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64. Erynnis sperthias, Felder, 



{Hesperilla sperthias, Feld., Verli. Zool. Bot. Ges., xii.. p, 

 492, n. 182, 1862). 



Male 44, mm. Head, palpi, thorax, anteniice, and abdomen 

 dark fuscous, thorax and abdomen clothed with dense 

 ferruginous-orange hairs, beneath yellowish, abdomen with 

 suffused lateral bands of orange posteriorly, antennse beneatii 

 yellow, not spotted, club yellowish, apical half reddish. Legs 

 orange. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa almost straight, 

 termen oblique, faintly bowed; dark fuscous, with orange 

 markings; a moderate costal streak from base to just before 

 two-thirds, cut posteriorly by veins 9 to 12; an oblique trans- 

 verse series of 3 elongate-cuneiform subcostal spots at three- 

 fourths from base, posteriorly excavated, edged more or less, 

 continued as fine streaks along veins towards termen and 

 costa; cell filled up with orange, except a small patch of 

 ground color at posterior end of cell, an inwardly oblique row 

 of 5 spots ; first small, immediately below posterior extremity 

 of lowest subcostal spot, sometimes hardly traceable ; second 

 below and slightly beyond, similar; third cartridge-shaped, 

 between veins 3 and 4 near base; fourth elongate-quadrats 

 obliquely below ; fifth irregular, lower half continued as a 

 thick streak along vein 1 to base ; some orange scales just above 

 near base ; a moderately thick streak along inner margin from 

 base to middle, posteriorly dilated ; cilia blackish, between 

 anal angle and vein 1, orange. Hindwings with termen 

 sinuate above anal angle ; color as in forewings ; basal and 

 inner marginal hairs orange ; markings orange ; the basal hairs 

 accumulate near posterior extremity of cell and form a more 

 or less distinct patch ; a moderately broad transverse sub- 

 median series of 5 somewhat quadrate, spots, between veins 1 

 and 6, separated by intervening veins, except that between 

 veins 1 and 2, which sometimes coalesce, thus forming only 

 four spots; cilia orange narrowly mixed at base with 

 blackish on upper two-tliirds. Under side of fore- 



wings blackish ; basal half of cell blackish ; wingg 

 beyond cell and upper two-thirds of termen orange ; markings 

 upperside faintly reproduced ; 3 lower spots between veins 1 

 and 4 very distinct, but streak along vein one, and inner 

 marginal streak absent ; a fine blackifsh hind marginal line, 

 just reaching vein 2 ; cilia as above. Hindwings beneath 

 orange-ferruginous, markings of upper side faintly repro- 

 duced ; a large blackish elongate patch above anal angle ; a 

 smaller patch above termination of vein 1 ; hind marginal line' 

 and cilia as In forewinss. 



