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an ante-median one somewhat narrow, and almost indistinct towards 

 the hind border in the ^ ; the thii'd one which is set past the middle 

 is reduced to a broad, quadrate patch, and the ante-apical one is also 

 interrupted, and very irregular ; hind wings more evenly hyaline 

 and the bands less interrupted, the basal and the ante-median ones 

 do not invade the costal area which the other two do, the first is 

 bi-incised on each side, the second also, but less deeply, and reaches 

 the hind border, the third and broadest of all, encloses two hyaline 

 areas, the fourth is apical, and is speckled at the very apex with 

 a few hyaline dots ; along the hind border is a series of black 

 macules, some of which, mostly quadrate, merge into the cross 

 bands. 



Length of body ^ append, excl. 62 mm. ; 2 49 mm. ; width : 

 fore wings expanded 128-146 mm.; hind wings 122-134 mm. 



Allied to P. moestus, Hagen, but in the latter both wings are much 

 more deeply sinuate in the hind border, the basal cross band of the 

 fore wing is much more indistinct, and in the hind wings the first 

 supra-basal cross band is entirely absent. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls). H. Fry. 



Palpares mosambicus, n. sp. 

 3' . Head fuscous brown with the epistome and labrum yellow ; 

 antennae somewhat long, entirely black ; prothorax fuscous brown 

 but with three lighter patches on the metanotum, clothed with 

 greyish white pubescent hairs, denser on the meso- and meta- 

 sternum ; abdomen yellow on the upper side. Wings of nearly 

 equal size, pale flavous ; anterior ones moderately acuminate at 

 apex, with the hind border sHghtly sinuate at about three-fourths 

 of the length ; the costal area is normally divided by simple nervures 

 from the base to about the median part, but from there the nervules 

 are forked in the anterior part ; the whole costal space is tessellated 

 with fuscous brown from the base to the pterostigma which is 

 flavous and conspicuous, and there are on each wing four slanting, 

 fuscous brown, diagonal bands ; the first is supra-basal, and consists 

 of agglomerated sub-quadrate patches somewhat tessellated and con- 

 tinued on the intervals of the 4-6th nervures as far as the base ; the 

 second band reaches from the median nervure to the hind border, 

 and is deeply emarginate outwardly, the third reaches only the 

 centre of the discoidal area and is not quite connected with the 

 median nervule, the fourth begins at the pterostigma, is somewhat 

 ill-defined, and is not distinctly continued beyond two-thirds of the 

 width, the apical part is maculated with light fuscous, very small 



