66 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



only covered by clothing of hairs or scales. Seudder has unfortunately not 

 given diagnoses for his genera, and it is not clear to me on what characters he 

 has based them. Under such circumstances, it seems to me best to put together 

 the species I am able to study in what in my opinion is the most natural 

 manner. In some respects Massasoit differs most, and I would not have hesi- 

 tated to separate it and Za6M/ongenerically,just as Scudder has done, \f Zabulon, 

 ■which could not be separated from Massasoit, had not given a transition to the 

 typical species. — S. 



Many of the species included in Pamphila were not examined by Dr. Speyer, 

 and as lie may not care to be held responsible for the arrangement of these, I 

 give below the species examined in the sequence furnished me. It will be seen 

 that they embrace examples in almost every sub-group, and with this aid I 

 have disposed the remaining species. — E. 



Group 1. Massasoit; Zabulon. 



Group 2. Sylvanus; Comma; Sassacus ; Metea; Leonardus ; Huron; PhylcEus ; 

 Brettus ; Conspicua; Mtna^Otho ; Peckius ; Mystic; Manataaqua; Cernes ; Me- 

 tacomet; Bimacula; Vitellius ; Osyka; Hianna. 



AMBLYSCIRTES, Speyer. 

 Antennae like Pamphila, with slender conical apical hooks; the two basal 

 joints of palpi covered anteriorly with a rough clothing of bristles and scaly 

 hairs; thorax and femora roughly hairy; apical joint of pal[)i a little promi- 

 nent; middle tibife spined; bod^' less stout than in Pamphila; abdomen thin, 

 scarcely reaching the anal angle of wing; the costal margin somewhat strongly 

 curved at base, in the middle a very little concave; hind wings not produced at 

 the anal angle; fringes light, marked with black at the ends of the nervules. 



SECTION II. 



Tibiae rarely spined; the male generally with a costal fold of the fore wing; 

 no discoidal stigma. 



PYRCSITS, West. 

 Knob of antenna elongate or ovoid, rounded at tip, straight or a little semi- 

 lunar, somewhat compressed ; the brush at base of antennae strong, longer than 

 half the diameter of the eyes; palpi surpassing the front by more than the 

 length of the eyes; the apical joint thick, bluntly conic, densely scaled; tibiae 

 (of species examined) without spines; fringes light, marked with dark at the 

 ends of the nervules. 



THAJirAOS, Bd. 



Knob of antenna spindle-shaped, semilunarly curved, a little compressed; 

 brush at base of antennae strong, longer than half the diameter of the eyes, 

 bristling; palpi surpassing the front by more than the length of the eyes, the 

 apical joint thick, bluntly conic, a little inclined, a little surpassing the long 

 bristles of middle joint; abdomen as long as head and thorax or a little longer; 



