90 ME. E. Y. wATSO^r ON THE HESPEEiiDj:. [Jan. 17, 



base of wing. No epiphysis on fore tibife. Hind tibiae slightly 

 fringed and with oidy terminal pair of spurs. 



' palcmon, Pall 1. 



paniscus, Fubr. 

 brontes, Wicn. Yerz. 



mesiipano, So 3. 



f sylviitH, Xnoch 4. 



\ sylvicola, Meig. 



argyrostigma, Eversm. T). 



mandan, Edw. 



Some 600 or 700 species have been described in this genus, 

 though the above five probably represent all the species which cor- 

 rectly belong to it. The remainder include species belonging to 

 ahnost every described genus. 



Distrihufion . Flolarctio. 



34. Genus Cyclopides. (Plates II. fig. 10; TIL tig. 14.) 



Cyclopides, Hiibn. Voiz. p. Ill (1810). Type, metis, Linn. 



Antenufe short, less than half the length of costa ; club blunt, 

 oval, without terminal crook. Palpi porrect ; second joint thickly 

 clothed with lax scales, almost concealing the third joint, which is 

 slender and obtusely conical. Fore wing short and broad, outer 

 margin convex, considerably shorter than inner margin ; cell less 

 than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well 

 before the end of cell ; vein 1 1 very short, running at once into 12 ; 

 discocelh\lars suberect ; vein 5 almost equidistant from -i and G, 

 slightly nearer to 4 ; vein 3 close to end of cell ; vein 2 equidistant 

 from base of Aving and vein 3. Hind wing evenly rounded; disco- 

 cellulars and vein .o hardly traceable ; vein 2 nearer to 3 than to 

 base of wing. No epiphysis on fore tibiae. Hind tibite with two 

 pairs of spurs, except in toillemi, in which the upper pair are w^anting ; 

 both pairs are distinct in the other five species here qnoted except 

 in meninx, m which the u})per pair are minute. 



metis, Linn 1 . 



ma/gacha, Boisil '2. 



limpopona, Wallgr. 



CBgipcm, Trim 8. 



And one unnamed species. 

 Confined to Africa. 



willcmi, Wallgr 4. 



^clicks, Hew. 

 meninx. Trim '>, 



I «, 



rgenteostriatiis, Plotz. 



Synopsis of Genera of VKmvH\i.\yi!E.. 



Section B. 



u. Tip of antcnnje blunt, 



a^. Club of antenna^ forming a hollowed disk. 



TARACTROf T.i!,\, Butler. Type, mcBvivs, Fabr. (1) 

 /''. Club of aiitenuaj elongate. 



a"^. Third joint of palpi horizontal. 

 «^. Apex of fore wing not produced. 



AMriTTiA, Moore. Type, rar/ro, Fabr. (2) 

 //. Apex of fore wing produced. 



Kedestes, g. u. Type, lepoiula, Wallgr. (3) 

 h-. Third joint of palpi erect. 

 fl'\ Fore wing very elongate. 



Apaustus, Hbn. Type, mcnes, Cram. (4) 



