1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID 5 
Pterygos. djelele, 8. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 254, pl. xii. fig. 7, 2 
(1889). 
Hab. 8. Africa. 
Lieut. Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48, calls attention to the fact 
that the species in the British Museum which has been identified 
by Mr. Butler from various localities in Northern and Eastern 
Africa as S. djelele, Wallgr., is not that species, and is apparently 
unnamed. This form, which iscommon in Abyssinia and elsewhere, 
is more closely related to S. motozi, Wallgr., and falls into the sub- 
genus Sape of Mabille. Mons. Mabille, I discover, has labelled it 
as S.nerva, Fabr., in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, and so also 
has labelled it for me. It certainly is not the insect described 
under this name by Fabricius, and I have therefore ventured else- 
where to name and describe it (vide S. eliminata, Holl., p. 9). 
2. S. tucuNs, Rogenhfr. (Plate II. fig. 10.) 
2 (6 sec. Rghfr., sed non sec. Rebel). Pterygospidea ( Tagiades, 
Ploetz) lugens, Rogenhfr. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. p. 46 
(1891). 
3 . Pterygospidea morosa, Rogenhfr. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. 
p. 463 (1891). 
Hab. Marangu, Tropical Africa (Von Hoehnel). 
I am under profound obligations to Dr. Rogenhofer, of the 
Imperial Museum in Vienna, and to Dr. Rebel, his assistant, for 
having kindly furnished me with most carefully executed drawings 
of the two forms characterized as above by Dr. Rogenhofer. Dr. 
Rebel writes me as follows :—“ I have taken occasion to critically 
examine the two unique types of P. lugens, Rghfr., and P. morosa, 
Rebfr., and have positively ascertained that both names apply to 
one species. The name lugens, Rghfr., must stand, inasmuch as 
it is the first in the order of publication. Rogenhofer is in error 
in regarding the type of Zugens as a male; it is most positively 
a female. The name morosa must therefore sink as a synonym 
(= 6 of lugens).” 
8. S. me~anta, Mab. 
Eretis melania, Mab. ©. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxxi; 
Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48 ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. Bd. xxxviii. 
p- 264, 2 ? (1893). 
Hab. Gaboon ; Togoland ? 
Dr. Karsch refers a female before him with doubt to the species 
described by Mabille. In the vast series of specimens which I 
have received from Gaboon, I have never found one which tallies 
exactly with the type or description of Mons. Mabille. I thought 
that the following species might be the same, but having compared 
my type with the original type of E. melania in the collection of 
Dr. Staudinger, I am quite sure of the distinctness of the two 
species, S.melania may be readily distinguished from S. perpaupera, 
which it closely resembles at first sight, by the fact that the fringes 
