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l. Anisochoria polysticta. (Tab. LXXXVIII. figg. 24, 25, 26 e .) 



Anisochoria polysticta, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. J 876, p. cci 1 . 

 Achlyodes lemur, Moschl. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1878, p. 228 2 . 



Alis fuliginoso-nigris, ciliis pallidioribus, nigro indistincte interruptis ; anticis fascia transversa maculosa ab 

 angulo anali ad costam extensa, maculis tribus discalibuset tribus approximatis in linea recta ad angulum 

 apicalem albis ; maculis submarginalibus indistinctis fusco circumcinctis ; posticis fere unicoloribus : 

 subtus anticis ut supra albo maculatis, ad apicem et ad marginem externum griseo irroratis ; posticis 

 griseo marmoratis, maculis irregularibus nigris medialiter notatis et plaga elongata fundi coloris bisecta 

 ad costam castanea nigro atomata ; palpis subtus griseis, tibiis posticis cirratis et bis bicalcaratis. 



5 mari similis. 



Hah. Mexico, Atoyac (//. //. Smith) ; Guatemala, Polochic Valley (F. J). G. & 0. S.\ 

 Panima (Champion); Panama, Chiriqui 2 (Bibbe), David, Bugaba (Champion). — 

 Colombia 12 ; Venezuela; Guiana. 



This species was described by M. Mabille from Colombian specimens in his own 

 collection, and we have before us a named example from Chiriqui lent us by 

 Dr. Staudinger. The latter agrees with our large series from many parts of Central 

 America, where it is abundant from the Mexican State of Vera Cruz to Panama, and 

 has been traced beyond Colombia to Venezuela and Guiana, whence we also have 

 specimens. 



In 1875 Moschler redescribed the species as A. lemur from Chiriqui and Colombian 

 specimens, one of which has also been kindly lent us by Dr. Staudinger, and we find 

 it to agree with A. polysticta in every respect *. As long ago as 1862 we obtained 

 a specimen of A. polysticta in the Polochic Valley in Guatemala, and Mr. Champion 

 captured others in the same district. Mr. Herbert Smith took many specimens at 

 Atoyac in the foot-hills of Eastern Vera Cruz in the month of May. It has not yet been 

 traced in Nicaragua and Costa Pica, but was taken in some numbers by Dr. Staudinger's 

 collectors in Chiriqui, and a few by Mr. Champion at David. It would thus seem to 

 be a species restricted to the low- lying hotter districts of the countries it inhabits. 



The male genitalia have a forked tegumen, the points wide apart, and each furnished 

 with an appendiculate point. The scaphium is well developed. The harpes are short, 

 truncate, and divided at the end into two lobes : the upper one ends in an erect point 

 bent at the extremity outwards ; the lower is rounded, and has a projecting tooth near 

 the end of the inner surface : there is also a large longitudinal lobe on the inner 

 surface of each harpe covered with tooth-like papillae. (See Tab. LXXXVIII. 

 fig. 26.) 



* Capt. Watson places A. lemur as a distinct species with A. sublimbuta, Mab., as a synonym, and 

 A. polysticta, Mab., as a synonym of A. pedaliodina (Butler) ; but with authentic examples of all these insects 

 before us we can affirm that A. pedaliodina, A. stiblimbata, and A. polysticta are all distinct. A. lemur falling 

 as a synonym under the last name. 



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