HESPERIOIDEA OP AMERICA 



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14. Vein 5 almost intermediate between 4 and 6 ; under surface 



with purplish lustre Lerema 



Vein 5 considerably nearer to 4; under surface otherwise 

 Mast or 



Genus CHAEREPHON Godman & Salvin 

 Chaerephon G. & S., Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. n, 474, 1900. Type 

 Pamphila citrus Mab. 

 Second joint of palpi upturned, 

 deeply scaled; third small, oblique, 

 smooth. Antennae less than one-half 

 as long as primaries ; club large, obo- 

 void, subacute but without a reflexed 

 apiculus. Costa of primaries straight 

 except at base ; apex produced, round- 

 ed acute in males, less sharp in fe- /" --^ ^ 

 males ; outer margin rounded in cen- J^~— v^-— — ^\ /ffi 

 ter and straighter nearer apex and 

 anal angle,though almost evenly 

 rounded in some females. Secondar- 

 ies rounded, lobed at anal angle in 

 male, slightly so in female. Both 

 wings appear shorter and broader in &J!" oWb. 8 p~ 3 

 the male than in the female. Pri- ""&,£ ^t^TTtunut 

 maries of male with a faint stigma 



composed of an oblique bar above vein 2 followed by two small 

 round patches in line below the vein. Fig. 22. 



Key to the species 



1. Wings yellow-fulvous eunus, wrighti 



Wings mostly fuscous 2 



2. Under surface gray powdery simius 



Under surface more or less yellowish 3 



3. Yellow of under surface of secondaries interspersed with dark patches; 



maculation distinct rhesus 



Yellow pale, dull, even; maculation obscure carus 



1. CHAEEEPHON EUNUS 

 Copaeodes eunus Edw., Papilio i, 47, 1881. 

 Holland, Butterfly Book, pi. xlvii, f. 10, 1898 (as wrighti). 

 Wright, Butt. W. Coast 237, pi. xxxi, ff. 412, 414, 1905. 

 California, June. 



