J896.] BTJTTEEFLIES OF THB FAMILY HESPEBIIDJ. 5 



Fterygos. djcelcelce, S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 254, pi. xii. fig. 7, ? 

 (1889). 

 • ffab. 8. Africa. 



Lieut. "Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48, calls attention to the fact 

 that the species in the British Museum which has been identified 

 by Mr. Butler from various localities' in Northern aud Eastern 

 Africa as JS. djcelcelce, Wallgr., is not that species, and is apparently 

 unnamed. This form, which is common in Abyssinia and elsewhere, 

 is more closely related to S. motozi, Wallgr., and falls into the sub- 

 genus Sape of Mabille. Mons. Mabille, I discover, has labelled it 

 as S.nervct, I'abr., in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, and so also 

 has labelled it for me. It certainly is not the insect described 

 under this name hy Fabricius, and I have therefore ventured else- 

 where to name and describe it (vide S. eliminata, Holl., p. 9). 



2. S. LTJGENS, Eogenhfr. (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



2(6 sec. Eghfr., sed non sec. Eebel). Pterygospidea {Tdgiades, 

 Ploetz) lugens, Eogenhfr, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. p. 46 

 (1891). 



(J . Pterygospidea morosa, Eogenhfr. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. vi. 

 p. 463 (1891). 



Hab. Marangu, Tropical Africa ( Von Hoehnel). 



I am under profound obligations to Dr. Eogenhofer, of the 

 Imperial Museum in Vienna, and to Dr. Eebel, his assistant, for 

 having kindly furnished me vi'ith most carefully executed dravidngs 

 of the two forms characterized as above by Dr. Eogenhofer. Dr. 

 Eebel writes me as follows : — " I have taken occasion to critically 

 examine the two unique types of P. lugens, Eghfr., and P. morosa, 

 Eghfr., and have positively ascertained that both names apply to 

 one species. The name lugens, Eghfr., must stand, inasmuch as 

 it is the first in the order of publication. Eogenhofer is in error 

 in regarding the type of lugens as a male ; it is most positively 

 a female. The name morosa must therefore sink as a synonym 

 (= cf of lugens)." 



3. S. MEiiANiA, Mab. 



Eretis melania, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. Ixxi ; 

 Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 48 ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. Bd. xxxviii. 

 p. 264, ? ? (1893). 



Hah. Gaboon ; Togoland ? 



Dr. Karsch refers a female before him with doubt to the species 

 described by Mabille. In the vast series of specimens which I 

 have received from Gaboon, I have never found one which tallies 

 exactly with the type or description of Mons. Mabille. I thought 

 that the following species might be the same, but having compared 

 my type with the original type of E. melania in tlie collection of 

 Dr. Staudinger, I am quite sure of the distinctness of the two 

 species. S. melania may be readily distinguished from S.perpaupera, 

 which it closely resembles at first sight, by the fact that theiringes 



