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from near end and lo-wer about one-half before end of the cell. Body short ; palpi 

 lax in front, terminal joint stout, rather long and pointed ; tibite pilose beneath, 

 hind tibise with a long tuft of hair above ; antennge with a stout terminal club. 

 Type, P. MalvEe. 



HESPERIA GAIBA (Plate 71, Fig. 6). 



Hesperia Galba, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 352 (1793). 



Pyrgus Galba, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 281. 



Pyrgus Supema, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 249 (1857); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 792. 



Upperside olive-brown : forewing with three pale yellowish-white spots within 

 the cell, two beneath it, a transverse discal series of four spots followed by three 

 minute subapical spots ; a submarginal row of smaller spots : hindwing with a 

 subbasal, a large medial, and small submarginal spots. Cilia of both wings alternate 

 brown and pale yellow. Abdomen with narrow pale segmental bands. Underside 

 paler olive-brown : forewing with the costal margin and spots as above, pale yellow : 

 hindwing with a transverse subbasal, medial, and a narrow submarginal pale yellow 

 maculated band. Palpi and body beneath, and legs, pale yellow. 



Expanse, c? |, ? 1 inch. 



" "Western and Central Provinces. In forests. Eare. Slow flier, but hard to 

 catch, as it flies low down in grass and underwood" (Hutchison). 

 "Kandy. Common" {Wade). 

 "Low country, away from sea-coast " (Mackwood). 



Genus GOMALIA. ' 

 Gomalia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 144. 

 Wings short: forewing with the costa slightly arched at the base, apex, acute, 

 exterior margin oblique, posterior angle slightly convex ; costal vein short ; subcostal 

 vein five-branched, first, second and third arising before end of the cell, fourth and 

 fifth from its end ; upper discocellular angled, lower oblique; upper radial from angle 

 of upper discocellular, lower radial from its end ; median vein three-branched, middle 

 branch from near end of the cell ; submedian vein nearly straight : hindwing lobed 

 and angled near base of costal margin, apex and exterior margin very convex ; costal 

 vein extending to near apex; subcostal vein two-branched ; one radial; median vein 

 three-branched. Body short, thorax stout; palpi thickly pilose; antenna short, 

 with a thick very blunt club ; legs moderately long, squamous. 



GOMALIA ALBOEASCIATA (Plate 71, Fig. 7). 

 Gomalia albofasciata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 144, 

 Upperside dark greyish olive-brown : forewing with a black transverse basal and 

 a discal band ; a small white erect streak at end of the cell, two small lunular spots 



