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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDiE. 69 232. B. MELPHIS, Holl. Parnara melphis, Holl. Ent. News, 1894, p. 31, pi. i. fig. 18. Hab. Valley of the Ogove. 233. B. MALTHINA, Hew. Hesperia malthina, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (4) vol. xviii. p. 457 (1876). Pamphila euryspila, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. clxxix (1891). Proteides euryspila, Mab. Novit. Lepidopt. p. 117, pi. xvi. fig. (1893). Hab. Sierra Leone (Mabille) ; Gaboon (Good). The only specimen of the female which I have ever seen is contained in my collection, and was taken at Batanga, Cameroons. It does not differ materially from the male, save that there is an additional translucent spot upon the fore wing in cell 1, and the large white spot on the underside of the secondaries is much larger than in the male, extending farther outwardly and inwardly. 234. B. STATIRA, Mab. Pamphila statira, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. clxxx (1891); Novit. Lepidopt. p. 114, pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1893). 3. The type of this species was a female contained in the collection of Dr. Staudinger. The collection also contains a male, which differs from the female on the upperside in lacking the spot in the cell of the primaries, and in having, in the example before me, the uppermost of the three subapical spots obsolete. In the secondaries, the spots at the end of the cell which are conspicuous in the female on the underside and faintly appear on the upperside are also lacking, and the discal spots are somewhat smaller than in the female. Hab. French Congo (Mocquerys). 235. B. STATIRIDES, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 6.) 2 . Palpi on the upperside, head, thorax, and abdomen on the upperside black, clothed with fuscous scales. Palpi on the underside whitish; thorax and anal extremity of the abdomen pale fuscous. Primaries black on the upperside, with two widely separated minute elongated spots near .the end of the cell, two subapical spots in the usual position, and a discal series of four spots, the lowermost of the series on interval 1 cuneiform, the next on interval 2 subquadrate, and the largest of the series, and the two succeeding ones on intervals 3 and 4, subquadrate, the last smaller than the one preceding it. The secondaries beyond the cell are adorned with a broad irregularly curved white macular band, running from before the end of the cell inwardly and widening to vein 1 6. The primaries on the underside are black, with the spots as on the upperside. The secondaries are creamy white, with the outer margin broadly black. There is a con- |