Four New H/iecies of Soittli African Hemerobiidae. 33 



it and abutting on the sub-costal ; along the hind margin there runs 

 a regular, well-defined row of macules, and there is a juxta-apical, 

 short, fuscous band, similar to that of the fore-wings ; the body is 

 deeply infuscate, but there is a more or less distinct, sub-flavescent, 

 dorsal median band reaching from the base to a third of the length 

 in the $ , but entire in the J . 



Length of body 42-43 mm. ; clasps 6 mm. ; of fore-wings expanded, 

 $ 104 mm., $ 115 mm. ; hind-wings, 3 106 mm., 116 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Maritzburg), L. Peringuey ; Zululand, A. W. Jones. 



This species is very closely allied to P. sparsus, $ , MacLachlan, 

 who has, however, connected with the male of this species the female 

 of P. cemulus. My examples of P. sparsus, 3- and 5 , are from the 

 same locality as the $ described by the above-mentioned author, and 

 agree with an example named by him in the British Museum. 



PALPARES SOBRINUS, n. sp. 

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? . Closely allied to P. cemulus ; the colouration of the body is 

 the same, except that the half of the face is deeply infuscate ; that 



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of the wings is of the same pattern, that is to say, they are 

 sprinkled with small black spots, but in the hind-wing there are no 

 large discoidal reticulated spots. In the fore-wing the sub-costal 

 and radial nervures are not conspicuously yellow as in P. spars us, 

 <? and ? ; the macules are evenly spread and of even size, except 



