582 KHOPALOCEKA. 



of the costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, the lower one very short ; the lower radial 

 is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises near the middle of the median nervure, 

 the second not far from the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are feebly lobed 

 at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are very faint. The body is rather stout. The 

 middle tibiae are without spines and the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The 

 primaries in the male in the American species are without trace of a brand. 



The members of this genus have the wings blackish, with orange markings. 

 P. epictetus, as in certain species of Atrytone, has the costa of the secondaries clothed 

 with longish hairs at the base. 



1. Padraona epictetus. (Tab. CI. figg. 44, 45, 46, d .) 



Hesperia epictetus, Pabr. Ent. Syst. hi. p. 330 1 ; Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p 768 . 

 Papilio (Plutargus) epictetus, Don. Ins. Ind. t. 48. f. 4 3 . 

 Padraona epictetus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 102 4 . 



Alis nigro-fuscis ; anticis costa, fascia infra cellulam a margine interno prope apicem extendente et ad finem 

 ejus angulata, macula parva ad cellulae finem, fulvis ; posticis plaga magna, discali quoque fulva, ad 

 eellulae finem fusco excisa : subtus ochraceis, anticis dimidio interiore nigro-fuscis, ad cellulse finem macula 

 erosa. 



$ mari similis. 



Hob. Mexico, Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Polochic Valley (F. D. G. 

 & 0. S.), Panima, San Geronimo, Zapote (Champion) ; Hondueas (Wittkugel, in mus. 

 Staudinger) ; Nicakagua, Chon tales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Eica, Cache (Bogers) ; 



Panama, Chiriqui (Bible), Calobre, Veraguas (Arce), Panama city (J. J. Walker). South 



Ameeica to Brazil and Paraguay. 



The insect figured under the name of Pamphila epictetus (Fabr.) by Dr. Staudinger 

 (as we have already noted, antea, p. 485) = Zariaspes mys (Hubn.). At first sight 

 the two species are very similar, and inhabit much the same country; they differ, 

 however, not only in their markings, but in structure. Out of about eighty specimens 

 in our collection, one only, and that from Brazil, is a female. For the genitalia of 

 the male, see Tab. CI. fig. 46. 



CARYSTUS. 



Carystus, Hlibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 114 (1816) (part.) ; Watson, P.Z. S. 1893, p. 121. 



This genus includes numerous Tropical-American species, several of which inhabit 

 our region. It is chiefly recognizable by the elongate antennas, with long crook, the 

 short third joint of the palpi, the rather slender body (except in C. claudianus and 

 C. cynaxa), and the absence of a brand on the primaries in the male. From Cobalus 

 the present genus differs, according to Watson, in the more produced and blunter 

 apices of the primaries, but this character only applies to the few species he included 



