E. L. BELL 205 



A NEW SPECIES OF HESPERIIDAE 



(LEPIDOPTERA, RHOPALOCERA) 

 BY E. L. BELL 



While collecting in Florida during ]March 1921, a number 

 of Hesperiid butterflies superficially resembling Cocceius pylades 

 Scudder, were captured. There are, however, several points in 

 which they differ from that species, principally in that the males 

 have no costal fold, the palpi are grayish and not concolorous 

 with the body, and the genitalia are different. The lack of 

 costal fold in the male and the lighter colored palpi more nearly 

 resemble Thorybes daunus Cramer, but the shape of the wings 

 is quite different from that species, the primaries being not so 

 pointed at the apex and the secondaries not so produced anally, 

 but more rounded; the maculation of the upper surface of the 

 primaries is usually much reduced, especially in the male, and 

 genitalia are different. For this species, from the probaljility 

 of its having been long confused with the two species mentioned, 

 I propose the name of 



Thorybes confusis new species 



1922. Cogia (Thoryhes) species Skinner and Williams, Trans. Amer. Ent. 

 Soc, XLViii, p. 124, fig. 29 (genitalia). 



Size — male, 31 mm. to 37 mm.; female 31 mm. to 40 mm. 



cf. Upperside: primaries, dark brown with a hand of irregularly shajjed 

 white spots extending in an oblique line from aliout the center of the costa 

 toward the inner an^le; usually composed of two small spots between the 

 costa apd the cell, and one just inside the cell, a small spot below, placed out 

 of line toward the outer margin, then a longer, narrow spot below and in a 

 line with the three small sjjots near the costa; below this a small spot placed a 

 little out of line toward the outer margin. There are four, small, subaj)ical, 

 white S]>ots, the first three placed in a line and the fourth and lowest slightly 

 out of line toward the outer margin. The sj)ots composing the band are 

 frequently greatly reduced, and sometimes entirely lacking; the subapical 

 spots reduced to mere traces. Fringes dark except at the inner angle where 

 they are a lighter color; there is a narrow line of darker scales across the 

 fringe at the end of each vein. 



Sccnndaru's: dark brown and immaculate; fringes lighter, about the same 

 color as the light sj)ot at the inner angle of the primaries, with the dark scales 

 at the ends of the veins, as in the primaries. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



