40 



7. Forewings in male with costal fold 

 Forewings in male without fold 



8. Forewings in male with stigma 

 Forewings in male without stigma 



9. Palpi porrected 

 Palpi obliquely ascending 



10. Terminal joint of palpi short 

 Terminal joint of palpi rather long ... 



11. Terminal joint of palpi porrected 

 Terminal joint of palpi erect 



12. Forewings with 3 in male approximated 



to 4 



Forewings with 3 in male remote from 4 



13. Forewings in male with costal fold, pos- 



terior tibise with all spurs ... ... 3 



Forewings in male with costal fold, 



posterior tibiae without middle spurs 1 Gasyapa. 



1. Casyapa, Kirby. 



Club of antennae moderate, gi-adually thickened, tapering to 

 a fine point, bent, not hooked. Hind tibiae densely fringed, 

 and with only terminal pair of spurs. Forewings in male with 

 costal fold ; vein 5 equidistant from 4 and 6 ; vein 3 from 

 well before end of cell ; vein 2 three times as far from base 

 of wing as from end of cell. Hind wings with termen evenly 

 rounded ; vein 5 obsolete ; 3 from just before end of cell. 



Differs from Phoenicnps, Watson, by the costal fold. 



1. Casyapa critomedia, Guer. 



{Hesperia critomedia, Guer. voy. Coq., ii., t. 18, fig. 6, 1829 ; 

 Thymele odix, Boisd., voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 160, n. 2, 1832; 

 Clicetocneme caristus. Hew., Desc. Hesp., p. 21, n. 1, 1807.) 



Male, 70 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 bright ochreous-fuscous, terminal joint of antennae 

 darker fuscous. Legs, dark fuscous. Forewings 



elongate-triangular, termen nearly straight; dark 



ochreous-fuscous; basal half of wing clothed with short 

 ochreous-ferruginous hairs; a broad transverse orange-yellow 

 fascia, from costa slightly beyond middle to near anal angle, 

 but not quite reaching it, broadest on costa and continued as a 

 moderate costal streak to base, attenuated towards anal anerle' ; 

 cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings with -^ermen evenly rounded ; 

 color and basal hairs as in forewings; a faint ochreous line 

 along posterior extremity of cell ; a very broad orange-yellow 



