1920] Holland, Lepidnptera of the Congo 261 



There are ten specimens, eight males and two females. All were 

 taken at Medje, except one female which is ticketted "Stanleyville, I, 

 27, 1915." Six of the specimens taken at Medje were captured in June, 

 one in May, and one in September. 



C^NiDEs Holland 

 (478) 1. Caenides csenira (Hewitson) 



Hesperia ccEnira Hewiison, 1867, Exot. Butt., IV, Hesperia, PI. ii, figs. 15, 16. 



Paniphila ccenira Kirby, 1871, Syn. Cat., p. 606. 



Hesperia calpis Plcetz, 1879, Stett. Ent, Zeit., XL, p. 354; 1882, idem, XLIII, p. 



328, 9. 

 Hidari ccenira Holland, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 82, PL ii, fig. 3, 9 (calpis 



Ploetz). 

 Ccenides coenira {sic) Mabille, 1904, Gen. Ins., XVII, p. 182. 



One typical male collected at Medje, July 8, 1910. 



In my catalogue of the African Hesperiidse, 1896, I referred the fore- 

 going and two other species to the genus Hidari Distant, with which they 

 seemed to agree better than with any other genus at that time described. 

 M. Mabille in his later work relegates them to my genus Ccenides, of 

 which he says they form a section. I cannot take the time at the 

 moment of writing this to go fully into the matter, which might involve 

 some detailed investigation of structures under the microscope and 

 bleaching of wings, but I know that the Hesperia ccenira of Hewitson is 

 certainly very doubtfully congeneric with Hesperia dacela Hewitson, 

 which is the type of the genus Ccenides Holland. 



(479) 2. Csenides cylinda (Hewitson) 



Hesperia cylinda Hewitson, 1876, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) XVIII, p. 449. 

 Pamphila calpis Karsch (nee Ploetz), 1893, Berl. Ent. Zeit., XXXVIII, p. '252, PI. 



VI, fig. 4 ( 9 nan d'). 

 Ccenides cylinda Holland, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 89, PI. i, fig. 12 ( 9 



7ion cT). Mabille, 1904, Gen. Ins., XVII, p. 182. 



Two males, one taken at Leopoldville, July 4, 1909, the other at 

 Niangara, November 20, 191C. 



The figures of this insect given both by Karsch and myself do not 

 represent the male but the female, which has a postmedian translucent 

 spot on the hind wing, while the male is destitute of such a spot, as is 

 shown by numerous specimens which have come into my possession or 

 custodv since 1896. 



