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there is a very fine series in the B. M. of all of them from many parts of Central Asia, 

 the typical forms are distinguishable, but there are many intergrades connecting them ; 

 the discal spots in typical staudinfjerl are smaller than in typical poggei and therefore 

 more separated, the lower two in poggei are linear spots close together forming a large 

 square twin spot, in staudingevl they are quite small, but the size of these spots is by 

 no means constant. 



Genus SPIALIA, nov. 



Hesperia, Moore (part), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 182 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 152 (1891) ; id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1893, p. G4; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. iv. 1895, p. 421. Elwes and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 1-53. 



Diflers from both IL'Speria and Pi/rgu.9 in having no costal fold to the forewing in 

 the male, and from the former also in having neither the tuft of hairs on the hind 

 tibiae nor the hairy appendages from the breast at the base of the hindlegs ; vein 12 

 of the forewing is also not straight, l)ut somewhat recurved before bending up to the 

 costa, and the antenna; are shorter, being usually less than half the length of the costa 

 of forewing. 



The imago rests with its wings closed over its back ; when basking in the sun it 

 keeps them three-quarters open. 



Type, Hesperia galba, Fabricius. 



SPIALIA GALBA. 

 Plate 781, figs. 1, (^ , la, 9,1b, ? , Ic, larva and pupa. 



Hesperia (jalha, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 3-52 (1793). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 183, pi. 71, fig. 6 



(1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 263. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 54. 



Doherty, id. 1886, p. 137. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 155 (1891). Ferguson, Journ. Eo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 448. Betham, id. 1893, p. 429. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 65. 



de Niceville, Gazetteer of SikkLni, Butt. p. 179 (1894). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 29, pi. 8, fig. 6 (larva and pupa). Watson, id. ix. 1895, p. 422; id. 



idem, x. 1896, p. 675. Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 151. Elwes and Edwards (part). 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 157. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 59 ; 



id. xiv. 1902, p. 493. Aitken and Comber, id . xv. 1903, p. 52. Hannyngton, id. xx. 1910, 



p. 372. Evans, id. p. 388. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 141. 

 Pyr(jus (jaJha, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 281 (1869) ; id. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 94 ; id. Proc. 



Zuol. Soc. 1881, p. 613. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 512, 1885, p. 146, and 1886, p. 433. Forsayeth, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 18S4, p. 387 (larva and pupa). Aitken, Joum. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, 



p. 43. Swinhoe, id. p. 280 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 319. 

 Pijnjus siiperna, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 249 (1857); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 292. 



Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 539. 

 Pyrgus evanidm, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 223. Swinhoe, Proc. Zoo!. Soc. 1884, p. 512. 



Butler, id. 1886, p. 378. Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 280. 



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