ATALOPEDES-. THYMELICUS. Bv Dr. .M. JJkaidt. yijl 



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E. morrisonii Edw. (ISOk) is easily recognized by the scent-scale stripe being far prolonged toward 

 the apex by black spots; also in the .-.: this band-shaped, dark marking is very conspicuous. Beneath light 

 reddi.sh-yellinv. marked ferruginous-lirown with a black base of the forewing. Hiudwiug of a deep ferruginous- 

 brown with a silvery white cellular stripe and a white, postdiscal macular band. Colorado. Arizona and Mexico. 



79. Genus: Atalopedes SnlJr. 



Lil<e Eryiniis. liut the terminal joint of the palp obtuse and hidden. Veins as in H ylephila. 



A. canipestris Bsd. (= huron Ediv.. kedema Btlr.) (180 k, 1) is well distinguished by the very broad cuiiipi'sinx. 

 stigma and a broad, blackish-brown margin. The dark 5 shows postdiscal light spots. Beneath much lighter, 

 the spots only feelily traceable. Atlantic States. Arizona, California. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia. 



A. flaveola ildb. resembles the preceding, but it is smaller. Light reddish-yellow, on the forewing ilcrcohi. 

 with a l)i-()ad lilackish-brown distal and costal margin; 3 subapical, small streak-shaped spots, 2 postcellular, 

 small s])ots separated afar, below them a long, notched out spot and 2 more Ix-low it, the three lower ones 

 tout'hing the large, oval, black scent-spot. Hindwing with a broad dark margin, the disc reddish-yellow, dar- 

 kened by grey, bordering on 3 lighter yellow spots. Beneath yellow, marked as above, hindwing greyish-yellow, 

 at the proximal margin yellow with 5 lighter postdiscal spots. The f is lighter, in the disc more brownish. 

 Expanse of wings: 26 to 27 mm. Porto Cabello. 



A. mesogramma Lntr. (^ canaxa Heir.) (isol) is an unt-ommonly large, deviating species. Above 

 in the j' reddish- j^ellow. in the i more spotted whitish. Easily recognizable by the hindwing beneath being 

 marked w ith a broad white band and a small celhiiar spot before it -. in the ^ it is slightly tinted yellow. Biazil. 

 ( 'uba. 



80. Genus: Tliymelicus Hbn. 



Likewise very closely allied to the genus HylepJiila and not different in the veins. Palpal terminal 

 joint very short, scarcely visible, bent forward. The ,^ scent-scale stripe consists of 2 rows of dull black 

 scales, the distal one being linear, the proximal ones somewdiat bent, between them scales of a somewhat 

 leaden lusti'c. 



Th. vibex Hbn. (= praeceps iScddr., lumida Alschlr., goleuia Mschlr., stigma Skinner, combinata rihc.r. 

 Plotz. zenckei Plotz) (181 a). Above reddish-yellow, towards the margin broadly darkened, with wedge-shaped, 

 l)lack internerval spots on the forewing; the broad stigma rests on a black spot which is towards the apex con- 

 tinued beyond it. Beneath lighter yellow, base of forewing black, hindwing with minute spots. Central America. 

 .Mexico. Colombia. 



Th. sulfurina Mab. (= catilina Plotz) (181 a) is similai-, of a light sulphur-colour, the long, black oblicpie ■•'iii/nriiKi 

 stripe of the forew ing coherently extending in the shape of a band to the apex. Hindwing darker with but 

 few yellow spots. Beneath the hindwing is strewn with a greenish-grey. Biazil. Cayenne. 



Th. phorniio Mub. is as large as vibex. Forewing yellow, at the apex and distal margin black with rln.niiid. 

 a black oblique band as far as the inner-marginal vein at the base; costal margin yellow. Hindwing red-brown, 

 in the disc yellow. Forewing beneath as in vibex, but more yellow, distal margin almost quite yellow. Hindwing 

 yellow with a series of 5 black dots and before it 3 or 4. Brazil. 



Th. brettus Bsd. ({■ Lee. (= wingina Seddr., unna Plotz, margarita Plotz) (181 a) is similar to vibex, hrriius. 

 but nuich lighter, the marginal darkening almost absent, only the wedge-.shaped spots before the margin being 

 present; hindwing quite reddish-yellow with a black distal margin, very much like H. phylaeus. Beneath discer- 

 nible by darker and larger spots. The $ is (piite dark brown with very small reddish-yellow spots on the forewing. 

 .Vtlantic States. Larva on herbs. — f. brettoides Edir. (= clara Plcitz) (180 k) is very much lighter with a hrrit„idrs. 

 very narrowly darkened distal margin, especially the 5 has much larger, yellow ish-red spots. Beneath greyer 

 with only vt'ry small punctiform spots. California. 



Th. mystic Scddr. (181 b) above very much resembles E. inorrisott,ii by the long extent of the black mi/s/ir. 

 oblicpK' spot: also the $ is similar. Beneath reddish-yellow at the costa and basal area of the forewing; the 

 rest and the hindwing ferruginous-ljrown with light spots, inner-margiiuii part light brown. Atlantic States. 



Th. erynnioides Dyar is above yellowish-red, at the base blackish and with a broad black distal rrnmiio'iilr.- 

 nuirgin with 3 small, reddish-yellow subapical dots therein; the stigma is broad, somewhat bent, above bor- 

 dered with a deep black, beneath spotted black ; hindwing reddish-yellow, narrowly bordered with black. Beneath 

 the hindwing is reddish-yellow, at the proximal margin lighter with a straight row of white spots through the 

 middle, one below the cell, one in the cell-end aiul one above it, the lower and upper spot being proximally 

 liordered with black. In the V the hindwing beneath is more greenish-yellow, only at the proximal margin 

 rcddish-yi'llnw , the white spots small, Imt all aicumd bordered with black. California. 



