68 \V. J. HOLLAND. 



30. IV. Comma? Hoi>fler, Peter's Reise, plate xxvii, fi>i. 12 (1862;. ZuniUa 

 Comma Boisduval, 1. c. p. 142. 



As in the case of the si)ecimens referred to Penens, so in the case 

 of the specimens referred to Comma, I am in a measure of doubt. 

 If my specimens are veritably Comma, then the remark of Mr. 

 Butler, in the " Revision," must be repeated concerning them. He 

 says : " Our example is darker and not so green as Hopfi'er's figure." 



Benita (Reutlinger). 



31. !V. Hospera? Fahr., Syst. Eut. p. 546, No. 33 (1775). Saalmiiller, Le- 

 pifloptereii voii MaflaKascar. Part I, p. 133, plate iv, fig. 42. 



I have a male and female which are referable to Hespera of Fab- 

 ricius by the exercise of some measure of laxness of construction as 

 to descriptions and figures. 



Benita (Reutlinger). 



Note. — After having grubbed through the entire literature of 

 the genus Nephele so far as known to me, I cannot but feel that there 

 is need of a monographic revision of the genus, which will clear up 

 the doubts and difficulties as to nomenclature, for which the wretch- 

 edly brief diagnoses of Fabricius and the more wretched figures of 

 Cramer have given occasion. 



Genus AXTIIVEPHEL,E gen. nov. 



Body, as a whole, stout, fusiform and relatively sliort. Head 

 small, laterally compressed with a low, but distinct crest between the 

 antennfe. Palpi heavily scaled, stout and closely applied to the 

 vertical front reaching to its top and apparently forming a part of 

 the head. Eyes of medium size, without lashes. Antennje of me- 

 dium length, of abnost uniform thickness from the insertion until 

 just before the extremity of the slightly recurved tip, minutely ciliate 

 in the male and sin)ple in the female. Thorax stout, rounded in 

 front; patagise small and closely applied. Vestiture of thorax 

 smooth in front, tufted behind. Abdomen rather short, stout, conic, 

 fiattened on ventral aspect, with small and obscure tufts on the line 

 of the spiracles. F(>re legs without spines on tibiae, middle tibise 

 with one pair of unequal spurs ; hind tibi?e with two pairs. Prima- 

 ries hiserted jud before the middle of the thorax; costal margin 

 straight, recurved at aj)ex ; a})ex rounded, external margin convex, 

 entire; internal margin straiglit, or very slightly sinuous. Posterior 

 wings subtriangular ; costa straight, or feeblv arcuate, external angle 



