| OCR Text |
Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPERIIDSE. 89 Mabille has recently redescribed what is accepted as the female of aureipennis under the name Steropes tripunctatus. Confined to South America. 32. Genus HETEROPTERUS. Heteropterus, D u m . Zool. Anal. p. 271 (1806). Type, morpheus, Pall. Antennse short, less than half the length of costa ; club moderate, straight, elongated, blunt. Palpi porrect, denselv clothed with laxly set scales, almost concealing the third joint, which is short, slender, and bluntly conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of cell; upper discocellular short but distinct; middle discocellular longer than lower ; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell; vein 2 more than twice as far from end of cell as from base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin even; vein 7 well before end of celf; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 well before end of cell, more than twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. No epiphysis on fore tibise. Hind tibise almost naked; in morpheus with two pairs of spurs, in ornatus only with terminal pair. Abdomen reaching beyond the anal angle of hind wings. (morpheus, Pall 1. speculum, Rott. \ steropes, Wien. Verz. | aracinthus, Fabr. \speculifer, Fourcr. ornatus, Brem 2. Morpheus is a European and ornatus a Japanese species. 33. Genus PAMPHILA. Pamphila, Fabr. 111. M a g . vi. p. 287 (1807). Type, palcemon, Pall. Steropes, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. p. 167 (1832). Nom. prseoc. Carterocephalus, Led. Verb. zool. - hot. Gesellsch. Wien, ii. pp. 26, 49. Type, palcemon, Pall. Antennse short, not half the length of costa ; club stout, elongate, blunt. Palpi porrect, densely clothed with laxly set scales almost concealing the third joint, which is short, slender, and bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner margin considerably longer than outer margin; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of cell; upper discocellular short but distinct, outwardly oblique; middle discocellular slightly longer than lower; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6; vein 3 very close to end of cell ; vein 2 almost equidistant from base of wing and end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin even ; cell very long, reaching more than half across wing ; vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of eel] ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to |
