476 EHOPALOCEEA. 



HYLEPHILA. 



Hylephila, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 101. 

 Euthymus, Soudder, Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 77 (1872). 



Papilio phylmus, Drury, is the type of this genus, and Watson associates two other 

 species with it ; all are American. 



The antennae are exceedingly short, about one-third the length of the costa, with a 

 short, robust club, terminating in an acute point. The palpi have the third joint short, 

 subconical, erect, and rather slender. The primaries are somewhat pointed ; the cell 

 is considerably less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are 

 oblique, the lower one being very short ; the lower radial is much depressed at its 

 proximal end ; the first branch arises before the middle of the median nervure, the 

 second very near the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are slightly lobed at the 

 anal angle ; the discocellulars are very faint. The body is very stout. The middle and 

 hind tibiae are conspicuously spined ; the latter have two pairs of spurs. The primaries 

 of the male have a broad, oblique, slightly interrupted brand of small, closely compacted, 

 blackish scales extending from the base of the second median branch to the submedian 

 nervure near the base ; outside this there is a broad diffused streak of raised scales. 

 The sexes have the wings dissimilarly coloured. 



The genus ranges from the United States to Chili and the Argentine Republic. 



1. Hylephila phylsBus. (Tab. XCIII. fig. 8, s .) 



Papilio phylaus, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. p. 25, t. 13. ff. 4, 5 \ 



Hesperia phylceus, Boisd. et Lee. Lep. Amer. Sept. t. 78 2 . 



Hylephila phylatus, Scudd. Butt. E. U. S. & Canada, ii. p. 1630, t. 17. ff. 10, 13 (<$ ? ), t. 43. 



f. 4 {$ stigma) 3 ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 101 4 . 

 Euthymus phyleeus, Scudd. Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 77 \ 

 Phemiades augias, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. ii. p. 10. ff. 227, 228 s . 

 ? . Pamphila hala, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 504 7 . 



Alis nitide aurantiis, stigmate nigrescente, marginibus exterioribus fusco profunde dentatis ; anticis striga infra 

 stigma, linea longitudinali ultra cellulam et posticarum eosta coloris ejusdem : subtus pallide fulvis 

 anticis angulum analem versus flavescentibus, striga lata irregulari submediana a basi extendente, lineola 

 angusta discocellulari, et punctis serie submarginali fuscis ; posticis fusco-punctatis et fascia mar°ini 

 interno subparalleli coloris ejusdem. 

 2 . Alis fuscis, anticis punctis tribus in linea transversa subapicalibus, una ad cellulae finem et serie macnlarum 

 obliqua a margine interno prope apicem extendente, flavis ; posticis maculis linea arcuata margini externo 

 subparalleli (interdum una basin propiore) quoque flavis : subtus mari similis, sed alis obscurioribus. 



Hab. North America, Eastern and Southern United States 3 . — Mexico, Presidio de 

 Mazatlan (Forrer), Durango city (Becker), Sierra Madre de Tepic (Richardson), Jalisco 

 (Schumann), Rio Papagaio, Rmcon, Dos Arroyos, Venta de Zopilote, all in Guerrero 

 (H. H. Smith), Atoyac (Schumann, H. H. Smith), Cordova (Humeli), Jalapa {M. Tru- 

 jillo), Orizaba (//. H. Smith, F. D. G.), Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemala, 



