64 MR. E, Y. AVATSOX ON THE HESPERIID.i; . [Jan. l7, 



occasionally wauting in tettensis. In the only two specimens (both 

 males) in the British Museum the epiphysis is very small, it" not 

 absent, but it is impossible to say with certainty without " clearing " 

 the fore leg. 



Confined to Africa. 



37. Genus Heliopetes. 



Heliopetes, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). Type, ursalte, Linn. 



Leitcoscirtes, Scucld. Syst. Rev. p. 52 (1S72). 



Type, ericetorum, Boisd. 



AntenuEe : club moderate, blunt, slightly curved. Palpi porrect ; 

 second joint laxly clothed with long scales ; third joint slender, 

 bluntly conical. Fore ^ving: inner and outer margins subequal ; cell 

 of fore wing less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 

 reaching costa well before the end of cell ; discocellulars suberect, 

 the lower the longer ; vein 3 close to end of cell, more than three 

 times as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 three times as far from end of 

 cell as from base of wing. Hind Aving evenly rounded ; vein 7 

 shortly before end of cell ; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint ; vein 

 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 nearer to base of wing 

 than to end of cell. 



Male with a costal fold and with a tuft of hairs attached near 

 proximal end of hind tibiae. 



cloinicclla, ^vich J. , ./(V/a;«, JJiitler 7. 



*focM/ia, Hew 2. , )' petru»,\l\\h\\ 8. 



*i«i7rt«a, Hew 0. [ */«7««?«, Hew. 



crieetoruiH^'BijisiX 4. '*lcucola,\]e\\ 1'. 



omriiia, 'B\xt\ "x a/ff/«ff, Reak 10. 



I arsfiffe, Linn ix 



\ nircKs, Cram. 



And three unidentified species. 

 Confined to tropical America. 



38. Genus Hesperia. (Plates I. fig. U ; ill. fig. 19.) 



Hesperia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. vol. i. p. 258 (1793). 



Type, malvie, Linn. 



Pt/rc/us, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109 (1810). Type, syrichtns, Fabr. 



Scehthrix, Ranib. Cat. Lep. Andal. i. p. 03 (1S5S). 



Type, carthami, Hiibn, 



^yric-htus, Boisd. Icones, p. 230(1832-33). Name sinks, being 

 derived from species in genus. 



Antennse : club robust, arcuate, blunt at the tip, no terminal crook. 

 Palpi suberect ; second joint laxly clothed with longish scales ; third 

 joint slender, blunt, almost concealed in scaling of second joint. 

 Fore wing : inner and outer margins subequal ; cell less than two- 

 thirds the length of costa : vein 12 reaching costa well before the 

 end of cell ; discocellulars suberect, the lower the longer ; vein 3 

 shortly before end of cell, more than twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; 

 vein 2 nearer base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing usually 

 evenly rounded, occasionally slightly crenulate ; vein 7 very shortly 

 before end of cell ; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint ; vein 3 



