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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 19 Hah. Aburi (Ploetz); Freetown (Mabille); Cameroons (Good); Togoland (Karsch). Having before me a drawing of the type of Ploetz, executed by Prillwitz, which is reproduced in the Plate, and the type of Mabille, loaned me by Dr. Staudinger, I am positively satisfied as to the identity of the two. 59. E. LTJCETIA, Hew. Leucocliitonea lucetia, Hew. 111. Exot. Butt. vol. v. Hesp., Leuco-chitonea, pi. ii. fig. 21. Hab. Angola (Hewitson). PROCAMPTA, Holl. 60. P. RARA, Holl. Procampta rara, Holl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct. 1892, p. 293; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 59; Holl. Ent. News, Mar. 1894, pi. iii. fig. 7. Hab. Valley of the Ogove. CAPRONA, Wallgr. 61. C. PILLAANA, Wallgr. Caprona pillaana, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 ; Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 51; Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 308 (1866) ; S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 348, pi. xii. figs. 6,6 a (1889). Stethotrix heterogyna, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. p. clxxxiv (1889). Caprona adelica, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. vol. xviii. p. 242 (1892); Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 243, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1893). Hab. South Africa, Natal, Loko, Togoland. Mons. Mabille writes me that the species of Karsch is absolutely identical with his S. heterogyna, in which opinion, with the type before me as I write, I am able to positively concur. But the male of S. heterogyna is most certainly identical with C. pillaana, Wallgr. I am not alone in this opinion. Dr. Staudinger writes me that Prof. Aurivillius has most unqualifiedly given in his adhesion to this view on examination of specimens submitted to him. The female, the type of which is before me, might have served the artist for the drawing of C. adelica given by Dr. Karsch, and differs from the rather crude figure of the female of C.pillaana, Wallgr., given by Trimen in being paler, and having a sharply defined black spot on the underside of the secondaries near the inner margin. With only the female sex before me I might have hesitated a little to make the above synonymy, but the identity of the male with C. pillaana being so positively certain, I do not doubt the correctness of what I have given above. 62. C. CANOPUS, Trim. Caprona canopus, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) vol. ii. p. 180 2* |