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a. Costal fold very distinct. 



1. Echelatus varius. (Tab. lxxxiv. figg. 15, 16 <? .) 



Anastrus varius, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1883, p. liv \ 



Alis brunneis, marginibus externis saturatioribus • anticis fasciis duabus indistinctis, una irregulari per 

 cellulam, altera basali : subtus pallidioribus, anticis fere unicoloribus, ad marginem internum pallidis ; 

 posticis dimidio anali glauco-cseruleis, fasciis tribus indistinctis fere ad costam extendentibus ; palpis 

 subtus griseis. Plica costali obvia. 



Eab. Mexico, Coatepec (W. Sehaus), Cordova (Rumeli), Atoyac (//. E. Smith) ; Guate- 

 mala, Zapote (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui (JRibbe, in mus. Staudinger), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — Colombia; 

 Venezuela l . 



The type of E. varius came from Venezuela \ and a specimen from Chiriqui named 

 from it has been kindly lent us by Dr. Staudinger. The species now proves to have 

 a wide range throughout the greater part of the hotter portions of our country, from 

 the State of Vera Cruz to the Line of the Panama Railway. We have not seen any 

 examples from from Western Mexico, but it occurs in the forest-districts of Guatemala 

 bordered by the Pacific Ocean. 



Two species in our country closely resemble E. varius in colour, viz. E. luctuosus 

 (which follows) and E. sempiternus. From the former it differs in having the anal 

 region of the secondaries beneath of a bluish-white colour, these wings being of a 

 uniform brown in E. luctuosus. From the latter it differs in having less definite mark- 

 ings and in having a well-defined costal fold. 



2. Echelatus luctuosus. (Tab. LXXXIV. figg. 17, 18 6 .) 



Achlyodes luctuosus, Staud. 



E. vario similis, et supra alis omnino similibus : subtus posticis usque ad angulum analem brunneis unicoloribus 



nee glauco-cseruleis. 

 5 mari similis, plica anticarum costali absente. 



Eab. Mexico, Acapulco (H. H. Smith). — South America, from Colombia to South 

 Brazil. 



We have a specimen from the Amazons Valley sent us under the above name, which 

 we adopt, though unable to find the published description. Though closely allied to 

 E. varius, the uniform colour of the secondaries beneath at once distinguishes the two 

 forms. 



The range of this species is somewhat peculiar. We have two male specimens from 

 Acapulco in Western Mexico, on the shores of the Pacific, but no other trace of it in 

 either Mexico or Central America. In Colombia and thence through nearly the whole 

 of Tropical America it seems to be generally distributed. 



The male genitalia have a tegumen which divides near the end into two divergent, 

 curved, slightly raised points ; from the base of each of these is another point, slightly 



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