22 Psyche [March- June 
tip, and somewhat resembling in curvature (especially in the 
genotype) the kind of rostellum obtained among Old World 
genera only in Chilades galba Lederer ( sensu mihi , i.e. includ- 
ing Eastern Mediterranean, Caspian, Arabian and Indian forms 
considered by authors as being distinct species, i.e. galba Le- 
derer, phiala Grum Grshmailo, ella Butler and contracta Butler) 
and by an aberrant Albulina ( auct .) species, jelicis Oberthur, 
of the southern part of the Central Palaearctic region, in which 
species, however, the tip is toothed. 
Female: henia shortish and curiously thick (with apparently 
reduced extensibility as in Cyclargus and thus unlike Chilades ), 
strongly chitinized dorsally. Fibula resembling Chilades , pistol- 
shaped in profile (pointing distad), in ventral view seen to 
consist of a lamellate ventral piece and a horseshoe-shaped 
dorsal one. 
Hemiargus ceraunus Fabricius 
(figs, ce, pi. 4; cer, pi. 7) 
Twenty-eight males and one female (all in the Mus. Comp. 
Zool. coll.) investigated: ceraunus ceraunus Fabricius, prep. 
570 and 571, “Kingston, Jamaica, 6-XII-1871” ex coll. Scud- 
der; ceraunus ceraunus prox ., prep. 499, “Ennery, Haiti, near 
1,000 ft. alt., 16-VIII-1934, leg. M. Bates”; prep. 567, “Port 
au Prince, Haiti, up to 2,000 ft. alt., 2-IX-1934, leg. M. Bates”; 
and prep. 566 “Navassa Is., W. Indies, XII-1929, leg. W. J. 
Clench”; ceraunus antibubastus Hiibner, prep. 525, “Egmont, 
Florida, 23-IV-1904,” ex coll. Fall; prep. 580, “Florida,” ex 
coll. Weeks, and prep. 582 2 , “Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 10-VII- 
1933, leg. M. Bates,” prep. 339, “Valdosta, Georgia, 9-X-1943, 
leg. V. Nabokov”; and prep. 579, “So. Abington, Massachu- 
setts, V-1880, leg. J. E. Bates” ex coll. Weeks; ceraunus filenus 
Poey, prep. 374, 497, 506, 515, and 561, “Sierra Maestra, E. 
Cuba, 1,000 ft. alt. . . . leg. O. Querci,” ex coll. Weeks, taken 
“31-XI-1929,” “29-V-1930,” “22-VII-1930,” “10-XI-1929” 
and “25-V-1930” respectively (individual 515 with unusually 
strong macules of series II underside); prep. 562, “Vinales, P. 
del Rio, Cuba, leg. L. de Jaume”; and prep. 563, “Central 
Soledad, Cuba, 27-VIII-1932, leg. B. B. Leavitt”; ceraunus 
gyas Edwards, prep. 523, “Baboquavaria Mts., Pima Co., Ari- 
zona, 15-30-VII-1903, leg. O. C. Poling,” and prep. 574, 
“Cochise Co., Arizona,” ex coll. Weeks; ceraunus gyas prox., 
