( 417 ) 



J?. Avery distinct species, wliicU is as nearly related to nictitaus. contiiuia, 

 etc., as to coffi'ae. Olive-black area of the mesothoracic tegula sharply defined 

 dorsally. 



Cpperside of wings. Forewing: a black streak before middle of SM-, a little 



towards base, connecting two lines, the proximal one of them widened at inner 

 margin to a triangnlar patch ; some pale postdiscal lunules outside the blaclv, 

 curved, oblinue, discal band, followed by a conspicuous black line, which stops at 

 R-, but appears again at R', and is then continued to 8M'-, anteriorly the line is 



])receded by a conspicuous aj)ical lunule ; stigma with some white scales. The 



yellow area of the hindwing is sharply defined ; it includes anteriorly three browuisli 

 black spots, which are contiguous with the costal border, the middle one thinnest, 

 but sometimes prolonged to a line. 



rnderside burnt umber colour, rufous-tawny scaling appearing only here and 

 there ; on the forewing there are a number of whitish lunules in the subapical 

 area, and a slightly curved linear mark near anal angle ; on the hindwing two 

 linear sulianal markings and a dot SC- — R^ cinnamon-rufous, or paler. 



(S . Tenth abdominal segment nearly as in riscus (PI. XLI. f. 2o), tergite broader 

 at end. Harpe elongate, the process free, horizontal, compressed, subconical at 

 end. Penis-sheath (PI. LIV. f. 6) : whip with a few tubercles ; at the right side 

 tliere are three teeth, besides the two bristles ; the left lobe prominent, its 

 distal edge almost horizontal, the lobe being much more slanting proximally than 

 distally. Armature of the penis-funnel (PI. LIII. f. 44) asymmetrical ; there is 

 one dentate process on each side, as in nictitans, but the left one is prolonged and 

 straight, while the right one is short and curved. 



Hub. Honduras to Colombia, probably extending farther south. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c?, 1 ?, from Chiriqui. 



In the collection of Charles Oberthi'ir from Juntas, Cauca, Colombia (Matlian). 



349. Nyceryx coflFeae. 



*Perlgoiim rpffene Walker, Lht Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 101. n. 2 (18.56) (Brazil ;-M us. Brit.); 



Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 322. u. .-). t. 8. f. 4 (1875) (N. Friburgo) ; Bonningb., Irh xii. 



p. 132. n. ra (1809) (Rio de Jan.). 

 MacrcifjIoKxa abholi Schaufuss, Nuiiq. Olios, i. p. 21 (1870) (Colombia). 

 I'dfhtjgon/a coffeac, Butler, Trans. Zool. Snc. Land. ix. p. 533. n. 2 (1877) (Brazil) ; Kirby, ('at. 



Lei,. Het. i. p. 638. n. 4 (1892) (Brazil). 

 * Pachyr/ftjiia boisduvali Butler, I.e. p. 633 (1877) (nom. nov. pro cuffeae Boisd. ; — coll. Cbarles 



Oberthur) ; Kirby, I.e. n. 6 (IK'.I2) ; Druce, Biul. Ceiitr. Amer., Lep. Hel. Suppl. p. 2',)'J (18116) 



(Brazil, = rriceii ex errore). 

 Parlii/rjoiii,! abhut!, Kirby, I.e. n. 7 (1892). 



c? ? . Differing from all other species in the yellow area of the hindwing being 

 traversed by a brown band, which stops in front at SC-'. Forewing obtusely 

 angnlated at R', feebly sinuate between R^ and SM-, less sinuate between SC^ and 

 R^ than in the other species ; stigma large, not deeper in tint than the other brown 

 markings, encircled by a thin white line. Underside of palpus of the same colour 

 as the femora and tibiae, and the underside of the abdomen and wings. 



S. Tenth segment (PI. XLI. f. 27) nearly as broad as in stuarti, sinus very 

 wide, lobes comjiaratively short ; tergite shorter than sternite ; the broad tip of 

 the lobes outside those of the sternite ; the latter almost horizontal, not strongly 

 curved, slightly dilated before the short apical hook. Harpe a low ridge which 

 gradually fades away, without a free process, not reaching to the middle of the 



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