76 Mr. W. C. Hewitson on new Species o/" Hesperidee. 



Fiff, 24. Stroinatopora striatella, in yellowish compact limestone, from 

 Upper Silurian system. Portion of natural surface, natural 

 size, a, stellate systems of canals ; h, papillary apertures of 

 radial tubes. 



Mg.25. The same. Horizontal section, natural size, showing: — a, 

 foreign nucleus, consisting of a fragment of a concamerated test 

 like Orthoceras. 



V. — Descriptions of twenty-five new Species o/" Hesperidie. 

 By W. G. Hewitson. 



When ten years ago I described 176 new species of Hespe- 

 ridce^ I stated that I would apologize for doing so (knowing 

 the worthlessness of descriptions unaccompanied by illustra- 

 tions) if I did not hope to figure the whole in the * Exotic 

 Butterflies.' I am happy to say that nearly the whole have 

 been figured j and, though I cannot now make the same 

 promise, since that work has come to its hundredth and 

 final part, I still hope to figure the Hesperidce which I am 

 now describing in the ' Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' 

 in which the Lyccenidce now make their appearance. I may 

 repeat now what I stated then, that, although numbers of 

 Hesperidce difier little on the upperside, some characteristic 

 traits exist on the underside of the posterior wing ; and upon 

 these I have chiefly relied to enable me to discriminate on» 

 from another. 



Hesjperia Gonessa. 



Alis utrinque fuscis : anticis punctis octo hyalinis : his infra angulo 

 anali albo fasciaque submarginali pallida: posticis infra fasciis 

 duabus macularum pallidarum : abdomine albo. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior v/ing with eight small 

 transparent white spots — two in the cell, three in a longitu- 

 dinal band below these, and three near the apex : the fringe 

 of the posterior wing and the abdomen white. 



Underside as above, except that the anal angle of the ante- 

 rior wing is broadly white, and that there is a submarginal 

 series of indistinct pale spots, and that the posterior wing has 

 two submarginal series of similar spots. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hah. Angola {Rogers). 



In the collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



