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Show *878.] LEPIDOPTERA OF HAINAN. 703 wing short; costa abbreviated, lobed at the base, concave towards the end, the apex produced and pointed upward ; exterior margin slightly concave below the apex, and very convex in the middle ; anal an^le lobed ; a spatulate tail extending from end of lower median vein; palpi long, stout, apical joint broad laterally ; antennse thickened to apex. Differs from typical Amblypodia (A. narada, Horsf.) in the entirely different form of wings ; the fore wing having the third branch of the subcostal vein bifurcate instead of trifurcate, as in male of A. narada. MAHATHALA AMERIA. Amblypodia ameria, Hewits. Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 14, pl. 8. f. 85. HALPE BETURIA. Hesperia beturia, Hewits. Desc. Hesp. p. 36 (1868). HESPERIDAE. HESPERIA GREMIUS. Hesperia gremius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 ; Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 2?I, pl. 3. f. 7. H. divodasa, Moore, P.Z.S. 1865, p. 791. HESPERIA MATHIAS, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 ; Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 275, pl. 3. f. 8. The specimens from Island of Ho Ching Shan. HESPERIA MANGALA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 792. HESPERIA QUINIGERA, n. sp. Male and Female. Upperside olive-brown; cilia pale cinereous-brown : fore wing with five small pale semidiaphanous spots, two only being subapical, and three obliquely discal : hind wing with a single indistinct pale semidiaphanous spot. Underside pale ochreous- brown ; fore wings marked as above. Expanse, 3 lyo* ? 1_io"incn* Hab. Hainan. In coll. H. Druce and F. Moore. GEGENES HAINANUS, n. sp. Male. Allied to the European species G. nostrodamus, but smaller in size, also much paler above and less grey beneath. Expanse lg inch. Hab. Hainan. In coll. H. Druce. PAMPHILA CONFUCIUS. Pamphila confucius, Felder, Wien. ent. Monat. 1862, p. 29. ISMENE ARIA. Ismene aria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 784 ; Hewits. Exot. Butt. iv. Hesp. pl. 2. f. 24. |