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fourth before lower end of the cell. Costa evenly and gently arched, apex sub-acute, 



outer margin convex, oblique, a little shorter than the hinder margin, which is slightly 



sinuous. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted at one-third before end of cell ; 



discocellulars in one straight, erect line, very faint, vein 5 absent, 



indicated by a fold that runs through the cell to the base, vein 3 



emitted immediately before the lower end of cell, 2 from before the 



middle, lower portion of the wing produced into a lobe ; hind tibias 



with two pairs of spurs, and in the male with a long tuft of hairs 



attached, close to the proximal end. Antennae with the club 



moderately slender, as long as the shaft and crescent-shaped ; no 



secondary sexual characters in the wings. 



Type, Papilio forestall, Cramer, from Africa. 



RHOPALOCAMPTA BENJAMINI. 



Plate 749, figs. 3, (J , 3a, J , 3b, $ , 3c, larva and pupa. 



Thymele henjamini, Guerin, Delessert's Souv. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 79, pi. 22, figs. 2, 2a (1843). 



Ismene henjamini, Westwood in Doubleday and Hewitson's Diurn. Lep. p. 515. Moore, Proo. Zool. 



Sec. 1878, p. 841. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890,' p. 537. 

 Hesperia henjamini, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 58. 

 Choaspes henjamini, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 159, pi. 64, figs, la, b (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 



p. 261. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 137. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. p. 378. 



Elwes and de Niceville, id. p. 438. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 439. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



p. 5 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 646. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 

 * 1910, p. 370. 

 Bhopalocampta henjamini, Watson, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 129. Swiahoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 330. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 187 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 307. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 602, pi. W, figs. 30, 30b, larva, 30c, pupa. Evans, id. xx. 1910, p. 390. 



Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 307. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 78. 

 Hesperia xanthropogon, Kollar, Hugel's Kasch. iv. (ii.), p. 453, pi. 18, figs. 1, 2 (1844). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, with purplish-grey hairs on the 

 basal portions of both wings. Cilia of both wings brown, with grey tips, orange- 

 ochreous on the hindwing from vein 3, increasing in width hindwards, very broad at 

 the anal angle, the colour continued still more broadly for nearly one half up the 

 abdominal margin, which is covered with orange-ochreous hairs. Underside greyish- 

 green, somewhat glossed, the veins black. Forewing with the entire space below the first 

 median branch brown, without any gloss. Hindwing with a large anal orange patch, 

 limited on its upper end by a black band, with a broad bar hindwards from its middle, 

 its lower end running outwards, parallel to the outer part of the bar above it, the 

 extreme outer edge of the orange patch has three black spots on it. Antennae black ; 

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