ATALOPEDES: THYMELICUS. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



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E. morrisonii Edic (ISOk) is easily recognized by the scent-scale stripe being far prolonged towards morrisonii. 

 the apes by black spots; also in the $ this band-shaped, dark marking is very conspicuous. Beneath light 

 reddish-yellow, marked ferruginous-brown with a black base of the forewing. Hindwing of a deep ferruginous- 

 brown with a silvery white cellular stripe and a white, postdiscal macular band. Colorado, Arizona and Mexico. 



79. Genus; Atalopedes Scddr. 



Like Erynnis, but the terminal joint of the palp obtuse and hidden. Veins as in Hylephila. 



A. campestris Bsd. {= hm'on Ediv., kedenia Btlr.) (180 k, 1) is well distinguished by the very broad cympestrls. 

 stigma and a broad, blackish-brown margin. The dark $ shows postdiscal light spots. Beneath much lighter, 

 the spots only feebly traceable. Atlantic States, Arizona, California, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia. 



A. flaveola JIab. resembles the preceding, but it is smaller. Light reddish-yellow, on the forewing flaveola. 

 with a broad blacldsh-brown distal and costal margin; 3 subapical, small streak-shaped spots, 2 postcellvdar, 

 small spots separated afar, below them a long, notched out spot and 2 more below it, the three lower ones 

 touching the large, oval, black scent-spot. Hindwing with a broad dark margin, the disc reddish-yellow, dar- 

 kened by grej, bordering on 3 lighter yellow spots. Beneath yellow, marked as above, hindwing greyish-yellow, 

 at the proximal margin yellow with 5 lighter postdiscal spots. The $ is lighter, in the disc more brownish. 

 Expanse of wings: 26 to 27 mm. Porto Cabello. 



A. mesogramma Latr. (= canaxa Hew.) (1801) is an uncommonly large, deviating species. Above 

 in the q reddish-yellow, in the 2 more spotted whitish. Easily recognizable by the hindwing beneath being 

 marked with a broad white band and a small cellular spot before it ; in the (J it is slightly tinted yellow. Brazil, 

 Cuba. 



mesogram- 

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80. Genus: Tliyineliciis Hbn. 



Likewise very closely allied to the genus Hylephila and not different in the veins. Palpal terminal 

 joint very short, scarcely visible, bent forward. The ^ scent-scale stripe consists of 2 roAvs of dull black 

 scales, the distal one being linear, the proximal ones somewhat bent, between them scales of a somewhat 

 leaden lustre. 



Th. vibex Hbn. (= praeceps Scddr., lumida Msclilr., golenia Msclilr., stigma Skinner, combinata vihex. 

 Plotz, zenckei P/dfe) (181a). Above reddish-yellow, towards the margin broadly darkened, with wedge-shaped, 

 black internerval spots on the forewing; the broad stigma rests on a black spot which is towards the apex con- 

 tinued beyond it. Beneath lighter yellow, base of forewing black, hindAving with minute spots. Central America, 

 Mexico, Colombia. 



Th. sulfurina Mab. (= catilina Plotz) (181 a) is similar, of a light sulphur-colom-, the long, black oblique sulfurina 

 stripe of the forewing coherentlj- extending in the shape of a band to the apex. Hindwing darker with but 

 few yellow spots. Beneath the hindwing is strewn with a greenish-grey. Brazil, Cayenne. 



Th. phormio Mab. is as large as vibex. Forewing yellow, at the apex and distal margin black with plwrmio. 

 a black obhque band as far as the inner-marginal vein at the base; costal margin yellow. Hindwing red-brown, 

 in the disc yellow. Forewing beneath as in vibex, but more yellow, distal margin almost quite yellow. Hindwing 

 yellow with a series of 5 black dots and before it 3 or 4. Brazil. 



Th. brettus Bsd. & Lee. (= wingina Scddr., unna Plotz, margarita Plotz) (181 a) is similar to vibex, brettus. 

 but much lighter, the marginal darkening almost absent, only the wedge-shaped spots before the margin being 

 present ; hindwing quite reddish-yellow with a black distal margin, very much like H. phylaeus. Beneath discer- 

 nible by darker and larger spots. The $ is quite dark brown with very small reddish-yellow spots on the forewing. 

 Atlantic States. Larva on herbs. — f. brettoides Ediv. (= clara Plotz) (180 k) is very luuch lighter with a brettoidts. 

 very narrowly darkened distal margin, especially the $ has much larger, yellowish-red spots. Beneath greyer 

 with only very small punctiform spots. California. 



Th. mystic Scddr. (181 b) above very much resembles E. morrisonii by the long extent of the black mystic. 

 oblique spot; also the 2 is similar. Beneath reddish-yellow at the costa and basal area of the forewing; the 

 rest and the hindwing ferruginous-brown with light spots, inner-marginal part light brown. Atlantic States. 



Th. erynnioides Dyar is above yellowish-red, at the base blackish and with a broad black distal crynnioida 

 margin with 3 small, reddish-yellow subapical dots therein; the stigma is broad, somewhat bent, above bor- 

 dered with a deep black, beneath spotted black ; hindwing reddish-yellow, narrowly bordered with black. Beneath 

 the hindwing is reddish-yellow, at the proximal margin lighter with a straight row of white spots through the 

 middle, one below the cell, one in the cell-end and one above it, the lower and upper spot being proximally 

 bordered with black. In the $ the hindwing beneath is more greenish-yellow, only at the proximal margin 

 reddish-yellow, the white spots small, but all around bordered with black. California. 



