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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPERIIDJE. 79 vein 3 shortly before the end of cell ; vein 2 almost equidistant from vein 3 and base of wing. Hind wing: outer margin even ; vein 7 well before the end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint; vein 3 shortly before end of cell, about twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. In the male there is a conspicuous oval glandular patch on the disk of the hind wing on the upperside, and there is also a tuft of hairs on the underside of the fore wing, attached to the basal half of the inner margin. laronia, Hew 1. thora, Plotz 2. And two unidentified species. Confined to Africa. 13. Genus BUTLERIA. (Plate III. fig. 21.) Butleria, Kirby, Syn. Cat. 624 (1871). Type, valdiviavus, Phil. Antennse: club rather robust, arcuate, tip acuminate. Palpi porrect; second joint long, densely clothed ; third joint slender, naked, obtusely conical. Fore wing; costa arched at base, then straight to apex, having the appearance of being slightly excised ; inner margin longer than outer margin; cell less than two-thirds length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa before the end of cell; discocellulars suberect; vein 6 almost equidistant from 4 and 6 ; vein 3 well before the end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wdng; outer margin even ; vein 7 well before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 faint; vein 3 shortly before end of cell; vein 2 twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs (except in sotoi and pkilippii). dimidiatus, Feld. *caicus, H ew jelski/i, Ersch ~*diraspes, H ew *oxaites, H ew *evages, H ew hesperioides, Feld. .. ibhara, Butl polycrates, Feld epiphaneus, Feld. ... .... 1. .... 2. .... 3. .... 4. .... 5. .... 6. .... 7. .... 8. .... 9. .... 10. .... 11. .... 12. .... 13. .... 14. .... 15. .... 16. bissexguttatus, Phil. ... f valclivianus, Phil X exornatus, Feld. {jlavomaculatus, Blanch. X'polyspilus, Feld. f paniscoides, Blanch. ... X *canquenensis, Eeed. J *var. tractipennis, Butl. 1 *var. quadrinotatus, Butl. 1 *var. pulcher, Butl. 17. IS 19 20. 21 22. 23. <>A m m The last two species have only terminal spurs on the hind tibise. This is a very large genus, confined to the tropical regions of the N e w World; it includes forms of which the extremes are very dissimilar in coloration, but which grade one into another imperceptibly. |
