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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDiE. 119 Male with a linear glandular streak on upperside of fore wing extending from the base of vein 3 as far as vein 1. accius, Sm. Abb 1. hianna, Scudd 2. Confined to North America. 48. Genus PITHAURIA. Pithauriu, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 689. Type, murdava, Moore. Pithauriopsis, W.-Mason & de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 387. Type, aitchisoni, W . M. & de N. Antennas: club slender, elongate, with a rather long and very slender terminal crook. Palpi: second joint pressed close against face, third joint minute. Fore wing rather produced at apex, inner and outer margins subequal; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell; upper discocellular minute, middle very long, lower very short; vein 5 from very close to bottom of cell; vein 3 equidistant from 2 and 4 ; vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing elongated, outer margin even ; cell short, not reaching half across wing ; vein 7 shortly before end of cell, both veins curved at the bifurcation; discocellulars outwardly oblique ; vein 5 not traceable; veins 2, 3, and 4 all very close together, the lower margin of the cell bent upwards at origin of vein 2. Hind tibias with two pairs of spurs. In the male the fore coxas are conspicuously tufted. The only differences between Pithauria and Pithauriopsis are that in the latter the male is furnished with a pair of glandular spots on the upperside of the fore wing between veins 1 and 2, and that at the bifurcation of vein 7 of the hind wing the veins composing the fork are more curved; this, however, is a character which for some unknown reason appears to occur in correlation with glandular patches or streaks on the fore wing. The female of aitchisoni has not been described, but will almost certainly be found to have the veins at the origin of vein 7 of the hind wing straight, so that vein 7 would arise at an acute angle. murdava, Moore 1. stramineipennis, Wood-Mason, de Niceville 2. aitchisoni, Wood-Mason, de Niceville 3. Confined to the Oriental region. 49. Genus NICONIADES. Niconiades, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. ii. (1816 ] -21). 1 Type, xanthaphes, Goniloba, Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 512. f Hiibn. (1852). J Antennae rather long; club slender, elongated, with a slender elongated crook. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, pressed close against the face, third joint erect, minute, bluntly pointed. Fore |
