PARPHORUS.— VOKATES. 577 



has a short, blunt terminal joint to the palpi. As we have no Central- American 

 specimens of our own, we have dissected the genitalia of a male from Guiana, for 

 which see Tab. CI. fig. 25. 



VORATES, gen. nov. 



The two small Tropical-American species placed here, of which we take Cobalus 

 decora, H.-S. (=Apaustus tanaquilus, Moschl.), as the type, are very like Parphorus 

 storax (Mab.), and agree with it in having the nervures of the underside of the 

 secondaries, as well as those at the apex of the primaries, yellow ; but the form of 

 the brand of the primaries of the male is very different, this character also separating 

 it from Phlebodes. V. decorus approaches JEuroto in the shape of the brand, but the 

 structure of the genitalia, as well as the general coloration, shows that it has no real 

 affinity with that genus. Of the second species, V. sapala, we have seen only two 

 examples without palpi. The antennae are more than half the length of the costa, and 

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

 and bluntly conical. The primaries are moderately long, somewhat pointed at the tip, 

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

 costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, the lower one short and of the same length as 

 the third median segment ; the first branch arises before the middle of the median 

 nervure, the second near the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are very feebly 

 lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are oblique and very faint. The body is 

 moderately stout. The middle tibiae are without spines, and the hind tibiae have two 

 pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male (Tab. CI. fig. 28) have a somewhat 

 conspicuous double brand : (1) a rather broad streak extending along the second 

 median segment, not quite reaching its base ; (2) a short longitudinal streak below it, 

 a little beyond the base of the first median branch. The upper portion of the brand is 

 longer, broader, and more conspicuous in V. sapala than it is in V. decorus. 



l. Vorates decorus. (Tab. CI. figg. 26-29, <s .) 



Cobalus decora, Herr.-Schaff. Prodr. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 81 (1869) \ 

 Apaustus tanaquilus, Moschl. Verb., zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1878, p. 222 \ 



Alia obscure fuscis, stigmate obscuriore, anticis maculis tribus in linea curvata infra et ultra cellulam, una ad 

 apicem proxima minuta, secunda elongata, tertia subovali, puncto minuto subapicali, ochraceis : subfcus 

 fuscis anticis maculis ut supra, sed ea juxta venam medianam absente ; anticis costa, ramis subcosta- 

 libus et ramis discoidalibus flavis, venis posticarum coloris ejusdem. 

 $ nobis ignota. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (H. H. Smith) ; Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). — Colombia 2 ; 

 Venezuela, Puerto Cabello ; Lowee Amazons ; Brazil. 



Of this species we have seen two Central and several South- American examples ; the 

 one from Chiriqui was lent us by Dr. Staudinger under the name of Pamphila decora, 



