HESPERIA Cynisca. 



Generic Character. — See PI. 28. 



Specific Character. 



Hjssp. (Div. Q.) alls nigrescente-fuscis, subtus obscurioribus ; antkin supra 

 fascia Jiuva, triftssa (in feminis alba) ; posticis subtics immacidatis, casta- 

 ■nco-fuscis, margine exteriore Jiavo. 



Hesp. (Div. 2.) Wings blackish-brown; anterior above with a three-cleft 

 yellow band, which in the female is white; posterior beneath imma- 

 culate, chesnut-brown, margined externally with yellow. 



1 HE different sexes of this insect will appear so strikingly dis- 

 similar to those Avho are familiarised only with the nice distinc- 

 tions that separate the species of European Lepidoptera, that 

 this affinity by such may be doubted ; nevertheless, observations 

 in their native country, and the close examination of several spe- 

 cimens, will we are persuaded confirm the fact. 



The male insect is distinguished (like all the Ilesperi(kc) by 

 having the eyes considerably larger, and the anterior wings more 

 narrowed than in the other sex : in this species the bands on 

 their wings assume the form of three yellowish spots, adjoining 

 ^vhich, on the inner side, is a semi-lunular villous mark, an al- 

 most constant indication (where it exists) of this sex. The straw- 

 coloured border beneath the posterior wings is narrower and 

 darker than in the female ; but in both it forms a slender mar- 

 ginal fringe on the upper surface. Legs deep rufous ; antennse 

 black; the club beneath and lunule round the eye straw-coloured. 



Inhabits South Brazil, but is not common. 

 PI. 40. 



