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The Genus Choranthus Scudder, with a Des- 

 cription of a New Species (Lepidoptera.) 



By HENRY SKINNER. 



This genus was proposed by Dr. Scudder in the Annual 

 Reports of the Peabody Academy of Science, 1871, p. 79. 

 The genus was not described. The type cited was Hesperia 

 radians Lefebv. in Sagra Hist. L'lle de Cuba, 1857, p. 650. 

 Watson in his "A Proposed Classification of the Hesperidae," 

 Proc. Zoological Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 130, did not know the 

 genus. Mabille in the Genera Insectorum (Hesperidae), 

 1904, does not mention either the genus or species. The 

 original description of radians is not very good but there is no 

 doubt about the species intended. A description of the 

 species will probably be useful as the genus and species have 

 been confused with the genus A try tone Scudder and its 

 species. 



Choranthus radians. 



cf . Expanse (one wing) 14 mm. General color of wings, body and 

 legs, above and below, fulvous. Antennae fuscous above and on the under- 

 side of the ends of the club; inner half of the club below, fulvous; under- 

 side of the shaft annulated. Palpi above fulvous, mixed with black, 

 below tawny. There is a patch of yellow hairs at the base of the antennae. 



Upperside. The primaries have a v-shaped black line at the end of 

 the discoidal cell. The stigma is a narrow black line 4.5 mm. in length, 

 the upper end pointing toward the apex of the wing and the lower end 

 resting on the submedian nervure. A fuscous border 4 mm. wide on the 

 costa and 2.5 mm. wide at the middle. The fulvous of the wing extends 

 into the border finely dentate. The secondaries have the same fuscous 

 border, 2.5 mm. wide on the costa and I mm. wide on the outer and inner 

 margins. 



Underside. Primaries: The base, except on the costa, fuscous. Mar- 

 ginal band as above, but olive green, with the nervures extending into it 

 as rays. Inner margin olive green. Secondaries olive green with the 

 nervures fulvous, except the space between two of the median nervures, 

 which is fulvous. 



The female is marked like the male but it lacks the sex brand and it 

 is a little larger. 



The species is found in Cuba and I collected some speci- 

 mens of it during the month of February near Guantanamo. 

 I described the species as streckeri in Ent. News, 1893, IV, 



