514 



HESPERID.E. 



68. GoN. Crinisus Cramer, Pap. pi. 300. f. G. H. (Papilio Cr.) ; Latr. 



Enc. M. IX. p. 750. 

 Brazil. 



69. GoN. Ebusus Cramer, Pap. pi. 300. f. C. D. (Papilio E.). 



Surinam. 



70. GoN. PsECAS Cramer, Pap. pi. 342. f. F. G. (Papilio P.). 



SuriDam. 



71. GoN-. Alcmox Cramer, Pap. pi. 26l. f. D. E. (Papilio A.). 



> 



72. GoN. Artevides Cramer, Pap. pi. 391. f- L. M. (Papilio A.). 



Surinam. 



73. GoN. Zestos Huhner, Zutr. f. 6l5, ()l6. (Proteides Z.). 



Surinam. 



74. GoN. Bethtllus Abbott-Smith, Lep. Georgia, p. 1. t. 22. (Papilio 



B.) ; Latr. Enc. M. i.x. p. 764. ; Boisd. et Leconte, 

 Lep. Am. Septr. pi. 74. (Eudamus B.). 

 Georgia, Virginia. 



75. GoN. AsTTLos Cramer, Pap. pi. 283. f. A. B. (Papilio A.) ; Hubner, 



Vers. n. 1134. (Talides A.). 

 Surinam. 



76. GoN. Broteas Cramer, Pap. pi. 283. f. C. D. (Papilio B.) ; Hubner, 



ferx. n. 1133. (Talides B.) ; Stall, Suppl. Cram.pl. 17. 



f. 6. 



Surinam. 



77. GoN. CoRVTAs Cramer, Pap. pi. 100. f. C. (Papilio C.) ; Hiihner, 



Verz. No. 1085. (Astraptes C). 

 Surinam. 



78. GoN. ViiLPiNus Hubner, Samml. exot. Schm. Band. 11. pi. — 



(Oleides V.). 



? 



79. GoN. OLENirs Hubner, Zutrage, f. 487, 488. (Lychnuchus O.). 



Brazil. 



80. GoN. XiciAs Fobricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 332. (Hesperia N.). 



Cayenne. 



81. GoN. GoDARTii Lair. Enc. M. ix. p. "62. (Hesperia G.). 



Brazil. 



Genus Y. ISMENE Sicainson. 



Castnius p. Hubner. . 



Tht.mele Boisduval (Faune Madagascar). 



Body very robust. Abdomen generally extending nearly to the extremity of the hind wings. 

 Head broad, very thickly clothed with hairs. 



Labial Palpi broad, compressed ; the hairs of the middle joint longest along the inner and outer edge, causing 



the front of the palpus to appear as if having a convex channel, and extending in front about the length of the 



eyes. Terminal joint very slender, porrected horizontall)' about the same length. 

 AntenncB rather short, gradually thickened from the middle into a long club of moderate thickness, which is 



gradually curved and attenuated to the tip. 

 Fore Wings subtriangular. Apical margin regularly but slightly convex ; generally destitute of spots. 

 Hind Wings short and broad ; outer angle and margin very rounded. Anal angle generally produced into a 



slightly developed rounded lobe, destitute of semipellucid spots. 

 Legs (especially the hind tibiaj in the males), generally very densely hairy ; hind tibice with four spurs. 



This genu.? is at once distinguished by its antennre gradually incrassated from the middle to about three fourths of tlieir length, and 

 then as gradually reduced to a fine terminal curved point, as well as by the elongation of the terminal joint of the palpi. The species 

 are natives of the Old World. The tj'pe I. Q3dipodea, from India and the adjacent islands, is distinguished by the male having a large 

 silky blotch near the base of the fore wings, and by the e.xtreme narrowness of the discoidal cell in that sex ; the third branch of 

 the median vein, arising in that sex at scarcely more than the length of one fourth of the wing from the base, and the lower disco- 

 cellul.ar being united to it rather beyond the middle of the wing. The hind tibias, in this sex, are also extremely thick, and the 

 discoidal cell of the hind wings does not extend beyond the origin of the branch of tlie postcostal vein. The African species, including 

 the fine H. Iphis Drury, have the basal portion of the second branch of the median vein of the fore wings, on the contrary, greatly 

 elongated, and the discoidal cell of the hind wings extending some distance beyond the ba?e of the branch of the postcostal vein. The 

 legs of the last named species are less densely clothed with hairs than in the rest of the genus. 



