510 EHOPALOCEEA. 



Eab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos and Rio Papagaio in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Jalapa 

 (coll. Schaus) ; Honduras (Dyson) ; Nicaragua, Matagalpa (Bichardson) ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). — South America, Amazons to Brazil 4 ; Antilles, Cuba, 

 Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Dominica. 



To this species we refer a long series of examples from Central and South America 

 and from the Antilles. They vary greatly in size and in the development of the 

 transverse white band on the underside of the secondaries, this being sometimes broad 

 (as in G. corrupta, U.S., and H. fufidia, Hew.) and sometimes narrow and broken up 

 into spots (as in H.fusina, Hew.), and between these we have numerous intermediates. 

 In most of the large specimens the head and thorax are tinged with green and the 

 antennae are more elongate. There is sometimes an indistinct oblique band of fulvous 

 spots on the upperside of the secondaries, indicating the position of the white band 

 beneath. In some examples the spot in the cell of the primaries above is elongate. 



We have dissected three males from widely separated localities, and the genitalia 

 show no difference: see Tab. XCVI. fig. 4. 



Two specimens of the insect are shown on our Plate : a female from Guerrero and 

 a male of the var. corrupta from Chiriqui. 



c'. Secondaries without a distinct white fascia beneath. 



4. Prenes philippina. (Tab. XCVI. figg. 8, 9, <? .) 



Cobalus philippina, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 81. 



Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis maculis quatuor in linea obliqua (una ad venam submedianam ochracea), secunda 

 subquadrata maxima inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, aliis duabus ultra eas minoribus, 

 punctisque duobus recurvatis, flavo-hyalinis: subtus ut supra, sed pallidioribus, anticis macula submediana 

 elongata, altera ramum medianum primum propiore albidis ; posticis squamis flavidis sparsim ornatis J 

 capite supra virescente. 



2 nobis ignota. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 



A single worn male of this species has been lent us by Dr. Staudinger under the 

 above name. It is not unlike P. ares, but the spots on the primaries are differently 

 placed. There is no brand on these wings. 



5. Prenes ares. (Tab. XCVI. figg. 10, 11, 12, s .) 



Hesperia ares, Feld. Verb., zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1862, p. 477 \ 

 Calpodes ares, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 105 2 . 



Goniloba coscinia, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-Blatt. Regensb. xix. p. 54 s . 

 Calpodes coscinia, Godm. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 520 4 . 



Alis fuscis, anticis macula magna subquadrata inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, altera ultra earn 

 minore, duabus parvis transversis in cellula, punctis tribus in linea transversa subapicalibus (interdum 

 macula parva in vena submediana), omnibus byalinis : subtus pallidioribus, maculis ut supra, litura 



