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Gen. Hesperocharts Felder, 1862. 
dype:) Hs erota. 
Hesperocharis erota. 
Wings ample; primaries with determinate apices:and straight 
outer margin. Radius four-branched. 1 alone in original posi- 
tion above the cell; #2, 3 and 4 + 5 short branchlets near apex, 
Cell closed. 4/1 still from cross-vein. Secondaries with truncated 
humeral spur, nearly straight. Space between J/2 and 173 wide, 
and here the discoidal vein is distinctly angulate superiorly. Anal 
angle determined. 
This genus and its ally fall below the Anthocharids with four- 
branched radius, in that J/1 has not ascended radius, but springs 
from cross-vein before upper angle of cell. I have corresponded 
with Mr. W. F. Kirby on the subject, who imforms me that he 
believes that Hesperocharis might well be subdivided. I find one 
type among my material which I venture to separate without being 
able to review all the described species described under Hespero- 
charis. HH. graphites Bates, a very pale lemon-colored species from 
Mexico, agrees with the type of Hesperocharis in shape of wing, 
and, as far as I can see without preparing the wings, exactly in neu- 
ration. 
Cunizza n. g. 
Type: C. hirlanda. 
Cunizza hirlanda. 
Wings ample ; primaries with rounded apices and outer margin 
sweeping inwardly. Neuration like’ Hesferocharis; terminal 
branchlets of the four-brancled radius longer. Secondaries with 
space between JZ2 and 4/3 narrower, the cross-vein here shorter 
and not angulate. Humeral spur truncate, clearly turning to base 
of wing. 
The principal distinction lies in the shape of the wings, which 
in this respect, color and ornamentation approach the line /Veo- 
phasia-Perrhybris. The neuration is more generalized and entirely 
different from Perrhybris pyrrha, which it seems to copy. 
Although, from the pattern, the temptation is to consider Cunizza 
a generalized Perrhydris, the markings of the former culminating 
in the latter, still it is not possible to bring Cunizza hirlanda into a 
relation with Perrhydris pyrrha, through the neuration. In Perrhy- 
bris Rit and 2 spring from the above discal cell, the Pierine 
