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Show 48 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, The species was described from a headless example. My conviction is, from the examination of a careful drawing made by lierr Prillwitz, which is reproduced in one of the plates accompanying this article, that we are dealing here with a species of Ceratrichia allied to, and perhaps identical with, C. stellata, Mab. CYCLOPIDES, Hiibn. 151. C. METIS, Linn. Papilio metis, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 325 (1764) ; Syst Nat. ed. xii. p. 792 (1767); D m . 111. Exot. Ent. vol. n. p. 28, pi. xvi. figs. 3, 4 (1773) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 528 (1775); Cram. Pap. Exot. vol. ii. p. 103, pi. clxii. fig. G (1777); Fabr. Spec. Ins. vol. ii. p. 132 (1781); Wulfen, Ins. Capens. p. xxxui (1786); Fabr. Mant. Ins. vol. ii. p. 85 (1787); Gmel. Syst. Nat. l. 5, p. 2355 (1790); Thunberg, Mus. Nat. Ups. xxiii. p. 9 (1804). Hesperia metis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 329 (1793) ; Latr. Enc Meth. vol. ix. p. 776 (1823). Cyclopides metis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 112 (1816) : Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 293 (1866); S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 266 (1889). Heteropterus metis, Wallgr. Rhop. Caffr. p. 46 (1857); Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 623 (1871); Auriv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. xix. no. 5 (1882); Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. vol. i. pi. 100 (1888). Cyclopides metis, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 90. Hab. S. Africa. 152. C. MALGACHA, Boisd. Steropes malgacha, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madgr. p. 67 (1833). Hesperia limpopana, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857; Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 50 (1857). Cyclopides malgacha, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. h. p. 294, pi v fig. 10 (1866); Grandid. JVJadgr. vol. xviii. p. 344, pi. Iii. fias. 6,6 a (1887); Trim. S. Afr. Butt, vol. iii. p. 268 (1889); Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 90. Hab. S. Africa, Madagascar. 153. C. ^GIPAN, Trim. Cyclopides ceqipan, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 94, pi. vi. fig. 9 ; S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 271 (1889); Watson, P. Z. S. Lond. 1893, p. 90. Hab. S. Africa. 154. C. WILLEMI, Wallgr. Heteropterus willemi, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 3857; Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 47 (1857). Cyclopides? willemi, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 296 (1866). Cyclopides cheles, Hew. Descript. One Hundred New Species |