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at the tip, and concave on the outer margin ; the cell is nearly two-thirds the length 

 of the costa and greatly produced ; the discocellulars are strongly oblique, the upper 

 one twice the length of the lower, the latter not longer than the third median segment ; 

 the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises a little before the 

 middle of the median nervure, the second near the lower angle of the cell. The 

 secondaries are lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are strongly oblique, the 

 lower one distinct, the upper one faint. The body is very robust. The middle tibiae 

 are furnished with short spines, and the hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. The 

 primaries of the male (except in P. cegita) have a brand formed of three spots placed 

 thus : one above and another below the first median branch at some distance from 

 the base, and one touching the submedian nervure on its upper edge. 



The present genus agrees with Aides in the shape of the wings, but the brand is 

 formed as in Xeniades. 



The three species are all from Tropical America, only one of them entering our 

 limits. 



l. Paraides ocrinus. (Tab. XCVI. figg. 27-30, s .) 



Hesperia ocrinus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 337 l . 



Proteides ocrinus, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1882, p. 325, t. 17. fig. 15 2 . 



Alis nigro-fuscis, ad basin et dimidio interno squamis et pilis obscure fulvis notatis, stigmate grisescente, 

 maculis tribus in linea obliqua, una ad venam submedianam, secunda majore inter ramos medianos 

 primum et secundum, tertia ultra earn, una quoque in cellula, omnibus hyalinis ; posticis apicem versus 

 macula flava : subtus ut supra, anticis macula elongata in costse medio, dimidio apicali anticarum 

 posticisque dimidio costali squamis ocbraceis dense vestitis ; posticis plaga discali et maculis tribus 

 minoribus margini interno propioribus argenteis ; ciliis alarum (apicibus exceptis) albis ; palpis et 

 abdomine subtus ochraceis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui (ex Staudinger). — Colombia 1 ; Guiana, Paramaribo 2 ; 

 Amazons; Beazil. 



This species is extremely like the South-American P. cegita (Hew.), with which we 

 had at first confounded it. The types of each, which we have seen, are of the female 

 sex, that of P. ocrinus having a distinct spot on the secondaries above, this being 

 barely indicated in P. cegita ; the male, however, of P. ocrinus has a brand formed of 

 three spots on the primaries, of which there is no trace in P. cegita. Dr. Staudinger 

 has sent us males of the present species under the MS. names of Proteides argyrina, 

 Staud., and P. callidemas, Mab., and we possess several others from Matto Grosso. 

 Of P. cegita we have a single male from Colombia, sent us by Wheeler, as well as a 

 female from the Kaden collection. The form of the brand on the primaries of the 

 male at once distinguishes P. ocrinus from several somewhat similarly coloured species. 

 We figure the fore wing of a male to show the position of the brand (Tab. XCVI. 

 fig. 29) ; also the genitalia, for which see Tab. XCVI. fig. 30. 



The insect shown on our Plate is from Chiriqui. 



