MECOCERAS.-—OPHTHALMOPHORA. 95 
(Dyson ®); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David (Champion).— 
Cotompia 5°; VenezveLta®; Guiana, Surinam! 8%, Cayenne+; Amazons4*5?; Braziu*®. 
A common species in Tropical America. The large number of specimens before me 
do not show any variation, except in colour, some specimens being darker than others. 
2. Mecoceras cordovaria. 
Ametris cordovaria, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 388 (¢)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Vera Cruz}. 
Unknown to me. 
3. Mecoceras schausaria. 
Mecoceras schausaria, H. Edwards, Papilio, iv. p. 18°. 
Hab. Mexico, State of Vera Cruz (Schaus 1). 
Unknown to me, and not represented in Mr. Schaus’s collection. 
4, Mecoceras aulis, sp.n. (Tab. L. fig. 15, 3.) 
Male. Primaries and secondaries pale yellowish-green, slightly irrorated with white; the primaries crossed 
from the costal to the inner margin by two waved narrow brownish-yellow lines—the first near the base, 
the second about the middle,—and with two rather large greyish submarginal spots—the first close to 
the apex, the second about the middle of the outer margin; the secondaries crossed about the middle by 
a waved brownish-yellow line, which extends from the costal to the inner margin; the fringe pale 
yellowish-green ; the underside of the primaries very much as above, but yellower in colour, that of the 
secondaries paler, and with a submarginal narrow waved yellowish-brown line extending from the costal 
to the inner margin. The female similar to the male, but with the antenne simple. Expanse, ¢ 9, 
2 inches. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujillo; coll. Schaus); Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 
We have received two males of this insect, the one from Jalapa being figured. 
Mr. Schaus has examples of both sexes in his collection. 
Subfam. PALY ANZ. 
OPHTHALMOPHORA. 
Ophthalmophora, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. ix. p. 897 (1857 ); Walker, Cat. xxii. p. 613; Butler, 
Ent. Monthly Mag. xviii. p. 59. 
The species of this genus are confined to Tropical America. They are most beautiful 
moths, their wings being highly ornamented with metallic gold and silver lines, and in 
some cases thickly irrorated with metallic scales. Ten species are here recorded from 
Central America. 
1. Ophthalmophora prospectata. 
Palyas prospectata, Snell. Tijdschr. voor Ent. xvii. p. 43, t. 3. fig. 5°. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Cotomsia!; Ecuapor. 
