556 EHOPALOCEEA. 



Our description of this species is taken from a male in our possession, sent us 

 by Dr. Staudinger under the name of Pamphila actor, Mabille. It differs, however, 

 from the P. actor = P. vala, Mab., referred by us to the genus Prenes, in having a 

 conspicuous brand on the primaries, and the spots are not hyaline. L. peneia closely 

 resembles L. accius, but may be known from it by the primaries having two faint 

 ochreous spots beyond the brand between the first and second and the second and 

 third median branches respectively, and the brand itself is also narrower. From 

 Chaerephon citrus (Mab.) the present species may be distinguished by its larger 

 size, the moderately long crook to the antennae, the much more uniformly coloured 

 underside, &c. 



MGERIS, gen. nov. 



The two small species we refer to this genus, of which we take Talides striga, 

 Hiibn., as the type, are nearly allied to Lerema, having a very similarly shaped brand 

 in the males ; but the genitalia in this sex are very different in form, and the primaries, 

 at least in M. striga, are somewhat truncated at the tip. 



The antennae are about half the length of the costa, and have an elongate club, 

 terminating in a moderately long crook. The palpi have the third joint short, erect, 

 and bluntly conical. The primaries are somewhat truncated at the apex and have the 

 costa slightly arched at the base ; the cell is much less than two-thirds the length of 

 the costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, the upper one twice the length of the lower, 

 the latter the same length as the third median segment ; the lower radial is depressed 

 at the base ; the first branch arises from about the middle of the median nervure, the 

 second from close to the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are slightly lobed 

 at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are faint. The body is moderately robust. The 

 middle tibiae are conspicuously spined, the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. 

 The primaries have a conspicuous vel\ety-black, oblique, sinuous, interrupted brand, 

 extending from the base of the second median branch to a little above the middle of 

 the submedian nervure. The genitalia of the males have the haipes terminating in 

 two acuminate widely separated points. 



l. Moeris striga. (Tab. C. %g. l, 2, 6 .) 



Talides striga, Geyer, in Hiibner's Zutr. ex Schmett. iv. p. 32, tf. 739, 740 '. 



Alis fuscis, stigmate nigrescente, anticis costa? dimidio basali squamis ochraceis vestitis : subtus dilutioribus, 

 anticis costa et apice late ochraceis castaneo notatis ; posticis (nisi ad marginem internum) quoque castaneo' 

 marmoratis, margine costali apicem versus ochraeeo notato ; palpis subtus pilis flavis tectis. 



5 mari si mi] is. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (E. H. Smith, Schumann), Jalapa, Coatepec (coll. Schaus) ; 

 Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Rica] 

 Cache (Bogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (ex Staudinger), Bugaba (Champion).— South 

 America to the Argentine Republic. 



