586 EHOPALOCEEA. 



d. Primaries and secondaries each with small scattered whitish spots. 



7. Carystus fantasos. (Tab. cil. fig. 15, e .) 



Papilio fantasos, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 300. ff. E, F 1 ; Sepp, Surin. Vlind. ii. t. 82 2 . 

 Papilio abebalus, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 365. ff. G, H 3 . 

 Hesperia abebalus, Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 754 4 . 



Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis maculis tribus in serie obliqua infra cellulam, ilia in medio maxima, punetisque 

 duobu8 (internum uno) apici propiore, omnibus albo-hyalinis ; posticis fascia ultra cellulam transversa 

 albida (interdum ochracea) : subtus anticis ut supra, sed macula margini interno proxima majore et 

 fascia ad marginem externum apicem versus albida ; posticis canescentibus, venis et macula ad cellulae 

 finem alteraque ad angulum analem fuscis ; corpore subtus albo. 



$ mari similis. 



Bab. Mexico, Jalisco (Schumann), Dos Arroyos (H. H. Smith), Atoyac (Schumann, 

 H. 11. Smith), Jalapa (ff. Edwards, coll. Schaus), Coatepec (coll. Schaus), Valladolid in 

 Yucatan ( Gaumer) ; Beitish Honduras, Corosal (Boe) ; Guatemala, Polochic Valley 

 (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Cerro Zunil, Zapote, Panima (Champion) ; Honduras (Dyson) ; 

 Nicaragua, Matagalpa (Richardson); Panama, Chiriqui and Veraguas (Bibbe). — 

 South America to Brazil. 



With upwards of fifty specimens before us, more than half of which are from 

 Central America, we are unable to separate C. abebalus from C. fantasos-, some 

 specimens have the band of spots above ochreous, others white, and there are inter- 

 mediate forms. We have dissected the genitalia of three males from Mexico, for 

 which see Tab. CIL fig. 15 ; they are extremely like those of C. marcus. 



8. Carystus artona. (Tab. CIL figg. 16, 17, 18, e .) 



Hesperia artona, Hew. Descr. Hesp. p. 27 (1868) \ 



Alis fuscis, maculis tribus in linea obliqua infra et ultra cellulam, duabus in cellula, tribus subapicalibus in 

 linea transversa, omnibus albo-hyalinis ; posticis maculis quatuor in serie transversa ultra cellulam, 

 albidis : subtus anticis ut supra, sed pallidioribus, plaga albida venam submedianam versus, area costali 

 et regione apicali griseis; posticis venis omnibus, area costali margineque interno, lineis quoque inter venas, 

 albo-griseis, aliter purpureo- fuscis, maculis quinque in serie curvata albidis ; palpis et corpore subtus 

 pilis albescentibus ; ciliis posticarum et angulum analem et marginem internum albidis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).— South America to Brazil 1 . 



We possess several examples of this species from Nicaragua, and we likewise have 

 received it from both Guiana and South Brazil. Hewitson's type was from Rio Janeiro. 

 Our specimens show very little variation, except that in some of the females there is 

 one spot only in the cell. For the genitalia of the male, see Tab. CIL fig. 18. 



