542 EHOPALOCEEA. 



middle of the median nervure, the second not far from the lower angle of the cell. 

 The secondaries are slightly lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are faint. The 

 body is moderately stout. The middle tibiae are spined, and the hind tibia? have two 

 pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male have a conspicuous, broad, oblique, 

 interrupted brand extending from the base of the second median branch to a little 

 before the middle of the submedian nervure, nearly filling the angle between the first 

 median branch and the second median segment. 



1. Morys Valerius. (Tab. XCVIII. figg. 45, 46, 47, c? .) 



Apaustus Valerius, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1878, p. 223 (? ) \ 



Ahs fuscis, stigmate nigrescente, anticis maculis duabus in linea obliqua, una transversa inter ramos medianos 

 primum et secundum, altera ultra earn minore, punctisque duobus in linea transversa subapicalibus, albo- 

 hyahnis : subtus ut supra, sed pallidioribus, anticis area mediana obscuriore ; posticis punctis minutis 

 quatuor in serie curvata apicem versus flavidis ; palpis et corpore subtus albidis. 



2 mari similis, sed purpureo tinctis, anticis interdum punctis tribus in linea obliqua ultra cellulam albo-nyalinis. 



Hob. Mexico, Tierra Colorada, Dos Arroyos, Acapulco {H. H. Smith), Paso de San 

 Juan, Jalapa (coll. Schaus), Valladolid (Gaumer); Hondueas, Euatan I. (Gaumer) ; 

 Nicaragua, Matagalpa {Richardson).— Colombia 1 ; Venezuela ; Beazil. 



Dr. Staudinger has lent us the type of this species, which was described from a single 

 female from Colombia, and with this we associate numerous specimens of both sexes 

 from Central America. The females differ from the males in having the primaries 

 blunter at the apex. M. Valerius is very like Cobalus tripunctus, H.-S.,= Pamphila 

 ancus, Moschl., the female types of which have also been lent us by Dr. Staudinger, 

 but the males we refer to this species are without a brand *. The females of M. Valerius 

 vary somewhat in the coloration of the underside of the secondaries. We have seen 

 specimens of it in the British Museum labelled Pamphila cerdo, Boisd. Our figures 

 are all taken from Mexican examples. For the genitalia of the male, see Tab. XCVIII 

 fig. 47. 



PERIMELES, gen. nov. 

 The single species we place here, Hesperia remus, Fabr., a widely distributed Tropical- 

 American insect, we had at first associated with Talides striga, Hiibn., but on closer 

 examination we find that the brand on the primaries of the male is of a different form 

 and the genitalia also in this sex are very dissimilar, hence we have been compelled to 

 treat them as generally distinct. Both insects have the underside of the wings very 

 peculiarly coloured. Perimeles has the brand shaped almost exactly as in Mucia 

 (except that the upper piece is much longer), from which it differs in having a longer 

 second median segment to the primaries and the male genitalia very dissimilar in 

 structure. 



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