TELEMIADES. 317 



Compared with the last genus (Thy w,ele) , Telemiades differs in having the second median 

 branch of the secondaries starting a little before instead of close to the end of the cell. 

 Telemiades also resembles JVascus, but the terminal joint of the palpi is more prominent. 



T. amphion is aberrant, the body being less robust, the secondaries less produced, and 

 the discocellulars of the primaries less oblique. 



1. Telemiades avitus. (Tab. lxxviii. fig. 16 <$ ). 



Papilio avitus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 354. f. D (nee E) \ 



Telemiades avitus, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1882, p. 73 2 ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 27 3 . 



Alis fulvo-brunneis ; anticis macula mediana trifida, parte cellulari extrorsum profunde indentata, parte infinia 

 subquadrata, et punctis tribus subaequalibus subapicalibus ochraceo-hyalinis ; posticis maculis fuscis indis- 

 tincte notatis : subtus brunnescentioribus ; anticis ut supra ; posticis fasciis duabus indistinctis transversis 

 notatis ; palpis fuscescentibus. 



Hah. Mexico, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Coatepec, Paso de San Juan ( W. Schaus). — 

 Amazons Valley ; Guiana y ; Beazil. 



We do not feel absolutely sure that Cramer's name applies to this species, but on the 

 whole his figure agrees better with it than with any of the allied forms. The small 

 spot between the median nervure and its second branch in the figure is situated rather 

 farther from the other two spots than in any of the specimens before us ; otherwise the 

 figure is fairly accurate. 



The range of this species is somewhat remarkable. We have a good series of speci- 

 mens from Atoyac, in the State of Vera Cruz, all captured by Mr. Smith in the month 

 of April, and Mr. Schaus also found it in the same district ; but we have no trace of it 

 from any other part of Central America, nor do we meet with it again till we come to 

 the lower portion of the valley of the Amazons. Cramer's type came from Guiana, 

 and we have one specimen from Rio Janeiro. 



The male genitalia have a truncate tegumen, the corners slightly projecting, and 

 there is a spine on either side near the base ; the scaphium is well developed, the ends 

 being granulated on the outer surface ; the harpes terminate in an upturned spine, the 

 edge of which is finely serrate ; there are also one or two teeth on the dorsal edge. 

 (See Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 16.) 



2. Telemiades phasias. (Tab. LXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Eudamus phasias, Hew. Descr. Hesp. p. 17 (1867) \ 



Alis ochraceo-brunneis ; anticis maculis fuscis undique notatis, punctis tribus subapicalibus semihyalinis ; posticis 



quoque fusco punctatis : subtus umbrino-brunneis fere unicoloribus, anticis punctis semibyalinis ut supra, 



plica costali obvia. 

 5 adhuc ignota. 



Eab. Mexico, Coatepec, Paso de San Juan {Schaus), Atoyac (H. H. Smith) ; Nica- 

 ragua, Chontales (Belt). — Amazons Valley 1 . 



This species resembles Cramer's figure (tab. 354. f. E), which, as well as fig. D, stands 



