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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 89 contains two perfect females of this fine species, taken at by Mocquerys according to the labels. The female is like the male, but larger in size, and with the underside of the wings redder than in the figure of the type given by Karsch. It is singular that during the eight years in which I have had a collector constantly residing and at work for me in French Congo, this species has not turned up. It evidently must be very rare, or very local in its distribution. 294. C. BENGA, Holl. (Plate I. fig. 13.) Proteides benga, Holl. Ent. News, vol. ii. p. 4 (1891). Hab. Valley of the Ogove. 295. C. CYLINDA, Hew. (Plate I. fig. 12.) Hesperia cylinda, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. p. 449(176). Pamphila calpis, Karsch (nee Ploetz), Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 252, pi. vi. fig. 4 (1893). (Proteides rurcdis, Mab. MS., cf. Staudinger's price-lists.) Hab. Tropical Western Africa. Very common at Gaboon. This species has been labelled P. ruralis by Mons. Mabille in several collections, and has been sold under this name by Dr. Staudinger. I can find no account of the publication of the species by Mons. Mabille, and believe the name to be hitherto unpublished, except as stated, and as it is once or twice referred to in the writings of Mons. Mabille. It seems at all events to have totally escaped the notice of the compilers of the ' Zoological Record' and Bertkau's ' Register,' and, though I have twice asked Mons. Mabille to inform me where the species is described, he has failed to include an answer to this question with the other information he has so kindly and generously given me. The identification of this species with P. calpis, Ploetz, by Dr. Karsch is based upon specimens so labelled in the Berlin Museum ; but these are not types, and came from Senegal, and were not labelled by Ploetz. There is, further, no agreement whatever between the insect figured by Karsch and the description of P. calpis given by Ploetz. A comparison of the figure given by Karsch shows the entire identity of the insect with Hewitson's H. cylinda. The true calpis is figured in this paper. It is the female of Hidari ccenira, Hew. C. cylinda is a crepuscular insect, as I have been informed by the late Dr. Good. It only appears at dusk in the morning or the evening, though occasionally on dark and cloudy days it may be seen upon the wing. I have one or two examples which were taken at lamp-light, having flown into the room after dark. 296. C. DACENA, Hew. Hesperia dacena, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. p. 453 (1876). |
