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outwardly oblique, the upper a little longer than the lower ; discoidal 

 nervule apparently present, but very fine ; second median nervule 

 arising well before the lower end of the cell ; first median arising 

 about twice as far from the second as the second does from the third, 

 arising much nearer the lower end of the cell than the base of the 

 wing ; discoidal cell broad, short, not nearly reaching to the middle 

 of the wing ; median nervure slightly anteriorly deflected between the 

 bases of the first and second, strongly deflected between the bases of 

 the second and third median nervules ; submedian and internal 

 nervures straight. Antenna a little more than half the length of the 

 costa of the forewing, the club moderate, with a long terminal whip-like 

 crook, about three times as long as the greatest breadth of the club. 

 Palpi broad, densely hairy, third joint but very slightly projecting 

 beyond the second. Thorax rather robust. Abdomen reaching just 

 to the outer margin of the hindwing. Legs, foreleg, tibia with an 

 epiphysis ; hindleg, tibia with two pairs of spurs. Female. Differs 

 from the male only in the absence of the brand on the upperside and 

 tuft of hairs on the underside of the forewing. Type, " Hesperia " 

 elia, Hewitson. 



This genus comes into Capt. E. Y. Watson's subfamily Pamphilince, 

 Section B (vide Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 70), but differs from 

 the genera in that section, though agreeing with some of those in 

 Section C, in having a long crook to the club of the antenna. It is 

 allied to Lotongus, Distant, Cretens, Zela, Zampa, de Niceville, Zea, 

 Hidari, Distant, and Mimas, de Niceville, but the shape of the wing 

 will separate it from all these except Zea, to which it is nearest allied, 

 but the second median nervule of the forewing is much more remote 

 from the end of the discoidal cell, being almost equidistant between 

 the first and third. The secondary sexual characters of the male are 

 unique in the Hesperiidce as far as I am aware, no other species having 

 both a brand above and tuft of hairs below the forewing. 

 (1) EETION ELIA, Hewitson. 



Hesperia elia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 489, n. 9 (1866) ; 

 Carystus elia, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 359, n. 2; Cobalus elia, Butler, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 554, n. 1 (1877) ; Unkana elia, var., 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 370, n. 2, pi. xxxiv, fig. 2b, female (1886) ; id., Watson, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 18£3, p. 123 ; Hesperia eburus, Plotz, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xxix, p. 226. 

 a. 8 (1885) ; idem, id,, Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvii, p. 92, n, 121 J (1886). 



