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told, are kept. Its rarity is, probably, to be attributed to its 

 habitat and very early appearance. Both my specimens were 

 taken in very cold weather, in a season in which few entomolo- 

 gists ever visit the mountain region of New Hampshire. The 

 last one was found sitting on the floor of our piazza, near the light, 

 just before midnight of the 24th of May. The thermometer at 

 the time was below 48, and there was still much snow on the 

 mountains and in the woods. 



I do not think that any one could examine these specimens of 

 mine and doubt their belonging to Walker's species, which, as 

 Prof. J. B. Smith says (" Can. Ent." xxii, 120), " has languished 

 among the synonyms, ever since Dr. Packard referred it there in 

 1884." They are certainly not rubricosa Harris. Dr. Packard, 

 himself, to whom entomology owes so much, and who is fairness 

 and justice personified, would, I know, acknowledge this if he 

 saw the two forms together. Prof. Smith, in the paper referred to 

 above, recognizes the species on the ground, as he seems to inti- 

 mate, of my rediscovery. 



As the varietal form with band on secondaries has apparently 

 received no name, being marked simply B in British Museum 

 collections, and as it is a very distinct and strongly-marked form, 

 I propose to call it Phragmatobia franconia n. var. , and shall de- 

 scribe it more fully soon ; with plate, if possible, under that name. 



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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AFRICAN 



HESPERID>. 



BY REV. VV. J. HOLLAND. 

 (Continued from vol. i, p. 156.) 



4. Proteides galua n. sp. 



Upperside: Ground color dark brown, fading into slightly paler 

 fuscous at the apex of the primaries. The thorax and the base 

 of the wings clothed with a vestiture of greenish brown hairs. 

 Primaries ornamented by a series of subapical spots, of which 

 the one furthest from the costa is the largest. The outer third 

 of the cell is occupied by a large trapezoidal spot. Near t In- 

 junction of the second and third median nervules is a much 

 smaller subquadrate spot, followed in the next neural interspace, 

 between the first and second median nervules by a very large sub- 



