1893,] MB. B. T. WATSON OX THE HESPERIID^. 89 



Mabille has recently reclescribed what is accepted as the female 

 of avreipennis under the name Steropes tripuncfatus. 

 Confined to South America. 



.32. Genus Heteropterus. 



Keteropferus, Dam. Zool. Anal. p. 271 (1806). 



Type, morpheus, Pall. 

 Antennre short, less than half the length of costa ; club moderate, 

 straight, elongated, blunt. Palpi porrect, densely clothed with 

 laxly set scales, almost concealing the third joint, which is short, 

 slender, and bluntly conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer than 

 outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 

 reaching costa before the end of cell ; upper discocellular short but 

 distinct ; middle discocellular longer than lower ; vein .5 slightly 

 nearer to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell ; vein 2 

 more than twice as far from end of cell as from base of wing. 

 Hind wing : outer margin even ; vein 7 well before end of cell ; 

 discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable : vein 3 well before end of 

 cell, more than twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 nearer to base 

 of wing than to end of cell. No epiphysis on fore tibite. Hind 

 tibice almost naked ; in morpheus with two pairs of spurs, in ornatus 

 only witli terminal pair. Abdomen reaching beyond the anal angle 

 of hind wings. 



(morpheus, PaE 1. 



I speculum. Rott. 



\ steropes, Wien. Yevr.. 



I aracivthns, Fabr. 



1 spcculifcr, Fourcr, 

 ornatus, 'Brem 2. 



Morpheus is a European and ornatus a Japanese species. 



33. Genus Pamphila. 



Pamphifu, Fabr. 111. Mag. vi. p. 287 (1807). 



Type, palcetnon, Pall. 



Steropes, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. j). Ifi7 (1832). Nom. prseoc. 



Carterocephrihis, Led. Verb. zool. - hot. Gesellsch. Wien, ii. 

 pp. 26, 49. Ty\)e, p(il(Bmo7i,VA\\. 



Antenna) short, not half the lengtli of costa ; cluli stout, elongate, 

 blunt. Palpi porrect, densely clothed with laxly set scales almost 

 concealing the third joint, which is short, slender, and bluntly 

 conical. Fore wing : inner margin considerably longer than outer 

 margin; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 

 reaching costa before the end of cell ; upper discocellular short but 

 distinct, outwardly oblique ; middle discocellular slightly longer 

 than lower ; vein u slightly nearer to 4 than to G ; vein 3 verv 

 close to end of cell ; vein 2 almost equidistant from base of wing 

 and end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin even ; cell very long, 

 reaching more than half across wing ; vein 7 shortly before end of 

 cell ; discocellulars and vein .5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately 

 before end of cell ; v^-in 2 cnnsiderablv nearer to end of cell than to 



