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Show 6 . DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, of the primaries, which are fuscous, are checkered with black ends of the nervules, and are conspicuously white at the apex and at the inner angle. The specimen in Dr. Staudinger's collection is labelled " melanina " in the handwriting of Mons. Mabille. The published name is melania, and this of course stands. 4. S. PERPAUPERA, Holl. Sarangesa perpaupera, Holl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. x. p. 288 (1892); Ent. News, Jan. 1894, pi. i. fig. 1, d" • Hab. Upper Valley of the Ogove River (Good); Angola (Staudinger). 5. S. EXPROMPTA, Holl. Sarangesa exprompta, Holl. Ent. News, Jan. 1894, p. 26, pi. fig. 3, 6 • Hab. Accra. The type was purchased from Doncaster with a lot of other African material. Whether the locality label attached to the specimen is correct I cannot be positively certain, as some of the things bought at the time were plainly not from the localities indicated upon the labels. 6. S. ASTRIGERA, Butl. (Plate II. fig. 8.) S. astrigera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 669. Hab. Zomba, British Central Africa. I only know this species by the description given by the author, and the figure prepared by Mr. Horace Knight, which is reproduced upon the plate. I place it in this section of the genus with much doubt, but it plainly belongs here, rather than elsewhere. ** HYDA, Mab. 7. S. GRISEA, Hew. Pterygospidea grisea, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vol. p. 344 (1878). Hyda micacea, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. ix. p. clxvii (1889); Novit. Lepidopt. p. 93, pi. xiii. fig. 3 (1893). Hab. Gaboon, Liberia. Weymer in StiibePs ' Reise,' p. 126, pi. iv. fig. 5, describes and iUustrates a species from Ecuador as Hesperia micacea. Inasmuch as Mabille's name drops as a synonym in the case of the present species, that of Weymer should be allowed to stand for the species he named. 8. S. TRICERATA, Mab. Hyda tricerata, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. cvi; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 92, pi. xiii. fig. 2. Hab. Sierra Leone, Cameroons, Gaboon. |