Pelopidas mathias Fabricius 1798

Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius)
Hesperia mathias Fabricius, 1798: 433 (India).
= Gegenes elegans Mabille, 1877c: 232 (no locality cited, but Evans, 1937: 180,
states that the type is from Madagascar). =Pamphila umbrata Butler, 1879a: 191 (Isle of Johanna). =Pamphila octofenestrata Saalmuller, 1884: 108 (Madagascar). =Pamphila albirostris Mabille, 1887 [1885-1887]: 361 (Madagascar).
In addition to the above names there is an extensive Indo-Australian synonymy (see Evans, 1949: 441-442). In various forms mathias occurs throughout the Old World tropics from Africa to Japan, Korea and New Guinea.
The following is the first definite record of this species from Liberia: Zorzor, 1 6 , XI (Fox).
There are also African specimens in Carnegie Museum from Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa (Natal, Transvaal) and Madagascar.