454 _ HETEROCERA. 
1. Pyrgion menippusalis. (Tab. XXXVII. figg. 10, 10a, ¢; 11, 2.) 
Bleptina menippusalis, Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 126 (2) °. 
Male. Very similar to the female, but generally darker in colour, with slightly thicker antenna, very differ- 
ently formed palpi, and a much longer and more slender abdomen. Expanse, 3, 17 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith), Cuesta de Misantla 
(M. Trujillo); GuateMaa, Capetillo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 
to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).— 
VENEZUELA |. | 
Varies considerably in the colour of the primaries; in some specimens they are 
quite dark brown and in others pale yellowish-brown, but in no one locality does any 
form appear to be constant. In Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica the species seems 
to be rare, as we have only received one or two specimens from each of the 
localities mentioned. In Panama it is common, especially the female. Our figure of 
the male is taken from a Mexican specimen; that of the female from a Chiriqui 
example. The latter is almost identical with Walker’s type in the British Museum. 
SCOPIFERA. 
Scopifera, Herrich-Schaffer, Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1870, sep. copy, pp. 38, 44; 
Felder & Rogenhofer, Reise der Novara, Lep., Erkl. der Taf. 120. no. 35. 
1. Scopifera longipalpis. 
Scopifera longipalpis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 120. fig. 35, Erkl. der Taf. 120. 
no. 35(¢ 92)’. . 
Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Chacoj (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio 
Sucio, Volca de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (2ibbe, in mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion).—VENEZUELA!; Soutu- 
EAST Braziu}. 
Most of our specimens are darker in colour than Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure ( ¢ ), 
but in other respects they agree well with it. 
BLEPTINA. 
Bleptina, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 66 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 119. 
Guenée included seven species in Bleptina, all from North or South America or the 
Antilles; but he described four of them from the. female sex only. Walker added a 
large number of species, nearly all of which will have to be assigned to other genera. 
The species placed first in the genus by Guenée, B. confusalis, is found throughout 
the greater part of our region ; it has the palpi nearly alike in both sexes. 
