( 417 ) 



J ? . A very distiuct sjiecies, whicLi is as nearly related to nictitans, continiia, 

 etc., as to coffeae. 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 j)ro.Kimal one of them widened at inner 

 margin to a triangnlar patch ; some pale postdiscal limnles outside the black, 

 curved, obliqne, discal band, followed by a eouspicuons black line, which stops at 

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



jireceded by a conspicuous apical lunnle ; stigma with some white scales. The 



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

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

 but sometimes prolonged to a line. 



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

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

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

 linear subanal markings and a dot SC- — R' cinnamon-rufous, or paler. 



<?. Tenth abdominal segment nearly as in riscus (PL XLI. f. 25), tergite broader 

 at end. Har])e elongate, the process free, horizontal, compressed, subconical at 

 end. Penis-sheath (PI. LIV. f. 5) : whip with a few tubercles ; at the right side 

 there 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. IjIII. 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. 



Ilab. Honduras to Colombia, probably extending farther south. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c?, 1 ?, from (Jhiriqui. 



In the collection of Charles Oberthiir from Juntas, Cauca, Colombia (Mathan). 



341). Nyceryx coflfeae. 



*Periyo,ii„ rrffeiir Walker, Lisl Lrp. /hs, li. M. viii. p. 101. n. 2 (185G) (Brazil ; -Mus. Brit.); 



Boisd., Spec. (ien. Ujt. lift. i. p. IW,!. u. :i. t. K. f. 4 (187.5) (N. Friburgo) ; Bunningh., Iris xii. 



p. 1.32. n. 6'J (181iy) (Rio de Jan.). 

 MacrnijloHHU abhvli Schaufuss, Nuiiq. (Jlios. i. p. 21 (1870) (Colombia). 

 I'dchyijonia (--offeae, Butler, Tmiis. Zool. Soc. Loral, ix. p. f)3.S. n. 2 (1877) (Brazil) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Lrp. /let. i. p. 638. n. 4 (1892) (Brazil). 

 *Pa(hy!/miia hoisdurali Butler, l.r. p. (j.3.3 (1877) (nom. nov. pro aiffeae Boisd.; — coll. Cbarles 



Obertlmr) ; Kirby, I.e. d. (18112) ; Druce, Biul. Vniir. Ama:, Lqi. Ilrl. SujijjI. p. 2'.!',) (18'.l('.) 



(Brazil, = ericm tx errore). 

 I'iu:lnj(j<,nvi itllmli, Kirby, l.r. n. 7 (1892). 



S ?. Ditl'ering from all other s]iecies in the yellow area of the hindwing being 

 traversed by a brown band, which stojis in front at SC". Forewing oljtusely 

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

 It' than in the other spi-cies ; stigma large, not deeper in tint than the other brown 

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

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



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

 wide, lobes comparatively short ; tergite shorter than steruite ; the broad tiji of 

 the loVif's 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 reacliins to thft mjrl'.lle of fl;e 



IS B 



