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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID.E. 5 Pterygos. djcelcelce, S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 254, pi. xii. fig. (1889). & Hob. S. Africa. Lieut. Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48, calls attention to the fact that the species in the British Museum which has been identified by Mr. Butler from various localities in Northern and Eastern Africa as S. djcelcelce, Wallgr., is not that species, and is apparently unnamed. This form, which is common in Abyssinia and elsewhere, is more closely related to S. motozi, Wallgr., and falls into the subgenus Sape of Mabille. Mons. Mabille, I discover, has labelled it as S. nerva, Fabr., in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, and so also has labelled it for me. It certainly is not the insect described under this name by Fabricius, and I have therefore ventured elsewhere to name and describe it (vide S. eliminata, Holl., p. 9). 2. S. LUGENS, Rogenhfr. (Plate II. fig. 10.) 2 ( 6 sec. Rghfr., sed non sec. Rebel). Pterygospidea {Tagiades, Ploetz) lugens, Rogenhfr. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. p. 46 (1891). 3 . Pterygospidea morosa, Rogenhfr. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. p. 463 (1891). Hob. Marangu, Tropical Africa (Von Hoehnel). I am under profound obligations to Dr. Rogenhofer, of the Imperial Museum in Vienna, and to Dr. Rebel, his assistant, for having kindly furnished m e with most carefully executed drawings of the two forms characterized as above by Dr. Rogenhofer. Dr. Rebel writes m e as follows :-" I have taken occasion to critically examine the two unique types of P. lugens, Rghfr., and P. morosa, Rghfr., and have positively ascertained that both names apply to one species. The name lugens, Rghfr., must stand, inasmuch as it is the first in the order of publication. Rogenhofer is in error in regarding the type of lugens as a male ; it is most positively a female. The name morosa must therefore sink as a synonym ( = $ of lugens)." 3. S. MELANIA, Mab. Eretis melania, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxxi; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48 ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. Bd. xxxviii. p. 264, 2 ? (1893). Hob. Gaboon ; Togoland ? Dr. Karsch refers a female before him with doubt to the species described by Mabille. In the vast series of specimens which I have received from Gaboon, I have never found one which tallies exactly with the type or description of Mons. Mabille. I thought that the following species might be the same, but having compared m y type with the original type of E. melania in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, I am quite sure of the distinctness of the two species. S. melania may be readily distinguished from S.perpaupera, which it closely resembles at first sight, by the fact that the fringes |