AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES Published by Number 1064 the AMERICAN MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY May 2, 1940 New York City

AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES Published by Number 1064 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY May 2, 1940 New York City

A NEW GENUS AND SOME NEW SPECIES OF NEOTROPICAL HESPERIIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA: RHOPALOCERA) BY E. L. BELL

The type material upon which the fol- in interspace 1 very minute and yellowish, the rest of the spots white and semi-hyaline, that of lowing descriptions are based is all con- interspace 2 somewhat lunate, and there is a tiny tained in the type collection of The Ameri- subapical spot in interspace 7. On the under can Museum of Natural History. side there is no trace of the small, indefinite, whitish spots of the secondaries. EXPANSE.-Male 30 to 32 mm.; female 32 Ochlodes santarus, new species mm. Figure 1 male, MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings brown. TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype allo- Primaries overscaled with fulvous on the costal type female, four male paratypes, Mas- margin and along the outer margin, fulvous hairs saranduba-Blumenau, Santa Catharina, at the base and along basal half of inner margin; Brazil. A small, subapical spot in base of interspace 6, a more resembles small spot in the lower part of the cell near the This species nearly apex but absent in all the paratypes, a discal chalcone Schaus than any of the other band of three spots, one, very small, on vein 1, species. It is slightly larger, the yellow outside and against the lower part of the stigma, spots of the primaries paler in tone, smaller a narrow, oblique bar in interspace 2 paralleling in number there are no spots the upper part of the stigma, a small, roundish and less and spot in the base of interspace 3, all these spots on the secondaries. The stigma of the fulvous and opaque. There may be small ac- male is in three pieces, in chalcone in two. cumulations of yellowish scales looking like spots in interspaces 4 and 5 or these may be absent. TIRYNTHOIDES, NEW GENUS Fringes pale sordid brownish. The stigma is GENOTYPE.-Tirynthoides eclates, new species. black and conspicuous, consisting of an elongate Body very robust, head large. Primaries piece in interspace 2, beginning at the rise of vein narrow, the apex pointed, cell not quite two- 3, lying close against the cell for half the width thirds the length of the costal margin. Second- of the interspace, then curving a little outward so aries as long as the abdomen, feebly lobed at that it does not fill the base of the interspace, anal angle. Antennae not quite as long as the and ends on vein 2; below vein 2 are two short cell, the club ovate, stout, the apiculus slender, sections, the upper one horizontal, the lower one sharply pointed, a little longer than the diameter vertical but slightly oblique. of the club. Palpi heavily haired, smooth, Secondaries with long, dark fulvous hairs. third joint short, conical. Middle and hind Fringes as on primaries. tibiae spined, the latter with one pair of spurs. BENEATH.-Primaries with apical and costal The primaries do not have a raised stigma but areas fulvous, the rest blackish brown. The discal there is an ill-defined area of black scales in the spot in interspace 1 is present as a larger, diffuse base of interspace 2 and in the upper half of pale area, the spots in interspaces 2 and 3 are interspace 1 below vein 2. bright yellow, the subapical spot more or less dim. Secondaries dull fulvous with traces of This genus differs from Tirynthia God- minute, ill-defined whitish spots in interspaces man in having the stigma-like area of black 2 to 6, some or all of which may be absent. scales on the primaries of the male, in the Top of head, palpi, collar and shoulder covers in bright fulvous with some black hairs, tegulae secondaries being less rounded, the thorax and abdomen duller fulvous. Beneath spined middle tibiae, in the one pair of palpi and pectus bright fulvous, thorax with dul- spurs on the hind tibiae. ler fulvous hairs, abdomen pale brownish with a dark central line. Antennae black above, the Tirynthoides eclates, new species club narrowly barred with fulvous; beneath spotted with fulvous, the club bright fulvous. Figure 3 FEMALE.