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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ectima liria, Fabr. — Kather common in Costa Rica. It 

 settles on tree-trunks, with the "wings expanded after the manner 

 of the Ageronias. 



Adelpha demialha, Butl. — This curiously marked species is 

 peculiar to Costa Eica. It is apparently a mimic of Mcgalura 

 vierops, Bois. 



Smi/rna karwinskii, Hiibn. — Common in Southern Mexico. 

 It much resembles the Vanessa in its habits, having a partiality 

 for fruit-trees, sunny walls, and gardens, "and will also come to 

 sugar. It will conceal itself under the leaves of bushes and fly 

 out suddenly on being approached. 



Ancsa callidryas, Feld. — Three specimens were obtained in 

 different localities in Western Guatemala. It cannot be dis- 

 tinguished from a white Catopsilia when on the wing, a fact 

 which may partly account for its rarity. 



A. elara, Godm. & Salv., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1897, p. 244.— 

 Two pairs of this, the largest of the " green " Anteas, at Carrillo, 

 in Costa Rica. The female is tailed, as Messrs. Godman and 

 Salvin rightly assumed. 



Zaretes cllops, Men. — The female of this species, which is 

 common in Guatemala, undoubtedly mimics the same sex of 

 Catopsilia euhide, L. 



Hypna iph'igenia, H.S. — A specimen of this Cuban species 

 was taken on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 



Siderone ide, Hiibn. — Two specimens, taken at Escuintla, 

 Guatemala, do not differ in any respect from the Colombian 

 form. 



Protogonius cecrops, Doubl. & Hew. — Evidently a mimic of 

 Lycorea atergatis, Doubl. & Hew. Both species fly together in 

 the same localities in Guatemala and Costa Rica, and are 

 difficult to distinguish on the wing. 



Morpho polyphenms, Doubl. & Hew. — Widely distributed in 

 Southern Mexico, but scarce. It has a very slow, graceful flight, 

 but generally keeps twenty or thirty feet above the ground. 



M. octavia, Bates. — Not uncommon on the Pacific slope of 

 Guatemala, but extremely local. I found it from sea-level up 

 to an elevation of nearly 4000 ft. Unlike most species of the 

 genus it flies close to the ground, but its flight is rather fast and 

 very erratic. 



M. cypris, Westw. — Met with near Santo Domingo, on the 

 Pacific slope of Costa Rica ; rare. 



Caligo mcmnon, Feld. — Common at Escuintla and other 

 parts of Guatemala. During rain it often comes into houses, 

 apparently for shelter. 



Lymnas acroleuca, Feld.-- Common in the State of Morelos, 

 Mexico, where it evidently mimics an abundant moth of the 

 genus Melanchroia. 



Mesene macidaria, Bois. — A little butterfly which is exceed- 



