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(F. D. G. & 0. S.) ; Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion), 

 Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — Colombia ; Guiana. 



This is one of the commonest species of Pellicia in Mexico and Central America, 

 especially so in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, where it occurs from near the sea-level 

 to a height of 3000 or 4000 feet in the mountains. In Guatemala it occurs as high as 

 5000 feet near Duenas, but is more abundant in the lower forest country on either 

 side of the main mountain chain. The male genitalia have a simple, rather elongated, 

 slightly depressed tegumen; below it on either side is a curved structure with a 

 distinctly chitonized slightly serrate edge, below which, again, are two small serrate 

 projections, possibly the scaphium : the harpes are not symmetrical ; they both have a 

 rounded simple upper lobe, but that on the right side has a more slender edge, that on 

 the left side is more strongly serrate and curves round on its lower edge into a kind of 

 subsidiary lobe also strongly serrate ; the lower portion of each harpe is produced 

 forwards into a point and serrate along the upper edge, that on the right side is only 

 slightly upturned, that on the left much more curved and not so sharp. (See Tab. 

 LXXXIIL fig. 8.) 



The species to which P. tiphys is most nearly allied is P. bessus, Moschl. (Verh. z.-b. 

 Ges. Wien, 1876, p. 341, t. 4. f. 25), the type of which has been kindly lent us by 

 Dr. Staudinger. This is a rather darker form with more rounded secondaries, and with 

 differences in the male genitalia, the upper lobe of the left harpe being quite simple at 

 the base of the fissure, instead of much thickened ; the lower lobe, too, is shorter and 

 straighter. 



2. Pellicia macareus. (Tab. LXXXIIL fig. n, <? .) 



Pellicia macareus, H err. -S chaff. Corr.-Blatt Regensb. 1870, p. 160 1 ; Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 

 xxvi. p. 254 (1882) 2 . 



P. tiphys persimilis, alis magis rotundatis, posticis minus elongatis et penicillo breviore distinguendus. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (Schumann), Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemala, Choctum 

 (F. J). G. & 0. S.); Nicaragua, Chontales (.Belt); Panama, Chiriqui [Champion), 

 Panama (Bibbe, in mus. Staudinger). — Venezuela ; Amazons Valley. 



We have a Venezuelan specimen from Herr Semper, named by him P. macareus, 

 with a reference to Plotz's drawing, no. 191. It is a female, but apparently belongs to 

 the same species as a series of examples from Mexico and Central America in our 

 possession. 



The range of P. macareus, as thus determined, extends to the lowlands of the Mexican 

 State of Vera Cruz, where it occurs with P. tiphys at Atoyac, but not in such pro- 

 fusion. Both species also occur together at Teapa in the State of Tabasco. 



The male genitalia present several differences from those of P. tiphys, which will be 

 best understood by comparing the figures. (See Tab. LXXXIIL fig. 11.) 



biol. centk.-amer., Khopal., Vol. II., October 1894. 3 B 