-Differs from the male on the MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Purplish brown. Pri- primaries in having no spot in the cell, the spot maries with three small, elongate subapical spots, 2 AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES [No. 1064 the middle one basad of the other two, two Tirynthoides pulchres, new species elongate cellular spots joined together in the center or at the base, three discal spots in inter- Figure 6 spaces 1, 2 and 3, the one in interspace 2 the MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Brown with a slight larger, the one in interspace 1 much the smaller, purplish reflection. Primaries, costal margin, all are white semihyaline. Some dark fulvous- base of wings and inner margin with fulvous brown hairs in the basal area and below vein brown scales. Three elongate subapical spots, 1 along the inner margin. Fringes at anal angle two spots in the cell near the apex, the upper paler, above concolorous. The stigma-like elongate, the lower sub-ovate, a transverse bar in patch of black scales described under the genus. interspace 2 under the base of interspace 3, a Secondaries with two or three small, yellow small, squarish spot near the base of interspace 3, discal spots. Some fulvous-brown hairs in and all white semi-hyaline. A diffuse brownish- below the cell and along the abdominal fold. white spot in interspace 1, two small ones, one Fringes yellow fulvous. each in interspaces 4 and 5. The stigma as BENEATH.-Primaries with costal margin in described under the genus. Fringes yellowish the apical area from just beyond the cell and below vein 2, above dark. along outer margin grayish brown, the rest dark Secondaries with the cell and beneath it to purplish brown. Spots of the upper side re- the abdominal fold with fulvous-brown hairs, a peated, the small one in interspace 1 extended discal band of small, ill-defined paler spots and outwardly as a whitish area to beyond the spot a similar spot in the cell obscured by the fulvous- in interspace 2. Secondaries: costal marginal brown hairs. Fringes fulvous. area above vein 8 brown, between veins 7 and 8 BENEATH.-Primaries with costal margin as pale brownish with fulvous oversealing, base of far as the subapical spots olive-brown and some cell and basal half of interspace 6 whitish, a fulvus-brown scales; from the apex of the cell to broad discal area of yellow in the lower part of the apex of the wings and narrowly along the which is a large velvety black spot occupying the outer border whitish suffused with grayish base of interspaces 3 and 4, bordered outwardly brown and with a slight violet reflection; all the by two bluish-white spots;- between the veins and rest dark purplish brown. The spots of the immediately below and touching the first black upper side repeated, that of interspace 1 greatly spot is another elongate black spot enclosing a enlarged and white. bluish-white spot in the center. A band of Secondaries. Basal half brown becoming fulvous-brown spots outwardly borders the fulvous brown in the cell, a white spot occupy- yellow area and extends upward to vein 8. A ing the base of interspace 7 and the upper part narrow marginal band of purplish brown, and of the base of the cell, a small white spot in the between this band and the band of fulvous- end of the cell; the outer half of the wings brown spots is a pale grayish-brown area, some- whitish with elongate fulvous-brown spots be- times with fulvous-brown overscaling on the tween the veins; the upper half of the abdominal lowest spot, a large, irregular purplish spot fold whitish, the lower half purplish brown, the extending upward from the anal angle. The outer border with fulvous-brown scales. A abdominal fold yellowish. fine dark line at the base of the fringes, the Top of head brown with greenish reflections; fringes fulvous. color and tegulae dark brown. Beneath palpi, Top of head, palpi, collar and shoulder pectus and thorax yellowish white; abdomen covers fulvous brown; tegulae, thorax and yellowish white with a dark central stripe and abdomen darker fulvous brown. Beneath palpi, each ring edged with yellowish white in the ven- pectus, thorax and abdomen white, the abdomen tral half. Antennae black above, the end of the with pale fulvous scales along the sides. Anten- club and apiculus reddish, beneath spotted with nae black above, the club reddish, beneath a gray, the club yellow or red, the apiculus red. little spotted with pale fulvous, the club pale FEMALE.-Similar to the male, the secondaries fulvous, the apiculus red. a little broader. Fulvous hairing on the upper EXPANSE.-35 mm. side of both wings a little paler and more ex- TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, Um- tensive. The spots of the primaries a little smaller, that in interspace 1 very minute; the bria, Putumayo River, South America. discal spots of the secondaries nearly obscured This species is smaller than the pre- by the fulvous hairing. Under side similar to viously described eclates and very dif- the male, the secondaries paler. marked. The form of the male EXPANSE.-Male 39 to 42 mm.; female 41 ferently mm. genitalia is very similar in the two species. TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, allo- Perimeles massarus, new species South type female, Putumayo River, Figure 4 one Putu- America. Paratypes: male, MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings brown. mayo River, South America; two males, Primaries with some dull, dark fulvous scales in upper Putumayo River, Colombia; one the basal half of the costal margin. One to male, Colombia; two males, Iquitos, Peru. three very small subapical dots, pale fulvous, NEW NEOTROPICAL HESPERIIDAE 3

Figs. 1 to 8. Male genitalia.

