332 KHOPALOCERA. 



Durango, as high as 8000 in the Sierra Madre del Sur, and at similar altitudes in other 

 parts of Mexico ; it also occurs at lower levels, as at Cuernavaca, where Mr. H. H. 

 Smith found it in June. 



It has no very near ally. 



The male genitalia are somewhat like those of Eudamus proteus ; the tegumen is 

 cleft, the harpes pointed, and there is a deep fissure in the middle of the dorsal edge, 

 the edge itself being raised on either side. (See Tab. LXXX. fig. 8.) 



2. Rhabdoides epigona. (Tab. LXXX. figg. 9, 10, 11 s .) 



Myscelus epigona, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. iii. p. 59 (1868) \ 



Eudamus epigena, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 493 2 ; Lep. Ex. p. 65, t. 25. f. 6 3 ; W. H. Edw. 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 58 4 ; Papilio, ii. p. 141 5 . 



Alis saturate brunneis ; anticis macula in cellula, tribus inter ramos medianos, una parva supra venam medianam, 

 tribus subapicalibus semihyalinis, ciliis fusco-albidis ; posticis ciliis albis : subtus anticis ad marginem in- 

 ternum pallidis, ad marginem externum nigro irroratis ; posticis fascia discali irregular! f usca nigro utrinque 

 marginata, altera interiore maculosa, margine externo (angulo anali excepto) late albo fusco irrorato, 

 margine interno quoque nigro irrorato. 



Hab. Nokth Ameeica, Southern Arizona and Texas 4 . — Mexico 3 , Orizaba (H. J. Elwes); 

 Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion), Polochic Valley (F. I). G. & 0. S.). 



Mr. Butler described 2 and figured 3 this species as Eudamus epigena from a specimen 

 purporting to be the type of Herrich-Schaffer's Myscelus epigona. Very little is known 

 of the species in Mexico, whence the type is said to have come, but across our border 

 in Texas and Arizona it appears to be fairly numerous. The Mexican domicile of the 

 species is fully confirmed by a specimen captured by Mr. H. J. Elwes at Orizaba, and, 

 moreover, its extension southwards is proved by a specimen taken by Mr. Champion at 

 San Geronimo in Guatemala, and one sent us from the valley of the Polochic. The 

 latter differs slightly from northern specimens in having the spots of the primaries very 

 small. 



The species most nearly resembling B. epigona is Achalarus lycidas of North 

 America, and the male genitalia are almost precisely alike ; but B. epigona has no 

 costal fold to the primaries of the male, and the slight differences observable in the 

 neuration bring it nearer B. cellus. 



The male genitalia are like those of Eudamus simplicius ; the harpes have the ventral 

 edge produced into a long point, which is bent upwards and recurved into a hook. 

 (See Tab. LXXX. fig. 11.) 



MURGARIA. 



Murgaria, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 37. 



This genus is closely allied to Bhabdoides, and has the same wing-neuration, the 

 primaries being without a costal fold. The terminal joint of the palpi is less exposed, 



