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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF T H E FAMILY HESPERIID^E. 23 74. H. DROMUS, Ploetz. Pyrgus dromus, Ploetz, Mitth. nat. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm. u. Rug. 1884, p. 6; Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 283 (188J). Hesperia dromus, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 65. Hab. South Africa (? North of the Congo). This species is generally confounded in collections with the preceding, but by attending to the differences so clearly pointed out by Mr. Trimen they may easily be separated. Ploetz states that his type was from the Congo, and Mr. Trimen, upon the authority of G. Geynet, gives the " Gaboon River" as a habitat. I am inclined to question the correctness of the reference of this species to these localities. I may be in error, but am inclined to think that it does not range further north than Angola on the West Coast. 75. H. PLOETZI, Auriv. Syrichtus spio, Ploetz, Mitth. nat. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm. u. Rug. 1884, p. 21. Pi/rgus spio, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. x. p. 30, pi. fig. 9 (1890). Hesperia ploetzi, Auriv. Ent. Tidsk. 1891, p. 227. Pt/rgus ploetzi, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 245 (1893). Hab. Gaboon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togoland. 76. H. SATASPES, Trim. Pyrgus sataspes, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) vol. ii. p. 178 (1864); Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 290, pi. v. fig. 7 (1866); S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 289 (1889). Hab. South Africa. 77. H. DIOMUS, Hopff. Pyrgus diomus, Hopff. Monatsber. k. Akad. Wissensch. Berl. 1855, p. 643 ; Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 420, pi. xxvii. figs. 9, 10 (1862). Hab. Tropical East Africa. 78. H. FEEOX, Wallgr.. Syrichthus ferox, Wallgr. Wien. Ent. Monatschr. 1863, p. 137. Pyrgus vindex, Cram.? var., Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. pp. 287-288 (1866). Hesperia (Syrichthus) diomus, WaUgr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh 1872, p. 50. Pyrgus diomus, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. VY len, 1883, p. 286. Hesperia sandaster, Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. vol. ii. pi. 100 (1888). Pyrgus diomus, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. ni. p. 287 (1889). Hesperia diomus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 65. Hab. Southern Africa. |