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Show 90 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, Proteides leucopoc/on, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. (1891); Nov. Lepidopt. p. Ill, pi. xv. fig. 5 (1893). Hab. Gaboon, Cameroons. 297. C. ORMA, Ploetz. Tsmene orma, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 363 (1879), vol. xlv. p. 59 (1884). Hesperia violascens, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xliii. p. 322 (1882). Pamphila violascens, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit, vol. xxxviii. p. 248, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1893). Hab. Cameroons, Ogove Valley. H. violascens was described, as Dr. Karsch has shown, from a drawing of the upperside of a specimen named violascens by Maassen. Had Ploetz seen the specimen from which the drawing was made, he would no doubt have recognized in it his own I. orma. The underside is unmistakable. Dr. Karsch has correctly determined the species as violascens, Ploetz, but has failed to recognize its identity with the species described as orma by Ploetz, and referred by him to the genus Ismene. This reference is sufficiently exact to suffice, though I have been inclined to create a subdivision of the genus for the reception of this species, owing to the fact that the antennae are not so greatly swollen below the tip as in the other species of the genus, and the outer margin of the secondaries is not so strongly excavated before the anal angle. It is worthy of note that the white band on the underside of the secondaries varies greatly, and in some specimens is reduced to a narrow line, and in others is almost obsolete. 298. C. CORDUBA, Hew. Hesperia corduba, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. p. 454 (1876). Proteides massiva, Mab. & Vuill. Nov. Lepidopt, p. 21, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1891). Hab. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. This species is very common in the Valley of the Ogove'. Thus far, singularly enough, I have never seen a male specimen. Of the twenty-five, or more, examples in my collection, all appear to be females. 299. C. WAGA, Ploetz. Telesto waga, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xlvii. p. 10S (1886). Hab. Aburi (Ploetz). From a copy of the figure of this species contained in the unpublished collection of drawings made by Herr Ploetz, and to which he refers in his descriptions, this insect is closely allied to C. cylinda, Hew., and, if I am not greatly mistaken, the drawing represents a rubbed specimen of C. cylinda ; certainly specimens of cylinda in poor condition agree extremely well with the figure of Ploetz. |