484 EHOPALOCEEA. 



AUGIADES. 



Augiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 112 (1816) j Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 103. 



Watson gives as the type of this genus Papilio sylvanus, Esp., a well-known 

 European insect, and he includes in it two other Palsearctic species ; two from the 

 highlands of Central America are now added. In his Table of the genera he includes 

 Augiades in a section in which the middie and hind tibiae are not spined ; we notice, 

 however, that in A. sylvanus the middle tibiae are distinctly spined, as is the case also 

 in A. heras, but not in A. hecale. The brand on the primaries of the males of the 

 Central-American species is more developed than in A. sylvanus, but its general form 

 is similar. 



The antennae are short, not half the length of the costa, with a stout club, 

 terminating abruptly in a short crook. The palpi have the third joint very short and 

 stout. The primaries have the cell less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; the 

 discocellulars are oblique, the upper one long ; the lower radial is strongly depressed 

 at the base, arising at or near the lower angle of the cell ; the first branch arises a 

 little before the middle of the median nervure, the second near the lower angle of the 

 cell. The secondaries have the discocellulars faint. The middle tibiae are distinctly 

 spined (except in A. hecale) ; the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries 

 of the male have a long, broad, oblique brand of small, dull, greyish, closely compacted 

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

 nervure before the middle. 



1. Augiades heras, sp. n. (Tab. XCIII. figg. 24-26, <s .) 



Alis brunneo-fuseis, stigmate nigrescente ; antieis maculis duabus parvis elongatis ad cellulse finem, tertia 

 subquadrata inter ramos discoidales, punctis tribus in linea transversa subapicalibus, fulvis, in costa dense, 

 et dimidio basali sparsim, squamis fulvis tectis ; posticis fascia maculari curvata prope apicem et dimidio 

 interno pilis fulvis ornatis : subtus ferrugineis, antieis costse dimidio basali et area submediana a basi 

 ad ramum medianum secundum nigrescentibus, maculis duabus infra cellulam inter ramos medianos et 

 punctis subapicalibus sicut in pagina superiore, omnibus fulvis ; posticis fasciis curvatis transversis 

 indistinctis, ochraceis ; ciliis fulvis, apicem anticarum versus obscurioribus. 



$ ignota. 



Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



Of this very distinct species we have received three males from Western Mexico, 

 where they were taken at an altitude of 8000 feet. The general colour of the upper 

 surface is much richer than in most of the allied forms. For the genitalia of the male, 

 see Tab. XCIII. fig. 26. 



2. Augiades hecale, sp. n. (Tab. xcm. figg. 27-29, * .) 



Alis fulvis, stigmate fusco-nigrescente ; antieis venis, margine externo macula ultra cellulam elongata, et 

 posticis marginibus omnibus fuscis : subtus ocbraceis, punctis tribus in linea transversa subapicalibus 



