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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 71 240. B. NIVEICORNIS, Ploetz. Hesperia niveicornis, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xliv. p. 3 (1883). Hab. Angola. I only know this species from the figure of Ploetz. It is very remarkably ornamented upon the underside of the wings, and the description given is sufficient to enable its identification. 241. B.(?)NEOBA, Mab. Pamphila neoba, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. clxxxvhi (1891). Hab. Cameroons (Mabille). I only know this species from the description and the drawing of the type furnished me by M.ons. Mabille. It is impossible from either to be sure of the species or its generic location. 242. B. (?) ZEPHOBA, Ploetz. Apaustus zephora, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xlv. p. 156 (1884). Hab. Angola (Ploetz). I do not know this species save by the description. It does not seem to apply to any of the species known to me in nature. 243. B. (?) BAURI, Ploetz. Hesperia bauri, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xlvii. p. 98 (1886). Hab. Aburi. I do not know this species, and locate it here provisionally. 244. B. (?) MURGA, Mab. Pamphila murga, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. x. p. 31 (1890). Hab. Caffraria (Mabille). Mons. Mabille compares this species with P. natalensis, Ploetz. I cannot discover that Ploetz ever published a species under the name of natalensis. From the description, the insect seems to be possibly a BaoHs, but it may be a Pardaleodes. I locate it here provisionally, as I am unable to learn anything about it from the author of the species. 245. B. (?) HOLTZII, Ploetz. Hesperia holtzii, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xliv. p. 43-4 (1883). Hab. Angola (Ploetz). I can make nothing out of either the description or the figure of Ploetz. The insect represented seems both to myself and to Mons. Mabille to be a possible variety of C. mathias-mohopaani. I am, however, very strongly inclined to the opinion that it is the same insect recently described by Mr. Trimen under the name Pamphila monasi (q. v.), |