PHEE^US. — MOLO. 579 



between the base of the second median segment and the origin of the first median 

 branch. 



In the form of the brand, which is covered by coarse scales, the present genus appears 

 to agree with Artines, but the latter has a long, erect, terminal joint to the palpi. 



l. Pherseus epidius. (Tab. CI. figg. 32, 33, s .) 



Carystus epidius, Mab. Compt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. cxix 1 . 



Alis fuscis, stigmate concolore, antieis maculis duabus discalibus, una inter ramos medianos primum et secundum 

 subquadrata, altera minore ultra earn, flavo-hyalinis ; linea indistincta a basi supra venam submedianam, ad 

 alse medium abrupte termiuata, navida ; posticis basin et marginem internum versus pilis obscure ochraceis 

 vestitis, area discali ochracea : subtus ut supra, sed antieis linea submediana absente, posticis bitriente basali 

 (nisi costa ad basin) flava ; corpore subtus flavido ; antieis et posticis ad angulum analem ciliis ochraceis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hab. Nicaeagua, Chontales {Belt) ; Panama, Chiriqui 1 (mus. Staudinger). 



Dr. Staudinger has lent us a male of this species from Chiriqui, and we have a 

 mutilated female example from Chontales, Nicaragua, captured by Belt. It some- 

 what resembles Phlebodes ittona, Butler, on the underside, but has a much shorter 

 terminal joint to the palpi. 



MOLO, gen. nov. 



The single Tropical-American species referred to this genus, Hesperia herwa, HeAv., 

 an insect just entering our limits, appears to be an isolated form, allied to Padraona 

 and Vinius, from which it differs in having the upper discocellular of the primaries 

 transverse (instead of oblique), the body more robust, &c. From Atrytone it may 

 be distinguished by the longer antenna?, with longer crook, the transverse upper 

 discocellular, &c. 



The antenna? reach the end of the cell, and have a long stout club, terminating in a 

 long crook. The palpi are densely clothed with scales ; the third joint is short, stout, 

 and bluntly conical. The primaries are produced and pointed at the tip ; the cell is 

 two-thirds the length of the costa ; the upper discocellular is transverse and more than 

 three times the length of the lower, the latter is oblique and half the length of the 

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

 branch arises far before the middle of the median nervure, the second near the lower 

 angle of the cell, the second median segment being longer than the first. The 

 secondaries are produced at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are very faint. The body 

 is robust, the head and eyes very large. The middle tibia? are armed with a few very 

 short spines, the hind tibia? have two pairs of spurs. The primaries (Tab. CI. fig. 36) 

 are without trace of a brand in the male. 



We have specimens of two other nearly allied forms from South America, each of 

 which may have to be taken as the type of a separate genus : one of these is Pamphila 

 kenava, Butl., from Venezuela ; the other has been sent to us by Dr. Staudinger, under 

 the MS. name of Pamphila illimanensis, Staud., from Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. 



