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Hiud wing broadly rounded ; outer margin very sliglitly excised 

 at vein 2 ; vein 7 well before end of cell ; discocellulars faint ; 

 vein 5 hardly traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; 

 vein 2 well before end of cell, nearer to end of cell than to base 

 of wing. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs and with a long fringe 

 of coarse hairs. No secondary sexual characters on wings. 



phincus, Cramer 1. 



*utha, Hew 2. 



And an unidentified species. 



Confined to tropical South America and the West Indies. 



19. Genus Gegenes. (Plate III. fig. 30.) 



Gegeiies, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816). Type, fygmcuus, Hxibn. 



Philoodus, Ramb. Faune Ent. Andal. ii. p. 308 (1840). 



Type, nostrodamus, Fabr. 



Antennae very short, hardly a third the length of costa ; club 

 robust, short, terminal crook minute. Palpi : third joint hardly 

 visible. Fore wing : outer margin longer than inner margin ; cell 

 less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein .5 from close to bottom 

 of cell : vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 nearer to 

 end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing rather elongated ; 

 outer margin even, slightly excised between veins 2 and 1 b ; vein 7 

 well before the end of cell ; discocellulars faint ; vein 5 not trace- 

 able ; veins 2, 3, and 4 very close together ; vein 3 about twice as 

 far from 2 as from 4 ; lower margin of cell angled at vein 2. Hind 

 tibise with two pairs of spurs. No secondary sexual characters on the 

 wings of the male except in a single specimen of an unidentified 

 species in the British Museum from Victoria Nyanza, in which 

 there is a large ill-defined rounded spot of appressed scales on the 

 upperside of the fore wing below end of cell. 



Inostrodo/iims, Fabr 1. 

 pygmcBUS, Hiibn. (nee Fabr.). 

 2mmiUo, Hoffm. 

 Icfebrii, Eamb. 



karsana, Moore 2. 



f hottentota, Latr 3. 



\ letterstedti, Wallgr. 



And one unidentified species. 



Ranges over the Mediterranean region, India, and Africa. 



20. Genus Calpodes. 



Oalpodes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816). Type, etklius, Cram. 



Antennae : club stout ; terminal crook rather long, about half the 

 length of the rest of club. Palpi : second joint densely scaled, 

 pressed close against the face ; third joint almost entirely concealed. 

 Fore wing: costa nearly straight; inner margin slightly longer 

 than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; 

 vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell ; middle disco- 

 cellular inwardly oblique, considerably longer than lower one ; vein 

 5 considerably nearer to 4 than to'fi; vein 3 shortly before end 



