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in it. Most of them are of an obscure fuscous colour, with white markings above, 

 the secondaries beneath being often streaked with white (C. diversus) or silvery-white 

 (C. coryna), Watson takes C. jolus (Cram.) as the type. 



The antennae are about half the length of the costa, and have an elongate, slender 

 club, terminating in a long crook. The palpi have the third joint short. The primaries 

 are moderately elongate, blunt at the tip ; the cell is less than (C. coryna) or quite 

 (C. claudianus) two-thirds the length of the costa; the discocellulars are very oblique, 

 the upper one very much longer than the lower, the latter about as long as the third 

 median segment ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises 

 before the middle of the median nervure, the second close to the lower angle of the 

 cell. The secondaries are slightly lobed at the anal angle ; the cell is half the length 

 of the wing ; the discocellulars are faint and transverse. The body (except in 

 C. claudianus) is rather slender. The middle tibiae are furnished with short spines, the 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male have no trace of a 



brand. 



Amongst the species we place here, there is one (C. claudianus) which has the cell 

 of the primaries strongly produced at the apex, the discocellulars, in consequence, being 

 very oblique ; this insect also has a stouter body and the second median segment of the 

 fore wings longer than usual. 



a. Primaries and secondaries each with a bluish-white patch near the apex, the 

 primaries also with hyaline discal spots. 



1. Carystus claudianus. (Tab. Cil. figg. 1-4, s .) 



Hesperia claudianus, Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 756 \ 



Carystus claudianus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 121 2 . 



Alis fuscis, anticis maculis quatuor, duabus in cellula, tertia maxima inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, 

 quart'a parva et transversa ultra earn, omnibus albo-hyalinis, fascia lata transversa subapicali venis divisa 

 schistaceo-alba; posticis macula magna subrotunda ultra cellulam coloris ejusdem : subtus fere ut supra, 

 anticis macula in venam submedianam albida, costa et triente apicali griseis ; posticis area costali et ultra 

 cellulam ad marginem externum grisescentibus, venis omnibus obscuris ; ciliis posticarum angulum 

 analem versus, et abdomine subtus. albis. 

 5 mari similis. 



Hob. Guatemala, Central valleys (F. D. G. & 0. S.).— Colombia ; Lower Amazons; 

 Brazil 1 ; Bolivia. 



Our collection contains only a single worn male example of this species from Central 

 America. It agrees very well with others before us from Santa Marta and Para. The 

 figures are taken from South-American examples. For the genitalia of the male, see 

 Tab_ CIL ng. 4. 



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