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Show 16 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, and markings of the underside of the secondaries, and it would not be at all safe to merge the two forms under the same name until we have more material. 43. T. QUATERNA, Mab. Ceratricliia quaterna, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. France, 1889, p. clvi; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 20, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1891). Hab. Sierra Leone (Mabille). This beautiful species, the type of which is before me as I write, is correctly referred to the genus TricJwsemeia. 44. T. (?) BRIGIDA, Ploetz. Antigonus brigida, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 361 (1879). Hab. Cameroons (Good); Roorke's Drift, S. Africa (in my collection). What I take to be the species named brigida by Ploetz is a species which is more properly located in this genus than any other at present constituted, though the secondaries lack the characteristic hairy brand near the costa on the upperside, which led me to give the name which I have applied to this genus. This remark holds good also of the two following species. 45. T. (?) HEREUS, Druce. (Plate IV. fig. 21.) Tagiccdes hereus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 417. Hab. Angola (Monteiro). This species seems to be closely allied to, if not identical with, S. brigida, Ploetz. In case of identity the name given by Mr. Druce has priority. 46. T. (?) SUBALBIDA, HoU. Sarangesa subalbida, Holl. Ent. News, Jan. 1894, p. 26, pi. i. fig. 7. Hab. Valley of the Ogove (Good). In the form of the wings and the neuration, together with the form of the antennae, this species comes nearer those which are strictly classified in the genus Trichosemeia than to those included iu Sarangesa. The hairy brand on the upperside of the secondaries is lacking; but in spite of this I prefer to place the species here, rather than to leave it where I originally located it. TAGIADES, Hiibn. 47. T. FLESUS, Fabr. Papilio jiesus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 135, no. 621 (1871) ; Mant. Ins. p. 88, no. 797 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 338, no. 286 (1793).' Nisoniades flesus, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 286. Papilio opJiion, Dru. 111. Exot. Ent. vol. iii. pi. xvii. figs. 1 (1782); Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. p. 127, pi. xxvi. figs. 4 L (1791). Nisoniades ophion, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Aust. vol. ii. p. 313 (1866). |