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along the radial nervure, where they are vertical and longer than 

 the others along the median part as far as or near to the ptero- 

 stigma ; in the hind-wings, below and alongside this radial nervure, 

 there is, disposed in the same position as in the fore-wings, a series 

 of small transverse macules a little wider than the others, and the 

 outer of which, set not far from the pterostigma, is semi-arcuate ; 

 the other spots, which are somewhat closely set, do not form any dis- 

 tinct patch or band, not even at apex, and they are slightly larger 

 than those on the fore-wings. 



Length of body 39 mm. ; of fore-wings expanded 100 mm. ; of 

 hind-wings 93 mm. 



The antennae are missing in the only example ( $ ) represented in 

 our Collection. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Dunbrody), Eev. J. O'Neil. 



This species is more than a local race of P. sparsus, but it belongs 

 to the same type, although more broadly differentiated from it than, 

 for instance, Palpares caffer from P. speciosus. 



So far as now known, P. sobrinus inhabits the coastal districts of 

 the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony ; P. (emulus occurs in 

 Natal and Zululand, and is replaced in Southern Khodesia and along 

 the Zambesi River by P. sparsus. 



PALPARES ONEILI, sp. n. 



Text-fig. 4. 



? . Very light buff with the under side of the antennae slightly 

 flavescent ; antennae shorter than the thorax ; labrum slightly 

 flavescent, head concolorous, vertex very highly raised in the 

 anterior part, sloping thence to the base ; palps concolorous ; apex 

 of mandibles black ; prothorax twice as long as broad, very densely 

 hairy, lanuginose laterally and posteriorly, the lanuginose hairs 

 being white ; the long hairs on the pro- and meso-notum are black ; 

 in the centre of the dorsal part runs a black line, very narrow on the 

 pronotum but wider on the mesonotum and narrower on the meta- 

 notum ; on each side is a broad band divided into three on the 

 mesonotum ; the abdomen is blackish brown and concolorous, but 

 probably lighter in life ; legs flavescent, femora and tibiae villose and 

 with black bristles, tarsi sub-flavescent ; spurs curving at apex, as 

 long as the first and half of the second taken together ; wings long, 

 narrow, sharply acuminate at apex, hind border of the fore-wing 

 broadly emarginate from the base to two-fifths of the length where 

 the end of the emargination is lobate and rounded ; in the posterior 



