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Show 42 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDiE. [Jan. 17, 49. Genus GRYNOPSIS, nov. Type, cceleste, Westwood. Antennas rather long ; club slender, hardly thicker than the shaft, the front edge of shaft fringed with short widely-set bristles. Third joint of palpi entirely concealed in the clothing of the second joint. Fore wing : outer margin almost half as long again as inner margin ; male with a costal fold; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of cell ; cell very long, considerably more than two-thirds the length of costa; discocellulars very oblique, subequal; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6 ; the lower margin of the cell is bent up between veins 3 and 4, lying almost in the same straight line as the discocellulars ; vein 3 well before the end of the cell; vein 2 remote from 3, as far from base of wing as 3 is from end of cell. Hind wing produced into a broad lobe, extending from vein 3 to the anal angle ; vein 7 well before end of cell; discocellulars very faint ; vein 5 barely traceable, much nearer to vein 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 from end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibias only with terminal pair of spurs. Male with the abdominal margin clothed with long hair-like scales. cadeste, Westwood 1. Inhabits tropical South America. Synopsis of Genera of HESPERIINCE. Section B. a. Antennse : tip acuminate. «' Apex of fore wing not truncate. u2. Outer margin of both wings even or only slightly sinuate (dentate in Erites). a3. Apex of fore wing not falcate. a'. Third joint of palpi short and inconspicuous. as. Hind wing conspicuously elongated. ft1'. Third joint of palpi sharply conical. ,e „,. , . . . . , NEONOMA.g.n. Type,platan, Feld. (1) //'. Third joint of palpi bluntly conical. a7. Male with a large patch of sexual scales on outer half of hind wing on upperside. ARTEUROTIA, Butl., Druce. Type, tractipennis, Butl., D r (2) />'. JNo sexual patch of scales on upperside of hind wins in male. ° «\ Vein 2 of hind wing almost equidistant from base of wing and end of cell. f,» v • o i .S°PH.ISTA> P15tz- TvPe> aristoteles, Westw. (3) o . \ em 2, hind wing, twice as far from base of wing as irom end of cell. 8 r< vr- A • * . S A T A R U P A > Moore. Type, gopala, Moore. (4) V. Hind wing not at all or only slightly elongatedf W cr. i\o costal fold on fore wing of male a7. Lower margin of cell of fore wing not strongly arched between origin of veins 2 and 3. a«. N o patch of sexual scales on upperside of hind wine in male. & dJ. Hind wing: outer margin sinuate. «10. Third joint of palpi porrected horizontally. |