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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. W A T S O N O N T H E HESPEEIIDiE. 69 42. Genus T H A N A O S . Thanaos, Boisd. Icones, 240 (1832-1833). Type, tages, Linn- Antennse: club moderate, more or less bent into a curve, bluntly pointed. Palpi porrect; second joint laxly clothed; third joint almost concealed, bluntly conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin; male with a costal fold; cell of fore wing less than two-thirds the length of costa ; discocellulars slightly inwardly oblique, the lower the longer; vein 3 shortly before the end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin evenly rounded ; vein 7 very close to end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 faint; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 almost equidistant from end of cell and base of wing. Hind tibise fringed and with two pairs of spines, the upper pair minute. This genus as it stands at present includes many species which are certainly not congeneric. The above description is taken from the type species. tages, Linn 1. var. cervantes, Grasl. lucilius, Linn 2. persius, Sc 3. martialis, Sc 4. icelus, Lint 5. brizo, Boisd 6. juvenalis, Fabr 7. {funeralis, Sc 8. [ tristis, Boisd 9. navius, Lint 10. propertius, Sc 11. f montana, Brem 12. [ rusticamts, Butl. Found in Europe and North America. Subfamily III. P A M P H I L I N C E . Section A. Antenna? very varied, never much hooked, and usually sharply pointed. In all the genera in which the tip of the antennse is blunt the epiphysis on the fore tibia is wanting, excepting in one or two Australian forms. Palpi : third joint usually short and inconspicuous, in some few genera long and slender ; in these it is also always erect and never porrected horizontally in front of the face. Fore wing : cell always less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6, except in some aberrant Australian forms, in which it is slightly nearer to 6. Hind wing never with a conspicuous tail or tooth, though frequently more or less lobate ; vein 5 never well developed. Male never with a costal fold and only comparatively seldom with a discal stigma on the fore wing ; frequently with glandular patches and tufts of hair on the wings ; never with a tuft on the hind tibise. The epiphysis on the fore tibise and the medial pair of spurs on the hind tibise are occasionally wanting. Confined almost entirely to the Old World. As far as is known the species of this group rest with their wings raised over their backs, assuming that position immediately on settling. |
