1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID &. 85 
285. G.(?) pivisstmus, Mab. 
Proteides ditissimus, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxy. 
p. exii (1891). 
Hab. Sierra Leone (Mabille). 
Very probably the same as the foregoing species (gq. v.), 
286. G. BucHHOLZzI, Ploetz. 
Q. Hesperia buchholzi, Ploetz, 8. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 354 (1879), 
vol. xliii. p. 330 (1882). 
Gangara(?) basistriga, Holl. Ent. News, vol. v. p. 29, pl. i. 
fig. 12 (1894). 
Hab. Aburi (Ploetz) ; Ogové (Holland). 
Strangely enough, none but females of this species have been 
found thus far. The type was a unique female in the collection 
made by Buchholz. There is another specimen in my collection, 
and another still in the hands of Mons. Mabille, to which he has 
affixed the MS. name “ robustus.” 
C2NIDES, gen. nov. 
Antenne long, slender; club moderate, long, produced at the 
apical extremity to a long fine point, bent back at a right angle. 
Palpi: first joint short, second joint long, erect, reaching the tip 
of the vertex, both densely clothed with long hair; third joint 
minute, erect, and almost concealed by the hairy vestiture of the 
second joint. Primaries with the inner margin longer than the 
outer margin, or, in some species, subequal. Cell slightly less 
than two-thirds the length of the costa; yein 12 of the primaries 
terminating before the end of the cell; vein 7 arising slightly 
before the end of the cell; vein 5 much nearer 4 than 6; vein 3 
near vein 4; vein 2 from about the middle of the lower margin of 
the cell. The secondaries with vein 5 obsolete, or very faintly 
visible ; discocellulars faint, angulated, with the point of the angle 
turned toward the base; cell short. Legs armed with double sets 
of spurs on the hind tibiz. 
The species of this genus, which is a large one, may be arranged 
in four groups. The first is represented typically by C. dacela, 
Hew., in which the primaries of the male have a sexual curved 
stigma below the cell crossing veins 3 and 2, and a large oval patch 
of raised, glossy hairs upon the outer end of the cell of the 
secondaries, covering the origin of veins 2, 3,and 4, and extending 
beyond toward the outer margin. The second group is represented 
by species in which the large oval patch of raised scales on the 
secondaries is absent, or at most represented by a tuft of loose 
and not conspicuous hairs. The discal band of the primaries is 
present. This group is composed of species of which C. maracanda 
and ©. leonora are typical. he third group is composed of species 
in which the sexual brand of the primaries in the male is absent, 
while the large oval patch of hairs in the secondaries remains. 
