METEOCLES.— -PAPIAS. 559 



segment is very short ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises 

 from about the middle of the median nervure, the second close to the lower angle 

 of the cell. The secondaries are produced at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are 

 very faint. The body is robust. The middle tibiae are without spines ; the hind tibiae 

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

 curved, oblique, interrupted brand extending from the base of the second median 

 branch to about the middle of the submedian nervure. 



l. Metrocles leucogaster, sp. n. (Tab. c. figg. 8, 9, 6 .) 



Alia fuscis, stigmate paulo obscuriore, anticis maculis tribus in linea obliqua infra et ultra cellulam, infima 

 inter ramos medianos primnm et secundum maxima, tertia fere obsoleta, omnibus hyalinis ; posticis area 

 discali albescente, pilis quibusdam basin versus flavo-viridibus : subtus rubescentioribus, anticis maculis 

 ut supra, sed majoribus, plaga supra venara submedianam alba ; posticis fascia recta a costa per cellulam 

 transeunte (marginem internum versus interrupta) alba, ochraceo marginata ; ciliis ad angulum analem 

 posticarum albidis ; palpis subtus ocbraceis ; abdomine subtus albo, ochraceo-marginato. 



$ ignota. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (mas. Staudinger). 



We have seen only a single male specimen of this species from Dr. Staudinger's 

 collection. M. leucogaster resembles Metron clirysog aster, and, like it, has a broad 

 white transverse band on the secondaries beneath ; but the spots on the upperside of 

 the primaries are white, and the brand is very differently shaped, the insect approaching 

 Lerema and Mceris in this respect. 



PAPIAS, gen. nov. 



We take as the type of this genus Hesperia infuscata, Plotz ( = Pamphila Integra, 

 Mab.), and associate with it three other species from our region. They are all of a 

 uniform fuscous colour. Except in the form of the genitalia of the males, they scarcely 

 differ from Cobalus, in this respect approaching much more nearly to Lerema, the 

 last-mentioned genus, however, has a conspicuous brand in the males. 



The antenna? are about half the length of the costa and have an elongate club, 

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

 conical. The primaries are somewhat produced at the apex, and have the costa 

 slightly arched at the base ; the cell is less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; 

 the discocellulars are oblique, the upper one nearly twice as long as the lower, the 

 latter being about the same length as the third median segment ; the lower radial is 

 depressed at the base ; the first branch arises slightly before the middle of the median 

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

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

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

 pairs of spurs. The primaries (Tab. C. fig. 10) are without trace of a brand in the male. 



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