10 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 
cian name for this insect. Perhaps he is following in this the 
example of Ploetz, who referred some insect obtained from Kordofan 
to the Fabrician species. But, whatever may have been the insect 
before Ploetz at the time he was writing, it is certain that it was 
not the insect described by Fabricius. In Jones’s ‘ Icones ’ (unpub- 
lished) we have the best clue to many of the Fabrician species, and 
the figure of H. nerva there given (vide pl. 72. fig. 3) represents 
undoubtedly a species of Hesperia (Pyrgus, Hiibn. et auct.). The 
published references to Hesperia nerva, Fabr., are the following :— 
Hesperia nerva, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, p. 340, no. 293 (1793); 
Latreille, Ene. Méth. ix. p. 789, no. 162 (1828). 
Pyrgus nerva, Butl. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 282 (1869). 
Ephyriades nerva, Ploetz, JB. Nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 6 (1884). 
The habitat of H. nerva is given by Fabricius as “in Indiis,” to 
which little significance need be attached, as we know that this 
phrase with the old writers often meant no more than that the 
insect came from a foreign country. 
19, S. auRmmaRco (Mab. MS.), sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 8.) 
Tabraca awrimargo, Mab. in literis. eae yas 
¢. The antenne and the upperside of the thorax and abdomen 
are black, as is also the underside of the thorax and abdomen, 
except at the anal extremity, where it is marked with orange-yellow ; 
the ground-colour of the primaries and secondaries is dark brown, 
almost black. The primaries are ornamented by three minute 
translucent subapical spots in the usual position. The outer 
margin of the secondaries near the anal angle and the cilia for 
the inner half of the wing are orange. On the underside, the 
primaries are coloured and marked as upon the upperside. The 
secondaries have the orange colour which appears upon the upper- 
side near the anal angle much more broadly diffused, covering the 
outer half of the wing as far as the subcostal nervules. The costal 
margin and the base are broadly blackish brown, and the yellow 
space is interrupted by an irregular row of discal spots, of which 
the one opposite the end of the cell is the largest and confluent 
with the dark costal araa. 
Expanse 28-30 mm. 
Hab, Gaboon (Mocquerys); Sierra Leone (Preuss). Types in 
coll. Staudinger. 
This beautiful species has been named Tabraca aurimargo by 
Mons. Mabille. In neuration and most other respects it agrees 
with Sarangesa absolutely, and I cannot bring myself to recognize 
in it the type of a new genus. 
20. 8. Macunata, Mab. 
Sape maculata, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. Lxviii. 
Hab. Mozambique (Mabiile). 
I have no clue to the determination of this species other than 
the description of the author. 
