616 KHOPALOCERA. 



Hob. Nicaragua, Chon tales (Belt). 



The above description has been taken from an imperfect worn female example. 

 This insect has much the facies of Hesperia sicania, Hew., from Brazil, the type of 

 which is a male ; but in the latter the primaries are without a yellowish streak on the 

 submedian nervure, the spots on the disc are differently placed, and there is only one 

 minute subapical dot. It also greatly resembles Turesis lucasi and T. theste in general 

 coloration ; but the short upper spurs to the hind tibiae exclude it from that genus. 



TURESIS, gen. nov. 



The Tropical-American species we place under this name have somewhat the 

 appearance of Carystus, though they differ greatly in their general coloration. They 

 have, however, much more elongate antennae, these being fully two-thirds the length 

 of the costa, as in Carystoides and Orphe. Hesperia lucas, Fabr. (as identified by 

 Dr. Butler), is taken as the type, and in addition to the other Central-American form 

 referred to it, we have an unnamed insect from South America that probably belongs 

 here. All have large flavo-hyaline spots on the primaries. 



The antennae are rather more than two-thirds the length of the costa, and have an 

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

 very short and almost concealed. The primaries are elongate, somewhat pointed 

 at the tip, and arched on the costa at the base ; the cell is a little less than two-thirds 

 the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are strongly oblique, the upper one about 

 three times as long as the lower, the latter of the same length as the third median 

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

 middle of the median nervure, the second near the lower angle of the cell. The 

 secondaries are slightly produced at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are oblique and 

 very faint. The body is robust. The middle tibiae are not spined, and the hind tibia? 

 have two pairs of long spurs. There are no secondary sexual characters visible on 

 either wing. 



l. Turesis lucasi. (Tab. civ. figg. 22, 23, s .) 



Hesperia lucas, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 339 \ 



Telegonus lucas, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 262, t. 3. f. 4 2 . 



Alis fuscis, antieis maculis tribus in linea obliqua, una parva elongata ad venam submedian am, secunda multo 

 majore inter ramos medianos primum et secundum, tertia ultra earn, duabus in cellula' interdum con- 

 junetis, et duabus subapicalibus, exteriore minuta, omnibus flavo-hyalinis, posticis puncto ultra cellulam 

 flavo : subtus ut supra, sed pallidioribus et rubescentioribus, macula submediana rnajore et albescente. 



2 mari similis. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (ex Staudinger).— Venezuela 2 ; Amazons, Para; Brazil 2 ; 

 Antilles 1 . 



Of this species there are two females in the British Museum, from Venezuela and 



