PAMl'lIILIDl; THE GKNUS ANCYLOXIPIIA. 1551 



Antonnal frook sleiuler iiiul flncly drawn out. imich longer than, sometimes twice 

 as loni; as, the breadth of the loii<; and relatively slender eliib; last joint of palpi 

 g;enerally relatively stout. 



Basal joint of palpi not expanded apically; antennal hool» not exceptionally 

 long; males with a discal stigma on fore wings above. 

 Cell of fore wings about two-thirds as long as the wing; second joint of 

 palpi long oval, very slender; marliings of the under surface of the hind 



wings in tlic form of slender rows of spots Euphyes. 



Cell of fore wings about three-tidhs as long as the wing; second joint of 

 palpi short oval, very stout ; markings on the under surface of the hind 



wings in the form of broad, clouded areas Lerenia. 



Basal joint of palpi greatly expanded apically; antennal hook exceptionally 



long and attenuated; males with no discal stigma on fore wings above. 



Exceptionally large forms. Fore wing less than twice as long as broad; 



its outer margin more than usually transverse, nnicli shorter than inner 



margin ; cell of same very narrow, fully twu-tliirds the length of the 



wing; hind wings distinctly lobed at thesubmedian nervure..Calpode8. 



Forms of normal size. Fore wing much more than twice as long as broad; 



its outer margin very oblique, as long as the inner margin; cell of same 



moderately broad, less than two-thirds as long as the wing; hind wings 



wltli no lube Oligoria. 



SECTION I. 



Eijy usually low, the heiijlit usually less than two-thirds the breadth, occasionally 

 feebly ribbed vertically. Caterpillar at birth with relatively short bristles on the ter- 

 minal abdominal segments, usually not more than one-third as long as the breadth of 

 the head. Mature caterpillar with a pyramidal head, very much higher than broad, 

 thrown backward, the face upward when at rest. Chrysalis, so far as known, with a 

 bluntly rounded front. Iniayo with the antennal club usually without any distinct 

 hook, and then the abdomen exceptionally long and slender, and sometimes the fore 

 tibial epiphysis and middle pair of spurs of hind tibiae wanting; no discal stigma on 

 the fore w^ings of the male; lateral arms of upper organ of male abdominal append- 

 ages soldered to the parts above it throughout its whole or very nearly its whole extent. 



Gexera : Ancylozipha, Pamphila, Amblyscirtes. 



ANCYLOXIPHA FELDEK. 



AncyloxiphaFeld., Verh. zool.-bot. gcsellsch. Heteropterus pars Auctorum. 

 Wien., xii:477 (1862). Thymelicus pars Auctorum. 



Tijpe.—Hesperia numitor Fabr. 



The butterfly is glancing bright 

 Across the sunlieam's track. 



Hemans. 



Deus est roagnus in ma^nis, 

 Maximus autem in minnnis. 



St. Acgustixe. 



Imago (58:5). Head excessively large, clothed with short scales and transverse 

 rows of long hairs; outside the base of the antennae, a rather conspicuous lateral 

 curving bunch of nearly equal bristly hairs, spreading in a vertical plane and reach- 

 ing about half way around the circumference of the eye. Front a little tnmid, 

 surpassing a little and almost equally the front of the eyes, rather more than twice 

 as broad as long, separated from the verte.x by a scarcely perceptible, straight, 

 transverse ridge, connecting the middle of the antennal bases; the whole front 

 margin and sides rather coarsely emargin.ate, the midille half of the front straight, 

 sloping off laterally toward the sides, which are straight on the hinder half, 

 rounded oil" in front and reacli the outer extremity of tlie antennae ; vertex scarcely 



