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Show 76 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 258. P. HERILUS, Hopff. Pamphila herilus, Hopff. Monatsber. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Berl. 1855, p. 643; Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 419, pi. xxvii. figs. 7, 8 (1862). Hab. Querimba, East Africa (Hopjfer). Hopffer states that the types of this species were males. From the figure, I should say that they were females. The figure represents apparently a dwarfed female of P. edipus, ax\(\ closely resembles such which I have from Gaboon. 259. P. REICHENOWI, Ploetz. (Plate III. fig. 18.) 2 . Plastingia reichenowi, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 357 (1879), vol. xlv. p. 147 (1884). 3. Pardaleodes festus, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. p. 33, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1889). Hab. Tropical West Africa. There is not a particle of doubt of the correctness of the above synonymy. I have specimens taken in coitu of the male and female of this species. The males have been repeatedly determined for me as P. festus by Mons. Mabille, and agree perfectly with the figure he gives. The females agree with Ploetz's type of P. reichenowi, which is preserved at the Berlin Museum, and is represented in the plate accompanying this paper. 260. P. XANTHOPEPLUS, Holl. (Plate III. figs. 9 3,16 ?.) Pardaleodes xanthopeplus, Holl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) vol. p. 289 (1892). Hab. Valley of the Ogove. 261. P. BULE, sp. nov. (Plate. III. fig. 21,3 $ .) Allied to P. reichenowi, Ploetz = festus, Mab. 3. Primaries deep black, slightly clothed with greenish scales near the base. The wing is marked with eleven spots as follows :- two small oval spots at the end of the cell, one above each other, and above them a minute linear spot; three small oval subapical spots forming a series curving inwardly ; a small round spot in interval 4; a triangular spot in interval 3 ; a large subquadrate spot in interval 2; (these three spots form a transverse series running inwardly towards the margin). The large spot is followed in interval 1 by a triangular orange-yellow spot, diminishing towards the inner margin. There is also an obscure orange-yellow spot in interval 1 towards the base. All the spots are translucent, except the two in interval 1, which are opaque. The secondaries are bright orange-yellow, paler than in P. festus, with the costal margin and outer angle broadly black. The cell near the base and the inner margin are clothed with fuscous hairs. On the underside, the primaries are blackish, the spots of the |
