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the third ; the transverse vein is oblique, and vein 5 arises much nearer 4 than 6 and 

 curves upwards from its base. The palpi and the apices of the antennae are now 

 wanting, but there is one hind leg still left which has two pairs of spurs in the usual 

 position. The specimen is in a worn condition. 



Mr. de Niceville named this species, which he had not seen, as the type of his genus 

 Idmon {vide p. 198, ante), but his generic description does not apply to it. 



Parnara djstictus. 

 Baoris distictus, Holland, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 123, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1887). 



Hab. Hainan [Henry, fide Holland). 



" Male. Upper surface uniformly olive-brown, cilia pale cinereous. Primaries with 

 two small, triangular, semi-diaphanous white spots beyond the middle of the wing and 

 between the submedian nervules. Underside lighter than the upper, with a hoary 

 lustre, especially on the posteriors. A lew scarcely visible light scaleless spots may be 

 detected adjacent to the two white spots of the primaries, which reappear on the under- 

 side. A curved submarginal row of obscure brown spots is found upon the secondaries. 

 Underside of palpi and head white. Expanse of wings If inches. Type in coll. Holland." 



Not having seen or been able to identify this species, we transcribe the original 

 description. Its distinctive characters appear to be a subterminal series of obscure 

 brown spots on the hind wing below, and the " underside of palpi and head white." 



Gegenes. 



Gegenes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 107 (1816) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 104. Type pygmaeus, Hiibn. 

 Philoodus, Rambur, Faun. Ent. Andal. ii. p. 308 (1840). Type nostrodamus, Fab. 



A genus resuscitated by Watson for the reception of the Papilio nostrodamus of 

 Fabricius and two or three other species ; it would be more convenient to treat it as a 

 section of Parnara, in which it would be well distinguished by its short antennae. 



Antennae about one-third as long as the costa ; club elongate ovate ; apiculus scarcely 

 evident. Fore wing with vein 2 from the half-length of the cell in both sexes, vein 5 

 much nearer 4 than 6. Hind wing feebly excavated between veins 1 b and 2, vein 5 

 obsolete, vein 2 from apical fourth of cell. Tibial epiphysis present. Hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs. 



Gegenes nostrodamus. 



Papilio nostrodamus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 323 (1793). 

 Papilio pygmmis, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 458-460 (1798-1803). 

 Hesperia karsana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 576, pb lxvii. fig. 6. 

 Chopra nostrodamus, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 33 (1891). 



Hab. Gibraltar (Walker); Biskra, Algeria (Elwes) ; Beyrout (Zach); Quetta 

 (Swinhoe) ; Samarkand (Haberhauer) ; N.W. Himalaya (Young). 



