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from Asia to the west of Europe, and made from there a well 

 ascertained migration to the east again and through Siberia. All insects 

 finding it easier to live in the company of man, or by articles used and 

 needed by man, will of course follow him as well as dogs and rats. 



Mr. Lintner has not mentioned Phylloxera, which has in Europe done 

 more injury and has caused more losses than almost all the other pests 

 together. 



THE GENERA OF THE HESPERID^E OF THE EUROPEAN 



FAUNAL-REGION. 



BY DR. A. SPEYER. 



(Translated from the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung for 1S78, pp. 167-193.) 



(Concliuleil from August No., p. 154.) 



CATODAULIS." 



<£ . Antennae much longer than half the costal margin of the fore- 

 wings, nearly three-fourths as long as the body, uniform black, at two-thirds 

 of their length expanding into a slender fusiform club, the last third of 

 which is suddenly bent at a right angle ; from this point forwards it is 

 rapidly narrowed, but not very acute, nor curved into a hook. Locklet of 

 hair of medium length and of the usual structure. Palpi projecting the 

 full length of the eyes beyond the front, the first joint thickly hair-scaled, 

 the end joint moderately short, conical, almost horizontal. Tibiae 

 unarmed, the hind ones with four spurs, the outer one of each pair much 

 shorter than the inner one. The tuft of hair begins on the base of the 

 tibia? and reaches (on the inside running downwards) to their end. Body- 

 not very robust, the head and thorax united equal to the abdomen, the 

 latter not reaching the inner angle of the hind wings, and destitute of the 



I Dr. Speyer writes that tins genus must give way to DAIMIA Murray, 1874.— L.] 



