418 HETEROCERA. 
beneath, the antennze and palpi almost black; the front legs black, the others fawn-colour. Expanse 
3 An 
fy inch. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen only of this distinct species was captured ; it is allied to C. alceste. 
21. Capnodes (?) argina, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 27.) 
Primaries and secondaries pale fawn-colour, crossed about the middle by two broken lines of dark brown spots, 
beyond which are several rows of indistinct brown lines, the marginal line formed of black dots, the 
fringe pale fawn-colour; the underside paler than above, but with the lines almost similar: head, thorax, 
abdomen, legs, antennz, and palpi fawn-colour. Expanse 1,3, inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trétsch, in mus. Staudinger). 
C. argina is doubtfully included in the genus Capnodes: it differs in having the wings 
slightly longer, and the third joint of the palpi longer and more pointed. One 
specimen. 
PARANYMPHA. 
Paranympha (Cramer), Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 73. 
Paranympha was proposed by its author to include two species, Phalena toxea, Cram., 
and Paranympha albocostata, Butl., both from Tropical South America, the former 
being now known from as far north as Southern Mexico. 
1, Paranympha toxea. 
Phalena Noctua toxea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 133, t. 358. ff. G, H’. 
Plaxia torea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1627’. 
Paranympha toxea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 73. 
Thermesia (?) generatrix, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1051 °. 
Ctypansa megaspila, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1079 *. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (1. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Belize (Blanca- 
neaux); GuatemaLa, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 1700 feet, Senahu, Panzos (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Co.tomBia, Bogota*+; GurANA, 
Surinam !?; Amazons, Ega °. 
Exceedingly variable in colour : some specimens are pale mouse-colour and others 
dark brown, with almost every intermediate shade. A few examples have a large black 
spot on the secondaries, which gives them a very different appearance; but we have 
others that just show a black dot in the middle of the usual greyish spot on these 
wings. In our country P. toxea is a common species, and Mr. Champion has sent us a 
large series of examples. Ctypansa megaspila, Walk., the type of which is in my own 
collection, is inseparable from it. 
