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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID^E. 31 which are labelled as from Loko, which are plainly referable to this species, which is doubtfully distinct from A. ploetzi, Mab. (leucopygus, Ploetz). The specimens are smaller in size than is usual in the case of the female of A. ploetzi, Mab., and the outer angle of the primaries on the lower side is lighter. The white spots on intervals two and three in the primaries are very large and distinct, more so than in females of A. ploetzi, observed by me. Still this may be only a local variety of A. ploetzi. GORGYRA, gen. nov. Antennae long, slender; club small, gradually thickened, tapering to a fine point; terminal portion bent, but not hooked. Palpi: first joint short; second joint long, profusely clothed with hair, erect, and rising almost or quite to the vertex ; third joint long, subconical, porrect, clothed with fine closely appressed hairs. Fore wing: inner margin a little longer than the outer margin; cell about one-half the length of the costa; vein 12 reaching the costa before the end of the cell, veins 7 and 8 from before the end of the cell; the upper and middle discocellulars form an obtuse angle at the end of the cell pointing inwardly, the middle and lower discocellulars form an angle with the apex pointing out- Head and neuration of Gorgyra abarce, Ploetz, d. f. wardly ; vein 5 is nearer vein 4 than 6 ; vein 3 well before the end of the cell; vein 2 twice as far from the end of the cell as from the base of the wing. Hind wing : the outer margin is evenly rounded and slightly excavated before vein 1 b; cell not quite reaching the middle of the wing; vein 7 well before the end of the cell, twice as far from 8 as from 6; discocellulars faint, nearly erect; vein 5 wanting or but faintly indicated ; vein 3 just before the end of the cell; vein 2 beyond the middle of the cell; veins 1 a and 1 b curved; vein 1 b clothed on either side with a bundle |
