372 EHOPALOCEEA. 



within our limits. Belonging to the section of the genus in which the subapical spots 

 of the primaries are absent, it differs from P. costimacula in the absence of the purple 

 gloss on the wings, from P. meno in the absence of white at the anal angle of the 

 secondaries beneath, and from P. thyestes in its more produced secondaries. 



The harpes of the male genitalia are, as in other members of the genus, unsym- 

 metrical; the right harpe has the lower portion rather abruptly curved towards the end 

 so as to overlap the upper terminal lobe. (See Tab. LXXXIII. fig. 21.) 



7. Pellicia meno. (Tab. LXXXIII. figg. 24, 25 <$ .) 



Arteurotia meno, Mab. Le Nat. xi. p. 239 (1889) \ 



Praecedenti similis, sed alis posticis magis elongatis, subtus triente distali albis, macula magna fusca ad angulum 

 analem, maculis duabus albis discalibus quoque notatis ; anticis margine interno subtus albicante ; palpis 

 infra griseo-albidis. 



Hab. Panama, Line of Railway (Bibbe, in mus. Staudinger l ). 



We have only seen the type of this species, lent us by Dr. Staudinger. It clearly 

 belongs to Pellicia, having the characteristic tuft and swollen nervures of the other 

 members of that genus. 



8. Pellicia thyestes, sp. n. (Tab. LXXXIII. figg. 26, 27 s .) 



Alis abbreviatis, posticis ad angulum analem baud productis, saturate brunneo-nigris, fasciis valde indistinctis 



obseurioribus notatis: subtus pallidioribus, fasciis omnibus magis obviis ; palpis omnino fuscis. 

 $ mari similis, fasciis alarum supra magis obviis. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Polochic Valley (F. D. G, 

 & 0. S.) ; Honduras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui (Bibbe), Taboga I. (Mathew). 



This species can be readily distinguished from the rest of this section by the shape of 

 the wings, the primaries being comparatively short and the secondaries rounded, the 

 anal angle not produced as in all the others. The structure of the male genitalia also 

 shows that P. thyestes is a very distinct species. 



Its range extends from the hotter portions of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz 

 throughout Central America to Panama, where Mr. Gervase Mathew captured a 

 specimen on the Island of Taboga in the Bay of Panama. We have not yet met with 

 specimens from the mainland of South America. 



The male genitalia, as already stated, are highly peculiar. So far as we can discover 

 from two specimens examined, not only are the harpes unsymmetrical, but the tegumen 

 itself is. so also, being furnished on one side only with a long, slightly upcurved rod 

 covered with strong acute papillse ; the lower portion of the left harpe is branched at 

 the end, that of the right harpe being entire. (See Tab. LXXXIII. fig. 27.) 



