1890.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESrEBIIDiE. '87 



insecb which, bearing his own manuscript label, is accepted as the 

 type. I have been puzzled to find a satisfactory solution of the 

 dilliculty, but have resolved to accept the authenticated type 

 specimen as the key to the problem, and have therefore given the 

 synonymy as above. Of course it is quite possible that a mis- 

 placement oE the original label may have taken place, but at this 

 distance, both of space and time, I am not in a position to clear up 

 the difficulty. The description given by Ploetz is, as usual, not 

 clear enough to help to a positive conclusion as to what he meant 

 by it. 



288. C. soMTU, How. (riato I. fig. 9.) 



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

 p. 453 (1876). 



$. Proteides xycJms, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 

 p. cxi (1891). 



Proteides xantlio, Mab. 0. R. Soc. Eut. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. cxi 

 (1891). 



Ilnh. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. 



Upon a compnrison of the types of P. .ri/chus and P. icaniho, 

 Mab., vifith the type of H. noritia, Hew., it becomes plain that they 

 are one and the same species. The fenialcs vary in the amount of 

 maculation on both the upper and under side oE the secondaries. 

 Some specimens have a distinct pale discal spot at the end of the 

 cell upon the lower side of the secondaries, followed by a discal 

 curved series of similar small spots, frequently obscurely visible 

 upon the upper surface ; other ppecimens are almost devoid of 

 these markings, which are generally more or less obsolescent. 

 A female with these markings more distinct than usual was selected 

 by Mons. Jliibille as the type of his .rantJw. It is before me as I 

 write, and I cannot feel justified in regarding it as separate from 

 C. soritia. In a long series of specimens of soritia, such females 

 are not at all uncommon. 



289. 0. KANGTENSis, sp. uov. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



(J . Body with palpi and antennro, as well as legs, brown, the 

 under surfaces slightly paler than the upper surfaces. The wings 

 are brown, somewhat inclining to tawny fuscous at the base. The 

 cilia are pale fuscous. The primaries are marked with three 

 minute subapical spots, an-anged in a curved series, by a large 

 quadrate spot at the end of the cell, which is notched on its outer 

 margin, and by two moderately large subquadrate spots, lying one 

 on either side of vein 3 at its origin, the lower spot being the 

 largest. There is a fine raphe, or sexual brand, running along the 

 inner margin of this large spot and continued across interval 1 

 toward the inner margin. The secondaries have the end of the 

 cell and a portion of the disc immediately beyond the end covered 

 by a large oval patch of raised glossy black hairs. On the under- 

 side the primaries are paler on the apical third, with the inner 

 margin broadly pale testaceous. The translucent spots of the 



