticis ad basin, posticis fere omnino (regione costali et margine 

 externo exceptis), capite et corpore toto obscure olivaceis ; anticis fascia transversa venis quadripartita, 

 puncto ultra earn semihyalinis : subtus fusco-nigricantibus, anticis purpureo, posticis olivaceo tinctis et 

 squamis sparsis ochraceis notatis ; palpis griseis, pedibus fuscis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hal. Bkitish Hondukas, Corosal (Roe) ; Guatemala, Volcan de Santa Maria (Bich- 

 ardson), San Geronimo (F. D. G. & 0. S.) ; Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, 

 Veraguas (ArcS). — Colombia ; Venezuela ; Amazons Valley to Paraguay. 



There can be little doubt that P. aulestes of Cramer x and P. nicosius of Stoll 2 both 

 refer to one insect ; they have the same origin, and the figures practically agree ; nor 

 does Eudamus colossus of Herri ch-Schaffer 3 , which appears to have been founded upon 

 a female (a specimen purporting to be the type is before us), differ in any important 

 point. 



T. aulestes now proves to have a very wide range, extending from British Honduras 

 to Paraguay. "We find it on both sides of the Cordillera of Guatemala, but it is not 

 common anywhere in Central America. 



The male genitalia have a cleft tegumen, the scaphium is feebly developed, the 

 harpes are prolonged into a slightly upturned lobe, the dorsal edge of which is straight 

 and finely serrate. (See Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 15.) 



TELEMIADES. 



Telemiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 106 (1816) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 27. 



Papilio avitus of Cramer is now considered the type of Hubner's genus Telemiades. 

 With it Mr. Watson associates four other species, one of which ( T. amphion), as well as 

 the type, occurs within our limits ; to these we add Eudamus phasias, Hew., and 

 T. megallus, Mab. All these three species are found as far north as Southern Mexico, 

 and thence spread southwards to the Amazons Valley and to Southern Brazil. 



The antennae of T. avitus have a moderate club, which is abruptly hooked, the 

 terminal portion of the club being slender and rather shorter than the remaining part of it. 

 The middle joint of the palpi is covered with compact scales, the third joint appearing 

 beyond as a short, obtuse, slightly deflected knob. The primaries have a costal fold, the 

 cell is about two-thirds the length of the wing ; the third subcostal segment is longer 

 than either the second or the fourth ; the lower and middle discocellulars are in a line, 

 the former being slightly longer than the latter, the upper discocellular is short but 

 distinct ; the first median segment is shorter than the second, and the latter more than 

 double the third segment ; a faint recurrent nervule starts from close to the end of the 

 cell. The secondaries are evenly rounded and slightly produced at the anal angle ; the 

 discocellulars are very feeble, and the lower meets the median close to the origin of the 

 second branch ; there is a faint indication of a radial ; second subcostal segment short, 

 about one-fourth the first segment. 



