578 EHOPALOCEKA. 



Herrich-Schaffer, and it agrees fairly with that author's brief description. We have 

 also seen the type of Apaustus tanaquilus, Moschler. V. decorus closely resembles 

 Phlebodes tiberius (Moschl.), but it has radiating yellow lines on the secondaries, and 

 also at the apex of the primaries, beneath, which is not the case in the latter insect *. 

 A male from Atoyac is figured. For the genitalia, see Tab. CI. fig. 29. 



2. Vorates sapala, sp. n. (Tab. CI. figg. 30, 31, <? .) 



Alis fuscis, stigmate obscuriore, anticis maculis tribus, una angusta et elongata inter ramos medianos primum 

 et secundum, secunda ultra earn minore et subquadrata, tertia subapicali, flavo-hyalinis, costse diniidio 

 basali, et fascia indistincta inter venam medianam et submedianam in macula terminata, ochreis : posticis 

 (nisi area costali) squamis ocbraceis vestitis : subtus fuscis, anticis costa lineis duabus, aliisque apicalibus, 

 fiavis, posticis lineis radiantibus venas sequentibus coloris ejusdem. 



2 ignota. 



Hab. Panama, Cbiriqui (ex Staudinger). 



Two males of this species have been sent us by Dr. Staudinger for determination. 

 It is a very close ally of V. decorus (H.-S.), but differs in having the brand on the 

 primaries longer and beneath the upper portion of it there is an elongate hyaline 

 spot. The costa of the primaries, a streak between the median and submedian 

 nervures, and the greater part of the upper surface of the secondaries are clothed with 

 ochreous scales, these being absent on the secondaries of V. decorus. 



PHER^EUS, gen. nov. 

 This genus includes a single species of small size from Central America, described by 

 M. Mabille under the name of Carystus epidius ; it has long, narrow primaries, a short, 

 stout terminal joint to the palpi, long antennae, with a long crook, a moderately stout 

 body, a >-shaped brand on the primaries in the male, and the underside of the 

 secondaries peculiarly coloured. In the general shape of the wings it approaches 

 Callimormus. The antennae are a little 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 narrow, elongate, blunt 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 upper one about twice as long as the lower ; the 

 third median segment is very short ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first 

 branch arises from the middle of the median, nervure, the second close to the lower 

 angle of the cell. The secondaries are rounded at the apical angle ;' the discocellulars 

 are very faint. The body is moderately stout. The hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. 

 The primaries of the male have a stout, inconspicuous, >-shaped brand in the angle 



* There is another closely allied unnamed species from South America in our collection, which has the 

 underside very similarly marked, but in this insect the brand is larger and formed like that of Phlebodes 

 tiberius. 



