PuU. 30. XI. 1921. AZONAX; OXYNETRA; PHOCIDES. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 849 



17. Genus: Azouax G. u. S. 



Distinguished from the most closely allied genera by the entire-margined hindwings being only on 

 the upper radial somewhat angular. The antennal club is obtuser than in the preceding, and in contrast with 

 the allied genera the upper median and the lower radial of the hindwing are not petioled. 1 species : 



A. typhaon Hew. (165 e) looks like a Myscelus: above rusty brown with one large, quinquepartite, iyphaon. 

 discal vitreous spot and 4 small apical ones, between them at the costal margin 2 more of them. The hindwing 

 exhibits one large, round, white antemedian spot and a row of black dots behind it, two of which are pupilled 

 white. Nicaragua. 



18. Genus: Oxynetra Fldr. 



Differs from all the other Pyrrhopyginae by the straight transverse vein of the f orewing. On the hindwing 

 the middle radial vein is absent; the antennal club is rather pointed. 



0. felderi Hpff. (165 b) is like the other very similar species of a greenish black with very large felderi. 

 vitreous spots. The present species has a red ring round the 2nd abdominal segment. On the forewing the 

 very large discal hyaline area is separated from the subapical one only by a small, narrow black stripe. Brazil 

 to Peru. 



0. semihyalina Fldr. (165 b) has no red-brown abdominal ring and a very much larger subapical semikya- 

 vitreous spot separated from the discal one by a broad black band. Towards the margin on the veins pearl- ^"'"• 



coloured dust-stripes. Body and mesothorax are metallic green. Colombia. 



0. confusa 3Iab. (= annulata Stgr-.) (165 b) is similar, but the subapical vitreous spot is oval, not confusa. 

 square' as in the preceding, parallel with the margin there is behind it a band dusted with a pearl-colour, growing 

 narrower towards the proximal angle. The $ described as annulatus has quite black wings without any vitreous 

 spots and a red-ringed abdomen. Described from Peru. 



0. hopfferi Stgr. (165 b) differs from the preceding by a much narrower vitreous band of the forewing, hopfferi. 

 being only traversed by the median and its branches, by the absence of a white spot below the large double 

 vitreous spot of the hindwing, and particularly by 5 bright orange-red transverse band on the dorsum of the 

 abdomen; venter in the middle cm'led white. Shoulder-covers spotted orange. From the Chiriqui. 



Subfamily: Hesperiinae Wts. 



A large subfamily with not always imiform marks, so that a separation into two groups was necessary, 

 so as to arrange in some degree the great number of forms. There are very large animals with extreme resem- 

 blances to certain genera of the Pyrrhopyginae, down to small species. All have either a very short or horizontally 

 projecting 3rd palpal joint, which is never bent up vertically. On the forewing there is never a discal stigma. 



Group A. 



The species of this group mostly have the antennal club bent round like a hook, sometimes in the shape of a 

 sickle always terminating into a fine point. The chief mark of distinction from the 2nd group is the length of the cell of the 

 forewing, always amounting to more than % of the length of the costal margin. The transverse vein generally runs very obliquely ; 

 the middle radial vein never rises very near to one of the neighbouring branches. On the hindwing, often exhibiting a tail 

 or a tooth on the submedian vein, the middle radial vein is always rudimentary. The c? usually exhibits on the forewing 

 an inverted costal-marginal fold which is inside covered with scent-scales, often a hair-tuft on one of the wings or on the tibiae 

 mostly having two pair of spurs, and a spine on the anterior tibiae. Tliis group is almost exclusively confined to the nearctie 

 region, only very few species being found in the old world. 



1. Genus: Phocicles Hbn. 



Distinguished by a spindle-shaped antennal club on which only the fine tip is tm'ned round like a 

 hook. The thickly scaled 2nd palpal joint, being closely appressed to the forehead, is of a broad square shape, 

 the very short 3rd joint being scarcely visible. The,lower discocellular of the forewing is the longest and strongly 

 curved. The lower median vein rises twice as far away from the upper one as from the base, the upper one 

 close before the cell-end. The hindwing is much prolonged towards the anal angle, but it does not show a real 

 tail. The tropical parts of South America homes about two dozen of species. 



Ph. oreades Hew. (165 e) resembles about Mmoma^^es seto (163 f), but in the basal area of the forewing oreades. 

 there are, like in all the convergent Hesperiinae, longitudinal rays, in contrast with the basal transverse bands 



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