1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDS. 9 
two in cell 1, one, transversely elongated, in cell 2, and a smaller 
one in cell 3. The secondaries are heavily marked with black on 
the outer angle, and there is a curved series of three or four small 
black spots in the subcostal interspaces. Just after the large black 
spot on the outer angle, the outer margin is lightly touched with 
whitish. A fine dark marginal line defines the origin of the cilia, 
which are fuscous upon the upperside. On the underside the 
primaries are blackish, shading slightly into bluish grey at the 
base. The translucent spots appear as on the upperside; the 
two spots in cell 1 being defined outwardly by two parallel whitish 
rays. The secondaries are white, laved with bluish grey at the 
base. The outer angle is black. The black spots on the subcostal 
interspaces are as on the upper surface, but more clearly defined 
upon the white ground. In addition there are two small discal 
dots in cell 1, and a small black dot on the outer margin near the 
extremity of vein 1. The cilia on the underside are white toward 
the anal angle. 
Expanse 35 mm. 
Hab. Gaboon (Mocquerys). Type in collection Staudinger. 
18. S. pLmwrNara, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 9.) 
6. The colour of the upperside of the thorax and abdomen is 
dark fuscous, of the underside yellowish ochraceous. The antenne 
are black, the legs grey, edged with blackish anteriorly. The pri- 
maries on the upperside are fuscous. There are three small 
confluent subapical spots, a similar small spot on the upper edge 
of the cell near its end, and two other like spots in cells 2 and 3, 
of which the former is the larger. Both the subapical series and 
the discal spots are followed inwardly by dark cloudings. The 
interspaces just before the margin are marked by obscure darker 
oblong spots. There is a fine,dark marginal line. The cilia are 
fuscous. The secondaries are traversed by a series of obscure dark 
fuscous transverse median, limbal, and submarginal spots. The 
spot of the median series located at the end of the cell is annuli- 
form. The marginal line and cilia are as on the primaries. Both 
the primaries and secondaries on the underside are clear yellowish 
ochraceous, with the cilia pale fuscous. The inner margin of the 
primaries is testaceous. The translucent spots of the upper surface 
reappear upon the lower side and are narrowly margined with 
fuscous. | Fuscous submarginal and limbal bands traverse the 
primaries, leaving sagittate spots of the prevailing ground-colour 
between them on the intra-neural spaces. The secondaries show 
the transverse series of spots of the upper surface, but more 
distinctly defined and generally rounded than on the upperside. 
Q like the male. 
Expanse 28-30 mm. 
Hab, Abyssinia (Staudinger); Somaliland (in my collection). 
This species is labelled in the Staudinger collection by Mons. 
Mabille as “ nerva, Fabr.” Mons. Mabille has on several occasions 
in his correspondence with me insisted upon employing the Fabri- 
