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Show 12 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, CEL,ENORRHINUS, Hiibn. 26. C. GALENUS, Fabr. Hesperia galenus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. hi. 1, p. 350, no. 332 (1793); Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 773, no. 124 (1823). Hesperia galena, Don. Ins. Ind. pi. 1. fig. 3, 2 (1800). Celcenorrhinus galenus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 49. Plesioneura galenus, Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. pi. 100. Pardaleodes fulgens, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 236, cS • Pterygospidea galenus, Trim. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 80. Donovan in his plate figures the female of this species, which may always be recognized by the elongate marginal spot on the secondaries beyond the end of the cell. This spot has the form of a parallelogram, and does not fuse with the adjacent spots so fully as is the case in the male, where its sharp outlines are lost in the spots on either side of it. Dr. Staudinger gives a good figure of the male in his ' Exotische Schmetterlinge.' Mons. Mabille kindly determined for me a number of species upon the occasion of a recent visit to Paris, among them Pardaleodes fidgens, Mab. The specimens so determined are undoubtedly C. galenus, Fabr., tf . I have a series of nearly 100 specimens of both sexes, some of them taken in coitu, and am satisfied of the correctness of the synonymy given as above. This is one of the commonest of West-African butterflies and is found from Senegambia to Upper Angola, and Manica (Trimen). 27. C. RUTILANS, Mab. Pardaleodes rutilans, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 235, 2 ; Bull. Soc. Ent. France (Feb. 1877), 2 ; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 96, pi. xiii. fig. 7, 6 (1893). Pterygospidea tergemira, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xx. p. 323 (Oct. 1877). Tagiades ivoermanni, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 362, 2 (1879). Having seen the types of P. rutilans, Mab., and of P. tergemira, Hew., and a carefully executed copy of the drawing of T. ivoermanni, 2 , made by Ploetz, I have not a shadow of doubt as to the correctness of the above synonymy. Hab. Fernando Po (Hewitson); Victoria, W . Africa (Ploetz); Congo-Landana (Mabille) ; Gaboon, Cameroons (Good). 28. C. ILLUSTRIS, Mab. Pardaleodes illustris, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxxiii. CelcenorrJiinus illustris, Holl. Ent. News, March 1894, pi fig. 6. Hab. Cameroons and Upper Valley of the Ogove. 29. C. MEDETRINA, Hew. (Plate III. fig. 2.) Pterygospidea meditrina, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xx. p. 322 (1877), ' |
