1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDS, 87 
insect which, bearing his own manuscript label, is accepted as the 
type. Ihave been puzzled to find a satisfactory solution of the 
difficulty, but have resolved to accept the authenticated type 
specimen as the key to the problem, and have therefore given the 
synonymy as above. Of course it is quite possible that a mis- 
placement of the original label may have taken place, but at this 
distance, both of space and time, I am not in a position to clear up 
the difficulty. The description given by Ploetz is, as usual, not 
clear enough to help to a positive conclusion as to what he meant 
by it. 
288. C. sorit1a, Hew. (Plate I. fig. 9.) 
¢. Hesperia soritia, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. 
p. 453 (1876). 
2. Proteides wychus, Mab. C.R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 
p- cxi (1891). 
Proteides xantho, Mab. C.R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. exi 
(189L). 
Hab. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. 
Upon a comparison of the types of P. aychus and P. xantho, 
Mab., with the type of H. soritia, Hew., it becomes plain that they 
are one and the same species. The females vary in the amount of 
maculation on both the upper and under side of the secondaries. 
Some specimens have a distinct pale discal spot at the end of the 
cell upon the lower side of the secondaries, followed by a discal 
curved series of similar small spots, frequently obscurely visible 
upon the upper surface; other specimens are almost devoid of 
these markings, which are generally more or less obsolescent. 
A female with these markings more distinct than usual was selected 
by Mons. Mabille as the type of his wantho. It is before me as 1 
write, and I cannot feel justified in regarding it as separate from 
C. soritia. In a long series of specimens of soritia, such females 
are not at all uncommon. 
289. C. KANGVENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 
¢. Body with palpi and antennz, as well as legs, brown, the 
under surfaces slightly paler than the upper surfaces. The wings 
are brown, somewhat inclining to tawny fuscous at the base. The 
cilia are pale fuscous. The primaries are marked with three 
minute subapical spots, arranged in a curved series, by a large 
quadrate spot at the end of the cell, which is notched on its outer 
margin, and by two moderately large subquadrate spots, lying one 
on either side of vein 3 at its origin, the lower spot being the 
largest. There is a fine raphe, or sexuai brand, running along the 
inner margin of this large spot and continued across interval 1 
toward the inner margin. he secondaries have the end of the 
cell and a portion of the disc immediately beyond the end covered 
by a large oval patch of raised glossy black hairs. On the under- 
side the primaries are paler on the apical third, with the inner 
margin broadly pale testaceous. The translucent spots of the 
