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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERHD^E. 17 Pterygospidea flesus, Trim. Butt. S. Afr. vol. iii. p. 363 (Tagiades flesus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 54. Hab. Africa, south of the Sahara. 48. T. TNSULARIS, Mab. T. insularis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1876, p. 272; Grandidier's Madagascar, vol. xiii. p. 352 pi. 54. figs. 6, 7, 7 a. Tliymele ophion, Boisd. Faune Entomol. Madgr. p. 62, pi. ix. fig. 4 (1833). Hab. Madagascar. This is the insular form of T. flesus, Fabr., which is found in Madagascar, and can scarcely be separated from the Fabrician species. 49. T. LACTEUS, Mab. Tagiades lacteus, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (5) vol. vii. p. xxxix. Tagiades dannatti, Ehrmann, Ent. News, vol. iv. p. 309 ; Holl. Ent. News, March 1894, pi. iii. fig. 1. Hab. Congo, Liberia. M y surmise that T. lacteus and T. dannatti are identical, which I expressed in my paper of March 1894, has been confirmed by Mons. Mabille, who has compared my figure with the type. 50. T. SAMBORANA, H. G. Smith. Tagiades samborana, H. Grose Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. vii. p. 127. Hab. Madagascar. I do not know this species. 51. T. SMITHII, Mab. Tagiades smithii, Mab. Grandidier's Madagascar, vol. xiii. p. 354, pi. 56 A. figs. 3, 3 a. Hab. Madagascar. The plate on which this species is to be figured has not yet been published. I do not know the species in nature, nor by any pictorial representation. EAGRIS, Guen. 52. E. SABADIUS, Gray. Hesperia sabadius, Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. vol. xv. pi. 99. fig. (1832). Thymele sabadius, Boisd. Faun. Entom. Madgr. p. 63, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1833). Eagris sabadius, Guen. Maill. Re'un. vol. ii. Lep. p. 18 (1863); Mab. Grandid. Madagr. vol. xiii. p. 350, pi. 54. figs. 4, 4 a, 5. Hesperia andrachne, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madgr. p. 67 (1833); Guerin, Iconogr. Regne Anim., Ins. pi. lxxxii. fig. 2 (1844). Antigonus andrachne, Saalm. Lep. Madgr. p. 112, pi. i. fig. 14. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1896, No. II. 2 |
