56 NEUROPTERA. 
P. P. C.: 1 2) in Vera Cruz‘, Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Sumichrast’); Guatemaa 3 
(coll. McLachlan: 1 ¢; A.M. N.H.: 12), San Juan (1 3,2 2], La Tinta [4 2] and 
Panzos [1 2] in Vera Paz, El Tumbador [1 ¢j, Cerro Zunil [7 ¢, 9 2], El Reposo 
[1 2], Volcan de Atitlan [1 ¢], Pantaleon [14 ¢, 15 ?], Zapote [2 2 ] (Champion) ; 
Honpuras (coll. McLachlan: 1 9; coll. P. P. C.: 1 2); Nicaracva, Polvon, Dep't 
Occidentale’, Managua’; Panama %, Chiriqui? (ibde: 1; coll. PL.P.C.2 16; 
coll. McLachlan: 1 3), Volcan de Chiriqui below 4000 feet [4 ¢,5 2], Bugaba 
[10 ¢,17 2], David [2 3,1 2), and Tolé [1 ¢ |] (Champion), La Chorrera (Dolby- 
Tyler ®).—CotomBia, Bogota’; VENEZUELA 1, Caracas! 4, San Esteban 3, Puerto Cabello? ; 
Guana, Surinam !4 (U.S. N. U.: 2 5); Braziu, Obidos and Turati, Amazon valley 3; 
? Perv, Lima? 3, . 
Antenodal cells on the front wings 3 (70°, ¢, 78°67, 2), 3+ (18°, ¢, 13°27, 2), 
2+ (67,5, 667, 2), 2 (8%, 2), or 4 (6%, o, 8°, 2); on the hind wings 2 
(99°/, ¢, 9847, 2) or 8 (1%, ¢, 16%, 2). 
The material before me contains no case like that described for the female by Selys 3, 
in which the yellow spot on the tip of the wings reaches to the sudnodal sector; in 
fact it is only in the two specimens of this sex cited above from Honduras that the 
yellow actually reaches the nodal sector. 
In females from Atoyac and Presidio the wings are distinctly brown for their entire 
width, beginning at the level of the origin of the supplementary sector between the 
ultra-nodal and the principal sectors and extending to the apical yellow spot. 
The range in size proves to be greater than that hitherto recorded. The extremes 
are: abdomen, 3 67°5-88°5, 2 62°5-86°5 ; hind wing, ¢ 44-57, 9 44-59 mm.*. 
Very considerable variation in size may exist in specimens from one and the same 
locality; thus for Bugaba the extremes are: abdomen, ¢ 68°5-83, 2 63-84; hind 
wing, ¢ 46°5-55, 9 45-59 mm.; and for Volcan de Chiriqui: abdomen, ¢ 74—88°5, 
9 62:5-84; hind wing, ¢ 49-53°5, 9 44-57 mm. ) 
Dr. Gustav Eisen, who collected specimens of this species near Tepic, in November, 
says that ‘it lives entirely in the shadow and is very rare”’; the last two words may 
indicate that Tepic is near the northern limit of its range. In the State of Vera Cruz 
the insect was taken in May and June. 
2. Mecistogaster modestus. 
Mecistogaster modestus, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) x. p. 23 (1860) *; Mém. Couron. Acad. Belg. 
¥XXVill. p. 22 (1886)*; Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am. p. 64 (1861)°; Kirby, Cat. Odon. 
p. 120 (1890) *. 
Hab. Mexico!? (U.S.N.M.: 13,12), Atoyac (Schumann, Smith: 1 3,4 2), 
Omealca (Trujillo: 1 3), and Presidio (Barrett, coll. P.P.C.: 23, 32) in Vera 
Cruz, Cordova!; British Honpuras (Blancaneaux : 1 9); Guatemata?, Cubilguitz 
* However, the maximum given by de Selys® for this last dimension is 66 mm. 
