HESPERIIN^. >j 



ENTHEUS PRIASSUS.* 



{P/a/g LXIX. J'\-s. 2 J, 3?.) 



Papilla pnassus^ Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 487, no. 185 



(175S); id. Mus. Ludov. Ulriccc, p. 319 (1764). 

 Fapilio talaus^ Johanssen, Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 407, no. 70 



(1764); Clerck, Icones, pi. 45, fig. i (1764); Linn. Mu.s. 



Ludov. Ulricce, p. 259 (1764); Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 



393, fig. C. (1782). 

 Hesperia fa/aus, Latr. Enc. Mctli. ix. p. 757, no. 81 (1823). 

 Paramimis tahius, Hiibncr, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 150 



(1S24?). 

 This species, which is common in South America, measures 

 about i],4. inches across the wings. The male is black, the 

 fore-wings with a broad transverse orange band beyond the 

 middle, generally connected above with an oblique sub-apical 

 band and throwing out a branch from the side towards the 

 lower edge of this band. In the female, the fore-wings have an 

 orange stripe at the base, and two white interrupted bands 

 beyond ; below the first is generally a white spot towards the 

 inner margin, and between the bands a short oblique white 

 stripe. On the hind-wings a broad greenish-white band runs 

 from the inner-margin of the hind-wings to the middle of the 

 wing. 



SUB-FAMILY IL HESPERIIN^. 



Section B. 

 Antennas seldom hooked, occasionally bluntly pointed. 

 Palpi : third joint either minute or projected in front of the 

 face, in the latter case stout and not slender as in the Entheus 

 group in Section A; palpi never curving over the vertex. 

 Fore-wing: cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 

 5 invariably nearer to 6 than to 4. Hind- wing frccjuently 



* E, lalaus on plate. 