Figs. 1 to 8. Male genitalia. the lower two semi-hyaline, the lower dot a little of three parts, the upper part beginning below outward of the other two. A small, fulvous the rise of vein 3, paralleling the cell for three- semi-hyaline spot in the cell on the upper edge quarters of the width of the interspace and then near the apex; three discal spots, one very small, bent downward to vein 2, two small pieces below hazy, fulvous spot lying on the upper side of vein 2. vein 1 beyond the middle, a narrow, pale fulvous, Secondaries immaculate, with long brownish semi-hyaline spot in interspace 2, hooked out- hairs at the base and along the abdominal fold. ward on vein 2, a small sub-quadrate spot of Fringes pale brownish. the same color and semi-hyaline in interspace 3. BENEATH.-Lighter than above. Primaries Fringes pale brownish. A narrow black stigma with basal area below the costal margin darker. 4 AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES [No. 1064

Spots of upper side repeated. Secondaries, brown with greenish reflections, thorax brown- except above vein 8, with the basal two-thirds ish with some fulvous hairs, abdomen paler pale, dirty brownish white, the costal margin brown with a thin dark central stripe. Anten- and the outer marginal third darker brown, a nae black on both sides, the club beneath dull pale spot in the end of the cell, a discal band of fulvous. hazy, pale spots along the junction of the light EXPANSE.-29 mm. and dark areas, these spots being absent in one specimen. TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male and Top of head, palpi, collar, shoulder covers three male paratypes, New Bremen, Santa fulvous and black with a slight greenish re- Catharina, Brazil. flection. Tegulae, thorax and abdomen fulvous Named for Mr. Fritz Hoffmann of New brown with the same reflection. Palpi beneath at the base fulvous brown, above fulvous and Bremen. black, pectus and thorax grayish fulvous, ab- On the upper side this species resembles domen whitish with a dark central line. An- rezia Plotz except that the primaries have tennae black on both sides, the club pale brown no subapical spots, but the under side of the beneath. FEMALE.-Differs from the male in that all of secondaries lacks the blue and yellow spots the spots of the primaries are larger and white of rezia. hyaline and in the secondaries having a discal band of small, hazy, fulvous spots. On the Euroto obido, new species under side in the basal area of the secondaries being more,nearly white with some small brown Figure 8 spots, the spots of the discal band larger, better MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings dark defined and whiter. The palpi beneath and brown. Primaries with a small roundish sub- pectus are grayish. apical spot near the base of interspace 6 in the EXPANSE.-Male 30 mm.; female 33 mm. type, in the paratype there is a trace of another one in interspace 7, a small, elongate spot in the TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, allo- upper part of the cell near the apex, three discal type female, two male paratypes, Mas- spots in interspaces 1, 2 and 3, the lower one saranduba-Blumenau, Santa Catharina, very minute in the type and absent in the paratype, the spot in interspace 2 irregular in shape Brazil. and longer than wide, the upper spot sub-quad- Differs from remus Fabricius in having rate, all yellow, semi-hyaline. Costal margin the spots of the primaries and the entirely from just beyond the cell with fulvous scales and differently colored under side of the a few of the same color at the base and along the This may not be inner margin. Fringes paler at the anal angle, hindwings. species the rest concolorous. The stigma is of the usual strictly congeneric as the saccus and aedoe- form but somewhat less developed than in some agus of the male genitalia are much shorter of the other species in the genus. than in remus but the form of the stigma of Secondaries immaculate, some dark fulvous- brown hairs in the basal area and along the ab- the male is very similar to that of remus. dominal fold. BENEATH.-Primaries dark brown at the base, Phanes hoffmanni, new species the rest reddish brown, spots of the upper side Figure 5 repeated, that in interspace 1 barely visible and continued outwardly as a slightly paler brown MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings dark spot. Secondaries reddish brown with a pur- brown. Primaries with two whitish semi- plish reflection, the veins yellowish brown, a hyaline, discal spots, the one in interspace 2 discal band of three small, whitish dots, one slightly the larger, the other one in interspace 3. each in interspaces 2, 3 and 5 in the type, the Fringes paler brownish. The stigma is V- upper one absent and the two lower ones barely shaped and inconspicuous, one arm arises at the visible in the paratype. The abdominal fold origin of vein 3 and lies close along the cell to brown. vein 2, the other arm is of equal length along Above head and body dark brown and ful- vein 2. vous. Beneath palpi fulvous and black, pectus Secondaries immaculate. Fringes brownish. fulvous, thorax grayish fulvous, abdomen pale BENEATH.