132 Dr. F. D. God man on American 



Mecjachile Orantiana, n. n. 

 Meqachile pnncUdismna, W. F. Kirby, Bull. Livei-p. Mus. iii. (1900) 



p. 20.— Not of Spiuola, 1806. 

 Hah. Sokotva {Ogilvie- Grant and Forbes). 

 I informed Mr. Kirby of the preoccupation of the name 

 proposed by him ; but as he is no longer working on Hy- 

 nienoptcra, he asks me to rectify the matter. 



MegacMle paucipunctulata, W. F. Kirby. 

 Megachile pauciinmdulata, W. F. Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus. iii. (1900) 



N.%-u.": Me<jachi'le sokotrana,'FxiQSQ, Zeits. f. Hym. iind Dipt. 1903, 

 p."'287.— Sokotra {Simony). 



Megachile suhsericans, n. n. 



Megachile vicina, Moraw. Horfe Soc. Ent. Ross, xxviii. (1894) p. 37.— 

 Turkestan.— Not M. vicina, Mocsary, 1879. 



Meqachile mixtula, n. n. 



Megachile mixta, Radoszkowsld, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xlvii. (1874) 

 p. 138.— Caucasus.— Not M. mixta, Costa, 1863. 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 

 June 5, 1907. 



XXIV. — Notes on the American Species of Hesperiid^e 

 described by Plotz. By F. D. GODMAN, D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 &c. 



I HAVE recently had an opportunity of examining the large 

 number of coloured drawings made by the late Carl Plotz, 

 and am at last enabled to identify most of the Mexican and 

 Central-American species described in his various writings. 

 These drawings not only illustrate the numerous Hesperiids 

 named by him, but nearly all those tabulated or described by 

 Herrich-SchiifFer and other continental authors, and they are 

 therefore of the greatest interest to all students of Rhopalo- 

 cera. The following notes on his figures of the American 

 species, generally, give the necessary corrections to the 

 synonymy, &c.* The numerals in parentheses after each 

 name indicate the number of Plotz's drawings, and the locality 



* Drawings nos. 1328-1333 are unfortunately niissing, and one 

 Central-American species, Netrocoryne coro7ius, Plotz, still remains 

 unidentified by me. 



