il4 JIB. E. Y. AVATSOX ON THE HESPEBIID.E. [Jan, 17, 



angled at vein 2. Hind tibiae almost naked, with two pairs of spurs. 

 No secondary sexual characters on wings. 



(folus, Oram. 

 [ vicero, Fabr. 



Confined to Southern Asia. 



.38. Genus Baracus. 



Baracus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 162 (1881). 



Type, vitattus, Felder. 



Antennae : club moderate, tip recurved, acuminate. Palpi porrect, 

 conspicuous ; second joint laxly clothed with long scales ; third joint 

 prominent, acumiuate. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer 

 margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 1 2 

 reaching costa before end of cell; vein 11 curving upwards and 

 running very close to, though not quite touching, vein 12; middle 

 diseocellular considerably longer than lower one ; vein .5 much nearer 

 to 4 than to 6, but not from bottom of cell ; vein 3 close to end of 

 cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 twice as far from base of 

 Aving as from 3, nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind 

 wing evenly rounded; vein 7 immediately before end of cell ; vein .5 

 not traceable ; discocellulars faint ; vein 3 immediately before end of 

 cell ; vein 2 more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of 

 cell. Hind tibiae fringed and with two pairs of spurs. 



vittalus, Felder 1 . | lepelct icri, Latr 4. 



mhdiius, Moore 

 septentrionum, Wood- 

 Mason, de Niceville... 



tsita, Trim 5. 



inornatus. Trim 6. 



And four unnamed species. 



Trimen puts lepeletieri and its allies into Cyclopides, from which, 

 however, they may be readily distinguished by veins 11 and 12 of 

 the fore wing not anastomosing, and by several minor points of 

 ueuration, and also by the formation of their anteuniB and palpi. 



Confined to Africa .ind the Oriental region. 



39. Genus Astictopterus. 



Astictopterus, Felder, Wien. eut. Monat. iv. p. 401 (I860). 



Type,y«OTff, Felder. 



iAntennse : club slender, tip recurved, acuminate. Palpi porrect ; 

 third joint short, obtusely conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer 

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

 \'ein 12 reaching costa before end of cell ; vein 11 curving upwards 

 shortly after its origin and running close to, but not touching, 

 vein 12 ; middle diseocellular considerably longer than lower 

 one ; vein 5 much nearer to 4 than to (J, but not from close to 

 bottom of cell ; vein 3 well before end of cell, more than twice as 

 far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 slightly nearer to 3 than to base of 

 wing. Hind wing evenly rounded ; vein 7 shortly before end of 

 cell; di&cocellulars and vein 5 very faint; vein 3 shortly before end 

 of cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 nearer to end of cell 



