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Show 64 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID-E. [Jan. 1/, occasionally wauting in tettensis. In the only two specimens (both males) in the British Museum the epiphysis is very sma l, u not absent, but it is impossible to say with certainty without clearing the fore leg. Confined to Africa. 37. Genus HELIOPETES. Heliopetes, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). Type, arsalte, Linn. Leucoscirtes, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 52 (1872). . Type, ericetorum, Boisd. Antennse : club moderate, blunt, slightly curved. Palpi porrect; second joint laxlv clothed with long scales; third joint slender, bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner and outer margins subequal; cell of fore wing less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; discocellulars suberect, the lower the longer; vein 3 close to end of cell, more than three times as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 three times as far from end of cell as from base of wing. Hind wing evenly rounded; vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Male with a costal fold and with a tuft of hairs attached near proximal end of hind tibise. clomicclla, Erich 1. j figara, Butler 7 Hocutia, Hew 2. Haviana, Hew 3. ericetorum, Boisd 4. r petrus, Hiibn 8. [ Haginia, Hew. *leucola, Hew 9. omrina, Butl :">. alamo, Eeak 10. f arsalte, Linn 6. | nivcus, Cram. And three unidentified species. Confined to tropical America. 38. Genus HESPERIA. (Plates I. fig. 11 ; 111. fig. 19.) Hesperia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. vol. i. p. 258 (1793). Type, malvee, Linn. Pyryus, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109 (1816). Type, syrichtus, Fabr. Scelothrix, Ramb. Cat. Lep. Andal. i. p. 63 (1858). Type, carthami, Hiibn. Syrichtus, Boisd. Icones, p. 230 (1832-33)." N a m e sinks, being derived from species in genus. Antennse : club robust, arcuate, blunt at the tip, no terminal crook. Palpi suberect; second joint laxly clothed with longish scales ; third joint slender, blunt, almost concealed in scaling of second joint. Fore wing : inner and outer margius subequal; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; discocellulars suberect, the lower the longer ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell, more than twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 nearer base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing usually evenly rounded, occasionally slightly crenulate; vein 7 very shortly before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint; vein 3 |
