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(466) 2. Parnara alberti (Holland) 



Baoris alberti Holland, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 67, PI. ii, fig. 21. 

 Parnara alberti M.\bille, 1904, Gen. Ins., XVII, p. 136. 



Of this species there are three specimens, one taken at Medje, June 

 27, 1910; one at Matadi, August 24, 1910; and one at Faradje, labelled 

 "1911-1912." They all agree with specimens taken on the Ogove 

 River and in southern Cameroon. 



M. Mabille has transferred this species and several others which 

 I classified vmder Baoris Moore to the genus Parnara Moore. The 

 distinction between the two genera, as is pointed out by Mabille, is 

 rather fine, based principally upon the length of the antennae and the 

 sexual brands, which do not always afford good grounds for generic 

 separation. I follow Mabille provisionally, though feeling that the whole 

 group needs a more careful revision than it has thus far received and 

 that a systematic examination of the vast number of species now Imnped 

 under the name Parnara will disclose that the group, as made up, con- 

 tains a good many incongruous elements. 



Semalea^ Holland 

 (467) 1. Semalea pulvina (Ploetz) 



Hesperia pulvina Plcetz, 1879, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XL, p. 353. 

 Cobalus carbo Mabille, 1889, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) IX, Bull., p. clxix. 

 Trichosemeia pulvina Watson, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 53. 

 Semalea pulvina Holl.\nd, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 65, fig. and PI. ii, fig. 14. 

 Mabille, 1904, Gen. Ins., XVII, p. 138. 



One male specimen caught at Medje, August 24, 1910. 



Platylesches Holland 

 (468) 1. Platylesches batangae Holland 



Parnara batangoe Holland, 1894, Ent. News, V, p. 92, PI. iii, fig. 10. 

 Platylesches batangoe Holland, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 73. M.^bille, 

 1904, Gen. Ins., XVII, p. 138. 



There is one dwarfed and also somewhat damaged specimen of this 

 species which I have carefully compared with the type and find to be 

 identical. It is ticketted as taken at ''Basoko, July 3, 1909." 



^The genus Semalea Holland is omitted from the Index in Mabille's work, loc. rit., but occurs on 

 p. 138, with notes and comments thereon by M. MabiUe. 



