284 Mr. H. J. Elwes on 



and Argentina. The females also of the Cauquenes form 

 are brighter-coloured above, much more yellow below, and 

 with larger ocelli. H. minimus appears to be a small 

 starved variety of doubtful origin, and impossible to 

 describe from the specimen wdiich is in the British 

 Museum collection. 



25. Neosatyrus ? simplex. 



Argyro'phenga simj^lex, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1S81, p. 458. 



Specimens of this agree with Butler's type in the 

 British Museum taken by Edmonds above the Baths of 

 Chilian in March. I found it only in one place in a grassy 

 valley at about 5000 feet on the road from Lolco to 

 Lonquimay on January 27th. I took six or seven males 

 all in the same place wdiich vary a good deal, most of them 

 being without the white dash on the hind-wiucr below which 

 exists in the type. It flies among the low bushes like an 

 Epinephele, and should be placed, I think, near Neosatyrus 

 amMorix, which it resembles in form and flight. 



26. Neosatyrus vesag IIS. (Plate XIV, figs. 1) ^,10 ? .) 

 Urchict vesagus, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. 



Lep., PI. XLIV, fig. 2 (1851). 

 Homcuonympha 2msiUa, Felder, t. c, p. 487. 

 Neosatyrus ochreivittatus, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond., 1881, p. 462. 

 N. violaceus, id., t. c, p. 468, Plate XXI, fig. 8. 

 IN. hahni, Mabille, Miss. Cap. Horn. Lep., p. 3, PI. I, 



fig. 3. 

 ? Erehia hoisdiivahi, Blanchard, t. c, p. 32. 



I am by no means sure of the above synonymy, as the 

 specimens before me vary a good deal and may belong to 

 two species. 



First I have the type of vesagus in the Hewitson collection 

 from South America, which is undoubtedly the same as 

 molace%LS and ochreivittatus, of which the types from Chilian 

 and Chile are in the British Museum. Also a pair of the 

 same from Valparaiso (Walker) in Mr. Godman's collection ; 

 and a pair which I took at Coronel on December 19th, in 

 which the bands of the hind-wing below are less distinct. 

 Then I have a pair which I took near the Baths of Chilian 

 where Edmonds got the type of violaeeus ; these, though 

 otherwise very like vesagus, have a distinct marginal band 



