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Show 104 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID^. [Jan. 17, Hind wing broadly rounded ; outer margin very slightly excised at vein 2 ; vein 7 well before end of cell; discocellulars taint; vein 5 hardly traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end ot cell; vein 2 well before end of cell, nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibias with two pairs of spurs and with a long fringe of coarse hairs. No secondary sexual characters on wings. phineus, Cramer 1. *utha, Hew 2. And an unidentified species. Confined to tropical South America and the West Indies. 19. Genus GEGENES. (Plate III. fig. 30.) Gegenes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816). Type, pygmeeus, Hiibn. Philoodus, Ramb. Faune Ent. Andal. ii. p. 308 (1840). Type, nostrodamus, Fabr. Antennas very short, hardly a third the length of costa ; club robust, short, terminal crook minute. Palpi: third joint hardly visible. Fore wing : outer margin longer than inner margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing rather elongated ; outer margin even, slightly excised between veins 2 and 1 b; vein 7 well before the end of cell; discocellulars faint; vein 5 not traceable ; veins 2, 3, and 4 very close together; vein 3 about twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; lower margin of cell angled at vein 2. Hind tibias with two pairs of spurs. No secondary sexual characters on the wings of the male except in a single specimen of an unidentified species in the British Museum from Victoria Nyanza, in which there is a large ill-defined rounded spot of appressed scales on the upperside of the fore wing below end of cell. nostrodamus, Fabr 1. pygmeeus, Hiibn. (nee Fabr.). pumilio, Hoffm. lefebrii, Ramb. karsana, Moore 2. f hottentota, Latr 3. X htterstedti, Wallgr. And one unidentified species. Eanges over the Mediterranean region, India, and Africa. 20. Genus CALPODES. Calpodes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816). Type, ethlius, Cram. Antennae : club stout; terminal crook rather long, about half the length of the rest of club. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, pressed close against the face ; third joint almost entirely concealed. Fore wing: costa nearly straight; inner margin slightly longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell ; middle discocellular inwardly oblique, considerably longer than lower one ; vein 5 considerably nearer to 4 than to*6; vein 3 shortly before end |
