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AUUIVILLIUN, LE1'IL)01"TKHA MU.Slil LUDOVIC^ ULHICvK. 



18-'.'{ Polyommatus Thespis 9 Gouaut, 1?iic. Mntli. IX p. 682 ii. 207. 



Lycsena » 18()() 'ruiMEN, [Uiop. Afr. .\ustr. p. 24(5 ii. 147. 



1871 Cupido Tespis Kikhv, CJat. Diur. Lop. p. 3(il n. 172. 



Cupido Tliespis (L.) fomitia 



(17(il) Papilio Spio 



Hesperia 



1781 Papilio 

 Pyrgus 



Vindex 



Hesperia 



Syrichtus 



166. Papilio Spio. 



M. L. U. p. .-538. 



Clkrck, Icones Ins. III fined.) t. 13 f. 1; fig. typica. 

 1767 LiNNE, Syst. x\at. ed. XII p. 796 n. 271. 



1774 Min.LER, Naturs. V:l p. 633 ii. 271. 



1775 FAHiticins, Syst. Ent. p. 535 n. 400. 

 1781 » Spec. Ins. II p. 139 n. 645. 

 1787 » Mniit. Ins. II p. 92 ii. 833. 

 1790 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1:5 p. 2261 n. 881. 

 1800-03 DoNOVAN, Ins. of India t. 1 f. 5 ')• 

 1793 Fabkicius, Ent. Syst. 111:1 p. 354 n. 348. 

 1806 TuRTON, Syst. of Nat. 111:2 p. 167. 



1842 Westwooi) in Donovan, Ins. Ind. t-d. 2 |). 79 l. 5U f. 



Ckameu, Pap. E.\ot. IV p. 122 t. 353 f. O, H. 



1816 HiiuNER, Verz. p. 109 n. 1178. 



1862 HopFFER, Peters Beise ii. Mozanil). /ool. V p. 421. 



1866 Trimen, Kliop. Afr. Austr. p. 287 n. 177. 



1823 Latreille, Enc. Metli. IX p. 785 n. 148. 



1852 DouBLEUAY & Hewitson, Gen. Diur. Lep. t. 79 f. 6. 



1871 KiUBY, Cat. Diur. Lep. p. 615 n. 32. 



1857 Wallengren, Uliop. Caffr. p. 53 n. 1. 



Hesperia Spio (L.) 



Tah. I fif^". '.i, 3a, copiic figuranini Clekcki. 



Figuru.s iiou oditas Cliorcki, (luariiiii iu tabula adjccta copiaiii dcdi, .■<ccuiidiiiii arcliclypuui 

 LiNNKi factas e.ssc pro certo liabeo, ncqiic in descriptioue Linnki (|iiidquain e.-it, cpiod lianc opiiiioncm 

 refellat. Spe(!imen, quod depinxit Clekck, ad specieni circa urbeni proniontorii Bona-. Sjiei vul};atissi- 

 iiiani et ut Hesp. vindex (Cuam.) bene cognitaiii, rcferrc iion h.Esito, qiiainquani ab oninibus, (puc 

 vidi, exeniplis, maculis permagnis et inter se coufluentibus celluiariiiii Ib et 2:ie discrepat. Species 

 CuA.MKUi valde variat prajsertim maculis paginai inferioris alariim posticarum, nunc distinctis, nunc 

 confluentibus et fascias forinantihiis itii, ut nonnulla spccimiua (pioad paginani inferiorem melius cuin 

 figura CiiAMERi, alia oninino eiiin Clkkcki congruunt. 



Ccleb. li. Trimeii, vir lepidopterorum Africa^ nieridionalis peritissimus, cui copiain flguriu Clkiicki 

 misi, benevole inilii scripsit: »As regards P. spio, I could never fiud anything in Linne's descrip- 

 tion sufficient to determine vviiat specics of Pijrgus he ineiint, and so omitted it from my list. Now 

 that I see your copy of Clkuck's unpublished flgurcs of Linne's typc, I think that \ve inay consi- 

 dcr Spio to bc the saine specics, that Ck.vmku flgures (t. 353) as Vindex. At the same tinie I niust 

 say, that I uever inet with auy example of Vindcx, that presented so large a white spot on the lower 

 centnil region of the forewiiigs as is dcpicted in Clercks drawiug. It vvould appear as if, in this 

 speciinen, the particular spot in question (which though very variable iu size is always the large.st 

 in the forewing) had become confluent with the sniall spot which in ordinary Vindex is just below 



') Kigufii, (juic sat beiic cuiii liguris Clliicki cuugruit, ul putiu» hic (|U<iiii ad iiliuiii iniiii ruguitiiiii sjiccicni rcfcicndn cssu vidclur. 



