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Show 22 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, as on the upperside, except those which are located near the costa. The body is marked much as in A. elegantula, but is without the red spots at the end of the patagia and the red hairs which are found on the metathorax. Expanse 40 mm. Hab. Efulen, Cameroons. 71. A. LEUCOGASTER, Mab. Abantis leucogaster, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, p. 32; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 22, pi. iii. fig. 5 (1891). Hab. Sierra Leone. 72. A. LEVUBU, Wallgr. Leucochitonea levubu, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 52 ; Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 306. Abantis levubu, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 345, pi. xii. fig. Hab. Southern Africa. HESPERIA, Fabr. (Pyrgus, Hiibn.; Scelothrix, Ramb.; Syrichtus, Boisd.) 73. H. SPIO, Linn. Papilio spio, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 796, no. 271 (1767) Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 535, no. 400 (1775); Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. i. fig. 5 (1800-3). Hesperia spio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 354, no. 348 (1783); Westw., Don. Ins. Ind. 2nd edit, p. 79, pi. 50. fig. 5 (1842) ; Aurivillius, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vol. xix. no. 5, p. 124, tab. i. figs. 3, 3 a, after Clerck (1882). Papilio vinclex, Cram. Pap. Exot. vol. iv. pi. cccliii. figs. G, (1782); Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 65. Pyrgus vinclex, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109, no. 1178 (1816); Hopff. Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins. p. 421 (1862); Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 287 (1866); S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 280 (1889). Hesperia vindex, Latr. Enc. Meth. vol. ix. p. 785 (1823) ; Westw., Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. lxxix. fig. 6 (1852). Syrichtus vindex, Wallgr. Rhop. Caffr. p. 53 (1857). Hab. Southern Africa. I had long been led to question whether this species had been found in the western tropical parts of Africa. I have never received it from Gaboon, Cameroons, Sierra Leone, or Liberia, though I have charged my collectors to make special search for the Hesperiidae, and have received thousands of specimens from them. The species identified for me as H. spio, L. {vindex, Cram.), by several European authorities, is very different from the S.-African insect, of which I have numerous examples received from Mr. Trimen and others. It is H. ploetzi, Auriv. My doubt as to the existence of the species on the Tropical West Coast has been however, put to rest by the discovery of a specimen from Monrovia in the collection of Dr. Staudinger. |