394 EHOPALOCERA. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch, in mus. Staudinger l ). 



M. Mabille's type, a female, has been lent us by Dr. Staudinger, and from it our 

 figure is taken. The species is allied to P. latrea and P. caliadne ; but differs in many 

 points, as a comparison between the figures of it and of the latter will show. 



ACHLYODES. 



Achlyodes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 107 (1816) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 52. 



This generic name has been used in a very wide sense by writers, until Mr. Watson 

 restricted it to A. fridericus and its immediate allies. We find eight species occurring 

 within our limits, some of which, however, for want of sufficient materials, we place 

 here with diffidence. 



The palpi of Achlyodes have a short terminal porrect joint, the antennae have a 

 rather long gradually thickened and pointed club ; the primaries have no costal fold, 

 the third median segment is very short, the lower and middle discocellulars subequal ; 

 the third median segment of the secondaries is very short, much shorter than the 

 second subcostal segment, the discocellulars and radial are very feeble. 



a. No hyaline spots in the apex of the primaries. 



l. Achlyodes fridericus, (Tab. LXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Achlyodes fridericus, Geyer, in Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schm. iv. p. 9, ff. 611, 612 (1832) x . 



Alis nigricantibus ; anticis dimidio distali fusco irregulariter variegato ; posticis fascia maculosa valde indis- 

 tincta discali notatis : subtus vix pallidioribus, anticis fere immaculatis, fasciis duabus submarginalibus 

 indistinctis pallidioribus ; posticis area marginis externi ad angulum analem late canescente, longitudin- 

 aliter indistincte bisecta ; palpis subtus fuscis. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui (Bibbe, mus. Staudinger), Lion Hill 

 (M'lseannan). — Venezuela; Guiana 1 . 



Achlyodes fridericus, in its typical form, has a well-defined patch of white on the 

 underside of the secondaries occupying the anal angle and a portion of the outer 

 margin. We have several specimens from the "State of Panama which have this 

 character. In the Amazons Valley and Brazil other forms occur in which this white 

 patch becomes almost obsolete, so that the limits of the species are somewhat 

 uncertain. 



The male genitalia have ategumen consisting of a stout single rod with a blunt 

 end ; the scaphium is long and sharply pointed and lies close under the tegumen ; the 

 harpes have two rather widely separated lobes, the upper one thin and with undulating 

 edges, the lower one stouter, slightly upturned, the end being symmetrically rounded 

 and carrying a number of long slender hairs. (See Tab. LXXXVI. fig. 8.) 



