HESPERA. 



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clothed with hairs similar to those on the upper side: other 

 structures as stated under the genus. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Ceylon : Galle, on coast level. 27. xi-4. xii. 1881 (G. Lewis). 

 Type in British Museum. 



Genus HESPERA, Weise. 



Hespera, Weise, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxiii, 1889, p. 638; Jacobv, 



Ent. xxiii, 1890, p. 162, pi. i, fig-. 11. 

 Allomorpha, Jac, Ann. Mus. CivM ienova, xxxii, 1892, p. 934. 



Genotype of Hespera: Hespera sericea, Weise (tvpe in Lenin- 

 grad ; Potanin Coll.). 



Genotype of Allomorpha: Allomorpha sericea, Jac. (type in 

 British Museum). 



Body oblong; upper side (including the prouotum) densely 

 covered with pubescence, generally subnitid. Head exserted ; 



b c 



Fig. 52. — Hespera rufipes, Maulik. Underside of prothorax : a, intercoxal 

 process of presternum ; b and c, points which almost complete the closure 

 behind of the front coxal cavities, d. 



Fig. 53. — Hespera oyanea, Maulik. One half of underside of prothorax : a, 

 intercoxal process of prosternum ; b and <?, the two points which, if pro- 

 duced, would complete the closure of the front coxal cavity, d. The 

 specimen was tilted to show the coxal cavity to the best advantage, and 

 hence the hind margin of the intercoxal process appears oblique. 



frontal elevations absent; interantennal carina present; eyes 

 strongly convex. Antennae long, slender, generally extending to 

 two-thirds the length of the body, but in some cases to the end of 

 the body ; first segment long and club-shaped, second small, much 



