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TIMOC HARES, gen. nov. 



This and the following genera differ rather widely from those immediately preceding, 

 and have a more general resemblance to Anastrus and its allies. The chief difference 

 is the long porrect terminal joint of the palpi (most pronounced in Anisochoria) in 

 Timochares and its allies as compared with the shorter joint in Anastrus and the genera 

 associated with it. 



Timochares trifasciatus differs from Ebrietas in having a much longer costal fold to 

 the primaries of the male, the tip of this fold reaching to the end of the second subcostal 

 branch, the cell is long and narrow, the lower and middle discocellulars oblique and in 

 a line, the third median segment short, the second long and slightly arched. The disco- 

 cellulars and radial of the secondaries are feeble, the third median segment very short ; 

 the second subcostal segment much longer. The palpi have a prominent porrect 

 terminal joint, the hairy clothing of the second joint being also lengthened. The hind 

 tibiae have a distinct tuft at the proximal end. 



Two species are all that we can at present refer to this genus, both of them occurring 

 within our limits. Of these T. trifasciatus has a wide range over nearly the whole of 

 Tropical America; the other, T. ruptifascitus, seems restricted to Mexico. 



l. Timochares trifasciatus. (Tab. LXXXVIH. fig. 3.) 



Leucochitonea trifasciata, Hew. Descr. Hesp. p. 50 (1868) \ 

 Antigonus trifasciatus, Plotz, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 27 (1884) 2 . 

 Nisoniades hemula, Herr.-Sch. in Mus. Kaden (descr. nulla) 3 . 



Alis rufescenti-brunneis ; anticis indistincte f ulvo atomatis, fasciis duabus obliquis, margine externo plus minusve 

 parallelis, obscure fuscis iiitrorsum fulvo limbatis, una basali per cellulam, altera discali, fascia tertia sub- 

 marginali maculosa ; posticis saturate fulvis fusco trifasciatis : subtus fulvis, fasciis paging superioris 

 fuscis indistincte notatis ; palpis subtus albis, squamis fuscis interspersis, apice saturate fuscis ; plica 

 costali elongata ad finem rami subcostalis secundi extendente. 



5 mari similis, plica costali nulla. 



Eab. Mexico, San Bias, Sierra de Tepic (W. B. Bichardson), Dos Arroyos, Acapulco, 

 Atoyac (H. 11. Smith) ; Guatemala, Polochic and Chisoy Valleys (F. D. G. & 0. 8.) ; 

 Honduras [Dyson); Nicaragua [fide Plotz 2 ) ; Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers); Panama, 

 Calobre (Arce). — South America, from Colombia to Argentina. 



The origin of Hewitson's type of this species was not stated 1 , but we now know that 

 T. trifasciatus has a very wide range over nearly the whole of Tropical America, 

 extending as far north as the State of Jalisco in Western Mexico and southwards to the 

 Argentine Republic. We possess specimens from Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, the 

 Amazons Valley, Eastern Peru, Matto Grosso in Brazil (where Mr. H. H. Smith 

 obtained several specimens), and Eastern Brazil (where Beseke found it, and one of 

 whose examples, formerly in the Kaden collection, bears the MS. name of " Nisoniades 



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