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! Adop^ea hyrax. 

 Hesperia hyrax, Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon. v. p. 149, pi. i. fig. 6 (1861). 

 Uah. Aniasia, Asia Miuor, Syria. 



! Adop^a action. 



Papilio acteon, Rottemburg, Naturf. vi. p. 30 (1775) ; Esper, Schmett. i. 1, pi. xKxvi. fig. 4 

 (1778?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 488-490 (1798-1803). 



Hob. S. and C. Europe ; Asia Minor ; N. Africa ; Canaries {Leech) ; Samarkand 

 {Haherhauer). 



AdOPjEA hamza. 

 Hesperia hamza, Oberthiir, Etudes d'Ent. i. p. 28, pi. iii. figs. 2a-c (1876). 



Very near to A. actceon, from which it appears to be best distinguished by the more 

 fulvous colour of the upperside and the want of the suffused pale curved macular band 

 which is seen just beyond the end of the cell on the fore wing of ^. actceon. 



Hah. Oran {Oberthiir). 



We have not any specimens which we can identify from Oberthiir's plate. A male 

 from Lambessa in the Province of Constantine appears to us to be inseparable from 

 A. lineola. 



! Adop^ea lineola. 



Papilio lineola, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Ent. i. 2, p. 230 (1808). 

 Papilio virgula, Hubner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 660-663 (1803-18). 



Hab. Europe to Amurland ; Al^exidi. {Oberthiir). 



! Adop^a stigma. 

 Thymelicus [Hesperia) stigma, Staudinger, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 252 (1886). 



This species belongs to the sylvatica group, but the veins on the underside are not 

 black ; the fore wing above has the dark terminal band sharply defined, the basal third 

 concolorous, and the transverse vein rather conspicuously dark. 



Hab. Turkestan. 



! Adovms. sylvatica. 



Pamphila sylvatica, Bremer, BuU. Acad. Petr. iii. p. 474 (1861) ; id. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 34, pi. iii. 



fig. 10 (1864). 

 Adopaa sylvatica, Leech, Butt. China &c. p. 591, pi. xl. figs. 5cJ, 8 $ (1892-94). 



Hab. Amurland, Japan (Fryer) ; Korea [Leech), 



I Adopaa tenebrosa. 

 Adopaa tenebrosa, Leech, Butt. China &c. p. 591, pi. xl. figs. 6c?, 9 ? (1892-94). 



The difference between this species and A. sylvatica are but trifling, and the genitalia 



