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59. HylephUafulva. (Plate XIII, figs. 5 ^, 6 $, 8 ?, var.) 

 Hesperia fulva, Blanchard, t. c, p. 43, PI. Ill, fig. 8. 



I found this common in many places and have specimens 

 from Coronel, Cauquenes, Llai-llai, San Ignacio and 

 Lolco. The female from the Renaico Valley (fig. 8) 

 belongs, to the form mentioned by Butler as being larger 

 and with more markings than the other. The originals of 

 figs. 5 and 6 are from Lolco. 



The species comes near pliyhvus, Drury, which has a 

 very wide range in America and extends as far south as 

 Buenos Ayres. A specimen from thence in the British 

 Museum seems very near fulva. Both these species 

 frequent grassy places in the open. 



60. Argopteron mireipennis. 



SyricMMbS mireipennis, Blanchard, i.e., p. 40, PI. Ill, 

 figs. 5 a, 5 h and 6. 

 I took this in the dense forest on the shores of Lake 

 Lacar near San Martin on February 8th, where it settles 

 on the bamboo and has exactly the same habits as the next 

 species. On the under-side the male is like puebn/e, but 

 the female has the fore-wing below mucb more like 

 frnticolcns. The white spots on the under-side shown in 

 Gay's fig. 5 h are not in my specimens, and as Gay says, " sin 

 mancha alguna," I presume this is an error of the artist. 

 I think I also saw this species at Puerto Blest on Nahuel- 

 huapi, and Edmonds found it at Valdivia. 



61. Argopteron puehnfe. (Plate XIII, figs. 11 ^, 12 $ .) 

 Cyclopides puelmR>, Calvert, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, p. 34 



(1888). 

 I found this beautiful species very abundant among the 

 bamboo in the dense forest on the Pemehue range at 

 3000 to 4000 feet between Maitenes and Chilpa on January 

 26th, The flight is quite peculiar, and the insect settles on 

 bamboo leaves and also the orange flowers of Alstrcemcria 

 aurantiaca in the sunny openings of the forest. It seems to 

 represent aureipennis in the north, but has a limited range.* 



62. BiitUria fruticolcns. (Plate XIII, figs. 9 ^, 10 ? .) 

 Oyclopides fruticolens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1881, p. 477, PI. XXI, fig. 12. 



* It seems impossible to reproduce by cliromo-litliograph_y the 

 shining gold of the under-side which m.ikes this such a conspicuous 

 insect when flying. 



