90 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 
Proteides leucopogon, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxv. p. exi 
(1891); Nov. Lepidopt. p. 111, pl. xv. fig. 5 (1893). 
Hab. Gaboon, Cameroons. 
297. C. orma, Ploetz. 
Ismene orma, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 363 (1879), vol. xlv. 
p. 59 (1884). 
Hesperia violascens, Ploetz, 8. E. Z. vol. xlii. p. 322 (1882). 
Pamphila violascens, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 248, 
pl. vi. tig. 3 (1893). 
Hab. Cameroons, Ogové Valley. 
H. violascens was described, as Dr. Karsch has shown, from a 
drawing of the upperside of a specimen named vwiolascens by 
Maassen. Had Ploetz seen the specimen from which the drawing 
was made, he would no doubt have recognized in it his own 
I. orma. The underside is unmistakable. Dr. Karsch has 
correctly determined the species as violascens, Ploetz, but has 
failed to recognize its identity with the species described as orma 
by Ploetz, and referred by him to the genus Jsmene. This 
reference is sufficieutly exact to suffice, though I have been 
inclined to create a subdivision of the genus for the reception of 
this species, owing to the fact that the antennz are not so greatly 
swollen below the tip as in the other species of the genus, and the 
outer margin of the secondaries is not so strongly excavated before 
the anal angle. It is worthy of note that the white band on the 
underside of the secondaries varies greatly, and in some specimens 
is reduced to a narrow line, and in others is almost obsolete. 
298. C. corpuBA, Hew. 
Hesperia corduba, Hew, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. 
p- 454 (1876). 
Proteides massiva, Mab. & Vuill. Noy. Lepidopt. p. 21, pl. iii, 
fig. 4 (1891). 
Hab. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. 
This species is very common in the Valley of the Ogové. Thus 
far, singularly enough, I have never seen a male specimen. Of 
the twenty-five, or more, examples in my collection, all appear to 
be females. 
299. C. waGa, Ploetz. 
Telesto waga, Ploetz, 8. E. Z. vol. xlvii. p. 108 (1886). 
Hab. Aburi (Ploetz). 
From a copy of the figure of this species contained in the un- 
published collection of drawings made by Herr Ploetz, and to 
which he refers in bis descriptions, this insect is closely allied to 
C. cylinda, Hew., and, if I am not greatly mistaken, the drawing 
represents a rubbed specimen of C. cylinda; certainly specimens of 
cylinda in poor condition agree extremely well with the figure of 
Ploetz. 
