CECKOPTEKUS. 329 



the harpes have a truncate slightly concave end and a longitudinal fissure, the upper 

 corner rounded and serrate, the dorsal edge is hollowed out towards the end. (See 

 Tab. LXXX. fig. 2.) 



2. Cecropterus cinctus. (Tab. LXXX. fig. 3.) 



Proteides cincta, Herr.-Schaff. MS. 1 



Cecropterus cincta, Plotz, BerL ent. Zeitschr. 1882, p. 261 2 . 



Telegonus rotundatus, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii. p. liii (1883) 3 . 



0. nei similis, anticis i fascia mediana angusta Integra et sensim arcuata a basi magis remota, punctis subapical- 

 lbus concurrentibus ; postieis magis rotundatis, ciliis undique niveis. 



Hab. Mexico, Amula, Xucumanatlan (H H Smith), Orizaba 2 (F. D. G.) ; Guate- 

 mala, Polochic and Chisoy valleys (F. D. G. & 0. S.), San Geronimo (F. D. G. & 0. S., 

 Champion). 



We have a specimen from the Kaden collection marked Proteides cincta, Herrich- 

 Schaffer, and this agrees with Plotz's description. The species is somewhat like 

 C. neis, but has shorter rounder wings, narrower transverse bands to the primaries, 

 and a white fringe to the secondaries. The harpes in the male genitalia are similar to 

 those of C. neis, the apical portion being truncated, and not pointed as in C. annus and 

 C. vectilucis. The species is not common in Southern Mexico nor in Guatemala : in 

 the former country it is found in the mountains of Vera Cruz and in the Sierra Madre 

 del Sur up to an elevation of 7000 feet ; in Guatemala we did not observe it above 

 3000 feet. 



Dr. Staudinger has lent us a specimen from Guatemala named T. rotundatus, Mab. 3 ; 

 this agrees with our series of C. cinctus, an older title. 



3. Cecropterus vectilucis, 



Eudamus vectilucis, Butl. Lep. Ex. p. 109, t. 40. f. 6 1 ; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 366 \ 

 Ahs fusco-brunneis ; anticis fascia mediana transversa a costa ad angulum analem et macula trifida costali ad 

 angulum apicalem flavo-hyalinis ; postieis unicoloribus, ciliis (prsecipue ad angulum apicalem) pallidioribus : 

 subtus, anticis fasciis ut supra, area apicali sparsim ochraceo atomata ; postieis lineis tribus obscuris 

 transfaseiatis, una per cellulam interrupta, altera discali quoque interrupta, tertia submarginali ad 

 angulum apicalem obsoleta ; genis albidis ; palpis grisescentibus. 



Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (Forrer); Guatemala, Volcan de Santa Maria (Richardson), 

 Duenas and Chilasco (Champion), San Geronimo, Chisoy Valley (F. D. G. & 0. S.) ; 

 Costa Eica (Van Fatten 1 2 ), Irazu, Rio Sucio (Sogers) ; Panama, Veraguas (Arce). 



This species was described by Mr. Butler from specimens obtained by Van Patten in 

 Costa Eica 1 ; we have now traced it as far north as Mazatlan in Western Mexico. It 

 is not uncommon in Guatemala on both sides of the mountain-range up to an elevation 

 of about 5000 feet. 



In this species the transverse bands of the primaries are yellow as in Rhabdoides 

 cellus, in all the rest of the genus they are more or less white. Its nearest relation, 



biol. CENTE.-AMEK., Ehopal., Vol. II., January 1894. 2 u 



