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Show 20 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDiE. [Jan. 17, cell; upper discocellular minute, middle and lower discocellulars oblique in the same straight line, the upper slightly the longer; vein 3 rather more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell; vein 2 about three times as far from end of cell as from base of wing ; veinlet in cell shortly before vein 4. Hind wing produced into a lobe at anal angle, outer margin evenly rounded ; vein 7 well before end of cell, slightly nearer to 6 than to 8; discocellulars very faint, almost erect; vein 5 wanting ; vein 3 just before end of cell ; vein 2 rather nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibise fringed, and with two pairs of spurs. Closely allied to Thymele, differs from it slightly in neuration and in the absence of the costal fold on the fore wing of the male. apaslus, Cram J. anaphus, Cram 2. alardus, Stoll 3. habana, Luc 4. * elorus, H e w 5. And four unidentified species. Confined to tropical America, f creteus, Cram 6. \ parmenides, Cram. * meretrix, H e w 7. * centrites, H e w 8. 15. Genus T H Y M E L E . Thymele, Fabr. 111. Mag. vi. p. 287 (1807). Type, mercatus, Fabr. Astraptes, Hiibner, Verz. p. 103 (1816). Type, aulestes, Cramer. Euthymele, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxi. p. 24 (1878). Type not specified. Antennae; club slender, gradually thickened and gradually tapering to a fine point, abruptly bent into a hook just beyond its thickest portion. Palpi well separated, third joint minute. Fore wing : male with a costal fold ; cell two-thirds length of costa ; veinlet in cell just before vein 4 ; vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell ; upper discocellular minute, lower and middle discocellulars sub-equal, inwardly oblique, and in the same straight line ; vein 3 rather more than twice as far from 2 as from end of cell; vein 2 about one and a half times as far from 3 as from base of wing. Hind wing much produced in submedian area and slightly toothed at submedian nervule; cell short, not reaching half across wino-; vein 4 much longer than the lower margin of the cell; vein 7 rattier nearer to end of cell than to base of wing ; discocellulars barely traceable, almost erect; vein 5 wanting; vein 3 from immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibise thickly fringed and with two pairs of spurs. Of the four species included by M . Mabille in his genus Euthymele, two belong to Thymele and two to Telegonus. fulgeralor, Walch 1. mercatus, Fabr. 'naxos, H e w 2. aulestes, Oram 3. colossus, H.-S 4, egregius, Butl f,' cnoirus, Cram g*. *halesius, Hew 7 Confined to tropical America. |