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tibial tuft. The male genitalia differ considerably from those of Pholisora catullus : 

 the tegumen ends in a straight terminal simple rod, the base being large and craniform ; 

 the scaphium is well developed ; the harpes are narrow and end in a long sickle- 

 shaped rod curving downwards. (See Tab. XC. fig. 15.) 



ATARNES, gen. nov. 



The very distinct species described by Felder as Leucochitonea sallei does not 

 clearly belong to any recognized genus, though its position must be assigned to the 

 neighbourhood of the preceding genera. 



The antennae have a rather long hooked club, which tapers gradually to a blunt 

 point ; the palpi have the terminal joint moderately long and porrect; the hind tibiae 

 have two pairs of spurs, but no tibial tuft. The primaries are without a costal fold, 

 the apex is rather acute, the outer margin convex; the third median segment is 

 short but slightly longer than the lower and middle discocellulars, which are subequal 

 and slightly oblique, the upper discocellular is distinct and about half the length of the 

 others. The secondaries are rounded ; the second median and second subcostal segments 

 subequal ; the discocellulars nearly transverse but feeble, as is also the radial. 



The range of the genus is that of the single species and is given below. 



1. Atarnes sallei. (Tab. XC. fig. 16 s .) 



Leucochitonea sallei, Feld. Reise d. Nov., Lep. p. 525, t. 74. f. 25 \ 

 Pythonides sallei, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 369 2 . 



Al is fusco-nigris, antieis fascia mediana argentea extrorsum valde sinuata, area externa lineolis albis inter 

 venas radiata, macula quadrata ad medium marginis interni testacea, extrorsum lunulis duabus nigris 

 limbata ; posticis area mediana lata alba, margine externo lineolis albis radiata : subtus ut supra, sed 

 omnino pallidioribus : capite et thoraee supra albo punctatis, abdomine albo sexcincto, corpore subtus 

 albo ; palpis (praeter apices) albis. 



2 mari similis, sed major et alis magis rotundatis. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (H. Edwards), Orizaba (H. J. Elwes), Cordova (Salle x , Bumeli), 

 Atoyac (H. H. Smith, Schumann), Dos Arroyos in Guerrero (H. IT. Smith), Temax in 

 Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer) ; Guatemala, Polochic Valley (F. J). G. & 0. S.) ; Costa Eica 

 (Van Patten 2 ), Cache (Bogers). 



This pretty species, well described and figured by Felder from specimens obtained 

 by Salle in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz x , is fairly abundant in Southern Mexico 

 and Guatemala, and thence probably spreads uninterruptedly over the lower lands of 

 Central America to Costa Rica, the most southern point, so far as we know, of its range. 

 In altitude it reaches as high as about 4000 feet in the mountains of Vera Cruz. 



The male genitalia have a short strong tegumen, ending in a depressed point, to 

 which the strongly developed scaphium approaches; the harpes are prolonged to a 

 blunt point, near which, on the dorsal edge, is a lobe narrowly slit down the middle. 

 See Tab. XC. fig. 16.) 



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