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streak beneath at inner margin; neck with crimson ring; abdomen 

 black above, gray below, without orange stripe. Expanse, 25 mm. 

 Type.— Male, No. 15810, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, April, 1912 

 (Busck). 



NERITOS COTES Druce. 



2. Porto Bello, April, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



APANTESIS PROXIMA Guerin. 



6. Porto Bello, March, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); 

 Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 1912 (J. Zetek). 



ECPANTHERIA LAETA Walker. 



1. Porto Bello, April, 1911 (Busck). 



UTETHEISA VENUSTA Dalman. 



5. Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); 

 Paraiso, Canal Zone, June, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 

 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



Family HYPSID^. 



LAITRON SORA Boisduval. 



3. Trinidad River, June, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 

 1912 (J. Zetek). 



HYALURGA SUBNORMALIS, new species. 



\^Tiite; head and thorax stained with, gray; two white dots on ver- 

 tex and two on tegulffi; patagia with orange spot at base; abdomen 

 with a dorsal and a subdorsal dark line. Wings white; veins dark 

 on both pair; fore ^ving with the costa gray, stained wath orange 

 at base and subapically; a clouded dark spot at end of cell joined to 

 costa and another above tornus between veins 2 and 3. Expanse, 

 39 mm. 



Type.— Femsile, No. 15811, U.S.N.M.; Paraiso, Canal Zone, Janu- 

 ary, 1911 (Busck). 



PERICOPIS MARGINALIS Walker. 



3. Paraiso, Canal Zone, February, 1911 (Busck); Porto Bello, 

 February, 1911 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



PERICOPIS ANGULOSA IRENIDES Butler. 



2. Taboga Island, June, 1911 (Busck). 



Mr. Busck took a pair, the male marked like normal angulosa 

 Walker, except that the lower part of the central band is yellow, the 

 female of a form hke itJiomia Felder. The species is not itliomia, 

 which I identify in three specimens from Costa Rica agreeing with. 

 Felder's figure, but so much like it that five specimens in the collec- 

 tion are so named. The present form, irenides, has a tendency to 

 obsolescence of the basal red markings of fore wings in both sexes; 

 of 12 before me from Panama only four have the red well developed. 

 In two others it is reduced and in the remaining six entkely absent. 



Mr. Busck made the following note about the defensive secretion 

 of this species: "On capture these butterflies, male and female, emit 



