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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF T H E FAMILY HESPERIID^E. 15 38. C. (?) HOMEYERI, Ploetz. Tagiades homeyeri, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xli. p. 307 (1880). Hab. Pundo Ndongo. 1 do not know this species, but as it is said by the author to be very near C. galenus, Fabr., I locate it here provisionally. 39. C. MOKEEZI, Wallgr. Pterygospidea mokeezi, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 1857; Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 54. Hesperia amaponda, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) vol. i. p. 405. Nisoniades mokeezi, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Aust. vol. ii. p. 316, pi. Pterygospidea mokeezi, Trim. Butt. S. Afr. vol. iii. p. 358. Celcenorrhinus mokeezi, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 50. Hab. Extra-tropical S. Africa. 40. C. (?) LUEHDERI, Ploetz. Plastingia luehderi, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 357 (1879), vol. xlv. p. 147 (1884). Hab. Aburi (Ploetz). The figure of this species drawn by Ploetz appears to be a crude representation of a species of Celcenorrhinus, but the statement of Ploetz, that there is a sexual mark or brand upon the primaries, does not agree with this view. I am at a lo3S, without having the insect before me, to say where it should be located. Mons. Mabille's note upon the drawing of Ploetz, contained in one of his manuscript comments upon the Ploetzian figures, strikes me as very appropriate, " mild non verisimile videtur." TRICHOSEMEIA l, Holl. 41. T. SUBOLIVESCENS, Holl. (Plate V. fig. 15.) T. subolivescens, Holl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct. 1892, p. Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 53. Hab. Matabeleland. 42. T. TETRASTIGMA, Mab. Ceratrichia tetrastigma, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxv; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 119, pi. xvi. fig. 8. Hab. Interior of Cameroons (Staudinger). Mons. Mabille refers this species with some doubt to the genus Ceratrichia. With his type before me, I am able to assert that the species is positively congeneric with the type of the genus Trichosemia. It may even prove to be true that the two species are the same, in which case Mons. Mabille's name will have priority. There is, however, considerable difference in the colour 1 B y a typographical error, printed originally as " Tricosemeia," |