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upper ; the lower radial is very slightly depressed at the base ; the first branch arises 

 from the middle of the median nervure, the second almost at the lower angle of the 

 cell, the third median segment thus becoming exceedingly short. The secondaries are 

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

 is moderately stout. The middle tibiae are spined, the hind tibise have two pairs 

 of spurs. The primaries of the male (Tab. CI. fig. 40) have a conspicuous short 

 longitudinal brand, formed of two streaks, one above, the other just below the first 

 median branch, at about one- third from its point of origin : the secondaries in this sex 

 have also a conspicuous tuft of very long blackish hairs arising from close to the inner 

 margin of the abdominal fold towards the base. 



We figure the fore wing, genitalia, &c. of the South- American V. arignote (Tab. CI. 

 figg. 38-41). 



1. Vinius sagitta. (Tab. CI. figg. 42, 43, s .) 



Pamphila sagitta, Mab. Le Nat. 1889, p. 173, f. 1 \ 



Alis fuscis, stigmate con colore, anticis costa, venis divisa apicem versus, lineis duabus in cellula (una infra 

 venam subcostalem, altera supra venam medianam), et fascia maculari obliqua, marginem internum versus 

 latiore et ad apicem valde angulata, omnibus fulvis ; posticis fascia irregulari transversa coloris ejusdem : 

 subtus pallide ochraceis, anticis striga lata a basi in ramos duos furcata, uno apicem versus ad cellulae 

 finem angulato, altero ad angulum analem extendente, lineis duabus (una costali, altera subcostali), 

 maculis parvis quinque submarginalibus, duabus apicem propioribus elongatis, omnibus fuscis ; posticis 

 maculis elongatis dispersis coloris ejusdem. 

 5 nobis ignota. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui 1 (Bible). 



Dr. Staudinger has lent us a male example of this species. It is very closely allied 

 to V. arignote, but differs from that insect in its darker colour, the fulvous markings 

 being narrower above ; and, beneath, the submarginal spots of the primaries, and also 

 those on the secondaries, are elongated, instead of being rounded. 



PADKAONA. 



Padraona, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 170 (1881) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 101. 



Under this genus Watson includes a number of Asiatic and Australian species, as 

 well as one (Hesperia epictetus, Fabr.) from Tropical America and one (Hesperia 

 coroller, Boisd.) from Madagascar. The last-mentioned certainly does not belong here, 

 and we adopt the generic name, with some reserve, for H. epictetus, which is a common 

 insect in Central America. Padraona probably includes other South- American forms ; 

 it differs from Zariaspes in having two pairs of spurs to the hind tibiae, and longer 

 antennae, with longer crook. 



The antenna? about reach the end of the cell, and have an elongate club, terminating 

 in a long crook. The palpi have the third joint moderately short, semierect, and 

 bluntly conical. The primaries are pointed ; the cell is less than two-thirds the length 



biol. cente.-amee. 5 Rhopal., Vol. II., December 1900. 4 f 



