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CARCHARODUS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
sataspes. 
nana. 
rehfousi. 
delagoae. 
zebra. 
melaleuca. 
mangana. 
eolotes. 
nor a. 
elma. 
H. sataspes Trim. (75 c; colours too glaring and light). Both wings above without basal dots; forewing 
only with a dot in the cell and a distinct central luna; discal spot 1 b 1 small, strigiform or absent, 1 b 2 absent, 
3, 4, 6 to 8 distinct, sometimes also a minute dot in 5; submarginal dots equally large; hindwing above 
with a narrow discal band which consists of but three spots (in 2, 4 and 5), submarginal spots small. (Fringes 
of both wings at the base blackish with small whitish spots between the ends of the veins. Forewing 
beneath with a blackish-grey ground-colour (scarcely darker in the centre) and the same white marking as 
above, but often with discal dots in 4 and 5. Hindwing beneath at the base yellowish or blackish-grey 
and often warming into the interior slightly darker transverse band from which, however, it is separated by 
a subbasal whitish transverse streak in 7 and 8; the exterior dark transverse band gradually passes over into 
the brown or slightly lighter marginal part or it is separated from it by a series of small whitish submarginal 
spots. Cape Colony and Natal. 
H. nana Trim. (75 c; a bad figure) is very near to sataspes, but still somewhat smaller, it has a 
somewhat bent discal band of the hindwing above and a much lighter brown under surface of the hindwing 
with an irregular, serpentine, twice (in 2 and 5) very much narrowed, white median band. Cape Colony. 
H. rehfousi Oberth. is described in the review of the species according to the author’s figure. The 
hindwing beneath shows everywhere a whitish-grey ground-colour (just as light as at the hind-margin 
in 1 a and 1 b) with four darker grey transverse bands on it, a very short and small one at the base, neither 
reaching the costal margin nor vein 1 b, one at the margin between the costal angle and vein 2, and the two 
other broadly separated ones as usually between the costal margin and vein 1 b. Mpala on Lake Tanganyika. 
H. delagoae Trim, almost entirely corresponds above with H. sataspes and only differs beneath in 
the whole basal part of the hind wing being uni-coloured dark grey, spotless, and by the light median band 
being more sharply defined and more entirely margined. In addition, as the most important difference, the 
light submarginal spots are united into a dentate submarginal line. 
H. zebra Btlr. (75 d) is sufficiently characterized by the description above and the figure. Natal. *) 
H. melaleuca Oberth., if the figure is correct (in the text- nothing is said about it), differs from all the 
species of the genus known to me in the forewing exhibiting but one discal spot (in lb). The forewing thus 
shows on both sides only a dot in the discal cell before its centre, a central luna, a basal streak and a discal 
spot in 1 b, as well as unequally large submarginal spots in all the marginal areas. Hindwing above with 
a basal dot, a broad coherent median band, and submarginal spots; beneath at the base whitish, with a broad 
light median band, large submarginal sj)ots separated by the darker veins, and very narrow, irregular dark 
transverse bands extending as usually from the costal margin to vein 1 b. ,,German East Africa 44 : Kitanga. 
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H. mangana Rbl. is at once recognizable by both wings above and beneath lacking the submarginal 
spots. Forewing on both sides almost quite similar, dark brownish-grey with 7 to 9 whitish spots (one dot in 
the discal cell, a distinct central luna, discal spots in 1 b to 3 (5), 6 to 8, and an indistinct basal spot in 
lb). Hindwing above with three minute discal spots and beneath as far as the base dark brownish-grey with 
an entirely straight, narrow, whitish median band; majority of hind-margin darkened. Arabia. 
H. eolotes Drc. (75 d; enlarged; in reality the species is scarcely larger than nora) deviates from the 
other species by the uniformly brown under surface of both wings being marked as above. Angola. — nora 
Plotz (75 d) only differs from eolotes in its darker upper surface and ferruginous brown under surface. Figure 
copied from Plotz’ original design. French Congo: Loango. 
Note: Only after I had finished dealing with this genus, I was able to get hold of L. Ct. Higgins’ Essay on the 
Ethiopian species of the genus Hesperia (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1924, pp. 64 to 120, plates 7 to 10). As this work could 
no more be used, I beg to refer to it here. Huggins distributes the 18 species acknowledged by him among 9 groups distinguished 
according to the marking; 2 species, H. paula and bifida and 5 varieties (3 of H. transvaalica Trim, and 2 of //. dromus Plotz) 
are described as novelties. 
H. leucomelas Oberth. is regarded as synonym of dromus Plotz ; 11. lacreuzei as that of ferax Wallen.gr.; If. macha- 
coana Btlr. and abscondita Plotz as synonyms of diomus; IT. rehfousi Oberth. as synonym of depauperata Strd. 
2. Genus: Carcharorius Hbn. 
This genus, which has already been described in Vol. I, p. 335, is near to the preceding and only differs 
by the marks stated in the review of the genera. But one Ethiopian species. 
C. elma Trim. (75 d; colours too glaring). Wings above greyish-brown. Forewing at the costal 
margin and base darker, shortly before the centre with a fine, black, feebly bent transverse streak between 
vein 1 and 11, in the areas 4 and 5 with a dark, slanting spot, and at the margin in 2 and 3 broadly darkened; 
besides with the following hyaline spots: a transverse streak before the apex of the discal cell; discal spots 
*) On p. 336 of Vol. I the name zebra (misprinted as zelva. Btlr.) is placed by P. MAbille as synonym to galba 
F. On plate 85 b of Vol. I the large-spotted form the palearctic part of Cashmere is figured, on pi. 156 i of Vol. IX the small- 
spotted form of galba from Tropical India (alpine form from the Nilgiris). 
