FAMILY TIT^SPEKTl).!: 



GENCS IIESI'EUIA. F.ihririns^ 



PLATE LI A' 



1. lEesperia Ouara, Jlr/. 11. 



Hespoi-i;i Oiiara, Bullcr, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 198 (Dec, ISJOi. 



Alne ajitica^ I'usciP; luaculis tril)us modiis liyalinis ; posticiP ocliracwr, area 

 basali pallid(> fuscosoonte; areis apicali et costali ni^ro-fuscis: aUe antica' 

 suhtus plaga modio-costali flavescente; alitor veliit supra ; posticu' ochraeea*, 

 aj)U(l costam albieautos, areis basali ct apicali nii;"ro-fuscis : cxp. alar. luic. 1, 

 liii. 0.^. 



East Indies r Coll. Kadeii in Coll. Druee. 



2. Mesperia Htirama, Jig. Id. 



Hosperia Ilurama, Bntler, Traus. Ent. Soc, p. 498 (Dec., 1870). 



Ala? supra piceo-fuscai ; anticai area basali pallidiorc ; postica? area interna 

 ])allidiore : akc antica; subtus fusea?, area media ol)seuviore, a linea jjallida 

 exirorsum liniitata ; areis apicali et costali ])urpureo uitentes ; postiete I'usca^, 



* My reasons for adoptiiig Ismcnc as the Hespcria of Fabricius having hcen misnnili-rstood, I tiko this opiiortnnit.v 

 of explaining them — 



Fabricius dcscrilied tlie gi'nus in his Kntomologia Systcniation, vol. iii., flloss. 1, p. 325 (1793) ami gave ho li/pr, 

 but used the following words in his ileseription — *' Antenmv elavii elongnt;i, s;ipius uncinata " ; these words at oiue lix 

 the type as soniewliere amongst the Ile.ijKricc urbicola; (notwithstanding the fact that, in his Systenia Glossatorum, 

 Kiibricius refers it to the rurahs); the Uesjicria of Cuvier has for its type il. Malru- (us Mr. Crotoh has pointed out 

 < 'ist. ICnt. p. 62) ; but Pi/rgus Maiv(c (of all the ffc.i]>eri<i urbicola;) is about the worst to have ehosen as the type, for it 

 r/')/'.v Hoi_/f« the Fabrician description ; therefore it is clear that /". -l/rt/i'tt; could not have crossed the mind of Fabricius 

 wlien he penned his description, and cannot be his tyjie : later authors have referred the ilark coloured species of 

 J'liiii/ihilu and Cari/stns to JlcajKrin, evidently taking ff. E-icIainatioiis as the type, it being the first s]H-cips which he 

 desi-ribes under his urbicola, but as II. Exclamalionis turns out to be an Jftuunf and not. as fornieily sui>posed, a 

 I'nmiihila I have taken /. Exclamationis as the tJ^)e. 



The first of the IlesjKria; Huralcs is a species of the family Ei-ijeiniiln-. 



