418 EHOPALOCERA. 



hemula" 3 ). The most southern example we have was taken by the late E. W. White in 

 the Sierra de Tortoral in the Argentine Republic. 



In Mexico and Central America T. trifasciatus is found from the sea-level to a height 

 of about 4000 feet in the mountains, and is a fairly common insect in the lowlands. 



There is a pale and a dark form of this species, flying together at the same time of 

 year in tolerably equal numbers. Hewitson described one of the former ; we now 

 figure a male of the latter. 



The male genitalia have the tegumen ending in a wide transverse edge with a slight 

 projection at each extremity ; the scaphium is well developed and granular on the 

 under surface towards the end : the harpes are asymmetrical ; the right side projects on 

 the ventral edge, which is serrate, and ends in an upturned lobe somewhat indefinitely, 

 the dorsal edge undulates irregularly ; the left side has an even ventral edge without 

 serrations, from the base of the ventral edge a well-defined slightly spatulate lobe 

 extends directly forwards. (See Tab. LXXXVIII. fig. 3.) 



2. Timochares ruptifasciatus. (Tab. LXXXVIII. figg. 1, 2 <? .) 



Antigonus ruptifasciata, Plotz, Jahrb. nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 27 (1884) \ 



T. trifasciato persimilis, sed anticis fasciis omnibus maeulosis nee lineatis haud difficile distinguendus. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Bumeli), Atoyac (H. H. Smith). 



This apparently distinct species was described by Plotz from a specimen said to have 

 come from South America 1 . We only know it from the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, 

 whence we have received several specimens. 



The distinct oblique bands of the primaries of T. trifasciatus are in this species 

 replaced by indistinct and rather irregular macular bands. In other respects the two 

 forms do not appear to differ. 



EBRIETAS, gen. nov. 



In this genus the costal fold of the primaries of the male is much smaller than in 

 Timochares, and does not extend so far as the end of the costal nervure ; the disco- 

 cellulars are more transverse, and the third median segment of the secondaries consi- 

 derably longer, though shorter than the second subcostal segment. The hind tibia? 

 have a tuft and two pairs of spurs. 



Of the species mentioned below Ebrietas osyris may be considered typical; E. anacreon 

 and E. ecliptica agree in having the primaries rather less pointed; E.(V) impressa is 

 aberrant, as the costal fold is not apparent and the wings are more rounded. 



The genus, as a whole, ranges from the Mexican State of Vera Cruz to Southern 

 Brazil; the South-American JEthilla infanda, Butl, belongs to it, and we have others 

 unnamed in our collection. 



