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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEHD^E. 101 13. Genus POLITES. Polites, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 57 (1872). Type, peckius, Kirby. Antennae short, less than half the length of costa; club short, robust, terminal crook minute. Palpi as in Hylephila. Neuration as in Hylephila except that on the fore wing vein 3 is further from end of cell, being almost equidistant from 2 and 4 ; and on the hind wing, that vein 2 is nearer to the end of the cell, vein 3 being only slightly nearer to 4 than to 2. " Discal stigma of male consisting of an interrupted, gently arcuate or sinuate streak of dead black retrorse scales or rods edged below, especially in the middle, with a border of similar but dust-coloured erect rods and followed beneath by an inconspicuous large area of loosely compacted, erect, dusky scales." (Scudder, Butt. N e w Engl. p. 1679.) coras, Cram. $. peckius, Kirby. $. ivamsntta, Harris. <$. Confined to North America. 14. Genus HYLEPHILA. Hylephila, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). Type, phylceus, Drury. Euthymus, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 56 (1872). Type, phylceus, Drury. Antennae very short, hardly one third the length of costa ; club short, robust, terminal crook exceedingly minute. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, third joint minute, suberect, bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner margin slightly longer than outer margin. Cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 very close to end of cell; vein 2 considerably nearer to base of wing than to end of cell, in the female this vein is slightly more remote from base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin even, slightly excised between veins 3 and 1 b; vein 7 well before end of cell, almost equidistant from 6 and 8 ; discocellulars faint; vein 5 not traceable ; veins 2, 3, and 4 all close together, 3 about twice as far from 2 as from 4. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Male with a linear discal stigma on fore wing, extending from origin of vein 3 as far as vein 1, and edged exteriorly with an outwardly diffused streak of raised scales. phylceus, Drury 1. fasciolata, Blanch. ... 2. fulva, Blanch 3. Confined to America. 15. Genus PADRAONA. Padraona, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 170 (1881). Type, mcesa, Moore. Antennas: club moderate, elongate, with a short terminal crook. Palpi: second joint densely scaled; third joint short, slender, sub-erect, obtusely conical. |
