1896.] BUTTBEFLIES OF THE FAMILY HBSPBBIIUjE. 



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232. B. MELPHis, HoU. 



Parnara melplm, Holl. Ent. News, 1894, p. 31, pi. i. fig. 18. 

 Hah. Valley of the Ogove. 



233. B. MALTHINA, Hew. 



Hesperia malthina, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. 

 p. 457 (1876). 



Pampkila ewyspila, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 

 p. clxxix (1891). 



Proteides euryspila, Mab. Novit. Lepidopt. p. 117, pi. xvi. fig. 5 

 (1893). 



Hah. Sierra Leone (Mabille) ; Gaboon (Good). 



The only specimen of the female which I have ever seen is 

 contained in my collection, and was taken at Batanga, Cameroons. 

 It does not differ materially from the male, save that there is an 

 additional translucent spot upon the fore wing in cell 1, and the 

 large white spot on the underside of the secondaries is much larger 

 than in the male, extending farther outwardly and inwardly. 



234. B. STATiBA, Mab. 



Pamphila statira, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. clxxx 

 (1891) ; Novit. Lepidopt. p. 114, pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1893). 



J, The type of this species was a female contained in the 

 collection of Dr. Staudinger. The collection also contains a male, 

 which differs from the female on the upperside in lacking the spot 

 in the cell of the primaries, and in having, in the example before 

 me, the uppermost of the three subapical spots obsolete. In 

 the secondaries, the spots at the end of the cell which are con- 

 spicuous in the female on the underside and faintly appear on the 

 upperside are also lacking, and the discal spots are somewhat 

 smaller than in the female. 



Hah. French Congo {Mocquerys). 



235. B. STATiRiDES, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 6.) 



$ . Palpi on the upperside, head, thorax, and abdomen on the 

 upperside black, clothed with fuscous scales. Palpi on the under- 

 side whitish; thorax and anal extremity of the abdomen pale 

 fuscous. Primaries black on the upperside, with two widely 

 separated minute elongated spots near. the end of the cell, two 

 subapical spots in the usual position, and a discal series of four 

 spots, the lowermost of the series on interval 1 cuneiform, the 

 next on interval 2 subquadrate, and the largest of the series, and 

 the two succeeding ones on intervals 3 and 4, subquadrate, the last 

 smaller than the one preceding it. The secondaries beyond the 

 cell are adorned with a broad irregularly curved white macular 

 band, running from before the end of the cell inwardly and 

 widening to vein 1 b. The primaries on the underside are black, 

 with the spots as on the upperside. The secondaries are creamy 

 white, with the outer margin broadly black. There is a con^ 



