POANOPSIS. — PAEATEYTONE. 487 



short, broad wings, &c. it agrees with Poanes, the type of which is the North- American 

 P. massasoit, Scudd., but differs in having a conspicuous oblique brand on the primaries 

 in the male. 



The antennae are short, not half the length of the costa, and have a very stout, 

 moderately long club, terminating in a short crook. The palpi have the third joint 

 short, stout, and bluntly conical. The primaries are short and broad, blunt at the tip ; 

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

 are oblique, the lower one much shorter than the upper, and about as long as the third 

 median segment ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises 

 before the middle of the median nervure, the second close to the lower angle of the 

 cell. The secondaries are rounded at the anal angle, the discocellulars faint. The 

 body is robust, very hairy beneath. The middle and hind tibiae are spined, the latter 

 with two pairs of spurs. The cilia of both wings are very long. The primaries of the 

 male have a conspicuous oblique brand, running from the base of the second median 

 branch to the submedian nervure. 



1. Poanopsis puxilliliS. (Tab. XCIII. figg. 37-40, <j .) 

 Pamphila puxillius, Mab. Compt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. elxx (cJ) 1 . 



Alia fuscis, stigmate nigrescente ; anticis maculis duabus (interdum obsoletis) inter ramos medianos, interiore 

 majore, aliis duabus minutis subapicalibus in linea transversa, sordide albis : subtus pallidioribus, maculis 

 ut supra ; anticis dimidio basali (nisi in costa) obscurioribus ; posticis linea maculosa curvata margini 

 interno subparalleli (interdum obsolete) indistincte albida ; ciliis elongatis, sordide albis. 



$ mari similis, sed major. 



Hab. Mexico (mus. Staudinger x ), Milpas and Ciudad in Durango (Forrer), Bolafios 

 (Richardson), Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



Of this insect we have three males and one female before us, all from the high table- 

 lands of Mexico ; that from Milpas has the spots between the median branches almost 

 obsolete. Mabille's description was taken from a single male. We have identified the 

 species from a specimen lent us by Dr. Staudinger. For the genitalia of the male, see 

 Tab. XCIII. fig. 40. 



PARATRYTONE, gen. nov. 



The two Mexican insects referred to this genus agree in their general structure with 

 Atrytone, but they differ from it in having an oblique linear brand on the primaries in 

 the male. The genitalia in this sex are also very unlike those of any of the species of 

 Atrytone, the harpes being broadly rounded at the tip. As in some of the members 

 of the last-mentioned genus, the costa of the secondaries is clothed with very long 

 projecting hairs at the base, these being so elongate in the males as to extend beyond 

 the costa of the primaries when the wings are extended. P. rhexenor is taken as the 

 type. 



The antennae are not half the length of the costa, and have a very stout, short club, 



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