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17. Genus: Azoiiax G. «. S. 



Distinguished from the most closely allied genera by the entire-margined hindwings being only on 

 the upi^er radial somewhat angular. The antennal club is obtuser than in the preceding, and in contrast with 

 the allied genera the upper median and the lower radial of the hindwing are not petioled. 1 species: 



A. typhaon Hew. (16.5 e) looks like a Myscelus: above rusty brown with one large, quinquepartitc. tijphaon. 

 discal vitreous spot and 4 small apical ones, between them at the costal margin 2 more of them. The iiindwing 

 exhibits one large, round, white antemedian spot and a row of black dots l)ehind it, two of which are pupilled 

 white. Nicaragua. 



18. Genus: Oxynetra Fldr. 



Differs from all the other Pyrrhopyginae by the straight transverse vein of the forewing. On the hindwing 

 the middle radial vein is absent; the antennal club is rather pointed. 



0. felderi Hpfj. (I(35b) is like the other very similar species of a greenish black with very large jeUrri. 

 vitreous spots. The present species has a red ring round the 2nd abdominal segment. On the forewing the 

 very large discal hyaline area is .separated from the subapical one only by a small, narrow black stripe. Brazil 

 to Peru. 



0. semihyalina Fldr. (165 b) has no red-brown abdominal ring and a very much larger subapical semihya- 

 vitreous spot separated from the discal one by a broad black band. Towards the margin on the veins pearl- ''""• 



coloured dust-stripes. Body and mesothorax are metallic green. Colombia. 



0. confusa Mab. (= annulata Stgr.) (165 b) is similar, but the subapical vitreous spot is oval, not coyifu^a. 

 square as in the preceding, parallel with the margin there is behind it a band dusted with a pearl-colour, growing 

 narrower towards the proximal angle. The $ described as annulatus has quite black wings without any vitreous 

 spots and a red-ringed abdomen. Described from Peru. 



0. hopfferi Stgr. (165 b) differs from the preceding by a much narrower vitreous band of the forewing, hopffrri. 

 being only traversed by the median and its branches, by the absence of a white spot below the large double 

 vitreous spot of the hindwing, and particularly by 5 bright orange-red transverse band on the dorsum of the 

 abdomen; venter in the middle curled white. Shoulder-covers spotted orange. From the Chiriqui. 



S u b f a m i 1 y : Hesperiinae Wts. 



A large subfamily with not always uniform marks, so that a separation into two groups was necessary, 

 so as to arrange in some degree the great number of forms. There are very large animals with extreme resem- 

 blances to certain genera of the Pyrrhopyginae, down to small species. All have either a very short or horizontally 

 projecting 3rd palpal joint, which is never bent up vertically. On the forewing there is never a discal stigma. 



Group A. 



The specie.s of this group mostly have the antennal elub Ijeiit round like a hook, sometimes in the sliape of a 

 sickle always terminating into a fine point. The chief mark of distinction from the 2nd group is the length of the cell of the 

 forewing, always amounting to more than "3 of the length of tlie costal margin. The transv^erse vein generally runs very obliquely: 

 the middle radial vein never rises very near to one of the neighbouring branches. On the hindwing, often exhibiting a tail 

 or a tooth on the submedian vein, the middle radial vein is always rudimentary. The J usually exhibits on the forewing 

 an inverted costal-marginal fold which is inside covered with scent-scales, often a hair-tuft on one of the wings or on the tibiae 

 mostly having two pair of spurs, and a spine on the anterior tibiae. This group is almost exclusively confined to the nearctic 

 region, oidy very few species being found in the old world. 



1. Genus: PIioci«les Hbn. 



Distinguished by a spindle-shaped antennal club on which only the fine tip is turned round like a 

 hook. The thickly scaled 2nd palpal joint, being closely appressed to the forehead, is of a broad square shape, 

 the very short 3rd joint being scarcely visible. The lower discocellular of the forewing is the longest and strongly 

 curved. The lower median vein rises twice as far away from the upper one as from the base, the upper one 

 close before the cell-end. The hindwing is much prolonged towards the anal angle, but it does not show a real 

 tail. The tropical parts of South America homes about two dozen of species. 



Ph. oreades Heir. (165 e) resembles about Mimoniades sela (163 f), but in the basal area of the forewing oreades. 

 there are, like in all the convergent Hesperiinae, longitudinal rays, in contrast with the basal transverse bands 



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