CORADES. TAYGETIS. 



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Anterior Legs of the female rather slender, clothed with scales and a few long fine hairs. Femur and tihia of 

 about equal length, the latter nearly cylindric ; the apex slightly stoutest, thinly spiny both within and 

 without. Tarsus shorter than the tibia, five-jointed ; the first joint more than twice the length of the rest 

 combined ; these all transverse : first to fourth bispinose at the apex ; second and fifth with a tuft of hair on 

 each side at the base. 

 Middle and Posterior Feet Avith the femora rather stout. The tibite very spiny all round; their spurs stout. 

 The tarsi densely spiny above, and, except the fifth joint, spiny below ; the spines below arranged somewhat in 

 two series. The first joint longer than the rest combined ; second about one third the length of the first ; 

 third three fourths the length of the second ; fourth rather more than half the length of the third ; fifth not 

 quite so long as the third. Claws curved, acute, grooved below. Paronychia bilaciniate ; the outer lacinia 

 slendei', pointed, not so long as the claw; the inner lancet-shaped, much broader than, and nearly as long as, 

 the outer, very hairy. Pulvillus jointed, broad, not so long as the claws. 

 " Abdomen rather short, not robust. 



" This interesting genus appears to be almost confined to the eastern slopes of the Andes, and to the great branch of that mountain 

 range which runs along the northern parts of South America. Nearly all the specimens of the five or six species belonging to it, 

 existing in British collections, were sent home by Mr. Bridges from the eastern parts of Bolivia, and by Mr. Dyson from Caraccas. 

 The peculiar sexual scales on the disc of the anterior wings of the males resemble those of the males in most species of this family, in 

 being long, tapering to a delicate hair-like point, at the end of which is a little plumelet. 



" In form, this genus approaches the P. Actorion of Linnaeus [Bia Actorion, anfr, p. 322.] ; but that Insect belongs to the preceding 

 family of Morphidas." — E. Doubledaij, in Illinitr. Proceed! iir/s of the Zool. Soc. 184S. 



In addition to the preceding characters and observations given by Mr. E. Doubleday, it may be stateJ, that no other species in the 

 present family has the hind wings so much elongated at the anal angle (the tail being traversed by the extremity of the first branch of 

 the median vein) ; that the colours of the upper surface of the wings are rich chestnut and brown, with orange sjiots on the fore wings ; 

 and that the tips of the fore wings beneath, and the whole of the disc of the hind wings, are much freckled transversely, the latter being 

 paler-coloured, with two oblique slender l)ar3 running across the wings, the outer one followed by a pale bar ; the ocelli wanting, or 

 reduced to minute circular dots on the hind wings alone. 



CORADES. 



1. Cor. Env<i. 



Cordes Enyo Hen-its. in ///. Prnc. Zool. Sor. July 2.6. 

 1848, p. 117., Annulosa, pi. iv. 

 Caraccas. B. M. 



2. Cor. Iiiuna. 



Corades Iduna Heii-its. MS.; Doubl. lVestv\ ^^ HewiU, 

 Gen. Diiirri. Lep. pi. 6'3. f. 1.; Hewits. in Annals Sj 

 Miiff. iV. Hist, ser. 2. vol. vi. p. 437. 

 Bolivia. ' B. M. 



3. Cor. Pannonia. 



Corades Paiinoiiia Hewits. Ann. 4- May. JV. Hist. ser. 

 2. vol. vi. p. 438. pi. 10. f. 1, 2. 

 Venezuela. B. M. 



4. C'o». Clk.ita. 



Corades Ulema Hewits. op. cit. vol. vi. p. 438. pi. 10. 

 f. ?,. 

 Bolivia. B. M. 



!>. CoR. Medeba. 



Corades Medeba Hewits. op. eit. vol. vi. p. 43Q. pi. 10. 

 f. 4. 

 Bolivia. B. M. 



(). Cor. Sareba. 



Corades Sareba Hewits. op. eit. vol. vi. p. 43.q. pi. 10. 

 f. 5. 

 Bolivia. B. M. 



Genus Til. TAYGETIS. 



TayCxEtis Hiihner, Verz. hek. Schm. 

 Oreades marmorEjE Hiilmer, Samml. 

 Faunus BI (Diehard, Voy. d'Orbigni/. 

 Satyrus Sect. F. G. &"H. p. God'. 

 Satyrus E. Doubleday, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. 



Body elongate, slender; wings large; fore Avings often pointed at ihp tip; hind wings generally scalloped or dentate. 

 Head of moderate size, hairy, with a slight frontal tuft. 

 Eyes prominent, naked. 

 Antemue short, slender, not more than two fifths of the length of the fore -wings ; terminated by a lono- and 



gradually formed rather slender club, composed of very short joints, finely carinated beneath at the sides. 

 Labial Palpi porrected upwards, ascending as high as, or higher than, the level of the top of the eyes, scaly on 

 the back, which has a small brush in the middle of the second joint ; the front furnished with a dense, greatly 

 compressed, brush of long scaly hairs ; terminal joint slender, distinct, with a few scaly hairs. 



Mareh ]. 1851. ' 5 ^ 



