HESPERIINjE. 7 



ENTHEUS PRIASSUS.* 



(Plate LXIX. Figs. 2 <?, 3?.) 



Papiho priassus. Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 487, no. 185 



(1758); id. Mus. Ludov. Ulricae, p. 319 (1764). 

 Papilio talaus, Johanssen, Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 407, no. 70 



(1764); Clerck, Icones, pi. 45, fig. i (1764); Linn. Mus. 



Ludov. Ulricae, p. 259 (1764); Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 



393, fig. C. (1782). 



Hesperia talaus, Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 757, no. 81 (1823). 

 Paraminus talaus, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 150 



(1824?). 



This species, which is common in South America, measures 

 about i^ inches across the wings. The male is black, the 

 fore-wings with a broad transverse orange band beyond the 

 middle, generally connected above with an oblique sub-apical 

 band and throwing out a branch from the side towards the 

 lower edge of this band. In the female, the fore-wings have an 

 orange stripe at the base, and two white interrupted bands 

 beyond ; below the first is generally a white spot towards the 

 inner margin, and between the bands a short oblique white 

 stripe. On the hind-wings a broad greenish-white band runs 

 from the inner-margin of the hind-wings to the middle of the 

 wing. 



SUB-FAMILY II. HESPERIIN^. 



Section B. 



Antennae seldom hooked, occasionally bluntly pointed. 

 Palpi : third joint either minute or projected in front of the 

 face, in the latter case stout and not slender as in the Entheus 

 group in Section A ; palpi never curving over the vertex. 

 Fore-wing : cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 

 5 invariably nearer to 6 than to 4. Hind-wing frequently 



* E, talaus on plate. 



