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Show 110 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDJE. [Jan. 17, prominent, remainder minute. The whole wing more or less dusted with yellowish scales. Tip of antennae orange-yellow ; club and shaft black above, yellowish beneath ; palpi dark above, greyish white below. Expanse, o* 34 mm., $ 36 m m. Habitat. India, Burma, Andamans. This is the species which usually stands in Indian collections as beturia, Hew. Hewitson, however, included two distinct species under the name beturia, one from Celebes and the other from the Nilgiris ; as the former is the one that agrees with his description, it must be taken as the typical one. The true beturia differs from moorei in having only four spots on the upperside in the male, two discal and two subapical, and the fringe is unicolorous throughout ; in what appears to be the female there is an additional minute subapical spot, a minute indistinct spot at upper angle of cell, and the usual spot peculiar to the female on the submedian. On the underside of the hind wing all the spots are much diffused and irrorated with yellow. It is also a considerably larger insect, the male expanding 42 mm., and the female 43 m m. I have much pleasure in naming this species after Mr. Moore, from whom I have received much assistance in the loan of types and other specimens. 30. Genus PHLEBODES. Phlebodes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816). Type, pertinax, Cram. Antennae : club slender, elongated, terminal crook short. Palpi: second joint densely scaled ; third joint minute, bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner and outer margins subequal; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 immediately before the end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing: vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars faint; vein 5 not traceable; veins 2, 3, 4 all close together ; vein 3 about twice as far from 2 as from 4. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Male with a linear glandular streak on upperside of fore wing. pertinax, Cram. Confined to South America. 31. Genus POANES. Poanes, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 55 (1872). Poanes, Scudd. Butl. N e w Engl. vol. ii. p. 1592 (1889). Type, massasoit, Scudd. Antennae rather short; club robust, arcuate, tip acuminate. Palpi: second joint clothed with long laxly-set scales ; third joint slender, cylindrical, short, bluntly pointed. Fore win°-: costa nearly straight, outer margin convex, slightly shorter than inner margin; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa- vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell; middle discocellular considerably longer than lower one ; vein 5 considerably nearer to |