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EHOPALOCERA. 



PYBRHOPYGOPSIS, gen. nov. 

 There are certain Tropical-American species of Hesperiidae which have very much 

 the facies of Pyrrhvpyge and Phocides, from which they differ in the neuration of the 

 primaries : the cell is shorter, the upper discocellular is more than twice the length of 

 the lower, &c. These forms, of which Pyrrhopyge soerates, Men., may be taken as the 

 type, belong really to the Pamphilinae, near Thracides, and a new name is required 

 for them. They differ from Thracides and its allies in having stouter legs and the 

 discocellulars of the secondaries less oblique ; the males are without a brand on the 

 primaries, and have a tuft of very long hairs in the abdominal fold of the secondaries. 

 Erycides orasus and E. romula, Druce, and E. tenebricosa, Hew., belong here; one 

 species only, E. orasus, enters our limits. 



The antennas are moderately long, and have an elongate club, terminating in a long 

 slender crook. The palpi are densely scaled ; the third joint is very short and almost 

 concealed. The primaries are elongate, rather pointed at the tip ; the cell is less than 

 two-thirds the length of the costa ; the discocellulars are very oblique, the upper one 

 more than twice the length of the lower, the latter shorter than the third median 

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

 the middle of the median nervure, the second at some little distance before the lower 

 angle of the cell. The secondaries are prolonged at the anal angle ; the discocellulars 

 are moderately oblique, the lower one distinct. Legs stout ; hind tibia? furnished with 

 two pairs of spurs and a fringe of long hairs, the femora also fringed with long hairs. 

 The primaries of the male are without trace of a brand ; the secondaries have a tuft 

 of long hairs in the abdominal fold in this sex. 



We figure the fore wing of a male of P. orasus, see Tab. CVI. fig. 29. 



l. Pyrrhopygopsis orasus. (Tab. CVI. fi g g. 27-30, d .) 



Erycides orasus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 248, t. 18. f. 9 \ 



Pyrrhopyge soerates, Staud. Exot. Schmett. p. 294, t. 99. f. 14 (<J) a (nee Menetr.). 



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$ nobis ignota. 



Bob. Panama {Bible, in mus. Staudinger) .—South Amekica to Peru K 

 There is a single specimen of this fine species from Panama in Dr. Standing's 

 collection. The type of E. orasus came from Cosnipata, in Peru, and is now in our 

 possession. The male has a strong pencil of hairs in the abdominal fold For the 

 genitalia, see Tab. CVI. fig. 30. 



