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cell. Body short ; palpi lax in front, terminal joint stout, rather long and 

 pointed ; tibiae pilose beneath, hind tibiae with a long tuft of hair above ; 

 antennae with a stout terminal club. 

 Type : P. malva." (Moore, I. c.) 



217. HESPERIA DRAVIRA, MOORE. 



Pyrgus dravira, Moore, P. Z. S., 1874, p. 576, pi. Ixvii, fig. 5. 



Pyrgus dravira, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, p. 88, n. 

 36, pi. x, fig. 5, ? (1883). 



" Allied to P. marrubii. 



Female. Upperside dark greyish sap-brown, streaked with black 

 between the veins. Cilia alternated with white. Forewing with a median 

 triangular series of three diaphanous white spots, one being disposed at end 

 of the cell and two on the disc ; a geminated series of three smaller spots 

 before the apex : hindwing with a prominent yellowish- white spot at end 

 of the cell, and two smaller spots below it. Underside paler ; forewing 

 with markings as above : hindwing with greyish-white subbasal and 

 discal spots, a streak from end of cell to outer margin, and a band along 

 abdominal margin. 



Expanse : if inches. 



Habitat : Cashmere (Capt. H. B. Hellavd)" (Moon, I. c.) 



Mr. Moore's figure of this species is not a good one, and does not agree 

 with the description. 



Recorded from Kandahar (Swirihot). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



This species and the next have nothing whatever to do with the 

 typical species of the genus Hesperia, but should, as Mr, de Niceville 

 informs me, be placed in the genus Erynnis, Schrank. 



218. HESPERIA MARRUBII, HERRICH-SCHAFFER. 



Hesperia malvamni, var. marrubii, Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur., 

 vol. i, Hesp. figs. 14, 15 (1845). 



This is a species the correct identification of which is very doubtful; 

 it has been confused with several other species of the same group, and will 

 probably be found to be conspecific with some one of them. It is appa- 

 rently very close to P. dravira. Mr. de Niceville figures what he believes 

 to be the latter species in J. A. S. B., 1883, pi. x, f. 5, ? , but it is quite 

 as likely to be the present species. In Kirby's Catalogue this species is 

 placed as a synonym of althea, Hubner. Lang, in his European Butterflies. 

 (P- 337> P 1 - 78, fig- 2), treats this species as synonymous with bwticus, 

 Rambur, which latter he considers to be a variety of P. altliece; the follow- 

 ing is taken from his work quoted above : 



" Spilothyyusalthca, Hubner, 452-3. Malvanun var., O., i, 2, io;; Godt., 

 ii, 28, 5, 6. 



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