VEHILIUS.— MEGISTIAS. 571 



obscure fulvis : subtus anticis (nisi area mediana) pallidioribus, punctis ut supra, ramis subcostalibus, et 

 discoidalibus ad marginem externum, sordide ochraceis ; posticis area interiore et venis omnibus colons 

 ejusdem, ad basin et marginem exteriorem obscuris ; palpis quoque subtus pallide ochraceis. 

 <j> mari similis. 



Hab. Mexico, Misantla (F. D. G.), Coatepec (coll. Schaus), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. 

 Smith), Orizaba (H. J. Elwes) ; Guatemala, Motagua valley, Choctum (F. D. G. & 

 0. £.), San Geronimo and Paniraa (Champion) ; Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa 

 Rica, San Francisco, Cache (Bogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Staudinger l ), Volcan de 

 Chiriqui (Champion), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — Colombia. 



Dr. Staudinger has kindly lent us the type of this species. It is a common insect 

 in Central America, whence we possess a very long series. V. illudens is closely allied 

 to V. venosus (Plotz), but differs from it in having fewer spots on the upperside of the 

 primaries, and the disk of the secondaries without spots above and pale beneath. 

 Our figures are taken from Atoyac specimens. For the genitalia of the male, see 

 Tab. C fig. 46. 



2. Vehilius venosus. (Tab. C. figg. 47, 48, 49, e .) 



Apaustus venosus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 160'. 



Alis fuscis, anticis maculis tribus in linea obliqua infra et ultra cellulam, ea in medio maxima, una minula 

 subcostali, punctis duobus (aut tribus) in linea transversa subapicalibus, omnibus byalinis ; posticis 

 maculis tribus elongatis in linea transversa ultra cellulam flavidis : subtus paulo dilutioribus, anticis 

 apicem versus et posticis totis venis pallide flavis striatis, linea macular! curvata apicem versus inter 

 venas albida. 

 5 mari similis. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Staudinger).— South America 1 to Brazil. 



Dr. Staudinger has kindly lent us a single example from Chiriqui of this species, 

 which agrees well with a long series from South America in our collection. We 

 have also seen specimens of it labelled Papilio satumus, Fabr., and P. pertinax, 

 Cram., but we do not think these names are correctly applied For the genitalia of 

 the male, see Tab. C. fig. 49. 



MEG1STIAS, gen. nov. 

 Under this genus we place numerous American species, all of small size. They 

 approach Levodea on the one hand, and Cobalus on the other, differing from the first- 

 mentioned in having longer antennas, with a more slender club, and also the primaries 

 blunter at the tip, and from the latter in having the body more slender, the primaries 

 less pointed at the apex, and the secondaries less produced at the anal angle. The 

 males are without trace of a brand on the primaries. Hesperia tripunctata, Latr. 

 (=Pamphila obsoleta, Moschl.), is taken as the type, and II. fusca, Grote and Robins., 

 also belongs here. 



