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GOMALIA. 

 Gomalia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 114; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 67. Type albofasciata, Moore. 

 A genus of one or two small species differing from Hesperia in facies and the slender 

 and straight club of the antennas. Male with a costal fold but no tibial hair- 

 pencil. 



! Gomalia albofasciata. 



Gomalia albofasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 144 ; id. Lep. Cey. vol. i. p. 183, pi. Ixxi. fig. 7 



(1881). 

 ? Gomalia littoralis, Swinboe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 513, pi. xlvii. fig. 4. 



Hab. S. India (Hampson) ; Hambantota, Ceylon (Green); Karachi {fide Swinhoe)', 

 Quetta, Beluchistan (Hurray in coll. Swinhoe). 



We have not seen the type of littoralis, but, judging from the description and figure, 

 it is indistinguishable from albofasciata, like specimens from Quetta which we have 

 examined. 



Hesperia. 



Hesperia, Fab. Ent. Syst. iii. vol. i. p. 258 (1793) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 64. Type 



malvce, Linn. 

 Pyrgus, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109 (1810). Type syrichtus, Fab. 

 Syrichthus, Boisd. Icones, p. 230 (1832-33). Type proto, Esp 

 Scelothrix, Rambur, Cat. Lep. And. i. p. 63 (1858). Type carthami, Hiibn. 



A numerous group of closely allied species, which are associated together on account 

 of their resemblance to the Papilio malvce of Linnseus. According to Watson, it is 

 separable from Carcharodus, Hiibn., by the even termen of the hind wing, from 

 Gomalia, Moore, by the curved club to the antennas, and from Thanaos, Bdv., which 

 has a comparatively slender antennal club, by the robust club of its antennas. The 

 following pale spots on a darker ground constitute what may be considered as 

 the normal pattern of the hind wing below, namely : — one occupying the whole or part 

 only of cell 1 a ; three in cell 7, basal, medial, and apical ; two in cell 6, basal and 

 medial ; one near the base of the cell ; a large geminate one next the transverse vein 

 and occupying the base of cells 4 and 5, and another geminate one near the apex of the 

 same cells ; one near the apex of cell 3 ; two in cell 2, basal and apical ; and three, 

 basal, medial, and apical, in cell 1 b. These pale spots fall into three irregular trans- 

 verse series. The modifications of this wing-pattern are for the most part trifling, but 

 they sometimes afford useful distinguishing characters. 



The following table will serve to show what characters have been found most useful 

 in the arrangement of the species of this difficult group in coll. Elwes ; this arrange- 

 ment is doubtless far from perfect, but it certainly gives a better result than any other 



