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! Hesperia malv^. (Plate XXIII. figs. 28, 28 a.) 

 Papilio malvts, Linnseus, Faun. Suec. p. 285. n. 1081 (1761) ; id. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 795. n. 267 



(1767) j Esper, Schmett. i. 1, pi. xxxvi. fig. 5 (1778). 

 Papilio taras, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. vol. iv. pi. xci. figs. 5, 6 (1780). 

 Hesperia taras, Meigen, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 61, pi. Iv. figs. 3 a, b (1830). 



Hab. Europe to Amurland. 



! Hesperia melotis. (Plate XXIII. fig. 29.) 

 Hesperia melotis, Duponchel, Lep. Fr., Suppl. i. pi. xlii. figs. 1, 2 (1832). 

 Pyrgus hypoleucos, Lederer, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1855, p. 193, pi. i. fig. 8. 



Hob. Beirut, Syria (Zacli). 



! Hesperia andromed^e. 

 Syrichthus andromedce, Wallengren, Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1853, p. 25 ; id. Lep. Scand., Rhop. p. 272 

 (1857). 



Hah. Alps, 6000 ft. (Elwes) ; Norway (Schoijen). 



! Hesperia cacalle. 

 Herperia cacalice, Rambur, Faun. And. pi. viii. figs. 6, 7 (1839) ; Herrich-Scbaffer, Scbmett. 

 Eur. i., Hesp. figs. 23-25 (1846). 



Hab. Alps, 6000 feet {Elwes). 



! Hesperia onopordi. (Plate XXIII. fig. 25 b.) 



Hesperia onopordi, Rambur, Faun. And. pi. viii. fig. 13 (1839). 

 Scelothrix onopordi, Rambur, Cat. Le"p. And. vol. i. p. 72 (1858). 



Hab. S. Spain (Staudinger) ; Batna, Algeria [Elwes). 



This difficult species may be distinguished from H. alvens, of which it has been 

 doubtfully treated as a synonym, by the pattern of the hind wing below, which in 

 H. onopordi has the white spot in cells 4—5 projecting into the discoidal cell next the 

 subcostal, whilst in H. alveus the spot in question has no such projection, and also 

 by the difference in the form of the male genitalia. 



! Hesperia centaure^e. 



Hesperia centaurem, Rambur, Faun. And. pi. viii. fig. 10 (1839) ; Herricb-S chaffer, Schmett. 

 Eur. i., Hesp. figs. 1-3 (1845). 



Hab. Norway, 2000-6000 ft. (Elwes, Schoyen) ; Finland (Schilde) ; Labrador 

 {Moeschler) ; Laggan, Alberta Terr., British N. America, 5000 ft. (Elwes). 



