1896.] BUTTEEFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPEBIID^. 17. 



Pterygospidea flesw. Trim. Butt. S. Afr. vol. iii. p. 363 (1889). 

 Tagiades flesus, Wats. P.Z. S. 1893, p. 54. 

 Hah. Africa, south of the Sahara. 



48. T. instjiahis, Mab. 



T, insularis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Eut. Prance, 1876, p. 272 ; 

 Grandidier's Madagascar, vol. xiii. p. 352 pi. 54. figs. 6, 7, 7 a. 



ThymeU ophion, Boisd. Faune Entomol. Madgr. p. 62, pi. ix. 

 fig. 4 (1833). 



J/ab. Madagascar. 



This is the insular form of T. Jlesxm, Fabr., which is found in 

 Madagascar, and can scarcely be separated from the Fabriciau 

 species. 



49. T. LACTEUS, Mab. 



Tagictdes lacteus, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (5) vol. vii. 

 p. xxxix. 



Tagiades dannatti, Ehrmann, Ent. News, vol. iv. p. 309 ; Holl. 

 Ent. News, March 1894, pi. iii. fig. 1. 



Bah. Congo, Liberia. 



My surmise that T. lacteus and T. dannatti are identical, which 

 I expressed in my paper of March 1894, has been confirmed by 

 Mons. Mabille, who has compared my figure with the type. 



50. T. SAMBOBANA, H. G. Smith. 



Tagiades samhorana, H. Grose Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (6) vol. vii. p. 127. 

 Hab. Madagascar. 

 I do not know this species. 



51. T. BMiTHii, Mab. 



Tagiades smithii, Mab. Grandidier's Madagascar, vol. xiii. 

 p. 354, pi. 56 A. figs. 3, 3 a. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



The plate on which this species is to be figured has not yet been 

 published. I do not know the species in nature, nor by any 

 pictorial representation. 



Easbis, Guen. 



52. E. SABADius, Gray. 



Hesperia sabadius, Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. vol. xv. pi. 99. fig. 2 

 (1832). 



Tliymele sabadius, Boisd. Faun. Entom. Madgr. p. 63, pi. ix. 

 fig. 2*(1833). 



Eagris sabadius, Guen. Maill. Reun. vol. ii. Lep. p. 18 (1863); 

 Mab. Grandid. Madagr. vol. xiii. p. 350, pi. 54. figs. 4, 4 a, 5. 



Hesperia andracJme, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madgr. p. 67 (1833) ; 

 Guerin, Iconogr. B.egne Anim., Ins. pi. ixxxii. fig. 2 (1844). 



Antigo7iits andracJme, Saalm. Lep. Madgr. p. 112, pi. i. fig. 14. 

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