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Show 116 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDJE. [Jan. 17, costa before end of cell; upper margin of cell sharply bent downwards at vein 8; veins 7 and 6 well below the angle; upper discocellular considerably longer than lower ; vein 5 much nearer 4 than 6, but not from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 well betore end of cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 about equidistant from vein 3 and base of win-. Hind wing evenly rounded ; vein 7 well before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 iaint; vein 6 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibiae in the male only with termina spurs, the ventral surface thickly set with short spines ; the dorsal surface with a long fringe and also a long tuft of hairs attached near the proximal end. * johnstonii, Butler. Allied to Kerana. Confined to Africa. 42. Genus ANCISTROIDES. Ancistroides, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 436. Type, longicornis, Butler. Antennae very long ; club slender, recurved, tip acuminate. Palpi as in Kerana. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa before end of cell; middle discocellular quite twice as long as lower one; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 shortly before end of cell; vein 2 much nearer to base of wing than to vein 3. Hind wing evenly rounded ; vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of cell, many times farther from 2 than from 4; vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs and slightly clothed with short recumbent scales. longicornis, Butler 1. * othonias, Hew 2. This genus is nearest allied to Kerana, but differs from it markedly in the position of the median branches of both wings. Longicornis is from Timor and othonias from Borneo. 43. Genus PIRDANA. Pirdana, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 376 (1886). Type, hyela, Hewitson. Antennae long; club slender, tip recurved, acuminate. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, third joint minute. Fore wing: inner and outer margins subequal; cell less than two thirds the length of costa : vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell; upper discocellular minute, lower and middle discocellular inwardly oblique, the middle one considerably the longer ; vein 3 very close to end of cell; veinlet in cell just beyond vein 3; vein 2 less than twice as far from end of cell as from base of wing. Hind wing: outer margin even, lobe inconspicuous; cell short, not reaching half across wing; vein 7 just before end of cell, more than three times as far from 8 as |