100 HB. E. Y. WATSOIT OX THE HESPERIID.E. [Jan. 17, 



11. Genus Thymelicxjs. 



Thi/melicus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 113 (1816). 



Type, vibe.v, Hubn. 

 Bedone, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. .58 (1872). Type, brettns, Hiibn. 

 Pyrrhosidia,^c\n)id. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 340 (1874). 



Type, mystic, Scudd. 



Antennae less than half the length of costa ; club very robust, 

 short, crook very short. Palpi : second joint densely scaled, third 

 joint bluntly conical, almost concealed. 



Neuration of the fore wing as in Hylepldla, and of the hind wing 

 very similar except that vein 7 is slightly nearer the end of cell, and 

 vein 2 rather more remote from end of cell. "Discal stigma of 

 male unusually variable, but consisting in the main of two separated 

 slender strigae of dead black scales, that in the middle median inter- 

 space linear and arcuate, that in the lower subcircular or short 

 linear, both surrounded and sometimes almost or quite concealed by 

 overhanging, large and broad, somewhat loosely compacted scales, 

 aud followed beyond by a field of varying size, but generally narrow, 

 of loosely compacted, erect, dusky, reflecting scales." (Scudder, 

 Butt. New Engl. p. 1690.) 



vihcx, Hiibn 1. 



r brettus, Boisd 2. 



I wingina, Sc. 



mystic, Sc 3. 



Confined to North America. 



12. Genus Atalopedes. 

 Atalopedes^ Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 57 (1872). 



Pansydia, Scudd. Syst. Butt. p. 60 (1872). 



Type, hiiron, Edw. 



Ty])e, cunitxa^ Hew. 



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

 robust, terminal crook very short. Palpi as in Hylephila. 



Neuration as in Ilt/lephila. " Discal stigma in male consisting of, 

 first, a longitudinal streak at base of middle median interspace, of 

 shining, black, recurved rods ; second, of a semilunar field of dead 

 black erect rods in the lowest median intersjjace, overhung above 

 by long curvini;- scales ; followed below by a short, small striga of 

 shining black scales, and outside by a large field of erect loosely 

 compacted scales." (Scudder, Butt, New Engl. p. 1657.) 



fiuron. Edw 1. 



J mcsogramma, Latr. ^ 2. 



I *cit>ia.ra, Hew. $. 



1 am unable to point out the slightest structural difference between 

 hiiron and mesoyramma. 



Covifined to North America. 



