1896.] BUTTBHI'LIBS OF THE TAMIIiY HBSPHEIID^. 75 



Pabdaleodbs, Butl. 



256. p. BDiPtTS, Cram. 



(S . Papilio edipus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxvi. figs. E, F 

 (1782). 



Pardaleodes edipus, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. vii. p. 96 (1870) ; 

 Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 62.5 (1871). 



Plastingia edipus,- Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 358 (1879), 

 vol. xlv. p. 148 (1884). 



Pardaleodes edipus, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 117. 



$ . Gyclopides sator, Doubi. &Hevir. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. Ixxix. 

 fig. 4. 



Pamphila ? sator, Weatw. 1. c. p. 523 (1852) . 



Pardaleodes sator, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 625 (1871). 



Plastingia sator, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 358, & vol. xlv. 

 p. 148. 



Pardaleodes sator, "Watson, P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 117. 



Bab. Tropical West Africa. 



After a very close study of the matter in the light of long 

 series of specimens, consisting of several hundreds of examples, 

 I am satisfied that this is the correct synonymy of this species, 

 which is very closely allied to the next, and vv'ith -which it has 

 been no doubt, so far as the female of that is concerned, frequently 

 confounded. The crucial test for discriminating between the two 

 species is the fact that in P. incerta, Snell., the anterior wings in 

 both, sexes show no translucency in the spots above vein 2, whereas 

 in P. edipus the spots between veins 2 and 3 and 3 and 4, the spots 

 at the end of the ceU, and the three small subapical spots are 

 invariably translucent. By holding the specimens up to the light, 

 it is always possible to decide to which of the two species they 

 belong. 



I am at a loss to account for the fact that several authors report 

 the male and the female of both P. edipus and P. sator to have 

 been contained in collections examined by them. This is done by 

 Ploetz in his paper upon the Lepidoptera collected by Buchholz. 

 So far as my observations extend, every specimen of P. sator, 

 correctly determined to be such by comparison with the very good 

 figure given by Doubleday and Hewitson in their work, has been a 

 female. I have seen hundreds of specimens, and many parrs 

 taken in coitu, and am sure of this determination. 



257. P. INOBETA, Snellen. 



ij . PampJiila incerta, Snellen, Tijd. voor Entom. 1872, p. 29, 

 pi. 10. figs. 10, 11, 12. 



$ . Hesperia coanza, Ploetz, 8. E. Z. vol. xliv. p. 232 (1883). 



Pardaleodes coanza, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 117. 



Eab. Tropical West Africa. 



The female of this species resembles the male of the preceding, 

 P. edipus, but the point of discrimination enables an easy decision 

 . to be madeiu all cases, as I have already shown. 



