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Show 38 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, The secondaries are suboval, with the outer margin evenly rounded. The costal and inner margins are straight between the angles. The cell is long, reaching a little beyond the middle of the wing. Vein 7 before the end of the cell, twice as far from 6 as 8 ; discocellulars faint, erect; vein 5 present, equidistant from veins 4 and 6 ; vein 3 before the end of the cell; vein 2 twice as far from the base as from the end of the cell; veins 1 a and 1 b straight. Between veins 1 a and 1 b there is a narrow fold heavily clothed with long tufts of hair-like scales. Interval 1 is likewise clothed heavily with long scales. Palpi: first joint short, second joint long, both heavily clothed with scales ; second joint erect, rising to the top of the vertex ; third joint short, obtuse, slightly porrect, clothed with fine minute closely appressed hairs. Type G. mabillei, Holl. Mons. Mabille has designated a number of species by the generic name Gastrochceta in his own collection and in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, as well as in my own collection. I discover, however, that he has nowhere published an account of this genus. In the ' Entomological News,' vol. v. p. 28, I published a species under this name as Gastrochceta mabillei. As this was the first time that the name appears to have been published, the species to which I have applied it must stand as the type of the ^enus. In many respects there is a superficial resemblance between the species included in this genus and those included in the genus Gorgyra, some of the species of which Mons. Mabille has labelled in the Staudinger collection as belonging to that genus. An examination of the palpi and the neuration, however, instantly reveals the difference. 125. G. MABILLEI, Holl. Gastrochceta mabillei, LIoll. Ent. News, vol. v. p. 28, pi. i. figs. 15, 16 (1894). Hab. Valley of the Ogove. 126. G. MEZA, Hewitson. (Plate II. fig. 9.) Hesperia meza, H e w . Ann. & Mag. N. H . (4) vol. xix. p. 79 (1877). Apaustus batea, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 359 (1879) vol xlv p. 153 (1884). Pamphila bubovi, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii p 951 pi. vi. fig. 10 (1894). ' r* ~ ' Gastrochceta varia, Mab. MS., in Staudinger coll. Hab. Tropical West Africa, from Angola (Hew.) to Togoland (Karsch). Very abundant at Gaboon. This species was originally determined for m e by Mons. Mabille as Gastrochceta varia, Mab., upon comparison with specimens so labelled in his collection and that of Dr. Staudino-er but I cannot find that he has ever published a description under this name. |
