1893,] ME. E. T. WATSOK Olf THE HESPEEIID.E. 101 



13. Genus Polites. 



Polites, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 5/ (1872). Type, peckim, Kirby. 



Antennae short, less than half the length of costa ; club short, 

 robust, terminal crook minute. Palpi as in Hylephila. 



Neuration as in Hylephila except that on the fore wing vein 3 is 

 further from end of cell, being almost equidistant from 2 and 4 ; 

 and on the hind wing, tliat vein 2 is nearer to the end of the cell, 

 vein 3 being only slightly nearer to 4 than to 2. " Discal stigma of 

 male consisting of an interrupted, gently arcuate or sinuate streak of 

 dead black retrorse scales or rods edged below, especially in the 

 middle, with a border of similar but dust-coloured erect rods and 

 followed beneath by an inconspicuous large area of loosely com- 

 pacted, erect, dusky scales."' (Scudder, Butt. New Engl. p. 16/9.) 



r Coras, Oram. $ . 

 \ peckiits, Iflrby, ? . 

 [ wamsntfa, HaiTis. c? . 



Confined to North America. 



14. Genus Hylephila. 



Hylephila, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). 



Type, phylceus, Drury. 

 Euthymus, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. .56(1872). 



Type, phyleeus, Drury. 

 Antennae very short, hardly one third the length of costa ; club 

 short, robust, terminal crook exceedingly minute. Palpi : second 

 joint densely scaled, third joint minute, suberect, bluntly conical. 



Fore wing : inner margin slightly longer than outer margin. Cell 

 less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 from close to 

 bottom of cell ; vein 3 very close to end of cell ; vein 2 considerablj' 

 nearer to base of wing than to end of cell, in the female this vein is 

 slightly more remote from base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin 

 even, slightly excised between veins 3 and 1 h ; vein 7 well before 

 end of cell, almost equidistant from 6 and 8 ; discocellulars faint ; 

 vein 5 not traceable ; veins 2, 3, and 4 all close together, 3 about 

 twice as far from 2 as from 4. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs. 

 Male with a linear discal stigma on fore wing, extending from origin 

 of vein 3 as far as vein 1, and edged exteriorly with an outwardly 

 diffused streak of raised scales. 



fhylaus, Drury 1 . 



/asdoZa^a, Blanch. ... 2. 

 fulva, Blaucb 3. 



Confined to America. 



15. Genus Padraona. 



Padraona, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 170 (1881). 



Type, mcBsa, Moore. 



Antennae : club moderate, elongate, with a short terminal crook. 

 Palpi : second joint densely scaled ; third joint short, slender, sub- 

 erect, obtusely conical. 



