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BRACHYCORYNE; HESPERIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



brunnea. M. brunnea H.-Schiiff. is extremely allied to the following, it is smaller with smaller hyaline spots. 



jamaicensis. Described from Cuba. — f. jamaicensis Mschlr. (178 i) is pi'obably only a local form from Jamaica. Large, 

 monotonously blackish -brown above and beneath with 3 minute subapical dots and 2 more near the mara'in 

 below them. 



zcphodcs. M. zephodes Hhn. (178 i) has nothing to do with Ephyriades otreus Cr. as was erroneously considered 



hitherto. Very similai- to the preceding, somewhat smaller, and with narrower wings, blackish-brown with 

 5 minute, white subapical dots and 2 more proximally placed dots below them, and another one in the upper 

 cell-angle. Beneath somewhat lighter with traces of darker transverse bands across the hindwing. The $ has 

 much larger hyaline spots and 2 faded dark transverse bands before and in the middle, between which the 

 ground is partly dusted bluish-grey. Cuba, Bahamas. 



63. Genus: Bi*aeli.v*M»ryne Mab. 



Antennal club with an obtuser end, shaft short, not curled. Costal fold verj- strongly fringed with long 

 hair-scales, inside bare. The middle and posterior tibiae exhibit long slender hair-pencils, the posterior tibiae 

 2 pair of short spurs, the anterior tibiae with end-spurs. Only one species: 



areas. B, arcas Drury (= flyas Cr., velasquez Luc.) (178 i). Large, monotonously dark blackish-broAvn, 



above without any marking. Beneath somewhat lighter, at the proximal margin of the forewing yellowish- 

 grey with traces of a darker postdiscal band. Hindwing with 2 antemarginal, faded, lighter, dentate bands. 

 Panama (Chiriqui), Hayti, St. Thomas, Cuba. 



64. Genus: Hesperia F. 



This genus being distributed across the whole world except xVustralia has been dealt with more at large 

 in the palearctic part. Briefly worded, the antennal club is rather obtuse, the palpi are erect, the second joint 

 clad with hair-scales, the terminal joint slender, oblicj^uely upturned. Forewing with or without a costal fold, 

 posterior tibiae with 2 pair of spurs with or without hair-pencils. The homogeneousness of the Amei-ican species 

 is .still very uncertain; there are probably half a dozen species at most. 



a) W i t h a costal fold a n d h a i r - p e n c i 1 (Scelothri.r Biiih.). 



syrichitiK. H. syrichtus F. (= orcus Cr., oileus Ww., tartarus Hbn.) (178 k) is extremely variable as most of the 



other species. Above brownish-grey verging into black, particularly towards the base very much haired whitish- 

 grey with white macular bands covering more or less the whole surface of the wings. Beneath the hindwing 

 is white with 2 irregular light grey or brownish dentate bands which are finely bordered with black, and with 

 high marginal bows. Most widely distributed from Mexico to Paraguay, everywhere common. 



cenimircac. H. cetltaureae Rmb. (= wyandot Edn\, ruralis Bsd.). This species figured in the palearctic part (Vol. I 



t. 86 a) occurs also in the northern Atlantic States. The white spots are much smaller than in syrichtus, the 

 white hairing more scanty, beneath on the hindwing the bands are darker, more coherent. 



philcias. H. philetas Edw. resembles moniivaga (178 k) above, but it has smaller spots. The hindwing beneath 



is quite different white with a yellowish tint, basal and discal areas more whitish, without a discal band, scantily 

 streaked brown; 3 small streak-spots at the costal margin are more distinct; behind the middle are 3 rows of 

 most minute spots, the most proximal row only composed of small brown dots; in the smoky brownish marginal 

 area minute, white moon-spots. Described according to a specimen from West Texas. 



.•oripiiim. H. scriptura Bsd. (178 k) is smaller than centaureae, the hindwing quite \uispottecl except a double 



white discal spot; fringes more purely white. On the forewing the submarginal macular band seems to be 

 more pointedly broken below the apex. California, Arizona. Montana. 



hoffhoris. 

 fulvovilla- 



H. bocchoris Heir. The description of this Bolivian species was not accessible to us. 



H. fulvovittatus Btlr. resembles above americmius (179 b) except the more strongly smoked discal 

 band of the hindwing. Beneath the hindwing is white with 4 orange tran.sverse bands, an indistinct one at 

 the base, a very irregular, oblique one behind the basal third, a curved, dentate one through the middle, being 

 here and there bordered with brown and being separated from a narrow marginal band only by a row of small, 

 white moon-spots; proximal margin broad white. From Chile. 



