22. . DR.W.S.HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN -  [Jan. 14, 
as on the upperside, except those which are located. near the- 
costa. The body is marked much as in A. elegantula, but is 
without the red spots at the end of the patagia and the red hairs 
which are found on the metathorax. Expanse 40 mm. 
Hab. Efulen, Cameroons. 
71. A. LEUcoGAsTER, Mab. 
Abantis leucogaster, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, p. 32; 
Novit. Lepidopt. p. 22, pl. iii. fig. 5 (1891). 
Hab. Sierra Leone. 
72. A. LEVUBU, Waller. 
Leucochitonea levubu, Wallgr. K. Sy. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 ; 
Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 52; Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 306. 
Abantis levubu, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. ili. p. 345, pl. xii. fig. 5. 
Hab, Southern Africa. 
Hasperta, Fabr. 
(Pyrgus, Hiibn.; Scelothrix, Ramb.; Syrichtus, Boisd.) 
73. H. spiro, Linn, 
Papilio spio, Linn: Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 796, no. 271 (1767); 
Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 535, no, 400 (1775); Donovan, Ins. Ind. pl. i. 
fig. 5 (1800-2). 
Hesperia spio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p, 354, no. 348 (1783) ; 
Westw., Don. Ins. Ind. 2nd edit. p. 79, pl. 50. fig. 5 (1842); 
Aurivillius, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vol. xix. no. 5, p. 124, tab. i. 
figs. 3, 3a, after Clerck (1882). 
Papilio vindex, Cram, Pap. Exot. vol. iv. pl. cccliii. figs. G, H 
(1782); Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 65. 
Pyrgus vindex, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109, no. 1178 (1816) ; Hopff. 
Peters’ Reise Mossamb., Ins. p. 421 (1862); Trim. Rhop. Afr. 
Austr. vol. ii. p. 287 (1866); S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 280 (1889). 
Hesperia vindex, Latr. Enc. Méth. vol. ix. p. 785 (1823); Westw., 
Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pl. Ixxix. fig. 6 (1852). 
Syrichtus vindex, Wallgr. Rhop. Caffr. p. 53 (1857). 
Hab. Southern Africa. 
I had long been led to question whether this species had: been 
found in the western tropical parts of Africa. I have never 
received it from Gaboon, Cameroons, Sierra Leone, or Liberia, 
though I have charged my collectors to make special search for the 
Hesperiidz, and have received thousands of specimens from them. 
The species identified for me as H. spio, L. (vindex, Cram.), by 
several European authorities, is very different from the 8.-African 
insect, of which I have numerous examples received from Mr. 
Trimen and others, It is H. ploetzi, Auriv. My doubt as*to the 
existence of the species on the Tropical West Coast has been, 
however, put to rest by the discovery of a specimen from 
Monrovia in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, . 
