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surmise, we are inclined to believe that it may possibly prove to be the female of 

 Oxynetra hopfferi. 



In favour of this view we find that the two types agree accurately in the smallness 

 of the head and eyes, in the position and colour of the spots on the head, and in the 

 colour of the palpi, breast, and under portion of the abdomen. The rufous rings of 

 the body are restricted to the basal segments, as in Oxynetra felderi. Against this 

 supposition is the great difference in the coloration and shape of the wings, which have 

 no diaphanous spots, and the secondaries are much more rounded, perhaps purely sexual 

 characters. The thorax and abdomen are apparently more compressed, but this is 

 perhaps due to the specimen having been crushed, and there is no rufous spot on the 

 anterior portion of the tegulse as in the other species. 



The position of this insect can only be finally settled by the receipt of more specimens ; 

 in the meantime we have no hesitation in placing M. Mabille's genus Lis as a synonym 

 of Oxynetra of Felder. The difference in the shape of the antenna? referred to by 

 M. Mabille is of no consequence. The curvature is not symmetrical in the type nor in 

 any of the specimens of Oxynetra before us. 



Subfam. HESPEBIIN^E. 

 Hesperiince, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, pp. 9, 15. 



In this subfamily Mr. Watson places all the species of Hesperiidse in which the 

 males have a costal fold to the primaries, all those in which the lower discocellular is 

 longer than the middle discocellular, and those which extend their wings in life in one 

 plane. There are exceptions to all these points, but where one of them fails one or 

 more of the others indicate the true position of the genus. No species with a discal 

 stigma belongs to this subfamily. 



Mr. Watson further divides his Hesperiinae into two sections, and defines them as 

 follows : — 



Section a. 



Club of the antennas usually bent into a hook, but sometimes sickle-shaped and always 

 terminating in a fine point. The third joint of the palpi is either minute and 

 almost buried in the long scales of the second joint or else directed forwards 

 horizontally, but never curved backwards as in some Pamphilince. The cell of the 

 primaries is always more than two-thirds of the length of the costa. The disco- 

 cellulars are usually very oblique, the lower radial is nearly equidistant from the 

 median and upper radial, but the middle discocellular is usually shorter than the 

 lower, except when these two nervures make a very acute angle with the subcostal, 

 and the cell is then abnormally long. 



Nearly all the genera of this section belong exclusively to the New World, the large 

 majority inhabiting Tropical America. 



