216 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



Body, legs and palpi concolored ; antennae atid club blackish, 

 i^ewa^e— Expands 1.8 inch. Similar to male. 

 Taken near Waco, Texas, by Mr. G. W. Belfrage. 



Hesperia Ophis, n. sp. 



Primaries long, pointed, narrow, excavated on costal margin. 



3Iale. — Expands 1.3 inch. Upper side brown with a bronze lustre ; 

 primaries have three yellowish points on disk in the median interspaces 

 forming a Hue nearly parallel to costal edge, and a fourth spot between 

 the uppermost of these and costa; stigma small, oval and parallel to 

 costa ; fringes pale brown. 



Under side nearly same color, much powdered with bronze atoms on 

 costal margin of primaries and at base and along the nervules of se- 

 condaries ; the points on primaries expanded into small spots, a fifth 

 being found on the cell; on disk of secondaries a white stripe follow- 

 ing discoidal nervule, and characteristic of this species. 



Female. — Same size, color and markings. 



From Apalachicola, Fla. Taken by Dr. A. W. Chapman. 



Note. — While the foregoing descriptions were passing through the press, I 

 received the following letter from Mr. A.G. Butler, " Thecla Castalis is Papilio 

 Damon, Cramer, iv, pi. 390. The figures are antiquated, but fig. C. exhibits the 

 golden yellow of upper side and the markings of the under side in fig. D. oc- 

 cupy the same positions. An example in the British Museum is labelled 

 " United States," but on turning to our Register, for 1846, I find a note by E. 

 Doubleday as follows. — 'This is an entire series of the species collected by me 

 in the U. S., during the years 1837 and 1838 with a few additions from other 

 sources &c.' " Cramer gives Virginia as a locality of Damon but this is undoubt- 

 edly erroneous. 



" Euptychia rubricata is quite new. It is allied to E. Phares, Godart, but 

 differs above in red patch of primaries (indicated by an ochreous sufTusion in 

 Phares) and in single ocellus of secondaries (Phares always exhibits from 4 to 

 6 ocelli above) ; below in the red on primaries and the bands of secondaries, 

 which are wider apart than in Phares, and in the far more conspicuously silver 

 pupilled ocelli. I have never seen Phares from Mexico." 



