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one, ficqucnlly more than twice as long as it. IIind-wing : 

 usually rather elongate, but never with a conspicuous tail or 

 tooth ; vcui 5 very rarely developed. 



The male is frequently furnished with a discal stigma on the 

 fore-wing, and never with a costal fold. Loth pairs of spurs 

 are invariably present on the hind tibine, and there never is a 

 tuft of hair on the tibice in the male. The epiphysis on the fore 

 tibiae is invariably present. 



This group is of world-wide distribution; the South American 

 forms, however, are comparatively few. 



The majority of the species, when sunning themselves on a 

 leaf, depress their hind-wings, and elevate their fore-wings, an 

 altitude peculiar to this section. When in a complete state of 

 rei)Ose, both pairs of wings are raised till they meet over the 

 back. {Jl'a/so/i.) 



This section includes all the British tawny Skippers except 

 ranipliila palcemoji., and in all our species the black stripe of 

 raised scales on the fore-wings of the males is more or less 

 conspicuous. 



GENUS ADOP^A. 



Thymelicus^ pt. Iliibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 113 (1S16). 

 Adopccay Billberg, Enum. Ins, p. 81 (1820); Watson, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 98. 



We have three British species belonging to this genus, two of 

 which are very local with us. The name Thyineliais is now 

 restricted to a different genus, the type of which is the \Vest 

 Indian T. zv/vv, Ilubner. The type of Adopica is A. thauinas 

 (Hufnagel), a species figured by Baibut under the name of 

 Urbicola comma. As, however, A. than mas is not a Linnean 

 species, it cannot be allowed to be the type of Urbicola^ and 

 we are therefore spared the immediate necessity of considering 



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