PuU. S. II. 1923. STAPHYLUS. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 905 



St. minor Schs. has likewise the same shape as mazans. The colour is a duller brown, scantily strewn minor. 

 with 3 indistinct darker grey transverse lines near the base, in the disc and before the margin, which are parted 

 into spots by the veins; the small subapical dots are absent. Beneath lighter brown, especipJly at the costal 

 margm and apex of the forewing, at the base, proximal margin and anal angle of the hindwing strewn yellowish. 

 Expanse of wings: 19 mm. Peru. 



St. tadus Schs. has a more uniformly undulated distal margin of the hiadwing than mazans; the iadics. 

 subapical hyaline dots are absent. Wings dark brown, scantily strewn light yellow; in the middle and before 

 the margm minute, very indistinct, grey spots. Beneath of a duller brown with a grey cell-end streak of the 

 hiadwing, the small grey spots more distinct than above. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Novo Friburgo. 



St. aztecus Scdd. (176 f) is also like mazans, but the hindwings entirely margined, rounded, not aziecus. 

 undulate, and below the apex not excised. The colour is lighter than in hayhursti ; the forewing exhibits 3 sub- 

 apical dots. Mexico. 



St. brennus G. & S. (176 f) is above almost uni-coloured blackish-brown, scantily strewn with hrennm. 

 ochreous, with a but little lighter submarginal band; subapical dots absent. Palpi below clad with long, black 

 and yellow scales. Panama. 



St. giselus Mob. (= eusebius Plotz) (176 f) entirely resembles brennus, but it has 3 subapical dots, glselus. 

 Colombia (Bogota). — f. subgisela Strd. has besides 1 or 2 small discal dots. subgisela. 



St. evippe G. & S. (176 f) approximates giselus, but the palpi are beneath of a purer white; the evippc. 

 2 subapical dots are more or less extinct, the first being often entirely absent, whilst in the $ they are better 

 visible. Mexico to Guatemala. 



St. orsines G. & 8. (176 g) is similar, much larger, more monotonously black without subapical orsines. 

 dots; palpi longer porrect, below whitish, the apex of the forewing is sharper, the distal margin straighter, 

 the genitals are very different. Mexico. 



St. terrens Schs. is above dark greyish-brown with darker brown bands at the base, in the middle terrcns. 

 between the median and the proximal margin with a cell-spot above it, and in the distal area with afiire ante- 

 marginal line and at the distal margin large spots flown together towards the apex. Beneath dark brown with 

 a light grey antemarginal band; anal half of hindwing grey, traversed by a brown band, at the cell-end with 

 a grey streak. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Venezuela. 



St. holophegges Dyar (176 g) is above black with a slight bronze reflection, without any ma,Aings holopJiegges. 

 at all; beneath brownish-black. Palpi beneath grey intermixed with white scales; ventrum whitish-grey with 

 a black discal line. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Mexico (Misantla), taken in July. 



St. litus (176 g) is likewise black with a slight bronze tint, unmarked; head and collar scantily inter- litus. 

 mixed with coppery scales. Beneath black with a greenish shine; palpi below, chest and a double line on the 

 ventrum white; in the fringes of the apex of the forewing some white scales. Costal fold yellow. Expanse of 

 wings: 25 mm. West Mexico (Sierra de Guerrero), taken in June. 



St. alicus Schs. Dark brownish-grey with black transverse bands in the middle and behind it, similar aliens. 

 basal area and marginal spots; on the hindwing the dark basal area is flown together with the discal band. 

 Forewing beneath dark brown, at the proximal margin lighter, the distal margin tinted violet ; hindwing violettish- 

 brown with the darker brown markings of the apper surface. Expanse of wings: 24 ram. South East Brazil. 



St. subapicatus Schs. Head and palpi brown intermixed with yellow hairs. Forewing dark hv own subapicatiis. 

 with a darker, oblique discal shade and a distal one being slightly bent towards the costal margin and composed 

 of oblong spots; similar antemarginal spots; hindwing with a cell-spot and narrower discal and distal bands 

 flown together at the costal margin ; marginal spots irregular. Beneath the forewing is dark brown, at the costal 

 margin, distal margin in the lower half and before the apax grey, the apex itself dark brown, hindwing somewhat 

 lighter than above. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Songolica (Mexico). 



St. cylindus G. <& S. (176 g) is likewise a larger species resembling somewhat Achlyodes simplex cyUndus. 

 (175 h, i) and cyclops, distinguished by the darker distal margin of the forewing beneath, which is ochi'eous- 

 yellow in cyclops. Mexico to Costa Rica and Colombia. 



St. imbras G. & S. (176h). The $ is without the subapical dots, whilst the ? has 3 of them. Palpi imhras. 

 longer than in hrennus (176 f) which the species resembles very much. Mexico. 



St. melangon Mah. is allied to imbras, but it has a grey base of the wings, and in the disc of meJangon. 

 the hindwing 2 grey transverse bands. Patria unknown. 



St. saletas G. & 8. differs by the wings being decidedly tinted ferruginous-brown, the dark transverse saletas. 

 bands being more distinctly pronounced. Palpi below white, not yellow. The forewing shows 2 subapical dots, 

 the 2 besides 3 hyaline dots in the disc. Guatemala. 



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