AIDES. — PAEAIDES. 515 



There is a single female of this species in the British Museum. It is a close ally of 

 Hesperia cestria, Hew., and we have another very similar unnamed form from Brazil 

 in our collection. A. dysoni differs from both these in the position of the silvery spots 

 on the underside of the secondaries. 



b. Brand of the primaries formed of three pieces. 



3. Aides elara, s P . n. (Tab. xcvi. figg. 25, 26, <? .) 



Alis fastis, ad basin squamis et pilis fulvis vestitis, stigmate grisescente, maculis tribus in linea obliqua, una 

 ad venam submedianam, secunda majore inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, tertia ultra earn, 

 una in cellula externe excavata, omnibus flavo-byalinis ; postieis macula apicem versus flavescente : 

 subtus ut supra, sed rubescentioribus, dimidio basali obscuriore, in costa supra maculam cellularem flava, 

 postieis area discali plaga permagna angulata irregulari et externe valde excisa argenteis ; palpis et 

 abdomine subtus ochraceis. 

 $ ignota. 



Hah. Mexico (Salle) ; Honduras (Wittkugel, in mus. Staudinger). 



The above description is taken from three male specimens, one from Mexico in our 

 own collection and two from Honduras in that of Dr. Staudinger. A. elara is a very 

 close ally of A. epitus (Cram.), from which it differs in having no subapical series of 

 spots on the primaries, and in the shape of the large silvery patch on the secondaries 

 beneath ; the upper part of the body and the base of the wings are clothed with 

 fulvous (instead of greenish) hairs, and the brand on the primaries in the male is less 

 developed, the streak below the submedian nervure being absent. 



The Mexican specimen is figured. 



PAEAIDES, gen. nov. 



We take as the type of this genus Hesperia ocrinus, Plotz, and associate with it 

 Eesperia cegita, Hew., and a nearly allied form from Venezuela*. They all have 

 silvery spots on the underside of the secondaries, as in the genus Aides. It differs 

 from Calpodes, as here understood, in the neuration of the primaries, and in the 

 presence of a peculiar brand in the male ; this, however, is absent in P. cegita. 



The antenna? are moderately long, with an elongate, rather stout club, terminating 

 in a long crook. The palpi have the first and second joints densely clothed with scales, 

 the third bluntly conical, very short and concealed. The primaries are elongate, blunt 



* Paraides asilas, sp. n. 



P. ocrino similis, sed macula posticarum minore : subtus postieis maculis quatuor, una parva ad cellulue finem, 

 secunda elongata angulum analem propiore, aliisque duabus submarginalibus, argenteis. 



Hab. Venezuela, Angostura. 



Very like P. ocrinus^ but the white spot on the secondaries above is indistinct (as in P. cegita), and these 

 wings have two small silvery spots beneath, instead of the large one occupying the disc, and the upper 

 submarginal spot is absent. 



