PACHES. 399 



Hob. Mexico 4 , Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; British Hondueas, Corosal {Roe) ; 

 Guatemala, Polochic and Motagua Valleys (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Panima, San Geronimo 

 (Champion), Pacific coast (F. I). G. & 0. S.), Zapote, San Isidro, Paraiso (Champion), 

 Volcan de Santa Maria (W. B. Richardson); Honduras (Dyson), San Pedro (G. M. 

 Whitely); Nicaragua 4 ; Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, David 

 (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribhe, Arce), Veraguas (Arce), Lion Hill (M'Leannan).— South 

 America generally, from Colombia to South Brazil. 



This common species was named and figured in Doubleday and Hewitson's ' Genera 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera' from a specimen from an unknown locality in the collection of 

 the latter lepidopterist. The specimens now in the Hewitson collection are stated to 

 be from Mexico and Nicaragua. We have only a few examples of P. hocus from the 

 State of Vera Cruz, but at Teapa and throughout Guatemala and the rest of Central 

 America the species is evidently very abundant. Though hardly so common in the 

 southern continent it yet has a very wide range. 



Fresh male specimens show a rich dark blue tint on the wings, but this becomes 

 greenish in others that appear to be less fresh or stained. 



Mr. Watson placed P. loxus in the section of Pythonides amongst the species in 

 which the hind tibiae possess only the terminal pair of spurs. In our prepared 

 specimens both pairs are distinctly visible, as well as the tibial tuft of hairs. 



The male genitalia have a short cleft tegumen, the branches being slightly divergent; 

 the scaphium is well developed : the harpes are rounded at the end, and from the 

 dorsal edge a long curved rod arises and bends downwards in front of the end of each 

 harpe ; a lobe slightly leaning forwards arises from near the base of the ventral edo-e 

 and lies inside the disc of the harpe. (See Tab. LXXXVI. fig. 27.) 



2. Paches polla. (Tab. LXXXVI. figg. 28, 29 8 .) 

 Pythonides polla, Mab. Le Nat. x. p. 254, f. 1 (1888) \ 



P. loxo affinis, sed antieis ad basin haud cyaneis, punctis quoque subapicalibus duobus aut tribus semihyalinis, 

 area ad angulum analem squamis glaucis atomata ; posticis colore cyaneo pallidiore et magis nitido, fascia 

 transversa mediana et altera infra earn indistincta glaucescentibus, linea quoque abbreviata ad angulum 

 apicalem : subtus undique squamis pallidis, sparsim notatis. 



Hob. Mexico, Acapulco, Acaguizotla, Rio Papagaio, Dos Arroyos, all in Guerrero 

 (//. H. Smith) ; Costa Rica l , Irazu and Cache (Rogers). 



M. Mabille described this species from a specimen from Costa Rica in Dr. Staudinger's 

 collection, and the type is now before us. It agrees with other examples in our 

 collection from Costa Rica, and a small series from the State of Guerrero, but we have 

 no, evidence of the occurrence of the species in any of the intervenino- country. As in 

 P. loxus the hind tibiae of the male have two pairs of spurs and a lon°- tibial tuft. 



The genitalia of the male closely resemble those of P. loxus. 



