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ERYCINIDJ^:. 



b. Eyes hirsute. Upper disco-cellular vein of Fore Wings short, longitu- 

 dinal. (Notheme Westw.) 



2. Them. (Notheme) Oubanub. 



Hesperia Ouranus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 317- 

 n. 200. ; Cramer, Pap. pi. 335. f. C.*; Jones, Icon. vi. 

 t. 55. f. 4. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 574. n. 49. ; E. 

 Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mm. pt. 2. p. 5. (Eurygona? 

 O.). 

 BffiOtis Uranus Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 21. n. 157- 

 Guiana, Brazil, Columbia. B. M. 



B. Hind Wings angulated at the anal angle. Eyes naked. Upper disco, 

 cellular vein of Fore Wings obsolete. Upper discoidal arising at a 

 short distance beyond the discoidal cell. (Monethe Westw.) 



3. Them. Monethe Alphonsus. 



Hesperia Alphonsus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. m. pt. 1. p. 

 308. n. 171.; Jones, Icon. vi. t. 55. f. 3.; Godart 

 Enc. 31. IX. p. 586. n. 108. (Erycina A.) ; E. Doubl. 

 List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 17. (Limnas Alph.). 

 Surinam, Brazil, Bolivia. B. M. 



Genus XXXV. SISEME. 



SiSEME Westwood. 

 EuBYGONA p. E. Doubleday. 



Body moderately robust ; wings dark-coloured, with a broad bar of white across the disk of all the wings; the hind 

 ones narrowed to the anal angle, near which is a small transverse reddish spot. 



Head small, slightly tufted in front of the face. 



Eves moderate-sized, finely hirsute. . j . i .i- i i i, 



AntemicB slender; joints rather indistinct, slightly ringed with white; terminated by a long moderately thick club, 



obtuse at the tip, and slightly incurved. , , „ , • n, ,- xi. a i 



Labial Palpi small, porrected obliquely upwards to about the level of the middle of the eyes, compressed, scaly, 

 slightly hairy beneath; the terminal joint slender, elongate, conic-ovate, visible m front ot the hairs of the face 



from above. 

 Thorax moderately robust, and finely hairy. . , 



Fore Winq.. of moderate size, subtrigonate. Costal margin nearly straight, except at the base and apex ; ap.ca 

 angle subacute. Apical margin slightly convex, entire. Postcostal vein with three branches; the first and 

 second arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, and the third considerably beyond it. Upper 

 disco-cellular vein obsolete; the upper discoidal arising at a short distance beyond the discoidal cell : the middle 

 and lower disco-cellular veins forming an arch, uniting with the third branch of the median vein close to 



Bind TT'^w^v.J elongate, being produced towards the anal angle; the posterior margin in the typical species bemg 

 somewhat obliquely emarginate from the outer to near the anal angle. The upper disco-cellular vein arising 

 close to the branch of the postcostal vein, and the lower one uniting with the third branch of the median vein 



close to its origin. , , , t • i i n -u i • 



Fore Leas of the male rather longer than usual, slender, and densely clothed with long fine silky hairs. 

 Four Hind Leas long (especially the middle femora), clothed with long fine scales, raid the femora moderately 

 beneath with lon|ish hairs. Tibite with a few very short fine spines beneath. Tarsi more thickly spined 

 beneath, especially at the tips of the joints. 

 Abdomen small, elongate-conic. 



anal anc^le), these insects come very close to those species of Nymphidium which have similarly shaped ami marked wings, such as 

 N Behse and a fine uudescribed species (N. Lycorias) destitute of tlte bU.e tints of the male ot Bel.se. The veins of the wmg are 

 So arranged in nearK the same ulanner,^ but the eyes are finely hirsute. The species have a certain resemblance also with some o he 

 specle'of Erycina, especially in the form of the hind wings and the orange red spot near tlje anal angle ; but Uie arrangement of the 

 wing veins at once proves that the affinity of the genus is much neai-er to Nymphidmm. 

 British Museum collection, one only of which has been hitherto described. 



There are four species of this genus in the 



(j'.init' 



r's t^nire appears to have been .lra«„ fron. a nuMiU.te,! Kp<cinien, as it represents the hind wings as angulated at the anal angle. 



