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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 99 pi. ii. figs. 6, 6 a (larva and chrysahs) (1889); (larva described) Matthew, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxv. p. 429. Rhopalocampta forestan, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893. The species is widely distributed in all the warm portions of the continent south of the Sahara. 330. R. ARBOGASTES, Guen. Ismene arbogastes, Guen., Maill. Reunion, Ann. G, p. 19 (1833). Thymele fiorestan, Boisd. Faune Entom. Madgr. p. 61 (1833). Ismene margarita, Butl. Cist. Entom. vol. ii. p. 389 (1879). Ismene arbogastes, Mab., Grand. Madgr. vol. xviii. p. 323, pi. Ii. figs. 5, 5 a (1887). Rhopalocampta arbogastes, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 129. Ismene arbogastes, Kirby, Syn. Cat., Suppl. p. 819 (1877). Hab. Madagascar, Reunion. Mr. Kirby in his Supplement to his Synonymic Catalogue cites Senegal as the habitat of this species. This is an error. The form is very closely allied to It. forestan, and Mons. Mabille regards it as probably merely an insular form of that species. 331. R. PISISTRATUS, Fabr. Hesperia pisistratus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 345, no. 311 (1793); Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 371, pi. xii. fig. 10(1889). Rhopalocampta valmaran, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 48. Ismene fiorestan ?, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 319 (1866). Ismene pisistratus, Westw. (part.), Oates' Matabele Land, App. p. 352 (1881). Ismene pisistratus, Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. vol. i. pi. 98 (1888). Rhopalocampta pisistratus, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 129. Hab. South and West Africa. This species is very closely allied to R. forestan, from which it may be distinguished by the different shape of the white band on the underside of the secondaries, and the three black spots at the inferior termination of this band. 332. R. FERVIDA, Butl. Hesperia fervida, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vol. v. p. 339 (1880). Ismene fervida, Mab., Grand. Madgr. vol. xvui. p. 324, pi. h. figs. 4, 4 a (1887). Rhopalocampta fervida, Watson, P.Z. S. 1893, p. 129. Hab. Madagascar. 333. R. KEITHLOA, Wallgr. Rhopalocampta keithloa, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 48. Ismene stella, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. vol. l. p. 287 (1862). 7# |