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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPER1IDJS. 33 that the anal extremity of the abdomen is white, which is not the case in G. minima, Holl. 118. G. SUBFACATUS, Mab. (Plate II. fig. 11.) Cobalus subfacatus, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. ix. p. clxviii (1889). Hcd). Sierra Leone (Mabille). This little species is not white at the end of the abdomen, nor has it the interrupted white line along the inner margin of the secondaries which is conspicuous in G. aburce, Ploetz. The lower side in the type, which is before me, is more prevalently tawny on the costa and at the apex of the primaries, as well as on the disk of the secondaries. Otherwise it closely approximates G. aburce, Ploetz, var. diversata, Holl. 119. G. MINIMA, sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 24.) d. Primaries and secondaries on the upperside black. The primaries are ornamented by two minute spots near the end of the cell, of which the lower one is the larger. Immediately below this spot, in interval 2, is a moderately large sublunate transparent spot, and beyond this in the same series, in intervals 3 and 4, a small spot in each interval. Beyond the cell there is a minute subapical spot. The secondaries have a very small and obscure, scarcely visible, translucent spot at the end of the cell. The primaries and secondaries on the underside are blackish, with The the inner margin of the primaries slightly laved with fulvous. secondaries are obscurely marked with purplish hoary scales. The cilia, both on the upper and lower side, are pale yellowish fuscous. The palpi are black on the upperside, yellowish underneath. The thorax and abdomen on the lower side are blackish. Expanse 19-20 m m. Hab. French Congo (Mocquerys). This small species is allied to G. subfacatus, Mab., but appears to be quite distinct. 120. G. MOCQUERYSII, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig 10.) 3 . The upperside of the body, the primaries, and the secondaries are black. The primaries are ornamented with three minute subapical spots in the usual position. In some specimens these spots have a tendency to become obsolete. There are two minute white translucent spots at the end of the cell in the primaries, and just below them in interval 2 a subquadrate spot. On vein 1, near the middle in interval 1, is a small subtriangular spot, in interval 3, beyond the end of the cell, a moderately large subquadrate spot. In the male on the secondaries there is a large translucent spot at the end of the cell, and two similar elongated spots beyond the end of the cell on either side of vein 3 at its origin. On the underside the primaries are greenish ochraceous, with the inner half of the wing broadly laved with blackish, P R O C . Z O O L . S O C - 1 8 9 6 , No. III. 3 |
