600 



EHOPALOCEEA. 



three-fifths the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, the upper one much 

 longer than the lower ; the lower radial is considerably depressed at the base ; the 

 first branch arises about the middle of the median nervure, the second from the lower 

 angle of the cell, the third being almost in a line with the median nervure. 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 slender. The middle tibiae are 

 without spines, the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male 

 (Tab. CM. fig. 19) have a conspicuous sagittiform brand in the angle between the 

 second median segment and the first median branch. 



1. ElltOCUS phthia, sp. n. (Tab. CIII. figg. 18, 19, 20, 6 .) 



Alis nigro-fuscis, stigmate concolore, anticis squamis nonnullis ultra cellulam fulvis : aubtus anticis margine 

 interno pallidiore, costa et apice posticisque squamis fulvis sparsim vestitis ; palpis pilis aureis et fuscis 

 intermixes vestitis ; antennis ad clavae basin flavo annulatis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hal. Mexico, San Lorenzo, near Cordova (M. Trujillo), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. 

 Smith) ; Guatemala, Panima (Champion) ; Nicaragua (Belt) ; Costa Rica, Cache, Rio 

 Sucio, Irazu (Sogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Bible), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — 

 South America to Guiana. 



A common insect in Central America, long series of it having been received from 

 Teapa, Cache, &c. E. phthia is so like Methionopsis modestus that it would certainly 

 be confused with it, unless the form of the brand and neuration were taken into 

 account ; it is, however, considerably smaller. 



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

 Tab. CIII. fig. 20. 



2. Eutocus volasus, sp. n. 



Alis fuliginoso-nigris immaculatis, stigmate concolore: subtus ut supra, sed paulo rufescentioribus, anticis 

 dimidio interiore prasertim apud angulum analem pallidiore, regione costali, apice, posticisque omnino, 

 squamis ochraceis sparsim vestitis. 



$ ignota. 



Hal. Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 



We have taken our description of this obscure species from a single male specimen 

 (without palpi) lent us by Dr. Staudinger under the name of Pamphila volasus, 

 Mabille, but we are unable to find that this name has ever been published *. E. volasus 

 is very like E.phthia, but the wings are redder beneath and have some widely scattered 

 ochreous scales ; the brand on the primaries, moreover, is less distinct. 



* Proteides volesus, Mab., from Bogota, must be a very different insect. 



