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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 11 21. S. OPHTHALMIC A, Mab. Sape ophihalmica, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxviii. Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mabille). N o specimen or figure of this species being available, I must content myself with a provisional reference to this location in the genus, to which the author has assigned it. 22. S. (?) PLISTONICUS, Ploetz. Antigonus plistonicus, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 362 (1879). Hab. Aburi (Ploetz). I cannot make out this species from the description and the material before me. The description does not exactly apply to anything I have seen in nature, though it may be that it designates some already well-known species. 23. S. (?) PHILOTOMUS, Ploetz. Antigonus philotomus, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 361 (1879); Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxvhi. p. 262 (1893). Hab. Aburi (Ploetz); Togoland (Karsch). I do not know this species, at least under this name. 24. S. (?) LJELIUS, Mab. Pterygospidea Icelius, Ploetz MS., Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 240 Ephyriades Icelius, Ploetz, JB. Nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 6. Hab. Gaboon. This is another species about which I am left in total uncertainty. Ploetz merely cites the name, and from the description of Mons. Mabille I cannot draw positive conclusions. Mons. Mabille has designated for m e under this name two wholly different species, one being the species which he has labelled in the collection of Dr. Staudinger as bouvieri, and the other being a slight variety of S. thecla, Ploetz, which he named from a photographic representation sent to him, in which only the upperside appeared. I leave this puzzle somewhat reluctantly to others to solve. 25. S. E:OBELA, Trim. Nisoniades Jcobela, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) vol. ii. p. 180 (1864); Rhop. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 312, pi. vi. fig. 4, o (1866). Pterygospidea Icobela, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. hi. p. 353 (1889). Sarangesa Jcobela, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48. Hab. Extra-tropical South Africa (Trimen). This species reveals a striking superficial resemblance to the species of the genus Thanaos, and represents a section of the genus in which it stands thus far unique. |