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TALIDES; PSEUDOSARBIA; PYRRHOPYGOPSIS. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



btilus. 



iripla'ja. 



P. butus Plotz (192 b) is blackish-brown, towards the base and on the body green, with a small yellow 

 cellular spot, a subapical spot and one behind the lower cell-angle. Beneath the hindwing is dark green with 

 black dentate bands and spots, at the distal margin and proximal margin violettish-grey ; on the forewing the 

 cellular spot is enlarged and there is a green spot before the subapical spot. From Surinam. 



P. triplaga Schs. is above dark brown, on the body and bases of the wings metallic dark-blue; in 

 the cell of the forewing there is a quadrangular, hyaline yellow spot, a triangular one between the median veins 

 and a smaller quadrangular one above it; fringes at the anal angle yellowish. Hindwing unmarked with yellow 

 fringes being dark brown at the anal angle. Beneath the same, above the cellular spot there is a yellow costal- 

 marginal one; from the cell-end to the apex dusted with lilac. Hindwing at the costal margin, base and two 

 thirds of the proximal margin light brownish, behind it dark brown, growing lighter towards the distal margin, 

 before the margin with a lilac nebulous band. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. Castro (Parana). 



198. Genus: Talides Hhn. 



Distinguished from Perichares by the broader, round shape of the wings, on the forewing a less oblique 

 -discocellular. Stigma the same, very distinctly developed. 



sergestus. T. sergestus Clerck (= sinon Cr.) (192 b). Above dark brown, on the body and wings basally 



haired ochreous. Forewing with a cellular spot, 3 postdiscal and 3 subapical spots; hindwing with a small, 

 round hyaline spot behind the cell; fringes orange-ochreous. Under surface suffused with red-brown, 

 analwards on the hindwing before the fringes narrowly orange. The 9 has much larger spots and one submedian 

 adjunctus. spot besides, which may occasionally also occur in the 3". — f. adjunctus Plotz (192 d) is above and beneath 

 much darker. Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. 



pliaenicola. 



elana. 



miieUa. 



199. Genus: ff'seiidosarSjia Berg. 



As the name indicates, the genus contains exact copies of the genus Sarbia Wts., from which, however, 

 it is separated by the veins and very distinctly by the structure of the antenna the club of Avhich is not reverted 

 like a hook, but stretched forward like a fusiform knob. The larvae are quite different, too. All the species 

 known live in Brazil and Argentina. 



P. phaenicola Berg. (193 a) is such a true copy of Sarbia pertyi or spixii (164 f) flying in the same 

 district that it is impossible to distinguish them in the open air. Both species have the same size, red ends of 

 the bodies and the yellow, Y-shaped macular bands in the forewings. They chiefly differ by the patagia showing 

 in the Sarbia a lemon-coloured, in the Pseitdosarbia a red middle streak. Besides phaenicola has the head and 

 collar as scarlet as Sarbia, but the end of the abdomen is decidedly fiery red or miniate. — The larva is uni- 

 coloured green, also the head which shows a shaggily yellowish-green haired face. The thoracal segments of 

 the larva are also bristly haired. South Brazil and Argentina. 



P. elana Plotz (192 b as elanus). Above black with Avhite fringes, a tripartite discal spot and a quin- 

 quepartite subapical spot of the forewing and a white postdiscal band of the hindwing; apex of abdomen white. 

 Beneath the same, but the hindwing shows yet a yellow longitudinal band above the median, and the discal 

 spot of the forewing is continued yellow to the costal margin. From Brazil (Chapada). 



P. mitella Plotz (192c) is very much like elana, smaller, of a more brownish ground-colour; fringes 

 and the band on the hindwing are more yellowish, the latter beneath quite yellow and continued almost equally 

 broad to the costal margin; the yellow longitudinal ray is absent. Apex of abdomen beneath ochreous-yellow. 

 Brazil (Chapada). 



soc7-ates. 



200. Genus: Pyrrliopygopsis G. & S. 



Antennae and palpi shaped as in Perichares. Cell of forewing attaining not quite two thirds of the 

 length of the forewing; the middle radial vein at the base very much bent down and rising near the lower one. 

 The genus is placed to the Hesperiinae b}^ jMabille, but as the authors quite correctly recognized, undoubtedly 

 belong to the Pamphilinae in the propinquity of Thracides and Perichares. In the exterior some species entirely 

 resemble the Pyrrhopyge (p. 837 — 840, t. 162) from which they are immediately discernible by the antennae. 



P. socrates Men. (165 b, c) entirely resembles a Pyrrhopyge, above black with white fringes; head 

 and anus red. Beneath the apical half of the forewing and the larger costal-marginal half of the hindwing except 

 the black inner-marginal part are bronze-green with black veins. Brazil. 



P. orasus Drc. (= aviola Mab., socrates Stgr.) (165 c) is above lustrous steel-black; beneath like 

 socrates, but the basal area of the hindwing broad white. Head, palpi and anus red, fringes white. Panama 

 to Peru. 



