1896.] BUTTBRFLIE3 OF IHB FAMILY HESPBHIIDjE. • 85 



285. G. (?) DiTissiMUS, Mab. 



Proteidt's dilissimus, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 

 p. cxii (1891). 



Hab. Sierra Leone (Mahille). 



Very probably the same as tbe foregoing species (q. v.), 



286. G-. BUOHHOLZi, Ploetz. 



2 . Hesperia hucliJiohi, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 354 (1879), 

 vol. xliii. p. 330 (1882). 



Oangara (?) hasislriga, lloll. Ent:, News, vol. v. p. 29, pi, i, 

 fig. 12"(1894). 



Hah. Aburi (Ploetz) ; Ogove {Holland). 



Strangely enough, none but females of this species have been 

 found thus far. The type was a unique female in the collection 

 made by Buchholz. There is another specimen in my collection, 

 and another still in the bands of Mons. Mabille, to vi'hich he has 

 affixed the MS. name " rohustus." 



Cjenides, gen. nov. 



Antennae long, slender; club moderate, long, produced at tbe 

 apical extremity to a loug fine point, bent back at a right angle. 

 Palpi : first joint short, second joint long, erect, reaching the tip 

 of the vertex, both densely clothed with long hair ; third joint 

 minute, erect, and almost concealed by the hairy vestiture of the 

 second joint. Primaries with the inner margin longer than the 

 outer margin, or, in some species, subequal. Cell slightly less 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa ; vein 12 of the primaries 

 terminating before the end of the cell ; vein 7 arising slightly 

 before the end of the cell ; vein 5 much nearer 4 than 6 ; vein 3 

 near vein 4 ; vein 2 from about the middle of the lower margin of 

 the cell. The secondaries with vein 5 obsolete, or very faintly 

 visible ; discocellulars faint, angulated, with the point of the angle 

 turned toward the base ; cell short. Legs armed with double sets 

 of spurs on the hind tibiae. 



The species of this genus, which is a large one, may be arranged 

 in four groups. The first is represented typically by C dacela, 

 Hew., in which the primaries of the male have a sexual curved 

 stigma below the cell crossing veins 3 and 2, and a large oval patch 

 of raised, glossy hairs upon the outer end of the cell of the 

 secondaries, covering the origin of veins 2, 3, and 4, and extending 

 beyond toward the outer margin. The second group i^i represented 

 by species in which the large oval patch of raised scales on the 

 secondaries is absent, or at most represented by a tuft of loose 

 and not conspicuous hairs. The discal band of the primaries is 

 present. This group is composed of species of which C. maracanda 

 and C leonora are typical. The third group is composed of species 

 in which the sexual brand of the primaries in the male is absent, 

 while the large oval patch of hairs in the secondaries remains. 



