PHANIS.— EUEOTO. 549 



Hesperia almoda, Hew., from Venezuela and Guiana, perhaps belongs here ; but this 

 species has the genitalia more like those of Artines, while the latter has a longer and 

 more slender terminal joint to the palpi. 



The antennae are rather more than half the length of the costa, and have an elongate 

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

 conical. The primaries are moderately elongate, rounded on the costa, and blunt at the 

 tip; the cell is much less than two-thirds the length of the costa; the discocellulars 

 are oblique, the upper one twice as long as the lower, the latter being of the same 

 length as the third median segment ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the 

 first branch arises from the 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 transverse and very faint. The body is moderately stout. The middle 

 tibiae are spined, the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male 

 have a single, stout, inconspicuous, ">-shaped brand, the long upper portion extending 

 beneath the second median segment, the lower one along the first median branch. 



1. Phanis justinianus. (Tab. XCIX. figg. 24-27, <j ) 



Hesperia justinianus, Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 760 \ 



Thracides aides, Geyer, in Hiibner's Zutr. ex. Schmett. iv. p. 31, ff. 731, 732 2 . 



Alis obscure fuscis, sfcigmate grisescente, anticis maculis tribus in serie obliqua infra et ultra cellulam, secunda 

 maxima, punctis duobus aut tribus in linea transversa subapicalibus, omnibus hyalinis : subtus fuscis, 

 anticis angulum analem versus pallidioribus, maculis ut supra; posticis area discali ochracea maculis obscuris 

 marginata, anticis ad apicem et posticis plus minusve schistaceo lavatis ; antennis ad clavse basin flavo 

 annularis. 



$ mari similis. 



ffab. Mexico, Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (//. ff. Smith), Coatepec 

 (coll. Schaus) ; Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Rica, Irazu {Rogers). — South 

 Ameeica to Brazil 1 2 . 



At first sight, P. justinianus is very like Eutychide cingulicomis, but the two species 

 differ widely beneath, as already described ; the genitalia and brand of the males, too, 

 are quite different in form. Mr. Smith has sent us a long series of this insect from 

 Atoyac. Some of our Central-American specimens vary a good deal in the amount of 

 the buff colour on the disc of the secondaries beneath. The primaries occasionally have 

 a single subapical spot only on the upperside. We figure a male insect from Atoyac, 

 also the lore wing, to show the position of the brand (Tab. XCIX. fig. 26), and the 

 genitalia, for which latter see Tab. XCIX. fig. 27. 



EUROTO, gen. nov. 



The species we refer to this genus are nearly allied to Eutychide, but the form of 

 the brand on the primaries in the male is different : the longitudinal streak above the 

 submedian nervure is absent, and the piece between the second median segment and 



biol. cekte.-amee., Rhopal., Vol. II., November 1900. 4 b 



