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Chapra mathias, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, vol. i. p. 169, pl. 70. figs. 1, 
1 a (1880-81). 
? Pamphila ibara, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xliv. p. 88 (1883). 
Pamphila octo-fenestrata, Saalm. Lep. von Madagascar, p. 108 
(1884). 
Pamphila mathias, var. elegans, Mab. Grandid. Madgr. vol. xviii. 
p- 356, pl. lv. figs. 4, 4 a, 5 (1887). 
Pamphila mohopaani, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. ili. p. 324 (1889). 
Pamphila insconspicua, Butl. P. Z.S. 1893, p. 672; Trim. P.Z.8. 
1894, p. 76. 
Hab. Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar, and adjacent 
islands. 
After a very full and thorough study of a great collection of 
specimens in my possession, coming from all parts of the African 
continent, including examples from Abyssinia, Zanzibar, the Cape 
Colony, Angola, Gaboon, and Sierra Leone, and after a diligent 
comparison with long series before me coming from various parts 
of continental Asia and the adjacent islands, I am forced to the 
conclusion, which has already been cautiously maintained by others, 
that the African insect commonly labelled in collections as 
mohopaani, Wallgr., is identical with the insect named mathias by 
Fabricius. The differences which exist are in most cases merely 
differences of size, and without locality-labels to show whence the 
particular specimens come from it would be impossible to 
distinguish them. The specimens from the region of the Cape are 
generally a little larger than Indian examples, but I have not a 
few specimens among the three or four hundred examples of the 
African forms before me as I write which are as small as any 1 
have from India. 
Indeed C. lodra, Ploetz, which Mons. Mabille maintains, in his 
correspondence with me, to be simply a small form of C. mathias, 
is smaller than any Indian examples I have in my possession. I 
do not, however, quite agree with Mons. Mabille in his view, and 
prefer to still maintain Jodra in this catalogue as a distinct species 
(v. infra). 
209. C. LopRA, Ploetz. 
Pamphila lodra, Ploetz, 8. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 855 (1879), vol. xliv. 
p- 40 (1884). 
Hab. Tropical West Africa (Gaboon, Cameroons). 
This is a diminutive reproduction at first sight of C. mathias, 
Fabr., but while the markings are exactly the same as in that 
species, it may be easily and invariably separated by attending to 
the fact not only that it is so small, but that the fringes are 
pure white, and the undersides of both the primaries and secondaries 
are dark hoary greyish brown. It may be that this form is, as 
has been suggested, a mere variety or local race of C. mathias, but 
until we know more about the facts I hesitate to sink the name of 
Ploetz as a synonym. 
