528 RHOPALOCEEA. 



Hiibn., but has a straight white band on the secondaries beneath, and these wings are 

 without the hyaline spots. The secondaries of both sexes are less prolonged at the 

 anal angle. Dr. Staudinger has lent us a male of the present species labelled 

 G. corusca, H.-S.; this, like our Mexican insect, has the white band on the underside 

 of the secondaries very broad. Niconiades cydia (Hew.), from Brazil, is also very 

 similarly coloured, but differs in being larger, the hind wings are more produced 

 at the anal angle, and the lower portion of the brand on the primaries is in a line 

 with the submedian nervure (instead of extending forwards from it, as in the present 

 species), in this respect agreeing with N. xanthaphes. A South-American specimen is 

 figured; also the fore wing of the male to show the position of the brand (Tab. XCVII. 

 fig. 32). For the genitalia of the male, see Tab. XCVII. fig. 33. 



PHEMIADES. 



Phemiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 112 (1816); Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 103. 



Watson, following Scudder, takes Papilio phineus, Cram., as the type of this genus, 

 and Hesperia propertius, Fabr., must likewise belong here. He states that there are 

 no secondary sexual characters on the wings, but in H. propertius there is a distinct, 

 oblique, interrupted brand. This last-mentioned insect just enters our limits, and the 

 following characters are taken from it: — 



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

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

 and bluntly conical. The primaries are pointed at the tip ; the costa is nearly straight 

 at the base ; the cell is much less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; the disco- 

 cellulars are very oblique, the upper one about three times the length of the lower, the 

 latter less than half the length of the third median segment ; the lower radial is 

 strongly depressed at the base ; the first branch arises a little before the middle of 

 the median nervure, the second a long way from the lower angle of the cell. The 

 secondaries are slightly] lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are oblique, the 

 upper one faint. The body is very robust. The legs are stout ; the middle tibia? are 

 furnished with long spines, and the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries 

 of the male have an oblique interrupted brand extending from a little before the 

 apex of the second median segment to the middle of the submedian nervure. 



l. Phemiades propertius. (Tab. XCVII. fig. 34, s .) 



Hesperia propertius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. hi. 1, p. 325 1 ; Hew. Exot. Butt., Hesperia, ff. 33, 34 2 . 

 Papilio propertius, Donov. Ins. India, t. 47. f. 2 3 . 

 Carystus propertius, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 273 \ 

 Hesperia memuca, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii. p. 497 5 . 



Alis fuscis, anticis stigmate grisescente, costa squamis aureis notata, maculis tribus discalibus in linea obliqua 

 infra cellulam punctisque duobus in linea transversa subapicalibus flavidis, dimidio basali marginis interni 



