420 HETEROCERA. 
With a very large series of specimens before me of this exceedingly variable insect 
from our region, I am quite unable to separate any of the above as distinct species: of 
several I have the types, and of the others examples that have been compared and 
named from the types. In no locality is any one form constant; and if I were to 
admit the above-named forms as distinct species, I should have to name at least 
another dozen. On the underside, all the specimens are similar, except that some have 
a more reddish tinge than others. Mr. Butler’s remarks (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, 
p- 74) respecting Hypenaria binocula, Guén., are misleading: Guénée gave no reference 
to Cramer, beyond putting ‘‘ C.” after the specific name ; neither does he “ declare that 
he described the species from a figure,” but from two female specimens from Cayenne 
in coll. Feisth. An example named from these is now before me, and it is, without 
doubt, a female of H. augusta (Cram.*); therefore, Walker’s view was the correct one, 
and the “‘ mirage ” must have been in Mr. Butler’s mind, as his remarks partly seem to 
refer to H. eulalia, which Guénée states that he described from Stoll’s figure. 
2. Hypenaria fellearis. 
Apistis fellearis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samm]. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 30, ff. 379, 880°. 
Hypernaria (?) fellearis, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1619”. 
Hypenaria pheocycla, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vii. p. 385 °. 
Hypernaria pheocycla, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1618 %*. 
Hypernaria metastigma, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1621°. 
Hypernaria rudis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1081, & xxxv. p. 1973°. 
Hypernaria rubripalpis, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 10807. 
Hab. Mexico (Boucard, mus. D.), Paso de San Juan (Schaus), Atoyac, Vera Cruz, 
Teapa in Tabasco (#. H. Smith); GuatTemata, Coatepeque, San Isidro 1600 feet, 
Zapote, Cubilguitz, Panima (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Colon (Boucard, mus. D.). 
—CoLomBiA, Bogota; VENEzuELA®; Guiana; Amazons, Santarem ®, Eea?; Brazin (34), 
Bahia !2; TRINIDAD. 
This insect is exceedingly common in Central America, whence we have received a 
large series of specimens. It varies to a very great extent on the upperside, not only 
in colour but in the size and shape of the black spots on the primaries, these spots in 
some of the males being greenish instead of black. ‘The underside is similar in both 
sexes and shows very little variation, some examples being merely a shade darker than 
others. Specimens of Hypenaria pheocycla, determined by Guénée, are before me, and 
they are, without doubt, the males of H. fellearis. Mr. H. H. Smith captured a large 
number of examples in Mexico, between the months of February and May, 1888. 
8. Hypenaria (?) tenebrosa. 
Hypernaria (?) tenebrosa, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1089’. 
* Not angusta as written by Butler (loc. cit.). 
