602 BHOPALOCEBA. 



MNASICLES, gen. nov. 



This is another genus based upon two small Central-American species, both of 

 which are uniformly fuscous on the upperside. Its chief characters are the long, 

 pointed, erect, terminal joint of the palpi, the elongate antennae, with long crook, and 

 the oblique narrow interrupted brand on the primaries of the male, in which sex also 

 there is, in M. geta, which we take as the type, a dense fringe of very long hairs on the 

 inner margin of the abdominal fold of the secondaries. 



The antennae are rather more than half the length of the costa, and have an elongate 

 club, terminating in a long crook. The third joint of the palpi is long, slender, erect, 

 and pointed. The primaries are rather short, and blunt at the tip ; the cell is less than 

 two-thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are transverse, the lower one about 

 half the length of the upper ; the lower radial is strongly depressed at the base ; the first 

 branch arises from the middle of the median nervure, the second immediately before 

 the lower angle of the cell. The secondaries are rounded at the anal angle ; the 

 discocellulars are oblique and very faint. The body is rather slender. The middle 

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

 of the male (Tab. CIII. fig. 25) have an indistinct, narrow, oblique, interrupted brand 

 extending from the base of the second branch to near the middle of the submedian 

 nervure. 



The form of the brand sufficiently distinguishes this genus from both Methionopsis 

 and Epeus. 



l. Mnasicles geta, sp. n. (Tab. cm. figg. 24, 25, 26, s .) 



Alis obscure fuscis, unicoloribus, stigmate concolore : subtus vix pallidioribus, auticis margine interno et 

 externo, posticis dimidio basali et margine externo, squamis sparsis schistaceo-griseis tectis ; palpis pilis 

 fuscis et griseis intermixtis vestitis ; antennis subtus clavse basin ochraceis. 



2 mari similis. 



Hab. Mexico, Misantla (F. D. G.), Orizaba (H. J. Elwes), Coatepec (coll. Schaus), 

 Atoyac, Teapa {H. II. Smith) ; Guatemala, Zapote (Champion) ; Hondueas, San Pedro 

 ( Whitely) ; Costa Eica, Cache (Bogers). 



Sent us in abundance from Eastern Mexico and more sparingly from Guatemala 

 and Costa Rica. Its chief distinguishing characters are the dense fringe of long 

 hairs on the inner margin of the secondaries in the male and the bluish-grey mottling 

 of the same wings beneath. M. getu is extremely like Epeus veleda, the general 

 shape of the wings and the coloration of the upper surface being exactly similar, but 

 may be separated from it at a glance by the very different shape of the brand, as 

 well as by the neuration, the colour of the underside, and other particulars. Our 

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

 fig. 26. 



