598 BHOPALOCERA. 



Hah. Mexico (mus. nostr.) ; Guatemala, Panzos (Champion) ; Honduras ( Wittkugel, 

 in mus. Staudinger l ) ; Nicaragua, Ch on tales (Belt). — Colombia, Botida (H. H. Smith, 

 in Mus. Pittsburg.). 



Our description of the male is taken from two type-specimens from Honduras lent 

 us by Dr. Staudinger, and one from Panzos in our own possession ; the females from 

 Nicaragua and Mexico are both imperfect, but we have seen one from Colombia in 

 good condition. M. bicolor very closely resembles Mastor anubis, but differs from it 

 in having a narrow oblique brand on the primaries of the male, and also in having a 

 longer and more slender terminal joint to the palpi. 



Our figure of the male insect is taken from one of the types from Honduras. For 

 the genitalia (from the Panzos specimen), see Tab. CI II. fig. 13. 



METHIONOPSIS, gen. nov. 



The two small Tropical-American species referred to this genus are of a uniform 

 nigro-fuscous colour above, in this respect not differing from many other Pamphilinge 

 inhabiting the same region. We take M. modestus as the type *. Methionopsis may 

 be recognized chiefly by the long, erect, terminal joint of the palpi, the long antenna?, 

 with long crook, the equal length of the discocellulars of the primaries, and the form 

 of the brand in the male. 



The antenna? are half, or more than half, the length of the costa, and have an 

 elongate club, terminating in a long crook. The third joint of the palpi is long, erect, 

 and pointed. The primaries are rather elongate, and blunt at the tip ; the cell is less 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, equal in length ; 

 the lower radial is not depressed at the base ; the first branch arises about the middle 

 of the median nervure, and the second close to the lower angle of the cell. The 

 secondaries are rounded at the anal angle ; the cell is half the length of the wing ; the 

 discocellulars are oblique and very faint. The body is rather slender. The middle 

 tibiae are without spines and the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of 

 the male (Tab. CHI. fig. 15) have the brand formed of two portions : one, a very long 

 slender -^-shaped piece, the upper arm of which runs the whole length of the second 

 median segment to considerably beyond the base of the second median branch, the 

 lower arm being much shorter; the other, a slender longitudinal streak immediately 

 below the first median branch. In M. typhon the brand is reduced to a long streak 

 below the second median segment and a short one beneath the first median branch. 



In the neuration of the wings this genus approaches Amblyscirtes, Butleria, &c. The 

 terminal joint of the palpi is a little stouter and shorter than in Callimormus. The male 

 genitalia are very similarly formed in the two species. 



* In Dr. Staudinger's collection there is a male of an unnamed species from the Eio San Juan, Colombia, 

 very like M. modestus, but it is much larger and has longer antenna. 



