LYCAENLDAE: THECLIDI. 1821 



CALYCOPIS SCUDDER. 



Calycopis Sciulil.. Bull. Buff. soo. nat. sc, iii: lOS (1876). Theela pars Auctonim. 



Imago. Front of head narrower than the face view of the eyes. Eyes moderately 

 full, sparsely and briefly pilose, tlie pilosity briefer below than above, but otherwise 

 uniform. Antennae delicate, half as long again as the abdomen, separated at base by 

 almost or quite the width of the front, composed of thirty joints of which 

 twelve form the long fusiform club; this is largest in the middle, tapers about equally 

 toward either extremity, the tip rather bluntly pointed, about five or six times 

 as long as broad, the middle joints about three times as broad as long, four times as 

 broad as the stalk where the longest joints are about five or six times as long as broad. 

 Palpi short; if appressed to the front they would fall far short of the base of the an- 

 tennae, the last joint only moderately slender, apparently about tl\ree-fourths the 

 length of the middle joint. 



Outer margin of fore wing gently arcuate. Cell reaching the middle of the wing, 

 the limiting external veins exceedingly and equally slight, transverse, the origin of the 

 nervures much as in the female of Jlitura, but the first branch of the median arising 

 nearer the base than that of the subcostal nervure. Hind wings with the curve of the 

 outer border not quite regular, being nearly straight in the middle, the middle and 

 lowest median nervules developing a filiform tail of unequal length, the anal angle 

 scarcely lobed and preceded on the inner margin by a slight oblique excision which is 

 scarcely concave. First divarication of the median nervure considerably nearer the 

 base than that of the subcostal. 



All the legs very short, the fore tibiae and fore tarsi of equal length in tlie male, 

 and about two-thirds as long as the hind tibiae or hind tarsi; the fore tibiae of male 

 broken into the ordinary joints, anned apically only with a pair of downturned spines, 

 differing in no respect from the other tarsal spines. First hiud tarsal joint as long as 

 the rest together, the under surface of the whole tarsus armed with delicate spines, 

 infrequent on the basal, frequent on the apical half of the tarsus. Claws very small 

 and delicate; paronychia slender, filiform, as long as the claw but nearly straight ; 

 pulvillns bullate. 



This genus comprises at least half a dozen Central American forms and 

 perhaps some additional South American, ranging at any rate fi-om the 

 middle of the United States to northern South America, as far as eastei-n 

 Brazil. Their transformations are unknown, though it is apparent that 

 Abbot reared the single species which occurs in the United States. 



CALYCOPIS CECROPS. 



Sesperia cecrops Fxxhr., eut. syst., iii: 270 Theela poeas Boisd.-LeC hip. Am6r. 



(1793). sept., 111-112, pi. 3.5, figs. 1-4 (1833) ;— French, 



Calycopis cecrops Seudd., Bull. Buff. ^oe. Butt. east. U. S., 270-271 (1886). 



nat. sc, iii: 108 (1876). Strymon beon Hiibu., Vcrz. bek. schmett., 



Busticus armatiis poeas Hiibn., Samml. 75 (1816). 

 exot. schmett., i (1806-16). 



Imago. Head with the face brown, edged laterally with brilliant white, tufted 

 above with black scales ; the eye encircled with white. Palpi black brown, annulated 

 with silvery white. Antennae black brown, distinctly and rather broadly annulate 

 with white at the base of each joint and over the whole of the base of the club, which 

 otherwise is velvety black with an orange tip. Thorax covered above with dark 

 brown hairs, many of them with a bluish tinge, beneath clay brown. Legs black, 

 conspicuously annulated with white. 



