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Show 100 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID.E. [Jan. 17, 11. Genus THYMELICXJS. Thymelicus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 113 (1816). J ' Type, vibex, Hubn. Hedone, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 58 (1872). Type, brettus Hiibn Pyrrhosidia, Scudd. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. n. p. 346 (18/4). y Type, mystic, Scudd. Antenna less than half the length of costa ; club very robust short, crook very short. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, third ioint bluntly conical, almost concealed. . Neuration of the fore wing as in Hylephila, and of the hind wing very similar except that vein 7 is slightly nearer the end of cell, and vein 2 rather more remote from end of cell. "Discal stigma ot male unusually variable, but consisting in the main of two separated slender strigae of dead black scales, that in the middle median interspace linear and arcuate, that in the lower subcircular or short linear, both surrounded and sometimes almost or quite concealed by overhanging, large and broad, somewhat loosely compacted scales, aud followed beyond by a field of varying size, but generally narrow, of loosely compacted, erect, dusky, reflecting scales." (Scudder, Butt. New Engl. p. 1690.) { vibex, Hiibn 1. brettus, Boisd 2. wingina, Sc. mystic, Sc 3. Confined to North America. 12. Genus ATALOPEDES. Atalopedes, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 57 (1872). Pansydia, Scudd. Syst. Butt. p. 60 (1872). Type, huron, Edw. Type, cunaxa, Hew. Antennas short, less than half the length of costa ; club short, robust, terminal crook very short. Palpi as in Hylephila. Neuration as in Hylephila. " Discal stigma in male consisting of, first, a longitudinal streak at base of middle median interspace, of shining, black, recurved rods ; second, of a semilunar field of dead black erect rods in the lowest median interspace, overhung above by long curving scales ; followed below by a short, small striga of shining black scales, and outside by a large field of erect loosely compacted scales." (Scudder, Butt. New Engl. p. 1657.) { huron, E d w 1. mesogramma, Latr. $ 2. *cunaxa, Hew. $>• I am unable to point out the slightest structural difference between huron and mesogramma. Confined to North America. |