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Show 90 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID^!. [Jan. 17, base of wing. No epiphysis on fore tibise. Hind tibise slightly fringed and with only terminal pair of spurs. onesapano, Sc 3. sylvius, Enoch 4. sylvicola, Meig. argyrostigma, Eversm. 5. (palemon, Pall 1. paniscus, Fabr. brontes, Wien. Verz. mandan, Edw 2. Some 600 or 700 species have been described in this genus, though the above five probably represent all the species which correctly belong to it. The remainder include species belonging to almost every described genus. Distribution. Holarctic. 34. Genus CYCLOPIDES. (Plates II. fig. 10 ; TIL fig. 14.) Cyclopides, Hiibn. Verz. p. Ill (1816). Type, metis, Linn. Antennse short, less than half the length of costa ; club blunt, oval, without terminal crook. Palpi porrect; second joint thickly clothed with lax scales, almost concealing the third joint, which is slender and obtusely conical. Fore wing short and broad, outer margin convex, considerably shorter than inner margin; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; vein 11 very short, running at once into 12; discocellulars suberect; vein 5 almost equidistant from 4 and 6, slightly nearer to 4 ; vein 3 close to end of cell; vein 2 equidistant from base of wing and vein 3. Hind wing evenly rounded; discocellulars and vein 5 hardly traceable ; vein 2 nearer to 3 than to base of wing. No epiphysis on fore tibise. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, except in willemi, in which the upper pair are wanting; both pairs are distinct in the other five species here quoted except in meninx, in which the upper pair are minute. metis, Linn 1. j malgacha, Boisd 2. X limpopona, Wallgr. cegipan, Trim 3. And one unnamed species. Confined to Africa. willemi, Wallgr 4. cheles, Hew. meninx, Trim 5. argenteostriatus, Plot z. Synopsis cf Genera of P A M P H I L I N C E. Section B. a. Tip of antennse blunt. cf. Club of antenna? forming a hollowed disk. ,, r,, . - , TARACTROCEKA, Butler. Type, mcevius, Fabr. (1) o\ Club of antenna? elongate. a2. Third joint of palpi horizontal. a3. Apex of fore wing not produced. ,3 . .. . , AMPITTIA. Moore. Type, maro, Fabr. (2) b\ Apex of fore wing produced. /2 ™ . ,. . , , , . KBDESTBS, g. n. Type, lepenula, Wallgr. (3) b-. Third joint of palpi erect. a3. Fore wing very elongate. APATJSTUS, Hbn. Type, menes, Cram. (4) |