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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDJE. 123 length of costa; vein 5 considerably nearer to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 well before end of cell; vein 2 almost equidistant from vein 3 and base of wing. Hind wing elongate, outer margin even ; vein 7 wrell before end of cell; discocellulars faint, vein 5 not traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell; lower margin of cell angled at vein 2. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. There is a very dense fringe on the hind tibias and femora and also on the middle femora. Male with a linear discal stigma extending from the base of vein 3 to as far as vein 1. corydon, Fabr 1. fxdvimargo, Butler 2. Confined to tropical America. 57. Genus UNKANA. Unkana, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 369 (1886). Type, batara, Dist. Antennas long ; club moderate, elongated, with a long terminal crook. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, third joint almost concealed. Fore wing produced at apex, outer margin considerably longer than inner margin; cell of fore wing less than two-thirds the length of costa ; discocellulars inwardly oblique ; vein 5 considerably nearer to 4 than to 6, but not from close to bottom of cell (except in elia); vein 3 well before end of cell; vein 2 almost equidistant from vein 3 and base of wing. Hind wing produced in the subcostal area, outer margin even, conspicuously excised between veins 3 and 1 b; vein 7 well before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint; vein 3 well 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. Hind tibias with two pairs of spurs. batara, Dist 1. *attina, H e w 2. *elia, Hew 3. semamora, Moore ... 4. watsonii, de Nicev. ... 5. It seems very doubtful if all the above are congeneric. There are no sexual characters on the wings of batara, attina, or watsonii. In the male of elia there is a short discal stigma on the upperside of the fore wing extending from the base of vein 3 to just beyond vein 2, and there is also a tuft of hairs on the underside of the fore wing at the origin of vein 1 ; in semamora there is no discal stigma but there is a tuft of hairs similarly situated to that of elia. Semamora, watsonii, and elia all differ slightly in neuration from batara, and the two former also differ in the crook to the antennas being very short. All these species, however, seem to be conveniently included under Unkana for the present. • Is batara identical with cruda, H.-S. ? Confined to the Oriental region. 58. Genus HIDARI. Hidari, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 395 (1886). Type, irava, Moore. Antennae long ; club robust, elongated, with a long terminal crook. Palpi: second joint very densely scaled, third joint almost entirely |