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Present one male from Caffraria (Wahlberg leg.). This 

 species has been misunderstood by several Entomologist, 

 probably due to its tendency to vary. In tlie present spe- 

 cimen the yellowish crossband before apex of the forewing 

 is divided into two parts, and the dark crossbands on the 

 hindwing are connected, which rarely takes place. In this 

 respect the present specimen shows muoh affinity to P. festi- 

 viLS. The Rs in forewing arises opposite to the fork of cu- 

 bitus, and the sector forks 2 cellules from its base. In the 

 hindwing the Rs arises a little before the cubital fork. The 

 »oblique vein» is nearer to the origin of the first sector from 

 Cu^ than to the cubital fork. 



In P. festivus Gerstaecker (Mitt. naturw. Verein f. Neu- 

 Vorpomm. und Riigen, p. 115, 1893), of which species I have 

 a male specimen from Delagoa in my collection, the Rs arises 

 before the cubital fork; in the hindwing nearer to the base 

 than in the forewing. P. ynosamhicus Peringuey (Ann. South 

 African Mus., p. 434, 1910) and P. latro Navas (Revue Zool. 

 Afr., p. 238, pl. 14, fig. 3, 1911) are synonyms of P. /e5^u't/5. 

 In »Ann. Soc. scient. Brux., p. 27, 1912» Navas has founded 

 a genus, Palparellus, for jlavofasciatus, spectriim, festivus etc. 

 This genus is a synonym of Palpares, 



Talignanus compositiis Navas. — {Palpares compositus) 

 Navas, Ann. Soc. scient. Brux., p. 12, fig. 15, 1912. 



Of this species was present a male specimen from Kuisip. 

 Banks (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., p. 185, 1913) places P. mistus 

 Navas (Ann. Soc. scient. Brux., p. 28, fig. 14, 1912) as a 

 synonym of V. compositus. I know P. mistus only from the 

 description and from the drawing of the hindwing, and there- 

 fore I can not say anything about the species. In the fore- 

 wing of compositus we have the same recurrent nervure from 

 Cu2 as in the hindwing, and therefore I for the present 

 place the species in the Indian genus Valignanus Navas (Mem. 

 Real Acad. Cienc. Art. Barcel., p. 494, 1913). Whether the 

 species in the future still may be placed in that genus or 

 probably in a new one, I can not decide, before I have seen 

 a specimen of F. scotti Navas. 



