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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 93 306. A. ERINNYS, Trim. Pamphila erinnys, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) vol. i. p. 290 (1861); Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 303, pi. vi. fig. 8 (1866); S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 326 (1889). Hab. Southern Africa. 307. A. COMUS, Cram. Papilio comus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 391. figs. N, O (1782). Papilio helops, Dru. 111. Ex. Ent. iii. pi. xxxiii. figs. 2, 3 (1782). Hesperia ennius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 337 (1793); Latr. Enc. Meth. vol. ix. p. 749 (1823). Papilio ennius, Dou. Ins. India, p. 59, pi. Ii. fig. 1 (1800). Proteides helops, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 265 (1869) Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 595 (1871). Pamphila comus, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxvhi. p. 249 (1893). Hab. West Africa. (Err. " Surinam, " Cram.; " In Indiis," Drury.) 308. A. MARGARITATA, Holl. (Plate I. fig. 2.) Proteides margaritata, Holl. Ent. News, vol. i. p. 155 (1890). Hab. Valley of the Ogove. I have been inclined to regard this species as identical with A. comus, Cram. But an examination of specimens made for me by my good friend Dr. S. H. Scudder, at Berlin and at the British Museum, he having in his possession at the time the drawing which is reproduced in the Plate, casts a great doubt upon the correctness of this view. Dr. Scudder says, " Your margaritata is most certainly not the insect labelled helops = comus in the British Museum, and is very doubtfully the insect known as comus, in the Museum in Berlin." I had sunk my name as a synonym until receiving this opinion from my learned friend, who is recognized as a very high authority in all such matters. 309. A. BOSEJE, Saalm. Hesperia bosece, Saalm, Lep. von Madgr. p. 105, pi. i. figs. 15,16 (1884). Proteices bosece, Mab. Grand. Madgr. vol. xvih. p. 329, pi. figs. 10, 10 a (1887). Hab. Madagascar. 309 a. A. SHELLEYI, Sharpe \ Proteides shelleyi, E. M . Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) vol. p. 349 (1890). Hab. Fantee (Capt. Shelley). 1 Unfortunately this species was by an oversight omitted when the MS. was in preparation. |