90 DIl. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 



Proteides leucopogon, Mab. 0. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. p. cxi 

 (1891); Nov. Lepidopt. p. Ill, pi. xv. fig. 5 (1893). 

 Hab, Gaboon, Cameroons. 



297. C. onMA, Ploetai. 



Ismene orma, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl, p. 363 (1879), vol. xlv. 

 p. 59 (1884). 



Hesperia violascens, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xliii. p. 322 (1882). 

 ' Paniphila violasceiis, Karsch, Berl. Ent. ZeiL. vol. xxxviii. p. 248, 

 pi. vi. tig. 3 (1893). 



Hub. Cameroons, Ogove Valley. 



H. violascens was described, as Dr. Karsch has shown, from a 

 drawing of the upperside of a specimen named violascens by 

 Maassen. Had Ploetz seen the specimen from which tlie drawing 

 was made, he would no doubt liave recognized in it his own 

 /. orma. The underside is unmisiakable. Ur. Karsch has 

 correctly determined the species us violascens, Ploetz, but has 

 failed to recognize its identity with the species described as onna 

 by Ploetz, and referred by him to the genus Ismene. This 

 reference is sufficiently exact to siifKce, though I have been 

 inclined to create a subdivision of the genus for the reception of 

 this species, owing to the fact that the antfsnna) are not so greatly 

 swollen below the tip as in the other species of the genus, and the 

 outer margin of the secondaries is not so strongly excavated before 

 the anal angle. It is worthy of note that the white band on the 

 underside of the secondaries varies greatly, and in some specimens 

 is reduced to a narrow line, aud in others is almost obsolete. 



298. C. coBDUBA, Hew. 



Nesperia corduba. Hew, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xviii. 

 p. 454 (1870). 



I'roteides massiva, Mab. & Vuill. Nov. Lepidopt. p. 21, pi. iii. 

 fig. 4 (1891). 



Hob. Gaboon, Sierra Leone. 



This species is very common in the Valley of tlie Ogove. Thus 

 far, singularly enough, I have never seen a male specimen. Of 

 the twenty-five, or more, examples in my collection, all appear to 

 be females. 



299. C. WAGA, Ploetz. 



Teleslo waga, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xlvii. p. 108 (1886). 



Hab. Aburi {Ploetz). 



From a copy of the figure of this species contained in the un- 

 published collection of drawings made by Herr Ploetz, and to 

 which he refers in his descriptions, this insect is closely allied to 

 G. eylindu, Hew., and. if I am not greatly mistaken, the drawing 

 represents a rubbed specimen of G. cylinda ; certainly specimens of 

 cylinda in poor condition agree extremely well with the figure of 

 Ploetz. 



