422 KHOPALOCEKA. 



origin, and was made the type of the genus Camptopleura. Though nowhere common 

 the species has a very extended range in Tropical America. The most northern 

 locality to which we have traced it is Atoyac, in the State of Vera Cruz, and from this 

 point southwards we have specimens from distant intervals through Central America, 

 also from Colombia, from several places in the valley of the Amazons, where Bates 

 found it, from Matto Grosso, from Minas Geraes and the province of Rio Janeiro. 



We can trace no difference in specimens from these distant places, the species being 

 distinguished from the rest of its congeners by the peculiar brown colour of the wings 

 and their fine mottling on the upper surface. 



The male genitalia have a tegumen ending in two depressed blunt hooks (not quite 

 symmetrical in the preparation), on each side of these is a point directed forwards: the 

 harpes are asymmetrical ; the right side ends in a lobe, with an irregular dorsal edge, 

 finely serrate at the extremity ; on the left side this lobe turns up at the end into a 

 blunt serrate point, on the proximal side of which the dorsal edge carries one large and 

 two small serrate teeth ; nearer the base is a small smooth lobe directed forwards, and 

 on the inner surface an irregular serrate lobe. (See Tab. LXXXVIII. fig. 15.) 



2. Camptopleura thrasybulus. 



Hesperia thrasybulus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 346 \ 

 Papilio thrasybulus, Donov. Ins. Ind. t. 49. f. 4 2 . 

 Antigonus thrasybulus, Plotz, Jahrb. nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 27 3 . 

 Camptopleura thrasybulus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 55 4 . 



Alis piceo-nigris ; anticis bitriente basali maculis ovalibus glauco-hyacinthinis, medialiter nigricantibus, ad 

 marginem externum lineis duabus serratis submarginalibus notatis ; posticis ad basin et ad marginem 

 internum fasciis tribus interruptis glauco-hyacinthinis, una basali, altera per cellulam, tertia serrata discali : 

 subtus saturate brunneis hyacinthino suffusis : anticis ad costam et ad marginem externum varie°-atis • 

 posticis irregulariter fasciatis ; anticis plica costali obvia ; tibiis posticis cirratis ; palpis saturate fuscis' 

 pilis sparsis albidis iutermixtis. 



$ mari similis, maculis omnibus magis obviis ; plica costali maris nulla neque cirro tibiali. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalisco ( W. B. Richardson), Acapulco, Rio Papagaio, Tierra Colo- 

 rada and Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (//. E. Smith), Valladolid 

 in Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer) ; Guatemala, Choctum (F. D. G. & 0. 8.), San Geronimo 

 (Champion), Duenas (F. I). G. & 0. 8.) ; Honduras, San Pedro ( G. M. Whitely) ; Nicaragua, 

 Chontales {Belt) ; Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache, Rio Sucio (Bogers); Panama, David (Cham- 

 pion), Chiriqui (Bibbe).— Colombia ; Guiana; Amazons Valley and Southern Brazil. 



This species is much more abundant than C. theramenes, though spread over nearlv 

 the same extent of country. In the north it ranges over the lowlands of Western 

 Mexico as far as the State of Jalisco, and is also found in Yucatan, and in Guatemala 

 reaches to an elevation of 5000 feet above sea-level. In South America it occurs in 

 Colombia, in the Roraima Mountains of Guiana, in the Amazons Valley, where Bates 

 met with it at Para and elsewhere, in Matto Grosso, and in the province of Rio Janeiro. 



