820 ■ BREPHIDIUM; LEPTOTES. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



ammon. H. ammon Luc. (144 k) is likewise similar, but easily discernible by two black anal spots above, 



the proximal one of which mostly exhibits towards the base an orange-red spot. Beneath more purely white 

 and black-grey, the hmdwings all Avhite with grey spots, the two anal spots jet-black, bordered with a bright 

 silvery blue, and those between the median veins proximally spotted broadty orange-red. Florida, Cuba, South 

 dominica. America. — f. dominica Mosclil. seems to be only an insignificant form in which, on the under surface of 

 the hindwing, the 3 small spots in the basal area are not prommently jet-black. Dominica. 



13. Genus: ISrepliidiiiiu Sc-udd. 



The costal vein is entirely coalescent with the uppermost subcostal. Very small, delicate insects with 

 comparatively narrow wings with rounded apices. Beneath the hindwings exhibit up to 7 metallic-pupilled 

 marginal eye-spots, of which mostly only 4 are fully developed. 



isopMhal- B. isophthalma H.-Schdff. (= pseudofea Morris.) (144 k). Above brown Avith a brass or copper 



ma. reflection, on the hindwing with a marginal row of blackish spots being pupilled thickly black and outside silvery 

 on the red-brown under surface. Fringes one-coloured grey-brown. Gulf States, Aiitilles. 



exiUs. B. exilis Bsd. (= fea Ediv.) (144 k) is the same, but smaller, above mostly with a more intense 



brass lustre, and broad white fringes at the proximal angle and in the apical half of the forewing; on the under 

 surface, before the black, marginal, macular series, the ground is more distinctly white. From the Gulf States 

 through Mexico and Central America as far as Venezuela. 



14. Genus: I^eptotes Scudd. 



Very near to Hemiargus, but still more delicately built; the costal and uppermost subcostal veins run 

 rather closely beside each other without coalescing. The hindwings beneath exhibit at the anal angle 2 small 

 black eye-spots with metallic blue pupils. 



casslus. L. cassius Cr. (144 k, 1). An extremely common species widely distributed in the south; the (J above 



violet with diaphanous spots beneath, the hindwings are white, and at the costal margin and border lilac variable 

 in extent. Beneath white with numerous broAvn macular bands, 2 before the border close together, the distal 

 one consisting of punctiform spots, the proximal one of crescents, the 2 spots being placed the nearest to the 

 anal angle jet-black, bordered with silvery blue. The £ is white also above, towards the base of a silvery blue 

 opalescence with black-brown spots, costal and distal margins. From Mexico through the whole of Central 

 America as far as Colombia, South Brazil, also in Cuba, Jamaica, Hajiii, and Dominica; flies up to 5000 ft. 



iheonus. L. theoflus Luc. (= cassius Morr. nee Cr.) (144 1) is probably only a smaller northern and insular 



form of cassius. The (J is lavender-blue ■\\'ith somewhat broader dark margins, the $ white, on the forewings 

 somewhat more extensively suffused with blue, without the mtense black spotting of cassius. Beneath the 

 white is more reduced, the macular bands much darker; the anal spots of the hindwings are above and beneath 

 very thickly black. 



marina. L. marina Beak. (= cassioides Bsd., pirithous Godt., floridensis Morr.) (1441) is above of a duller 



and darker lilac-blue colour than the preceding, with a black border narrowing to a line and very diaphanous 

 marking beneath; the $ is intensely smoky brown-grey on the white ground, towards the base with a blue lustre, 

 somewhat more strongly spotted than the q . The under surface is much darker by the white being very much 

 confined as far as the proximal margin; the anal spots are distmctly encircled by a rusty yellow. Distributed 

 cassidula. from Texas, Ai-izona, California through Mexico as far as Guatemala. • — The slightly differing f . cassidula Bsd. 

 has pm'ely white fringes, and in the anal area of the hindwing beneath the eye-spots are not alike, the proximal 

 one very small or entirely absent. Described from Honduras. 



siriaia. L. striata Edw. was described from San Antonio m an American forestry magazine of 1877 not a- 



vailable to me. 



andicola. L- andicola G. di S. is almost twice as large as tnarina, with a sharp apex of the wings, above 



violet-blue -^^itli dirty silky-white fringes, beneath grej^-brown with small, darker spots edged with white; before 

 the margin of the hindwing with a white band and 3 reddish-yellow, small anal spots with black pupils and 

 strewn silvery. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Discovered by Edw. Whsmpee in the Andes between 7500 and 

 12 000 feet. 



callanga. L. callanga Dyar (144 1) is somewhat larger than marina, above reddish violet-blue with a silky 



gloss and a very fine brownish border. The fringes of the forewing are grey-white, at the ends of the veins 

 speckled somewhat darker, those of the hindwmgs purely white. On the under surface the forewings are 

 light red-brownish with somewhat darker spots encircled bj^ a whitish colour; before the discal spot there is 

 another spot in the middle of the cell; the spot of the post discal row situate between the lower radial veins 

 has a very oblique position and projects far towards the margin, which in its whitish ground contains marginal 

 and subterminal rows of pm'ely giey spots. Hmdwmgs more grey-brownish, likewise only dull-spotted, with 

 a purely white band between the postdiscal and subtermmal rows of spots, at the anal angle 2 very small black 

 dots encircled by silvery green. Peru (Cuzco). In my opinion the species may be identical with the following. 



