524 EHOPALOCEEA. 



Prenes it may be separated by the more elongate antennal club, the very different form 

 of the genitalia of the male, &c. The secondaries have a long, broad, white band 

 beneath, as in the species of several of the allied genera. 



The antennae are about half the length of the costa, and have a stout, elongate club, 

 terminating in a long crook. The third joint of the palpi is short, stout, and bluntly 

 conical. The primaries are elongate, blunt at the tip, arched on the costa towards the 

 base, and slightly concave on the outer margin ; the cell is much less than two-thirds 

 the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are strongly oblique, the lower one extremely 

 short, arising from close to the point of origin of the third median branch ; the lower 

 radial is greatly depressed at the base ; the first branch arises before the middle of the 

 .median nervure, the second some distance before the lower angle of the cell. The 

 secondaries are shortly and broadly lobed at the anal angle, but do not extend beyond 

 the apex of the abdomen in either sex ; the discocellulars are oblique, the lower one 

 distinct. The body is long and very robust. The middle tibise are without spines, 

 and the hind tibise have two pairs of spurs. There are no secondary sexual characters 

 visible on the wings. 



1. Tirynthia conflua. (Tab. XCVII. figg. 17, 18, j ; 19, 20, $ .) 



Goniloba conflua, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 72 \ 



Alis fu8cis, anticis macula magna inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, altera minore ultra earn, punctisque 

 duobus in linea transversa subapicalibus, flavo-byalinis, macula supra venam submedianam et posticis fascia 

 obliqua ultra cellulam venis divisa ochraceis : subtus ut supra, sed pallidioribus, anticis costse dimidio 

 basali ochraceo, litura elongata supra veuam submedianam flava ; posticis fascia a margine costali apicem 

 versus fere ad angulum analem extendente et margine interne- ad angulum analem albidis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hab. Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt).— South Amebic a to Parana. 



We have two females of this species from Chontales, agreeing with others from South 

 America in our collection, and the type kindly lent us by Dr. Staudinger. It resembles 

 Mconiades xanthaphes and its allies, but there is no brand on the primaries in the male, 

 nor is there any green colour on the upperside of the body and the base of the win»s. 

 There is a short transverse ochraceous band, divided by the nervures, beyond the cell on 

 the upperside of the secondaries. 



In the Hewitson collection in the British Museum there are specimens of this species 

 mixed with the series of Hesperia fusina, but the one marked as the type of the latter 

 we refer to Prenes new. A female of T. conflua from Chontales is figured on our 

 Plate. For the genitalia of the male, see Tab. XCVII. fig. 18. 



NICONIADES. 



Mconiades, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. ii. t. 147 (1816-1821) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 119. 

 Watson takes N. mnthaphes, Hubn., as the type of this genus, and also includes in it 



