1896.] BtrtTBEi'LIBS 6i XrtB ^AlttLt HES^BHlU)^. 6l 



Chapra mathias, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, vol. i. p. 169, pi. 70. figs. 1, 

 1 a (1880-81). 



IPampliUa ihara, Ploetz, S. B. Z. vol. xliv. p. 38 (1883). 



Pamphila octo-fenestrata, Saalm. Lep. von Madagascar, p. 108 

 (1884). 



Pamphila mathias, var. elegaiis, Mab. Grandid. Madgr. vol. xviii. 

 p. 356, pi. Iv. figs. 4, 4 a, 5 (1887). 



Pamphila mohopaani. Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 324 (1889). 



Pamphila insconspicua, Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 672 ; Trim. P. Z. S. 

 1894, p. 76. 



Hab. Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar, and adjacent 

 islands. 



After a very full and thorough study of a great collection of 

 specimens in my possession, coming from aU parts of the African 

 continent, including examples from Abyssinia, Zanzibar, the Cape 

 Colony, Angola, Gaboon, and Sierra Leone, and after a diligent 

 comparison with long series before me coming from various parts 

 of continental Asia and the adjacent islands, I am forced to the 

 conclusion, which has already been cautiously maintained by others, 

 that the African insect counnonly labelled in collections as 

 mohopaani, Wallgr., is identical with the insect named mathias by 

 Fabricius. The differences which exist are in most cases merely 

 differences of size, and without locality-labels to show whence the 

 particular specimens come from it would be impossible to 

 distinguish them. The specimens from the region of the Cape are 

 generally a little larger than Indian examples, but I have not a 

 few specimens among the three or four hundred examples of the 

 African forms before me as I write which are as small as any I 

 have from India. 



Indeed C. lodra, Ploetz, which Mons. Mabille maintains, in his 

 correspondence with me, to be simply a small form of C. mathias, 

 is smaller than any Indian examples I have in my possession. I 

 do not, however, quite agree veith Mons. Mabille in his view, and 

 prefer to still maintain lodra in this catalogue as a distinct species 

 (v, infra). 



209. 0. LODBA, Ploetz. 



Pamphila lodra, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 355 (1879), vol. xliv. 

 p. 45 (1884). 



Hab. Tropical "West Africa (Gaboon, Cameroons). 



This is a diminutive reproduction at first sight of G. mathias, 

 Pabr., but while the markings are exactly the same as in that 

 species, it may be easily and invariably separated by attending to 

 the fact not only that it is so small, but that the fringes are 

 pure white,and the undersides of both the primaries and secondaries 

 are dark hoary greyish brown. It may be that this form is, as 

 has been suggested, a mere variety or local race of C. mathias, but 

 untU we know more about the facts I hesitate to sink the name of 

 Ploetz as a synonym. 



