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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXIX. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Pyrgus? Malvarum. 2. Showing the underside. 3. The Caterpillar when young. 4. When in a more advanced stage. 
5, The Chrysalis. 
ue Fig. 6. Cyclopides Paniscis. 7. The female. 8. Showing the under side. 9. The Caterpillar. 
ae Fig. 10. Cyclopides Sylvius. 11. The female. 12. The under side of the male. 
Prants.—Fig. 13. Althea officinalis (the marsh mallow). 
7 Fig. 14. Plantago major (the greater plantain). 
Pyrgus Malvarum is froma specimen which I took in Italy, near Turin; Mr. Stephens does not consider it has any claim to be considered an 
English species, but as it is found in old collections I have thought it right to give a figure of it. The Caterpillars are from Godart, who 
minutely describes rearing them himself. Cyclopides Sylvius has no greater claim to be considered British than P.? Malvarum, but I have intro- 
duced it for similar reasons. It is probably a Continental variety of C. Paniscuis, and it is not impossible that some English varieties may have 
been taken nearly resembling it. C. Paniscus is from specimens kindly furnished by Mr. Doubleday, and the Caterpillar is from Godart. H. N. H, 

SPECIES 3.—PYRGUS? MALVARUM. 
Plate xxxix. fig. 1—5. 
Syvnonymes.— Hesperia Malvarum. Hoffmansegg, Ochsenheimer. Carcharodus Malve, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. (but not P. 
Hesperia Malve, Fabricius, Stewart, Donovan, 16, pl. 567. Malve Linn.) 
Thymele Malve, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 53, f. 17. Papilio Althee, Hiibner (variety). 
Hesperia de la Guimauve, Godart. 
The Linnean name of Malvze having been applied to this species, and given as a native insect by Stewart and 
Donovan, it has become necessary to introduce it into this work to show the distinction between the two 
species ; in fact, the present is more nearly allied to Hesperia Tages; its dentated wings, however, induced 
Tiibner to place it in a separate group under the name of Carcharodus. The wings are dentated and brown, with 
waving cinereous lines, and six transparent spots on the fore wings ; the hind wings beneath dotted with white. 
Of this species no authentic instance has occurred of the capture in this country. The caterpillar is of a dirty 
blackish green, when young; but becomes lighter coloured as it increases in age, with darker longitudinal lines, 
a black head, and a yellow neck. It feeds on mallows. 

NISONIADES, Hisyer (THANAOS, Botspuvat). 

This group differs from the preceding in having longer, slenderer antenn, with the club attenuated at the 
tip; the palpi with the last joint thicker ; the anterior margin of the fore wings slightly angulated beyond the 
middle ; the surface of the wings not tessellated, and the fringe alternately spotted. It agrees with it in having 
the wings identical in the outline in both sexes, and in the costa being folded at the base in the males. The 
wings are deflexed in repose, and they are longer than the abdomen. The difference in their colour in the two 
sexes indicates a relation with the following group. As there are several species which agree in these respects, 
T have adopted the group with Hiibner’s name, which is prior to that of Boisduval. 