-Both wings dark rufous brown. fulvous with a thin brown central line. Anten- Primaries with dark rusty scales in the basal half nae missing. of the costal margin, inner margin a little paler mm. below vein 2, the two spots of the upper side EXPANSE.-36 repeated. Secondaries between veins 2 to 7 with TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, St. or without tiny accumulations of fulvous scales Laurent, French Guiana, one male para- representing a discal band. Brazil. Top of head, palpi, and body dark rusty brown type, Obidos, with a slight greenish reflection. Beneath This species is a little larger than compta palpi dark brown and fulvous, pectus fulvous Butler and has larger and differently shaped 1940 J NEW NEOTROPICAL HESPERIIDAE 5 discal spots of the primaries and the spots in interspaces 1, 2 and 3, that in interspace stigma is a little more slender. On the 2 the larger, all these spots are white semi- hyaline. In the type there is also a small under side the small spots of the discal white spot in interspace 4. Fringes white band of the secondaries are fewer in below vein 2, above concolorous. number. Secondaries with a large, sub-ovate, white discal spot. Fringes white at anal angle, above concolorous. Euroto schmithi, new species BENEATH.-Dark purplish brown. Primaries Figure 7 with the apical area from veins 3 to 10 broadly MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings brown. grayish or grayish yellow between the veins, Primaries with a small subapical spot in inter- which does not quite reach the margin of the space 6, two discal spots, one each in inter- wings. All of the spots of the upper side re- spaces 2 and 3, the one in interspace 2 elongate peated, except the spot in interspace 4 in the and very oblique, pointing at the smaller and type. The inner margin below vein 1 is pale rounded spot in interspace 3, all pale yellowish brown. Secondaries with the extreme base, a semi-hyaline. Fringes but little paler than the narrow outer marginal band, all the anal angle wings. Stigma of the usual form. area, the abdominal fold except the outer edge, Secondaries immaculate, fringes as in pri- all of the veins, purplish brown; all the rest of maries. the wings is some shade of yellow, brightest BENEATH.-Primaries reddish brown in the below the cell and along the outer edge of the apical area, the rest dark brown, spots of the abdominal fold; the cell'and outward toward upper side repeated. Fringes slightly paler the margin nearly white; above the cell darker. at anal angle. Secondaries with abdominal Top of head, collar and palpi blackish, the fold brown, the rest reddish brown, three small, head spotted with white; tegulae, blackish, ill-defined, pale, discal spots, one each in inter- inwardly bordered with sordid fulvous, and spaces 2, 3 and 5. with a yellow basal spot. Thorax dark brown Top of head, palpi, collar and shoulder covers with long paler brown hairs; abdomen blackish dark brown and fulvous, tegulae, thorax and ab- brown with long paler brown hairs at the base. domen brown with some dark fulvous hairs on Beneath the palpi, in the type, are white, in the the tegulae. Beneath palpi fulvous and black, paratype black with a white spot in the center; pectus fulvous brown and a fulvous spot behind a white spot under each eye; pectus black with a the eyes, thorax grayish brown, abdomen pale yellow spot at the base; thorax with yellow- brownish white with a narrow, dark central brown hairs; abdomen yellowish brown with a stripe. Antennae black above, beneath mi- purple-brown stripe in the center. Antennae nutely spotted paler, base of club and apiculus black on both sides. pale yellowish brown. EXPANSE.-45 mm. EXPANSE.-36 mm. TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, TYPE MATERIAL.-Holotype male, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; one male paratype, Hansa Humboldt, Santa Catharina, Brazil, St. Laurent, French Guiana. one male paratype, Massaranduba-Blum- This species is somewhat larger than the enau, Santa Catharina, Brazil. usual claudianus Latreille, which it re- Named for Mr. Karl Schmith of Mas- sembles, but differs on the upper side of saranduba-Blumenau. the primaries in the smaller and separate This species resembles micythus Godman, subapical spots, and on the secondaries in but is a little larger, the spots of the pri- the much larger white discal spot; beneath maries are larger and the male genitalia in the lighter color of the secondaries and in quite different. addition does not have the red eyes of claudianus. It differs from the figure of Carystus santus, new species jolus Cramer in the larger and more ovate Figure 2 white discal spot of the secondaries; from MALE (UPPER SIDE).-Both wings blackish bursa Hewitson in the larger white discal brown. Primaries with apical area a little spot of the secondaries and in the apex of paler. Three subapical spots in a very oblique the primaries beneath being not dark but line, the upper two elongate, the lower one with the pale area described above; from ovate and a little outward of the others, some- times absent; two large elongate spots in the the figure of phorcus Cramer in the more cell a little beyond the middle; three discal ovate white discal spot of the secondaries.