562 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



ACONTISTA MEXICANA Saussure and Zehntner. 



1894. Acontista mexicana Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, 

 p. 135; Cordova, Atoyac, Guerrero, Mexico; Chontales, Nicaragua; Bugaba 

 (800-1,500 feet), A^olcan de Chiriqui (2,000-3,000 feet), Panama. 



Two females; Piedras Negras and Turrialba, Costa Rica. (Schild 

 and Burg-dorf.) [U.S.N.M.] 



The specimen from Turrialba is quite different from the other 

 individual in the intensity of the coloration, but the pattern is almost 

 identical. Even after due consideration of the importance of color 

 characters in this genus, I have no hesitation in referring it to 

 mexicana^ but to aid future workers I have appended a description 

 of the coloration. 



General color dull lemon yellow, the tegmina with several very 

 obscure diagonal streaks of pale brownish. Eyes pale wood ])rown. 

 Wings with the basal portion of the posterior field bright lemon, 

 which color also suffuses two-thirds of the anterior field; band of the 

 wing dark chocolate, equal to half the length on the posterior field, 

 narrowing to a rather small blotch on the anterior field, and not 

 reaching the costal margin; apex of the wing and half of the 

 periphery of the posterior field pellucid, widest toward the costal 

 margin, gradually narrowing and vanishing posteriorly. 



ACONTISTA FRATERNA Saussure and Zehntner. 



1894. Acontisfa fraterna Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, 

 p. 136; Cach^, Costa Eica. 



One female; Tucurrique, Costa Rica. (Schild and Burgdorf.) 



[U.S.N.M.] 



ACONTISTA VITREA Saussure and Zehntner. 



1894. Acontlsta ritrea Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 

 138, pi. VI, fig. 9; Atoyac, Mexico; Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui (2,000- 

 3,000 feet), Panama. 



Two males; Piedras Negras, Costa Rica. (Schild and Burgdorf.) 

 [U.S.N.M.] 



As suggested by the original describers" this species probabl}^ 

 represents the male of A. ^fraterna. 



Genus STAGMOMANTIS Saussure. 

 1869. Stagmomantis Saussure, Bull. Soc. Ent. Suisse, III, p. 56. 

 Type. — Grylhis carolinus Linnseus.*^ 



«Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 136. 



& Originally included species; mro^ma, tolteca, stollii, ferox, domingensis, nahua, and 

 azieca. As none of these have been eliminated, Carolina may be selected as the type. 



