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to the penultimate segment, and thickening towards the apex ; 

 abdomen nearly glabrous except on the first and second basal 

 segments ; legs very bristly ; spurs very long ; vsrings very sharply 

 accuminate at tip, somewhat narrow and with the hind borders not 

 sinuate; anterior wing hyaline and having three slanting fuscous 

 bands and an horizontal apical one, the basal part is very numerously 

 spotted, and from the base to the first band there is an horizontal 

 infuscate bar, coalescing with the first band which in turn is broadly 

 disconnected from a somewhat wide patch situate on the hind 

 border, the second is strongly bi-sinuate, the third is first vertical, 

 then very slanting, but all three bands are united in the centre of 

 the disk by a longitudinal, not very even infuscation, the apical 

 narrow discoidal band seems to be the prolongation of this infusca- 

 tion ; above it from where the perostigma, which is absent, should 

 be, extends a long, lanceolate fuscous band nearly reaching the apex ; 

 costal nervure closely maculated from the base to the principal 

 sectors, and slightly above the hind border runs an uninterrupted 

 line of black macules, the border itself being regularly speckled. 



Hind wings as sharply acuminate as the anterior ; the greatest 

 part of their area is fuscous black, but the costal and sub-costal 

 areas are hyaline from the base to the principal sector but with 

 regular slanting patches in the former, and a hyaline elongated one 

 near the principal sector ; the base is partly hyaline ; there are 3, 

 2 and 3 superposed hyaline patches which are plainly what is left of 

 the space that divided the fuscous area into three sub-vertical bands ; 

 towards the apex there is a very long stiliform patch somewhat 

 dilated at the base, and the upper part of which is connected with 

 the hyaline part on the principal sector ; the extreme border is 

 maculated with hyaline and fuscous spots from about the middle 

 to the apex. 



Width: fore wings expanded 108-118 mm.; hind wings 95- 

 112 mm. ; length of body append, excl. 38-48 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Praserburg, Beaufort West). 



Eesembles somewhat Crambomorphus owing to the sharply pointed 

 wings, but they are not sinuate as in that genus. 



Palpaees elegantulus, n. sp. 



Plate VII., fig. 4. 



$ ? . Anterior part of head flavous, vertex somewhat pale 



flavous but almost completely covered by a broad light fuscous 



patch in both sexes ; antennge dark fuscous, the base with a small 



