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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID2E. 81 cellular short, forming an obtuse angle with the lower margin the cell; lower margin of cell slightly bent outwardly at origin of vein 2, which is located near the middle of the cell. Vein 3 nearer to vein 4 than to vein 2. Hind wing with costal margin nearly straight; outer margin and inner margin rounded; outer and anal angles broadly rounded. On the upperside of the wing, on the middle of the fold between veins 7 and 8 near the origin of vein 7, is a small pencil of long hairs, and vein 6 just beyond the end of Neuration of Androaynuis philander, Ploetz. f. the cell is clothed on the underside with a closely appressed of thick hair-like scales. Discocellulars and vein 5 very faint, if not quite obsolete. The wings are marked with translucent spots, those on the primaries being located in the usual order, those on the secondaries being four in number-a large one at the end of the cell, and three just below it, one between the origins of veins 2 and 3, and one on either side of this spot, separated from the central spot by veins 2 and 3. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Type A. philander, Ploetz. 276. A. PHILANDER, Hopff. Pamphila philander, Hopff. Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1855, p. 643; Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 416, pi. xxvii. figs. 1, 2 (1862). Carystus philander, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 590 (1871). Acleros philander, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 669. Ancyloxypha philander, Trim. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 78. Carystus evander, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. x. p. 30, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1890). Hab. Tropical Western and Central Africa. 277. A. LEANDER, Ploetz. Apaustus leander, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 360 (1879). Hab. Tropical Western Africa. This species may be readily distinguished from A. leander, its PROC ZOOL. Soc-1896, No. VI. 6 |