4 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



SUB-FAMILY PYRRHOPYGIN^E. 



ANTENNAE. Club very thick, ending in a blunt point, 

 usually more or less bent into a hook. 



PALPI. Second joint densely scaled, closely pressed against 

 the face ; third joint naked, minute. 



Cell of fore-wing always more than two-thirds the length of 

 costa. No costal fold, or other sexual character on fore-wing 

 of male. Vein 5 of fore-wing nearer to 4 than to 6. Vein 5 

 of hind-wing usually wanting.* Hind tibiae usually with two 

 pairs of spurs. ( Watson.} 



The species of this Sub-family are confined to Tropical 

 America, and are of comparatively large size, averaging about 

 two inches in expanse. They rest with their wings expanded. 



The typical species of this Sub-family is Pyrrhopyga hyperm, 

 Hiibner, a Brazilian Butterfly, measuring two inches across the 

 wings. It is blue-black, with the head and tip of the abdomen 

 red ; the hind-wings have white fringes, and a large pale blue 

 patch on the disc. The under side of the hind-wings is of a 

 light silvery-blue, except on the borders. There are several 

 allied species of Pyrrhopyga (" Fire-tail ") still more simply 

 marked, being blue-black, with white or yellow fringes, and a 

 red head, and tip of abdomen. 



As a representative of this Sub-family we have figured : 



MIMONIADES VERSICOLR. 



(Plate LXIX. Fig. 7.) 



Hesperia versicolcr, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 735, no. 18 

 (1819); Perty, Delectus Anim. Artie, p. 153, pi. 30, figs. 



5, $ (1845). 



* Captain Watson adopts the system by which the marginal nervures ol 

 the wings are numbered from below upwards, the sub-median nervure being 

 numbered I (or \b, when an internal nervure, la, is present). Conse- 

 quently, vein 4 is the upper median nervule, and veins 5 and 6 the lower 

 and upper discoidal (or radial) nervules respectively. 



