Neil) or Little Knoton Species of the Hemerohiida. 435 



patches, and the hind border is somewhat broadly tessellated with 

 fuscous ; hind wings a little shorter than the anterior, plainly- 

 narrowed in the basal part, ampliate at about one-fourth of the 

 length, the discoidal area is hyaline flavescent for the same length, 

 and each bears two broad slopingly longitudinal discoidal bands, the 

 first of which is transversely broadly dilated along the hind border, 

 the dilatation enclosing there two transparent patches, and connected 

 by a narrow ramus with the second discoidal band which is of nearly 

 equal width, but encloses along the hind border a small ovate patch, 

 the third, somewhat triangular band has invaded the whole apical 

 part, but encloses a crescent-shaped hyaline space, and two or three 

 hyaline flavescent spots ; the abdomen is one-fifth shorter than the 

 hind wings, the clasps {^) are of the normal shape, and as long as 

 the penultimate segment ; the legs are very stiffly and densely 

 bristly, the tibial spurs are as long as the two anterior joints taken 

 together. The nervures are flavescent in both wings, and the fifth 

 and sixth intercostal spaces are tessellated in the disk with light 

 fuscous and white. 



The colouration of the wings and the disposition of the bands and 

 patches and spots closely resemble that of P. elegantulus, especially 

 on the hind wings, but in the fore wings the apical band is not 

 broadly divided longitudinally in the centre as in P. elegantulus, in 

 which also the nervures of the costal area are not forked at apex 

 except after the pterostigma. 



Length of body, append, excl. 42 mm. ; of fore wings, expanded 

 42 mm. ; hind wings 40 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo Marques). Howard. 



Palpaees kakrooanus, n. sp. 

 Plate VIII., fig. 6. 

 (? 5 . Head pale fleshy and having on the vertex a broad fuscous 

 band continued on the thorax ; a similar lateral one on the pro- 

 notum; on the mesonotum there are on each side of the median 

 fuscous band a narrower one, and outside of it an elongated spot; the 

 head is briefly pubescent greyish in the frontal part, and very briefly 

 setulose in the centre of the vertex ; the edges of the strongly con- 

 stricted pronotum are thickly fimbriate bristly, and the rest of the 

 thorax above and below densely greyish hairy ; antennae completely 

 black ; palpi slightly infuscate at tip, spindle-shape, very acute at 

 tip ; abdomen sub-rufescent on the upper side, black beneath ; 

 appendages of the ^ somewhat long, being nearly equal in length 



