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stout, strongly outwardly oMique, in almost an even line with tlie upper margin of the 

 cell, middle and lower discocellulars iu a line, very strongly inwardly oblique ; the 

 middle one very slightly outwardly curved and about twice as long as the lower : 

 vein 3 emitted at aljout one-eighth from the lower end of the cell, 2 from a little 

 beyond the middle ; costa slightly arched before its middle, then nearly straight to the 

 apex, which is sub-acute, outer margin convex, hinder angle blunt, Itut well pronounced, 

 hinder margin straight, somewhat longer than the outer margin in the male, a good 

 deal longer in the female ; the sub-median vein somewhat upward!}' curved, the male 

 with a long and thick tuft of hairs attached to the wdng membrane on the underside 

 towards the base of the wing, between the sub-median vein and the hinder maroin, the 

 tuft turned forwards. Hindicinij, vein 8 upwardly curved, terminating at the apex of 

 the wing, 7 emitted about one-fourth before upper end of cell, cell short, less than half 

 the breadth of the wing, comparatively broad, discocellulars faint, vein 5 absent, the 

 bases of veins 3 and 2 close together near the lower end of the cell, the base of vein 2 

 about one-half the distance from the base of vein 3 as that is from the cell end ; 

 sub-median and internal veins straight, wing longer than broad ; costa highly arched at 

 base, apex rounded, outer margin convex to the end of vein 3, emargiuate between 

 veins 3 and 2, anal angle well rounded, somewhat produced in the male. Antennte 

 about half the length of the costa of forewiug ; club moderate, with a short pointed 

 crook; palpi with the second joint densely scaled, third joint very short ; hind tibi« 

 with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, IL'speria semamora, Moore.' 



ITON SEMAMORA. 

 Plate 824, figs. 1, i, la, $, lb, $. 



Hesperia semamora, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 791. de Niceville, .Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1881, p. 60. 

 Parnara semamora, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27 ; id. idem, 1891, p. -50; id. 



Hesp. lud. p. 46 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 6-50. 

 Uncana semamora, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 123. Swiniioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 328. 



de Nice\-ille, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 186 (1894). 

 Hon semamora, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.">, p. 399. Watson, id. p. 43-5. 



de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 548. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. X. 1896, p. 681. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 269. Adamson, Trans. 



N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 146. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 48. 

 Hesperia harea, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 490. 



Imago. — Male. Uppersidc dark blackish-brown, nearly black. Foreidng with a 

 recurved series of six semi-diaphanous white .spots, commencing with three sub-apical, 

 small, the uppermost one minute, iu an inwardly curved, outwardly oljlique line 



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