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54. Genus Thracides. 



Thracides, Hiibii. Verz. p. 105 (1816). Type, phidon, Cram. 



Antennse : club elongate, with a long slender terminal crook. 

 Palpi : second joint densely scaled, pressed close against the face ; 

 third joint almost entirely concealed, bluntly conical. Fore wing : 

 inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds 

 the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa almost opposite end 

 of cell ; middle discocellular very oblique, lower very short : vein 5 

 from close to bottom of cell ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell ; 

 vein 2 almost equidistant from base of wing and end of cell. Hind 

 wing rather elongate, anal angle slightly lobate ; vein 7 well before 

 end of cell ; discocellulars outwardly oblique ; vein 3 close to end 

 of cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 considerably nearer to 

 end of cell than to base of wing : upper margin of cell bent dow n- 

 wards at vein 7 ; lower margin of cell slightly angled at vein 2, 

 more conspicuously at vein 3. Hind tibiae with a dense fringe and 

 two pairs of spurs. 



Male with a very inconspicuous linear discal stigma on the upper- 

 side of fore wing, from just before origin of vein 3 to as far as the 

 submcdian, usually more or less incomplete. 



phidon, Cramer 1. *ci/icia, Hew 4. 



*cilissa, Hew 2. *hiresia, Hew 5. 



*««?iffl, Hew ;j. 



There is an undescribed genus closely allied to Thracides, in- 

 cluding telmela, Hew., cloanthus, Latr., and others, which appear to 

 mimic species of Pyrrhopuge. 



Confined to tropical America. 



55. Genus Talides. 



Talides, Hiibn. Verz. p. lOG (1816). Type, seryestus, Cram. 



Antennte and palpi as in Perichares. Fore wing differs from 

 Perichares in not being so much produced apically, in the outer 

 and inner margins being subequal, and in vein 3 being very much 

 nearer to the end of the cell. Hind wing as in Perichares but 

 less elongate, being more produced in the subcostal area. Hind 

 tibiae and femora less densely fringed than in Perichares, and the 

 upper pair of spurs are very short. Linear stigma on fore wing of 

 male as in Perichares. 



Fcrcfestus, Cvam 1. I *chioriiam, 'Hew 4. 



si7ion, Cram 2. ! *cerymica, Hew 5. 



*euclcga, Hew 3. | 



Confined to tropical America. 



56. Genus Perichares. 



Perichares, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 60 (18/2). Type, corydon, Fabr. 



Antennae : club robust, elongated, with a long terminal crook ; 

 second joint of palpi very densely scaled, the third joint almost 

 entirely concealed. Fore wing produced at apex, outer margin 

 very much longer than inner margin ; cell less than two-thirds the 



