554 RHOPALOCERA. 



about the middle of the median nervure, the second close to the lower angle of the cell. 

 The secondaries are feebly lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are faint, except 

 at their points of origin. The body is robust. The middle tibiae are conspicuously 

 spined, the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male have a 

 stout, oblique, sinuous, interrupted brand extending from the base of the second median 

 branch to near the submedian nervure. 



Lerema is confined to America, the type species having a very wide distribution, the 

 other two being purely tropical. The portion of the brand below the first median 

 branch in each species is broken into two. 



l. Lerema accius. (Tab. xcix. fig. 44, c? .) 



Papilio accius, Smith & Abbot, Lep. Ins. Georgia, i. p. 45, t. 23 ( g ? ) l . 



Lerema accius, Scudd. Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 82 a ; Butt. E. U. S. & Canada, ii. p. 1768, 



t. 17. ff. 3, 7 ( S ? ) 3 ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 118 \ 

 Hesperia monoco, Scudd. Proc. Ess. Inst. iii. p. 178 s . 

 Hesperia punctella, Grote & Robins. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 1 ". 

 Hesperia nortonii, Edw. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 287 7 . 

 ? . Telemiades ceramina, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 69*. 

 £ . Goniloba parumpunctata, H err. -S chaff, loc. cit. p. 76 B . 

 Lerema pattenii, Scudd. Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 82 10 . 



Alis nitente fuscis, stigmate obscuriore, anticis macula parva inter ramos medianos secundum et tertium, 

 tribusque in linea transversa subapicalibus, albidis : subtus ut supra, sed pallidioribus, anticis margine 

 interno angulum analem versus late, et margine externo, dilutioribus ; posticis grisescentioribus, margine 

 costali usque ad apicem et fasciis duabus (una transversa ultra cellulam, altera submarginali), baud ad 

 marginem internum extendentibus, rufo-fuscis ; corpore et palpis subtus canescentibus. 



2 mari similis, sed anticis maculis duabus discalibus, inferiore majore. 



Eab. North America, Eastern United States 3 . — Mexico, Saltillo in Coahuila and 

 San Luis Potosi (Scudder 3 ), Durango city (Becker), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), 

 Lake Chapala (Richardson), Acapulco, Tepetlapa, Rincon, Amula, Venta de Zopilote, 

 La Venta, Acaguizotla, Hacienda de la Imagen, and Rio Papagaio, all in Guerrero, 

 Atoyac, Teapa (E. II. Smith), Atlixco (F. I). G.), Orizaba (E. J. Elwes), Valladolid in 

 Yucatan (Gaumer) ; Guatemala 10 , Volcan de Santa Maria (Richardson), San Geronimo 

 (Champion) ; Honduras, Ruatan I. (Gaumer) ; Costa Rica, Irazu, Cache, San Francisco 

 (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe), Panama city (J. J. Walker). — South America 

 to Brazil. 



This species was originally described by Smith and Abbot, who figured both sexes, 

 in their work on the ' Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia.' It is a common insect in 

 Mexico, and extends as far south as Brazil. On a careful examination of our very 

 large series of specimens we find a considerable amount of variation, both in the 

 number of spots on the primaries, especially in the males, and also in the marking 

 of the underside. Smith and Abbot's figures represent a very light-coloured and 



