26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



AFRICAN HESPERIID>E. 



By W. J. Holland, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa. 



Subfamily HesperiintE. 

 SARANGESA Moore. 



1. S. exprompta sp. nov. c^. — Allied to S. perpaupera Holl., and also to 

 6". nielania Mab. , according to the tenor of the descri ption of the latter spe- 

 cies. The antennae and the entire upperside of the body are blackish 

 brown; the lowerside of the body is paler brown. The primaries dark 

 gray, clouded below the apex by a broad irregular transverse black shade, 

 which is continued parallel to the outer margin to the outer angle. There 

 is also a black shade at the apex, and a small black circular spot below 

 ■the cell near the origin of the first median nervule. There are eight vitre- 

 ous spots upon the wing, disposed as follows: Three minute spots form- 

 ing a short subapical band just below the costa, one-third of the distance 

 from the apex; a small circular spot on the costa above the end of the 

 cell; an-elongated spot closing the cell, with its inner margin straight and 

 its outer margin excavated; three spots on the median intervals forming a 

 short series parallel to the outer margin. Of these three last-mentioned 

 spots, the one in the middle is the largest, and is subtriangular; the lower one 

 is quite minute, andthe upper one subquadrate. The oblong spot at the end 

 of the cell is shaded posteriorly by a blackish shade. The fringes are 

 concolorous, slightly checkered with paler fuscous on the intervals, and 

 distinctly marked with whitish at the apex and just above the outer angle. 

 The secondaries are of the same color as the primaries, clouded along 

 the outer margin with blackish, and traversed about the middle and just 

 beyond it by two interrupted parallel series of blackish circular spots. 

 The fringes are concolorous, slightly checkered with paler fuscous on their 

 edges at the interspaces. Upon the underside the ground color is a trifle 

 paler than upon the upperside. All the spots and markings of the upper 

 surface are reproduced upon this side. Expanse 26 mm. 



Hab. — Accra, West Africa. 



This insect belongs to the subgeneric group, for which. Mons. 

 P. Mabille has proposed the name Eretis. The structural differ- 

 ences are scarcely sufficient to warrant a separation from the 

 genus Sarangesa Moore, to which a large number of African spe- 

 cies must be assigned. 



2. S. snbalbida sp. nov. cJ*.— The antennae are black. The upperside 

 of the body is black; the lowerside of the palpi and the pectus are ochra- 

 ceous; the legs whitish, as also the lowerside of the thorax and abdo- 

 men. The upperside of both wings are gray, the primaries clouded with 

 blackish at the outer angle, and the secondaries heavily clouded in like 

 manner at the outer angle. There are seven very minute, whitish vitre- 

 ous spots upon the primaries. Four of these spots form a subquadrate 



