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Show 8 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, S. bouvieri, Mab., and S. pertusa, Mab., but upon the underside reveals great differences. Hab. Togoland (Karsch). 14. S. PERTUSA, Mab. Sape pertusa, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxviii. Hab. Transvaal. The type would seem to indicate that this is only a slight variety of motozi, Wallgr. 15. S. BOUVIERI, Mab. Pterygospidea bouvieri, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 239.' Sarangesa motozioides, cS, Holl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (vol. x. p. 288 (1892); Ent. News, Jan. 1894, pi. i. fig. 4, rf . For the determination of this species I am indebted to Dr. Staudinger, who has loaned me a male and female determined for him by the author of the species. By the description originally given by Mons. Mabille, I should not have been able to reach a positive conclusion, as the description seems to be somewhat inadequate. 16. S. THECLA, Ploetz. (Plate V. fig. 14.) Antigonus thecla, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 361 (1879). Sape semialba, Mab. C. R. Soc Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxvii; Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 262. By comparison of the type of Mons. Mabille with a figure of the type of Ploetz, which is reproduced in the plates accompanying this article, I am able to positively affirm the identity of the two. Hab. Aburi (Ploetz); W.Africa (Mabille); Cameroons (Good); Togoland (Karsch). 17. S. THECLIDES, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 3.) d . Antenna? black, slightly lighter on the underside, the upper-side of the palpi, thorax, and abdomen is fuscous. The lower side of the palpi is yellowish. The lower side of the thorax and abdomen is pure white. The legs are white, narrowly edged with blackish upon the anterior margins. The ground-colour of the upperside of the primaries and secondaries is fuscous ochraceous. The primaries are heavily bordered with black on the outer margin, and there is a large irregularly quadrate spot of the same colour on the costa near the end of the cell, limited anteriorly by four minute white translucent subapical spots and posteriorly by three like spots, two of them in the cell near its end and one of them above near the costa. The primaries are further ornamented by a series of small white translucent spots, bordered inwardly by blackish. These spots are arranged in a straight transverse series. |