620 BHOPALOCERA. 



very long antennae, stout bodies, and a large and very conspicuous brand on the 

 primaries of the male. Orphe is perhaps most nearly allied to Lycas, but the neuration 

 and other particulars are different. 



The antenna? are exceedingly long, reaching quite to the end of the cell, and have an 

 elongate, rather slender club, terminating in a long crook. The palpi are densely 

 clothed with scales ; the third joint is very short and almost concealed. The primaries 

 are elongate and have the costa arched from the base to the apex ; the cell is two- 

 thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are very oblique, almost in a line with 

 the third median segment, the upper one being fully twice as long as the lower, the 

 latter about half the length of the third median segment ; the lower radial is depressed ; 

 the first branch arises before the middle of the median segment, the second far from 

 the lower angle of the cell ; the second median segment is a little more than twice 

 the length of the third and not much longer than the first. The secondaries are 

 slightly produced at the anal angle ; the discocellulars are very oblique, the lower one 

 distinct. The body is stout. The middle tibia? are without spines, the hind tibia? have 

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

 extending from the base of the second median branch to near the submedian nervure, 

 this being smooth, and bordered on the lower edge by a distinct ridge in 0. gerasa, and 

 strongly waved in 0. vatinius. 



We give a figure of the fore wing of 0. vatinius, see Tab. CIV. fig. 31. 



l. Orphe gerasa. 



Hesperia gerasa, Hew. Ex. Butt, v., Hesperia, ff. 6, 7 (d) 1 . 



Proteides subcordatus, Mab. Le Nat. 1889, p. 99, f. 3 (nee Herr.-Sehaff.) 2 . 



Proteides milo, Mab. Compt. rend. Soe. Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. Ixxxvii 3 . 



Alis fuscis, stigmate obscuriore, anticis maculis duabus minutis in cellula, tertia transversa inter ramos 

 medianos secundum et tertium, quarta minuta apicem propiore, punctisque tribus in linea transversa 

 subapicalibus, omnibus albo-hyalinis : subtus rubescentioribus, anticis maculis ut supra, area mediana 

 obscuriore, margine interno pallidiore, posticis fascia lata transversa ultra cellulam rubida, punctoque 

 discali albido ; antennarum clava ad basin albo annulata. 



2 mari similis, sed maculis omnibus majoribus aliisque duabus, una lunulata inter ramos medianos primum et 

 secundum maxima, altera minore in venam submedianam posita, albo-hyalinis : subtus grisescentioribus 

 et maculis tribus in linea curvata ultra cellulam albidis. 



Bob. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui 2 (ex Staudinger).— .Brazil, Maranham 1 . 



Dr. Staudinger has sent us specimens of both sexes of Proteides subcordatus, Mab., 

 from Chiriqui, whence we also have a female example : the male does not differ from 

 the type of Hesperia gerasa, Hew., this being of the same sex. 



M. Mabille 3 subsequently changed the specific name subcordatus to milo, on account 

 of there being an earlier Proteides subcordatus, H.-S. 



