20 SATYRID.E. — PEDALIODES. 



Hab. Ecuador (Buckley). 



In the Collections of the British Museum, the late Mr. Howitson, and Mr. Grose-Smith. 



On comparing the insect fiu;ured oa the Plate under the name of " Pahe^JuUs " with the 

 He\vitsou Collection and the descriptions of Pronophila Palo'polis and P. Palades by Hewitson, 

 in loco citato, it becomes ajtpareut that Hewitson fell into some mistake. 



The two specimens labelled in his collection as "Palades" do not agree with his description 

 of that species, which expressly mentions "an oblong white, nearly central spot" on the posterior 

 wings (which is absent from these specimens), and the locality labels are also different, being 

 " Bolivia," not Ecuador. 



The specimen in the He witson Coll.tliou labelled " Pahepolis" agrees fairly well with his 

 description of P. Palades and also agrees with the specimen under the name of Paliepolis in the 

 Plate (Figs. 8, 9), and the locality is identical. 



I venture to assume that Hewitsou accidentally changed the labels, and accordingly I 

 attribute the name Palades to the species here figured, though it stands in the Hewitsou 

 Collection under the name of PahvpoUs. 



" Pronophila Palades," figured by Mr. Hewitson in Vol. V. of " Exotic Butterflies " on the 

 Plate of Pronophila XI.. Figs. 36. 39, belongs to the genus Lasiophila. Feld., and is a variety of 

 L. Circe, Feld. 



Postscript. — On the eve of the publication of this Plate, I have discovered 

 that " Pedaliodes Palades " was figured in the Plate of Pedaliodes 1, in Vol. 11. 

 of "Ehopalocera Exotica," with a description by Mr. Kirby. I have to apolo- 

 gise for the oversight of including this species in the present Plate. 



In placing the name of " P. Pala?polis " upon this Plate, I followed the 

 name in which the specimen stands in the Hewitson Collection, and I only 

 became aware of Mr. Hewitson's mistake, after the Plate was ready for publi- 

 cation, on referring to Mr. Hewitson's descriptions of the two species, the 

 names of which have apparently been transposed in his collection. 



Mr. Kirby's descriptions of P. Palades and P. Pala?polis do not refer to 

 the discrepancies existing between the Hewitson descriptions and the sjiecimens, 

 as named, in the Hewitson Collection. 



