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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 83 PTEROTEINON, Wats. (Tanyptera, Mab.) 282. P. LAUFELLA, Hew. Hesperia laufella, Hew. Exot. Butt. vol. iv. Hesp. pi. ii. figs. 28- 30(1867). Carystus laufella, Kirbv, Syn. Cat. p. 591 (1871); Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. pi. 99 (1888). Tanyptera laufella, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 260 (1877). Pteroteinon laufella, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 124. Hab. Tropical West Africa. CHORISTONEURA, Mab. 283. C. APICALIS, Mab. (Plate V. fig. 1.) Choristoneura apicalis, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vol. ix. p. clvi (1889). Hab. Sierra Leone (Mabille). This very remarkable insect is entirely unlike any other species which I have ever seen from the African continent, and recalls in general appearance some of the species of the S. American genus Entheus. At the time Lieut. Watson prepared his Revision of the Neuration of Choristoneura apicalis, Mab. f. genera of the HesperiidaB, no specimen of this insect was available by him for purposes of study. I take pleasure in incorporating a cut giving the neuration. From this it will be seen by the student '6* |
