EPEUS. 601 



EPEUS, gen. nov. 



The single Central- American species referred to this genus is an isolated form, and 

 cannot be included in any of the other genera enumerated here. In the ndiration 

 of the primaries it approaches Butleria, which, however, has very differently formed 

 antennae and palpi. From the numerous small Tropical- American species, of a 

 uniformly fuscous colour above, it may be distinguished by the comparatively short 

 cell of the primaries, which have the second and third median branches arising from 

 the lower angle of the cell, and the brand in the male formed by two longitudinal 

 streaks, one extending beyond the end of the cell, the other reaching to near the base 

 of the wing. 



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

 thickened club, terminating in a long crook. The palpi have their third joint long, 

 conical, and erect. The primaries are blunt at the tip, and have the costa arched at the 

 base ; the cell is three-fifths the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are transverse, 

 the upper one a little longer than the lower ; the lower radial is slightly depressed 

 at the base ; the first branch arises from the middle of the median nervure, the second 

 and third from the lower angle of the cell, the last almost in a line with the end of 

 the median nervure* The secondaries are rounded at the anal angle ; the cell is half 

 the length of the wing ; the discocellulars are very faint. The body is slender. The 

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

 of the male (Tab. CM. fig. 22) have a conspicuous brand, formed of two longitudinal 

 pieces, one extending the whole length of the second median segment to beyond the 

 base of the second median branch, the other running from near the proximal end of 

 the first median segment to beyond the base of the first median branch. 



The males have, in addition to the brand, a fringe of very long hairs along the inner 

 edge of the abdominal fold of the secondaries. 



1. Epeus veleda, sp. n. (Tab. CIII. figg. 21, 22, 23, 6 .) 



Alls nigro-fuscis, unicoloribus, stigmate concolore ; posticis margine interiore pilis elongafcis : subtus ut supra, 

 sed (nisi dimidio interiore anticarum) squamis minutis ochraceis sparsim vestitis ; palpis pilis aureis et 

 fuscis intermixtis ; antennis subtus ad clavas basin ocbraceis. 

 $ mari similis. 



Eab. Mexico, Misantla (F. D. (?.), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemala, 

 Panima in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion); Honduras (Wittkugel, in mus. Stau&inger); 

 Panama, Chiriqui (mus. Staudinger). 



A common insect in Central America, of which we possess upwards of sixty examples. 

 Our figures are taken from Teapa specimens. For the genitalia of the male, see 

 Tab. CIII. fig. 23. 



