PYRRHOPYGA. ERYCIDES. 



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The types of this genus are at once known by the thickly curved club of the antcnnse, and by tlic head, as well as the 

 tail, being more or less clothed with scarlet or orange hairs. They are natives of South America. Several of the species which I 

 have introduced at the end of the genus, differ from the types in wanting the scarlet hairs of the head and tail, in the more variegated 

 markings of the wings, and in the fringe of the hind wings being varied with black spots.. 



PYRRHOPYGA. 



1. Pvn. Thasis Cram. Pap. pi. 380. f. M. N. (Papilio Th.) ; Latr. 



Enc. 31. IX. 73.". 

 Hesperia Zeleucus Fahriciiis, Ent. Syst. in. i. .'346. ; 

 Donovan, Ins. India, pi. 51. f. 3.; Swaison, Zool. III. 

 1st series, pi. 33. (Tamyris Z.). 

 Brazil, Surinam. 



2. Pvu. M^ENAs Fabricius, Ent. Sysl. iii. i. 3+7. (Hesperia M.) ; Latr. 



Enc. M. IX. 733. 



Papilio Bixse Cramer, Pap. pi. I99. f. C. 1). (not of Lin- 

 naeus). 



Papilio Phidias Linnmus, Syst. Nat. 1. 2. p. 1Q5. (ex 

 parte); Clerck, Icones, t. 44. f. 1. 2. 



Pyrrhopyga Hyperici Hiibner, Zutr. f. 27 li 272. 

 Surinam, Cayenne. 



3. Pyb. Phidias Linnceus, Syst. N. f. 1.2. p. ipS. (fsem. Papilio Ph.) ; 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. 11. 90. ; Latr. Enc. M. ix. 734. ; 

 Clerck, Icon. pi. 44. f. 3, 4. 

 Papilio Acastus Cramer, Pap. pi. 199. f- E., and pi. 41. 

 f. C. D. (var.); Stall. Suppl. Cr. pi. 7. f. 3. C. D. 

 (Larva and Pupa). 

 Cayenne, Surinam. 



4. Pyr. Amyclas Cramer, Pap. pi. I99. f. F. (Papilio A.); Clerck, 



Icon. pi. 44. f. 5, 6. 

 Hesperia Amiatus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iji. pt. 1. p. 347. ; 

 Latr. Enc. M. ix. p. 734. 

 Surinam, Cayenne. 



5. Pyr. Chabybdis Westw. 3IS. (Pyrrhopyga Ch.) Douhl. Westw. J^- 



Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 78. f. 2. 



B. M. 



6. Pyr. Nurscia Swainson, Zool, III. 1st series, i. pi. 6I. (Tamyris N.)- 



South America .' 



7. Pyr. Laonome Swainson, Zool. III. 1st series, pi. Cl. (Tamyris L.). 



South America ? 



8. PvB. Xanthippe Latr. Ent. M. ix. p. 734. (Hesperia X.) ; Douhl. 



Westw. S)- Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 78. f. 1. (Pyrrho- 

 pyga X.). 

 Brazil. Mus. Boisduval. 



9. Pyr. versicolor Latr. Enc. M. ix. p. 735. (Hesperia V.); Perty, 



Delect. An. Art. Brasilia', pt. iii. ; Lncas, Lepid. ea'ot. 

 pi. 80. 

 Mimoniades Mulcifer Hiibner, Zutrage, f. 413, 414. 

 Brazil. 



10. Pyr. Ocyalus Hiibner, Zutr. f. 353, 354. (Mimoniades O.). 



Brazil. 



11. Pyr. Machaon Westw. Jlf^. (Eryeides M.) ; Doitbl. Westw. ^^ Hewits. 



Gen. D. Lep. pi. 78. f. 3. 

 Brazil. B. M. 



12. Pyr. Assaricus Cramer, Pap. pi. 261. f. F. G. (Papilio A.); Latr. 



Enc. M. IX. p. 735. 

 Hesperia Alsarius Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 343. 

 Brazil. 



13. Pyb. Renaldus Stoll. Suppl. Cram. Pap. pi. 13. f. 1. (Papilio R.). 



Surinam. 



14. Pyr. Vclcanus Cramer, Pap. pi. 245. f. C. D. (Papilio V.). 



Hesperia Polyzona Latr. Enc. M. ix. p, 73C. ; Seba, Mus. 



p. 4. pi. 20. f. 12, 13. 

 Brazil, Surinam, Cayenne. 



Genus II. ERYCIDES. 



Erycides, Pyrrhopyga p., Phocides p., Castnius p. Ilubner. 



General characters of Pyrrhopyga. 

 Head occasionally clothed with red hairs. 



Labial Palpi, as seen from above, forming two short square projections in front of the face, with a small space 



between them. Terminal joint small. 

 Antenna; moderately elongate, not ringed ; terminated by an elongate, rather robust club, the tip of which is 



suddenly recurved, forming a slender hook, half or two-thirds of the length of the club itself. 

 Wings of moderate size. Fore Wings elongate-triangular ; the apical margin but slightly convex towards the tip ; 



discoidal cell oreatly elongate ; the extremity very attenuated, in consequence of the lower disco-cellular 



vein springing Irom the thu-d branch of the median much nearer its base than in the last genus, and being 



more elevated towards the costa. 



