622 KHOPALOCERA. 



but the neuration is also different, this being caused in the males by an interference of 

 the brand. The tibiae of all the legs are red, the antennae are extremely elongate, 

 and the secondaries beneath have one or two whitish transverse bands. In addition to 

 H. cynisca, Orses includes H. itea, Swains., and one new species described in this work*. 

 All are Tropical-American, two of them entering our region. 



The antennae are exceedingly elongate, fully two-thirds the length of the costa, and 

 have a very long, rather slender club, terminating in a long crook. The palpi are 

 densely scaled, the third joint very short and bluntly conical. The primaries are 

 elongate and pointed at the tip, the costa arched ; the cell is less than two-thirds the 

 length of the costa, and has a distinct recurrent nervure towards the end of the third 

 median segment ; the discocellulars are oblique, the upper one nearly twice as long as 

 the lower ; the lower radial is depressed at the base ; the first branch arises consider- 

 ably before the middle of the median nervure, the second in the male far from, in the 

 female near, the lower angle of the cell (the third median segment in the male being a 

 little longer than the second, and in the female quite short) ; the submedian nervure is 

 slightly angulated at the middle in the male. The secondaries are more or less 

 produced at the anal angle (strongly so in 0. tricolor) ; the discocellulars are very 

 oblique, the lower one distinct. The body is stout. The middle tibiae are without 

 spines ; the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male (Tab. C V. 

 fig. 5) have a broad, oblique brand extending from the base of the second median 

 branch to a little below the first median branch, and they are also furnished with some 

 long hairs beneath the first median segment. 



1. Orses cynisca. (Tab. CV. figg. 5, 6, c? .) 



Hesperia cynisca, Swains. Zool. 111. i. t. 40. figg. {<$ $ ) \ 



Carystus cynisca, Staud. Exot. Sclimett. p. 296, t. 99. fig. ($) 2 . 



S . Hesperia catina, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii. p. 492 (Feb. 1866) 3 . 



Goniloba poyas, Reak. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1866, p. 337 ( S ) (Nov.) \ 



Alis fuscis, stigmate grisescente, anticis macula magna subquadrata in eellula, duabus inter ramos medianos, 

 infima transversa, altera subtriangulari, flavo-hyalinis : subtus fere ut supra, sed rufo-tinctis, anticis in 

 regione costali ultra maculam cellularem flavis ; posticis quoque margine externo (nisi ad angulum analem) 

 pallide flavis ; abdomine subtus ochraceo ; ciliis posticarum flavis ; tibiis rubescentibus. 



$ mari similis, sed anticis fascia obliqua venis divisa albida, posticis ad apiceni albo notatis : subtus posticis 

 margine externo albido latiore ; ciliis pallide flavis. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Jalapa (coll. Schaus), Vera Cruz (Edwards 4 ) ; 

 Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama 2 , Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui (mm. Staudinger), 

 Veraguas (Arce). — South America to Brazil 1 3 , Amazons 3 , and Trinidad. 



Apparently a common species in Tropical South America, whence we have a lon°- 



* Hesperia crotona, Hew., from Venezuela, will probably form the type of a nearly allied genus; it resembles 

 H. cynisca, Swains., in having the primaries dissimilarly marked in the two sexes, and also in the rufous tibiee, 

 but the form of the brand is very different. 



