42 MK. E. Y. AYATSON ON THE HESPERHD.E. [JaU. 17, 



49. Genus Grynopsis, nov. 



Type, coeleste, Westwood. 



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

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

 joint 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 up between 

 veins 3 and -1, 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 .") barely 

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

 vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Ilind 

 tibioo only with terminal pair of spurs. 



Male with the abdominal margin clothed with long hair-like 

 scales. 



ca-k'stc, Westwood 1. 



Inhabits tropical South America. 



Synopsis of Genera of Hkspkriin.e, 



Section B. 

 a. AiilennsB : tip aciiiuiuate. 



«' Apex of fore wing not trimcate. 



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

 tate in Erifcs). 

 ir\ Apex of fore wing not falcate. 



a'. Tliird joint of palpi short and inconspicuous. 

 ri'\ Hind wing conspicuously elongated. 

 </". Tliird joint of palpi sliarply conical. 



IS'eoxoma, g. u. Tj\w, plaUr», Feld. (1) 

 //'. Third joint of palpi bluntly conical. 



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

 of hind wing on upj^erside. 

 AuTEURiU'iA, Butl., Druce. Type, Ircutipeniris, Butl., Dr. (2) 

 //'. !Xo sexual patch of scales on upperside of hind wing in 

 male. 

 «^. Vein 2 of hind wing almost equidistant from base of 

 wing and end of cell. 



iSiti'uisTA, Plotz. Type, aristoteles, Westw. (;>) 

 h'". Vein 2, hind wing, twice as far from base of wing as 

 from end of cell. 



Satarupa, Moore. Type, ffopa/a, Moore. (4) 

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

 a'\ No costal fold on fore wing of male. 



(/". Lower margin of cell of lore wing not strongly arched 

 betwee)! origin of veins 2 and 3. 

 lC. Xo patch of sexual scales on upperside of hind wing 

 in male. 

 a''. Hind wing : outer margin sinuate, 

 «'". Third joint of palpi porrected horizoutally. 



