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HESPEEIID.^. 



'• Antennae : 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 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 nearly 

 equidistant from base of wing and end of cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs." 

 ( Watson, 1. c.) 



Hesperia maculata. (Plate XLI. fig. 2, c? .) 



Syrichthus maculalus, Bremer & Grey, Schmett. N. China's, p. 11, pi. iii. fig. 6 (1853) ; 



Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 35, pi. x. fig. 21 (1889). 

 Pyrgus maculatus, Men^tries, Cat. Mus. Petr. pi. v. fig. 5 (1855). 



" Alis supra : nigrescentibus, anticis fasciis duabus interruptis et lunula mediana alba ; posticis 

 punctis albis biserialibus ; subtus anticis iisdem ut supra, attamen apice castaneo ; posticis 

 castaneo alboque fasciatis. 



" Expans. alar, antic, unc. l^j." (^Bremer S) Greij, 1. c.) 



The larva, which Graeser found commonly in September enclosed between 

 leaves of raspberry and Spirea, is of a uniformly light green with a few short 

 white hairs, the second segment and first pair of legs are red-brown, and the 

 other legs are light green with black claws ; head round and velvety black. 

 The pupa is dusted with bluish white. 



This species, which was described from a Pekin specimen, occurs in 

 Western China at Chia-ting-fu ; at Ichang, Chang-yang, and Kiukiang in 

 Central China ; and in Japan. 



Maculata can easily be separated from //. zona by the following characters: — 

 The ground-colour is blacker, the maculation more prominent, and the fringes 

 are more distinctly chequered. On the secondaries there are always two 

 bands of spots, the outer of which is often very well defined and angulated. 

 Ill //. zona this second band is occasionally faintly indicated. On the under 

 surface the apex of jnimarics and disc of secondaries are briglitly marked with 

 castaneous, whereas in //. zona tlie colour is more olive and there is a dark 

 submanrinal band on secondaries which is not found in //. maculata. 



111 my paper on the " Putterflies of Japan and (brea " (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Loud. 1887), I ciToncously included 'Pf/n/ns' siiticns, I>iilh'r, as a synonym of 

 //.maculata, and I regret to find that Staudinger (Rom. sur Lrp. vi. p. 217) 

 lias perpetuated this cnor. His remarks on what lu; considers to be the 



