480 



LYCiENID.E. 



DIPSAS. 



1. DipSAS SiLA Kollar in HvgeTs Reise d. Kaschmir, p. 414, pi. 4. 

 f. 7, 8. (Thecla S.). 

 Dipsas Pholus Boisduval MS. ; E. Doubleday, List Lep. 



Brit. Miis. pt. 2. p. 25. (male). 

 Amblvpodia Euphranor E. Doubleday, 1. c. (female). 

 (An th Phorbas Fair. ?) 

 Himalaya, Simla, Northern India. B M. 



2. Dipsas Ataxis Boisduval MS. (Thecla A.) ; Douhl. List Lep. Brit. 

 Mus. pt. 2. p. 25. (Dipsas A.) ; Douhl. Westw. &; Hewits. 

 Gen. D. Lep. pi. 74. f. 7- 

 Simla. B. iM. 



3. Dipsas Xenophon Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 272. (Hesperia 

 X.) ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. fi40. ; Donovan, Inn. Ind. 

 pi. 41. f. 3. ; Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 04. pi. 4. 

 f. 2. 2 a. 

 Java. B. M. 



4. Dipsas Isocrates Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 266. (Hesperia 



I.) ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 633. ; Westwood in Trans. 



Ent. Soc. II. t. I., and Donovan, Ind. 2d edit. 1. c. 



subtus ; Downes in Calcutta, Jl. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 408. 



Papilio Pann. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 276. ; 



Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 38. f. 1. (not of Drury). 

 Thecla Nissa Kollar in Hugel's Reise d. Kaschmir, p. 412. 

 t. 4. f. 3, 4. (male). 

 India. B. .M. 



5. Dipsas Jarbas Fabricius, Munt. Ins. ii. p. 68. (Hesperia J.) ; 

 Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 646. ; Hor-ifidd, Cat. Lep. E. 

 I. C. p. 93. ; Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 40. f. 3. 

 Papilio jMelampus Cramer, Pap. pi. 362. f. G. H. 

 Thecla Sorya Kollar in Reise d. Kaschmir, t. 5. f. 1, 2. 

 Java, India. B. M. 



6. Dipsas Phorbas Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 277- (Hesperia 

 P.) ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 646. ; Donovan, Ins. Ind. 

 pi. 41. f. 5. 

 India. 



7. Dipsas Livia Klug Sj Ehrenberg, SymbolcB Phys. pi. 40. f. 3 — 6. 

 Asia Minor, Arabia Felix. 



8. Dipsas Nasaka Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. /. C. p. 91. (Thecla N.). 

 Java. 



9. Dipsas Vari'na Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 91. (Thecla V.). 

 Java. 



10. Dipsas Kessuma Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 89. (Thecla K.) 

 Java. 



11. Dipsas Malik a Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 90. (Thecla M.). 

 Java. 



Genus X. lOLAUS. 



loLAUS and AsTHENE [). E. Doiihleday. 

 loLAUS and Oxylides fJiibner. 



General characters of Thecla. 



Labial Palpi scaly ; middle joint varying in length and breadth ; terniiiud joint long and slender. 



Antennce with the joints varying in length, and more or less ringed with white ; witli the club distinct, but 



graduall}' formed. 

 Eyes naked. 

 Fore Wings subtriangular, moderately rounded on the costal margin. Postcostal vein with only two branches 



before the extremity of the discoidal cell, beyond which the extremity extends to the tip of the wing. Upper 



disco-cellular vein short, oblique ; the middle and lower ones very slender, transverse. 

 Hind Wings considerably elongated, with three tails, varying in length, but sometimes very long; the inner one, 



into which the extremity of the submedian vein extends, being genei-ally the longest. The inner edge of the 



discoidal cell terminating at the origin of the third branch of the median vein. 



The scarcity of the African specie?, of which this group is composed, prevents me from giving so well defined a character to the 

 genus as I could have wished. It appears closely allied to Myrina in habit, and there is considerable diversity in the length of the 

 joints of the slender portion of the antennte ; and, in those species (I. Antifaunus, &c.) which have these joints longest, they are more 



