174 c Jul y- 



6 ? ? —were taken at Polton, Midlothian, on Aug. 6th, 1906*, and 

 were for a long time unnamed. From Dr. Griinberg's description 

 (he. cit.) I thought they might be A. auricollis, and going over the 

 genus recently with Dr. Lundbeck's " Diptera Danica " (1912) the 

 identification was confirmed. The species is a very distinct one, and is 

 easily distinguished from confinis, Zett., the insect in our List which 

 it most resembles, by the hind metatarsus being without long hairs in 

 the <$ , and by the black coxae in the $ . 



Monifieth: May, 1914. 



THE OCCUEEENCE OF A (NEW?) SPECIES OF HESPEBIA 

 IN EGYPT. 



BY COL. N. MANDERS, A.M.S. 



On March 29th, 1914, I captured in the desert near Cairo half-a- 

 dozen specimens of a Hesperia new to me, one of which I subse- 

 quently submitted to Mr. Hamilton Druce for his opinion, suggesting 

 that it was undescribed. He allows me to quote a portion of his 

 letter :".... after a good deal of consideration I cannot advise you 

 that the insect is new. I should say it was H. (Pyrgus) evanida 

 Butler. I have examined the type in the British Museum. They have it 

 also from Aden and Gebil Agageh, Soudan (H. N. Dunn, 1902). It is 

 near H. galba, Fab., in fact, by Elwes and Edwards, and also by Mabille, 



it is given as a synonym of galba, but is probably quite distinct 



You may have a new species, but I should not care to name it on the 

 slight perceptible differences from the type of Pyrgus evanida — the 

 white spots in this latter are a little smaller than the specimen you send, 

 also than in the Soudan examples referred to. . . . Perhaps you can 

 get some one to work out the genitalia, which might prove something." 

 Seitz, in his " Pahearctic Butterflies," p. 336, follows Elwes and Edwards, 

 also Mabille, in giving H. evanida as a synonym of H. galba, but 

 judging by his description and figure there is little doubt they are 

 distinct. 



I think it unlikely that my insect can be separated from H. 

 evanida, occurring as this does at Aden and in the Soudan ; at most it 

 is likely to be a local race. I write the above somewhat hurriedly in 

 order to prevent the synonymy of the Hesperiidae being unnecessarily 

 added to, which, if my information is correct, is likely to be the case. 



* Col. J. W. Yerbury caught two males of A. auricollis, Mg., at Llangammarcb Wells (Breck- 

 nockshire) on July 23rd and 26th, 1913.— J. E. C. 



