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60 (59). Hind -wing below with a dark terminal band separated from 



the dark subterminal band by a zigzag white line or row of 



irregular spots oberthiiri, Leech. 



61 (58). Hind wing below with the pale median band preceded by a 



broad irregular brown band, which bears a small pale spot 

 near the basal third of cell 7. 



62 (63). Hind wing above with a median row of pale spots. Fore wing 



below with the apex yellow-brown; pale spot near the apex 

 of cell n oblique, distinct from tbat in cell 4. No sub- 

 terminal pale band on hind wing below zona, Mab. 



63 (62) . Hind wing above with two rows of pale spots. 



64 (65) . Fore wing below with the apex yellow-brown ; the pale spot 



near the apex of cell 5 oblique, distinct from that in cell 4 . maculatus, Brem. & 



65 (64). Fore wing below with the apex white, with a short oblique [Grey. 



yellow-brown dash ; pale spots near the apex of cells 4 and 5 



coalescent, their inner edges erect thibetanus, Ob. 



66 (1). Hind wing below white, with two irregular orange-yellow bands 



narrowly margined with black. 



67 (68) . Fore wing above with the pale spot in the cell higher than wide, 



generally constricted in the middle. Male with costal fold 



and tibial hair-pencil sidce, Esper. 



68 (67) . Fore wing above with the pale spot in the cell wider than high, 



subrhomboidal. Neither costal fold nor tibial hair-pencil in 



the male atitonia, Speyer. 



In the matter of synonymy we have restricted the references to those which appear 

 to be necessary for the identification of the species under consideration. 



! Hesperia galba. 



Hesperia galba, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. vol. iii. p. 352 (1793) ; Moore, Lep. Cey. vol. i. p. 183, pi. Ixxi. 



fig. 6 (1881). 

 Pyrgus superna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 792. 



Pyrgus evanidus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 223 (1880). 

 Hesperia evanidus, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 156 (1891). 

 pyrgus zebra, Butler, op. cit. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 207 (1888). 

 Hesperia zebra, Watson, Hesp. Ind, p. 156 (1891). 

 Hesperia hellas, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 177, pi. B. fig. 9, $ . 



I cannot see any good grounds for separating P. zebra=hellas (fide Watson) from 

 galba. Though I have no Campbellpur specimens for comparison, yet the characters 

 relied on by de Niceville seem very variable. The species has a very wide range 

 throughout the drier parts of India and extends from Burmah (Wanders) to Aden, being 

 apparently common in the foot-hills of the N.W. Himalaya. 



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