22 ' BB. W, J. HOLLAND ON TUB AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 



as on (he upperside, except those which are located near the 

 costa. The body is marked much as in A. eleyaHtala, but is 

 without the red spots at the end of the putagia and the red hairs 

 which are found on the metathorax. Expanse 40 mm. 

 Hob. Efulen, Cameroons. 



71. A. LEUCOGASTEB, Mab. 



Ahantis Imeogastei; Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, p. 32 ; 

 Novit. Lepidopt. p. 22, pi. iii. fig. 5 (1891). 

 Hah. Sierra Leone. 



72. A. LEVTJBn, Wallgr. 



Leucochitoneu levuhu, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 ; 

 Lep. Rhop. CafFr. p. 52 ; Trim. Ehop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 3U6. 

 Ahantis levuhu. Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 345, pi. xii. fig. 5. 

 Hah. Southern Africa. 



Hespekia, Fabr. 

 (Pynjus, Hiibn. ; Scelothrix, Eamb. ; Si/richtus, Boisd.) 



73. H. BPio, Linn. 



Papilio spio, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 79(), no. 271 (1767) j 

 Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 535, no. 400 (1775) ; Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. i. 

 fig. 5 (1800-3). 



Hesperia spio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 354, no. 348 (1783) ; 

 Westw., Don. Ins. Ind. 2nd edit. p. 79, pi. 50. fig. 5 (1842) ; 

 Anrivillius, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vol. xix. no. 5, p. 124, tab. i. 

 figs. 3, 3 a, after Clerck (1882). 



Papilio vindex. Cram. Pap. Exot. vol. iv. pi. cccliii. figs. Or, H 

 (1782); Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 65. 



Fijrgus vindex, Hiibn. Verz. p. 109, no. 1178 (1816); Hopff. 

 Peters' lleise Mossamb., Ins. p. 421 (1862); Trim. Ehop. Afr. 

 Austr. vol. ii. p. 287 (1866) ; S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 280 (1889). 

 ' Hesperia vindex, Latr. Enc. Meth. \ol. ix. p. 785 (1823) ; Westw., 

 Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. Ixxix. fig. 6 (1852). 



Syrichtus vindex, Wallgr. Ehop. Caffr. p. 53 (1857). 



Ifah. Southern Africa. 



I had long been led to question whether this species had been 

 found iu the western tropical parts of Africa. I have never 

 received it from Gaboon, Cameroons, Sierra Leone, or Liberia, 

 though I have charged my collectors to make special search for the 

 Hesperiidaa, and have received thousands of specimens from them. 

 The species identified for me as //. spio, L. (vindex. Cram.), by 

 several European authorities, is very different from the S.-Afriean 

 insect, of which I have numerous examples received from Mr. 

 Trimen and others. It is H. ploetzi, Auriv. My doubt as to the 

 existence of the species on the Tropical West Coast has been, 

 however, put to rest by the discovery of a specimen from 

 Monrovia in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, 



