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p. 184, 1913» Banks lias placed this species as synonymous 

 with P. digitatiis Gerst., but I cannot believe this is correct. 

 P. torridiis is a much larger species with four distinct cross- 

 bands on the forewing and with a larger spöt on the fork 

 of the cubitus in the hindwing. The bands on the forewings 

 are darkly reticulated, and the centre of the cellules paler. 

 In the forewing Bs arises somewhat further out than the cubi- 

 tal fork, and the sector forks into the third cellule, reckoned 

 from its base. In the hindwing Es arises opposite to or a 

 little before the cubital fork, and the sector furcates into 

 the second or third cellule. The »oblique vein», is nearer to 

 the origin of the first sector from Cu^ than to the cubital fork. 



Fig. 5. 

 Palpares torridus. Mus. Stockholm. 



With regard to P. digitatus Gerstaecker (Mitt. naturw. 

 Verein f. Neu-Vorpomm. und Riigen, p. 117, 1893), of which 

 species I have a specimen from Guinea in my own coUection, 

 this species may be easily separated from P. torridus by its 

 smaller size, by the uniformly coloured crossbands on the 

 forewing and by the much smaller spöt on the fork of the 

 cubitus in the hindwing (sometimes this spöt is almost absent). 

 In both pairs of the wings Rs arises before the cubital fork, 

 and the sector furcates 2 or 3 cellules from its base. The 

 »oblique vein» is about in the middle between the cubital 

 fork and the origin of the first cubital sector. This sector arises 

 opposite to the spöt, where Cu-j. joins the hind margin, or 

 a little before. In P. torridus C1I2 runs into the hind margin 

 somewhat before the origin of the cubital sector. P. pobe- 



