514 EHOPALOCEKA. 



the cell is two-thirds the length of the costa, and considerably produced at the 

 apex ; the discocellulars are strongly oblique, the upper one four times as long as 

 the lower, the latter shorter than the third median segment ; the lower radial is much 

 depressed at, the base ; the first branch arises before the middle of the median nervure, 

 the second near the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are produced at the 

 anal angle ; the cell is more than half the length of the wing ; the discocellulars are 

 very oblique, the lower one distinct, the upper one barely traceable. The body is 

 very robust. The hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male 

 have a conspicuous brand, formed of three or four pieces : an elongate >-shaped mark 

 placed in the angle between the second median segment and the first median branch, 

 a longitudinal streak below this, and a similar streak along the upper, and sometimes 

 another along the lower, edge of the submedian nervure. 



a. Brand on the primaries of the male formed of four pieces. 



1. Aides epitus. (Tab. xcvi. figg. 22, 23, <$ .) 



Papilio epitus, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 343. ff. E, F 1 . 

 Calpodes epitus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 105 \ 



Alis fuscis, ad basin et corpore supra pilis viridescentibus vestitis, stigmate grisescente, maculis tribus in linea 

 obliqua, una ad venam submedianam, secunda majore inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, tertia 

 ultra earn, una in cellula externe excavata, punctisque tribus in serie obliqua subapiealibus, flavo-hyalinis ; 

 posticis macula apicem versus flavescente : subtus ut supra, sed rubescentioribus, dimidio basali 

 obscuriore, in costa supra maculam cellularem flava ; posticis area discali plaga subtriangulari externe 

 excisa, maculis duabus (interdum una) apicem versus argenteis ; palpis et abdomine subtus ochraceis. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ex Staudinger). — South Ameeica to Brazil. 



Dr. Staudinger has sent us a single example of this species from Chiriqui, under the 

 name of Proteides argyrina, Staud., and we have others from various places in South 

 America agreeing with it, all these being males. In fresh specimens the hairs on the 

 upper surface of the body and the base of the wings are distinctly greenish. The 

 small silvery spots on the underside of the secondaries are variable in size and shape, 

 and one of them is sometimes absent. We figure the fore wing of a male specimen, to 

 show the position of the brand (Tab. XCVI. fig. 22 ), and also the genitalia, for which 

 see Tab. XCVI. fig. 23. 



2. Aides dysoni, sp. n. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 24, $ .) 



2 . Alis fuscis, ad basin et corpore supra pilis ochraceis vestitis, anticis macula in cellula, tribus infra et ultra 

 earn in serie obliqua, una submediana, altera inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, tertia margini 

 externo propiore, omnibus albo-hyalinis : subtus ut supra, sed anticis costa et apice posticisque (angulo 

 anali excepto) rufo layatis, bis macula parva prope cellulse finem, secunda elongata ultra earn, tertia 

 valde irregulari margini interno propiore et duabus submarginalibus, omnibus argenteis; palpis et 

 pectore subtus flavis. 



Hab. Honduras (Dyson, in Mus. Brit,). 



