500 EHOPALOCEEA. 



and Peru. In addition to L. eufala, it includes a new species from Mexico described 

 below, and various South-American forms. Hesperia fusca, Grote and Robinson, from 

 the Southern United States, placed in Lerodea by Scudder and Watson, belongs to 

 our genus Megistias (type Hesperia tripunctata, Latr.) ; it has a longer crook to the 

 antennae, and the genitalia of the male are very differently formed. 



1. Lerodea eufala. (Tab. xcv. figg. 16, 17, 18, <s .) 



Hesperia eufala, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 311 ( <J ? )'. 

 Lerodea eufala, Scudd. Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 80 2 . 



Alis fuscis, anticis maculis minutis quatuor, duabus in cellula, una supra alteram posita (interdum obsoletis), 

 tertia inter ramos medianos primum efc secundum, quarta ultra earn, punctisque tribus in linea transversa 

 subapicalibus, albo-hyalinis : subtus ut supra, sed anticis regione costali et apicali posticisque omnino 

 squamis griseis vestitis ; palpis et corpore subtus albidis ; ciliis pallide griseis. 



2 mafi similis. 



Hah. North Ameeica, Southern States, Florida 1 .— Mexico, Guaymas (G. Mathew) ; 

 Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). — South Ameeica to Paraguay; Antilles, 

 Cuba. 



Strecker and Morrison have both sent us specimens of this insect from the Southern 

 United States under the name of Pamphila osyka, Edw.*, and we have received others 

 from Brazil from Dr. Staudinger labelled P. eufala, with the very brief description of 

 which the present species agrees. We possess numerous examples of both sexes from 

 Georgia, Florida, and Texas, as well as a pair from within our limits. The two spots 

 in the cell are sometimes indistinct or absent, irrespective of sex. Our figure is taken 

 from a male from Florida, as we have received only a somewhat worn example of this 

 sex from Central America. The male dissected is also from the former locality see 

 Tab. XCV. fig. 18. 



2. Lerodea dysaules, sp. n. (Tab. xcv. figg. 19, 20, s .) 



Alis fuscis, anticis maculis tribus, una in cellula minuta, secunda majore inter ramos medianos primum et 

 secundum, tertia ultra earn, punctisque tribus in linea transversa, omnibus albo-hyalinis, macula quoque 

 submediana albida : subtus ut supra, sed anticis regione costali et apicali squamis griseis vestitis ; posticis 

 eodem more ornatis, fascia lata curvata obscura a margine costali apicem versus ultra cellula} finem 

 extendente ; ciliis pallide griseis. 

 $ mari similis, maculis in cellula et inter ramos medianos secundum et terlium minus distinctis. 



Hab, Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



Mr. Smith procured us a pair of this species from Western Mexico. 



L; dysaules is very like L. eufala, but differs from it in having a single spot only in 

 the cell of the primaries and also in having a curved dark band running from the costa 

 to beyond the end of the cell on the underside of the secondaries. 



* This species is described as having the primaries immaculate, and with a long brand in the male. 



