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third joint to the palpus (although the palpus is very robust and rather long) 

 instead of the long, naked, prominent third joint of Suastus, lamhrix, Baracua 

 and Stiada ; it also has exceptionally long antennae with an exceptionally long 

 and very much hooked tip to the club ; the antennse of Suastus, lambrix, Baracus 

 and Suada are somewhat shorter and have much shorter hooks or bends. 



Suastince. — Is not a good subfamily but has been separated for the above 

 reasons of palpi ; the genus Suaskis has a strongly few-ribbed egg; lambrix has 

 a smooth one, finely cellular-reticulate under a lens; Baracus one with a minutely 

 tuberculate surface under magnification and 17 very fine meridional ribs ; in 

 fact the three species representing these three genera are a heterogeneous 

 collection offering nothing much in common except the naked third joints of 

 the palpi. The subfamily will be omitted. 



Erionotince. — Quite a natural group and only requires the addition of Matapa 

 to complete it. The transformations of Gangara thyrsis, Matapa aria, Erionota 

 thrax and Paduka lebadea are known and serve to characterize it. 



Pamphilince. — Contains Pamphila, Taractrocera, Ampittia and Ochus. The 

 genera A'eromachus and Machachus, both formerly known as Aeromachus but 

 recently spht by Swinhoe, must be added. The transformations of Taractrocera, 

 Ampittia and Pamphila are known. The habits of the insects are similar. 



AstictopterincE. — Is untenable. The habits and early stages of Sancus are 

 identical with those of Notocrypta and Udaspes so that Sancus must go into 

 Notocryptince into which Astictopterus, Koruthaialos and Watsoniella should be 

 put. Suada fits better into Plastingiince. 



Notocryptince. — Is a natural group into which Sancus, lambrix, Astictopterus, 

 Koruthaialos and Watsoniella should be put. 



So far, then, superseding Swinhoe's arrangement, there will be the following 

 subfamilies to be considered: — 



1. Achalarinse, 5. Plastingiinse, 9. Bao rinse, 



2. Celsenorrhinse, 6. Erionotinse, 10. Notocryptinse, 



3. Hesperiinae, 7. Pamphilinse, 



4. Ismeneinse, 8. Erynnin*, 



in which his Astictopterince, Suastince and Matapince have disappeared, while a 

 new subfamily, the Baorince, has been created. These subfamilies will also, 

 with the exception of numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, all be shghtly different from his m 

 their constitution as regards genera. Their composition, after this reconstruc- 

 tion, is given below, making use of Colonel Swinhce's genera, but marking with 

 an asterisk (*) all the new genera created by him — he has made a good few, 

 basing them chiefly upon " male-marks ", such as a stigma on the wing or a 

 tuft of hairs. He considers such sex-marks to be of generic importance : a 

 matter of opinion about which there has been no little controversy. m 



Subfamily Achalarinoe {\). Subfamily CeZcenorrM^ice (2) 1|1 



Genus Achalarus, Scudder, Genus Celcenorrhinus, Hubner. 



Calliana, Moore, Charmion, deN., 



Pisola, Moore, Daimio, Murray, 



Crossiura, deN., Satarupa, Moore, 



Hantana, Moore. Tagiades, Hubner, 



Odina, Mabille, 

 Odontoptilum, deN., 

 Ctenoptilum, deN., 

 Darpa, Moore, 

 Abaratha, Moore, 

 Gerosis, Mabille, 

 Coladenia, Moore, 

 Sarangesa, Moore, j 



Tapena, Moore. 



