344 BHOPALOCEBA. 



brush or pencil of hairs attached to the proximal end of the hind tibiae. Plotz uses 

 the name in a wider sense, and evidently includes several species of Telegonus, and 

 amongst them T. anaphus (Cr.), the type of Telegonusl 



The club of the antennae is only slightly thickened, and the long terminal attenuated 

 portion is curved to a hook. The third joint of the palpi is very small, but distinctly 

 projects beyond the thickly-set scales of the second joint. Primaries with the inner 

 and outer margins subequal, the costa gently curved, the apex rather acute but not 

 produced, the cell about two-thirds the length of the wing, the second and third 

 subcostal segments subequal, the lower discocellular a little shorter than the middle but 

 in a line with it, the third median segment more than half as long as the second ; the 

 third median segment of the secondaries long, more than half the length of the second 

 segment, the discocellulars feeble, radial absent ; second subcostal segment short, about 

 equal to the second median. Hind tibiae with a long brush of hairs arising from the 

 proximal end and considerably longer than the joint itself. 



The number of species contained in this genus is uncertain : Mr. Watson recognizes 

 five in the British Museum, and we have two others. All of them belong to the Neo- 

 tropical region, both the following species reaching the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. 



1. -Ethilla echina. (Tab. LXXXI. figg. 13, 14 e .) 



JEthilla echina, Hew. Equat. Lep. p. 70 (1869) l . 



Alis saturate brunneis, ciliis concoloribus, fasciis duabus communibus discalibus pallidioribus interiore in 

 posticis interrupta : subtus lit supra ; anticis ad apieem albido atomatis ; posticis ad marginem externum 

 quoque atomatis, fasciis duabus irregulariter dentatis discalibus albis ; capite et corpore toto alis con- 

 coloribus. 



Sab. Mexico, Atoyac (ff. H. Smith), Paso de San Juan ( W. Schaus) ; Guatemala, 

 Choctum, Polochic Valley (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui 

 (Arce, Bibbe), David, Bugaba ( Champion), Veraguas (Arce). — Colombia ; Ecuadoe l ; 

 Amazons Valley and Beazil. 



Hewitson described this species from specimens taken by Buckley at Botuno in 

 Ecuador, and we have a good series from Central America agreeing with the type. 

 Mr. Herbert Smith also found it at Chapada, in the Province of Matto Grosso. The 

 latter specimens are a little paler in colour, and the two white discal bands of the 

 secondaries beneath are confluent, otherwise they agree with the typical form. In 

 our country 2E. echina is a lowland insect, the limit of its range in altitude probably 

 not exceeding 3000 feet. 



The male genitalia resemble those of M. eleusina, the type of the genus. The 

 tegumen is slightly truncate, the corners projecting a trifle ; at the base of the terminal 

 portion a pair of erect rods arise nearly at right angles to the dorsal ridge, one on 

 either side of it ; the scaphium is well developed and hangs low in the anal cavity : 



