motlis allh'd to liimantopterui<. 331 



from sufficiently good specimens of both sexes to enable 

 them to be fully described. 



No doubt several others remain at present unknown 

 to us in Africa and Asia ; therefore I can only say that at 

 present I see no good grounds for recognising more than 

 two genera, namely, Himantopterus or Thymara, which 

 will include all the Asiatic forms, and DoratojJteryx, 

 which will include those from Africa. 



Fam. HIMANTOPTERID.E. 



HiMANTOPTERiD^, Rogenli., Sitz. der Zool. Bot. Ges. 

 Wein., xxxiii., p. 23 (1883). 



Thymarid^, Walk., Cat., xxxi., p. 277 (1864), sine 

 descriptione. 



Gen. HiMANTOPTERus, Wesmael,^\A\. Acad. Brux., iii., 

 p. 162 (1836) ; Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1877, 

 p. 437, t. x., d1. 



? Thymara, DouhL, Zoologist, i., p. 197 (1843). 



Eogenhofer's family is based rather upon the neura- 

 tion of his genus Doratopteryx than upon that of Himan- 

 topterus, which he does not appear to have seen ; and 

 as by the figure he gives of the fore wing Doratopteryx 

 has only one free internal vein, whilst both Himan- 

 topterus and Thymara have two, it maybe that for those 

 who base their classification to some extent on the 

 number of these veins, the two could not be placed in 

 the same subfamily. 



Walker gives no characters for his family TJtymarlda, 

 which was created for the only two species apparently 

 known to him, namely, Thymara zaida, Doubl., and 

 T. papiUonaria, Wlk., the latter of which, judging from 

 the type (an imperfect female, which alone represents the 

 species in the British Museum collection, though Walker 

 describes both sexes), is not congeneric with T. zaida, 

 as it has, like Doratopteryx, only one internal vein in 

 the fore wings. 



With regard to the genus Himantopterus, it is based 

 on the single female specimen from Java, imperfectly 

 described and figured by Wesmael, which, however, has 

 been better figured by Prof. Westwood in our own 

 Transactions. As I have not seen this type, I can only 

 surmise that the vein which Westwood numbers 3 and 

 calls a rudimental discoidal vein (vena spuria apud 



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