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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDiE. 51 12. Genus PYTHONIDES. Pythonides, Hiibn. Verz. p. Ill (1816). Type, cerialis, Cram. Antennse : club moderate, more or less curved, but not hooked. Palpi porrect; third joint short, bluntly conical. Fore wing ; inner margin considerably longer than outer margin ; costa in some species very strongly arched ; outer margin slightly excavated just above outer angle ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of cell; discocellulars erect, the lower the longer ; vein 3 shortly before the end of cell; vein 2 hardly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin evenly rounded ; discocellulars aud vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately before the end of cell; vein 2 twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell. No costal fold in male. This genus can be divided into two groups on the characters of the hind tibise. A. Two pairs of spurs on hind tibise, no tuft of hairs in male. {cerialis, Cram 1. fgeometrina, Feld 7. X orcus, Fabr. \ haclina, Butl 8. orcus, Hiibn 2. [ lancea, H e w 9. fcstivus, Erich 3. Xjovuimcs> Hiibn. *lucullca, H e w 4. satyrina, Feld 10. cronion, Feld 5. satyrus, Feld 11. scintillans, M a b 0. And three unidentified species. B. Only terminal pair of spurs on hind tibise ; male with a tuft of hairs affixed near proximal end of tibia. *lerina, Hew 1. fjovianus, Cram 6. lagia,H.ew 2. j pseudojovianus, West. kerennius, Hiibn 3. [ pkivius, H.-S. gladiatus, Butl 4. ffabrieii, Kirby 7. *loxus, H e w 5. XJ0Via>ms> Fabr. Aud five unidentified species. Confined to tropical America. pyralina, Mosch. 13. Genus N I S O N I A D E S. Nisoniades, Hiibn. Verz. p. 108 (1816). Type, bromius, Stoll. Antennse : club slender, evenly curved. Third joint of palpi minute, bluntly conical. Fore wing: costa straight, apex rather acute; inner margin considerably longer than outer margin ; cell of fore wing less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa almost opposite the end of cell ; discocellulars slightly inwardly oblique; vein 3 shortly before end of cell, more than three times as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 more than twice as far from end of cell as from base of wing. Hind wing evenly rounded; vein 7 close to end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibise fringed, and with two pairs of spurs. 4* |