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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 87 insect which, beariug his own manuscript label, is accepted as the type. I have been puzzled to find a satisfactory solution of the difficulty, but have resolved to accept the authenticated type specimen as the key to the problem, and have therefore given'the synonymy as above. Of course it is quite possible that a misplacement of the original label may have taken place, but at this distance, both of space and time, I am not in a position to clear up the difficulty. The description given by Ploetz is, as usual, not clear enough to help to a positive conclusion as to what he meant by it. 288. C. SORITIA, Hew. (Plate I. fig. 9.) 3 . Hesperia soritia, Hew. Ann. & Mae. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. p. 453 (1876). 2- Proteides xvchus, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. cxi (1891). Proteides xantho, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Bele. vol. xxxv. p. -cxi (1891). l Hab. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. Upon a comparison of the types of P. xychus and P. xantho, Mab., with the type of H. soritia, Hew., it becomes plain that they are one and the same species. The females vary in the amount of maculation on both the upper and under side of the secondaries. Some specimens have a distinct pale discal spot at the end of the cell upon the lower side of the secondaries, followed by a discal curved series of similar small spots, frequently obscurely visible upon the upper surface; other specimens are almost devoid of these markings, which are generally more or less obsolescent. A female with these markings more distinct than usual was selected by Mons. Mabille as the type of his xantho. It is before m e as I write, and I cannot feel justified in regarding it as separate from C. soritia. In a long series of specimens of soritia, such females are not at all uncommon. 289. C. KANGVENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 3. Body with palpi and antennas, as well as legs, brown, the under surfaces slightly paler than the upper surfaces. The wings are brown, somewhat inclining to tawny fuscous at the base. The cilia are pale fuscous. The primaries are marked with three minute subapical spots, arranged in a curved series, by a large quadrate spot at the end of the cell, which is notched on its outer margin, and by two moderately large subquadrate spots, lying one on either side of vein 3 at its origin, the lower spot being the largest. There is a fine raphe, or sexual brand, running along the inner margin of this large spot and continued across interval 1 toward the inner margin. The secondaries have the end of the cell and a portion of the disc immediately beyond the end covered by a large oval patch of raised glossy black hairs. On the underside the primaries are paler on the apical third, with the inner margin broadly pale testaceous. The translucent spots of the |