42 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEBIIDiE. [Jau. 17, 



49. Genus Grynopsis, nov. 



Type, coelesle, Westwood. 



Antennte rather long ; club slender, hardly thicker than the shaft, 

 the front edge of shaft fringed with short widely-set bristles. Third 

 joiut of palpi entirely concealed in the clothing of the second joint. 

 Fore wing : outer margin almost half as long again as inner margin ; 

 male with a costal fold ; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of 

 cell ; cell very long, considerably more than two-thirds the length of 

 costa ; discocellulars very oblique, subequal ; vein .5 slightly nearer 

 to 4 than to 6 ; the lower margin of the cell is bent np between 

 veins 3 and 4, lying almost in the same straight line as the disco- 

 cellulars ; vein 3 well before the end of the cell ; vein 2 remote from 

 3, as far from base of wing as 3 is from end of cell. Hind wing 

 produced into a broad lobe, extending from vein 3 to the anal angle ; 

 vein 7 well before end of cell : discocellulars very faint ; vein j barely 

 traceable, much nearer to vein 4 than to G ; vein 3 from end of cell ; 

 vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell thau to base of wing. Hind 

 tibice only with terminal pair of spurs. 



Male with the abdominal margin clothed with long hair-like 



scales. 



ca??«sfo, Westwood 1, 



Inhabits tropical South America. 



liynopsis of Oenera of Hesperiin^. 



Section B. 

 a. Aiilennse : tip acuminate. 



«' Apex of fore wing not truncate. 

 (/-. Outer margin of both wings even or only slightly sinuate (den- 

 tate in JO'iti's). 

 (i\ Apex of fore wing not falcate. 



a^. Third joint of palpi short and inconspicuous. 

 a^. Hind wing conspicuously elongated. 

 ((''. Third joint of palpi sharply conical. 



IsEONOMA, g. n. Ty\)e,2)l(i/o7), Feld. (1) 

 //'■. Third joint of palpi bluntly conical. 



a'. Male with a large patch of sexual scales on outer half 

 of hind wing on upperside. 

 Arteuuotia, Butl., Druce. Type, Iractifpennis, Butl., Dr. (2) 

 If . No sexual patch of scales on upperside of hind wing in 

 male, 

 a'. Vein 2 of hind wing almost equidistant from base of 

 wing and end of cell. 



Soi'HisTA, Plotz. Type, aristofcics, Westw. (;l) 

 /;\ Vein 2, hind wing, twice as far from base of wing as 

 from end of cell. 



SATARurA, Moore. Type, gojiala, Moore, (4) 

 6\ Hind wing not at all or only slightly elongated. 

 «'". Xo costal fold on fore wing of male. 



«'. Lower margin of cell of fore wing not strongly arched 

 between origin of veins 2 and 3. 

 a'. Xo patch of sexual scales on upperside of hind wing 

 in male. 

 «". Hind wing : outer margin sinuate, 

 a'". Third joiut of palpi porrected horizontally. 



