592 KHOPALOCEBA. 



l. Cceliades fiscella. (Tab. en. figg. 33-36, e .) 



Hesperia fiscella, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xix. p. 77 (1877) \ 

 Carystus balteaius, Mab. in litt. 2 



Alis nigro-fuscis, stigmate concolore, anticis dimidio distali nitente chalybeis, maculis tribus, una in cellula, 

 secunda supra, et tertia maxima infra earn, tribus minoribus in serie curvata apicem propioribus, una 

 quoque ad medium venae submedianae, omnibus albo-hyalinis ; posticis fascia indistincta cellulae finem 

 transeunte : subtus anticis fuscis, maculis ut supra, costa et apice late posticisque (nisi ad angulum 

 analem) castaneis, fascia transversa paginae superioris posticarum magis distincta et flavescente, anticis 

 ad costae medium ochraceo pictis ; palpis subtus pilis brunneis vestitis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hob. Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Bible & coll. Staudinger), 

 Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — Amazons, Para 1 . 



This species is a close ally of C. dubius (Cram.), from which it differs in having 

 more numerous and larger hyaline spots on the primaries and a broader band on the 

 secondaries. The six Central-American specimens seen agree with Hewitson's type. 

 Dr. Staudinger has sent us examples of it under the MS. name of Carystus balteaius, 

 Mab. For the genitalia of the male, see Tab. CII. fig. 36. 



DION, gen. nov. 



Carystus gemmatus, Butl., is one of the numerous Tropical- American Pamphilinee 

 which will not fall into any of the genera adopted by Watson, and we are therefore 

 compelled to make it the type of a new genus ; it may be remarked, however, that we 

 possess two or three unnamed South-American forms which perhaps belong here. 

 It approaches Coeliades, but has a very differently formed brand on the primaries in 

 the male. B. gemmatus is remarkable from the fact that it has metallic-blue spots 

 on the secondaries beneath. 



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

 terminating in a long crook. The palpi have the third joint very short and concealed. 

 The primaries are elongate, arched on the costa, and blunt at the tip ; the cell is less 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are oblique, the upper one 

 much longer than the lower, the latter a little shorter than the third median segment ; 

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

 middle of the median nervure, the second at some little distance before the lower angle 

 of the cell. The secondaries are lobed at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are faint. 

 The body is rather slender. The middle tibiee are spined and the hind tibiaa have 

 two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male have a conspicuous, oblique, and 

 slightly curved brand, extending from the base of the second median branch to the 

 submedian nervure a little before the middle. 



