906 STAPHYLUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



cvcmcrus. St. evemerus G. d- S. (176 g) is blackish-brown with 3 indistinct, darker transverse bands than 



the other species, the (J without, the $ with 3 snbapical dots. Palpi below ochreous-;yellow intermixed with 

 black hairs. Genital organs very different. Costa Rica. 



vnifascia. St. uilifascia lf«&. (176 g) has more blackish-grey wings, the c? with one, the $ with 2 subapical dots, 



with a darkened basal area. Palpi below whitish. Mexico, Honduras, Panama. 



ciipreiccps. St. cupfciceps Mab. (176 g). Blackish-brown with a bronze tint, at the base darker; forewing with a 



faded, reddish postdiscal band; hind wing with a black postmedian macular band, the margin darkened more 

 in the shape of a band. Beneath with a more yellowish tone and more distinct bands. Palpi, head and collar 

 orange-coppery. Mexico to Bolivia and East Brazil. 



mirocapilla. St. aurocapiUa Stgr. (= vulgata Mschh.) (176 h) is most similar, smaller, palpi below dull yellowish- 



white, the genital apparatus quite different. The (^ without, the $ with 3 subapical dots. From Mexico to 

 Argentina. 



fliiripalpis. St. flavipalpjs Plolz (176 h) has somewhat longer extended forewings of a dark blackisji-brown 



colour with the usual, faded, broad, dark transverse bands and 3 subapical dots, the middle dot being removed 

 somewhat proximally. Beneath somewhat lighter brown. Face and palpi below ochreous-yellow. Copiapo 

 (Chile). 



ccos. St. ceos Ediv. differs from mirocapilla by the longer palpi being below purely white. Forewing of 



the (^ with 2, of the $ with 3 subapical hyaline dots. Arizona, Mexico. 



ascalori. St. ascalon Stgr. is closely allied to mr/zaws (176 f), but larger. Particularly different by the hindwing 



beneath being dark only in the costal-marginal part, but in the proximal area light whitish-grey, especially 

 at the anal angle. At the costa of the forewing 3 very minute dots below each other, a larger hyaline spot at 

 the cell-end and behind it another fine one recognizable with the lens. Described according to 1 (J fi'om 

 Novo Fribiu'go in South Brazil. 



epicasie. St. epicaste Mab. is above blackish-brown; on the forewing extend 2 almost straight transverse 



bands, one in the disc, the second postdiscally, touching neither the costal margin nor proximal margin; in 

 the median band there are 2 hyaline dots at the co.stal margin; margin narrowly darkened; on the hindwing 

 both bands are angled. Beneath more reddish-brown with extinct bands. Palpi below white. Expanse of 

 wings: 22 mm. Brazil. 

 cupreus. St. cupreus Mab. Wings black, above indistinctly undulate, with 3 very small white apical dots, 



thorax and vertex with a coppery lustre. Beneath the wings are black, at the costal margin paler, hindwings 

 blacker. Brazil. 

 phylo. St. phylo Mab. Blackish-brown; forewing with a light, ochreous antemarginal band and a qua- 



drangular cell-spot; 3 minute subapical hyaline dots. The hindwing exhibits a similar, undulate band parallel 

 to the distal margin and 2 in the disc. Beneath the distal margin is broadly lighter. Palpi below white, apex 

 blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Brazil. 

 hilarina. St. hilarina Mab. is the size of Zopyrion satyrina Fldr. (177 h). Reddish blackish -brown, margin 



somewhat convex. On the forewing before the distal margin a narrow, spotted, lighter, reddish band, on the 

 hindwing it is broader though more extinct. Beneath the same, at the distal margin lighter; hindwing in the 

 anal half whitish. Described from Para. 

 tyro. St. tyro Mnb. is as large as mazan.s (176 f); above black with traces of a reddish antemarginal line, 



in the disc of the hindwing strewn reddish. The under surface is lighter, at the distal margin of the forewing 

 somewhat lighter; the hindwing shows a reddish-grey antemarginal line and two similar cell-dots. Palpi yellow- 

 ish, at the apex black. Brazil, Venezuela. 

 Irira. St. tctra Mab. entirely resembles the following pullata, but it is more of a slate-colour, with 3 sub- 



apical dots and a narroAver marginal band. Fringes broader black. Forewing at the apex more pointed. From 

 Cayenne. 

 pullafa. St. pullata Mab. The broad wings are brownish-black, hindwing quadrilaterally rovmded. On all 



the wings there is an indistinct marginal band tinted ochreous, parallel to the distal margin, the hindwing with 

 a similar cell-dot; on the forewing 2 quite minute subapical hyaline dots. Beneath coloured the same, the mar- 

 ginal band fused with the lighter distal margin, the light cell-dot of the hindwing more distinct. Brazil. 

 ::<>riUa. St. zoriUa Plotz (176 li) is unknown to me in nature; it is said to be very closely allied to giselus 



(176 f), but it has 2 distantly separated subapical hyaline dots; it is much smaller with a whitish costal fold of 

 the J. Panama. 

 cordnvaniis. St. cordovaiius Ploiz {= tucumanus Plotz ex errore) (176 h) is a very small species with a very 



minute hyaline dot far away from the apex. Hindwing towards the proximal margin somewhat lighter brown. 

 From Cordova (Argentina). 

 chloroccpha- St. chloroccphala Plot- (176 h) is a small species: blackish-brown with 2 black macular bands, a golden 



"• green head and collar, and easily recognizable by the hindwing being beneath in the anal half of a bluish whitish- 

 grey colour, traversed by 2 undulate brown transverse lines. Brazil. 



