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Show 18 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 1.4, Plesioneura hgalinata, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1877-78, p. Plesioneura andrachne (Boisd.), Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1878-79, p. 123. Hab. Madagascar. 53. E. NOTTOANA, Wallgr. Pterygospidea nottoana, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 54. Nisoniades sabadius, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 315. Pterygospidea nottoana, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 360. Eagris melancholica, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. ix. p. civ. Eagris nottoana, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 54. Hab. South Africa. The comparison of the type of E. melancholica, Mab., shows it to be identical with E. nottoana, as determined by Mr. Trimen. 54. E. DECASTIGMA, Mab. Eagris decastigma, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxii; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 118, pi. xvi. fig. 7 ; Holl. Ent. News, Jan. 1894, pi. i. fig. 9. Hab. Sierra Leone, Gaboon. 55. E. FUSCOSA, Holl. (Plate V. fig. 4.) Eagris fuscosa, Holl. Ent. News, Jan. 1894, p. 27, pi. i. fig. 6. Hab. Valley of the Ogove (Good); Gaboon (Mocquerys). This is a somewhat close ally of E. pliyllophila, Trim., but may be readily distinguished from that species by the form of the large spots on the disk of the primaries. 56. E. PHYLLOPHILA, Trim. Nisoniades phyllophila, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1883, p. 362. Pterygospidea pliyllophila, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 362, pi. xii. fig. 8. Hab. Natal, Delagoa Bay (Trimen). 57. E. JAMESONI, Sharpe. Antigonus jamesoni, Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist (6) vol vi p. 348 (1890). Pterggospidea jamesoni, Trim. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 106, pi. ix. fig. 25. Caprona jamesoni, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 669. Hab. S.W. Africa, Mashonaland. 58. E. DENUBA, Ploetz. (Plate V. fig. 8.) Antigonus denuba, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 361 (1869). Eagris decolor, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. ix. p. cdv (1889); Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 262 (1893). |