438 Annals of the South African Miisetcm. 



Length of body append, excl. 34-39 mm.; width: fore wings 

 expanded 64-94 mm. ; hind wings 66-83 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon), E. G. Alston ; Matjesfontein 

 (Beaufort West). 



This species might at first sight be taken for Palparidius capicola 

 owing to the colour and markings of the wings, but it is a true 

 Palmares. 



Palpakes genialis, n. sp. 

 Plate VII., fig. 2. 



5 . Head and thorax drab colour, only the anterior part of the 

 head above the labrum narrowly transversely sub-flavescent, on 

 each side of the metanotum is a somewhat small lighter patch ; the 

 whole thorax is moderately thickly greyish pubescent, the hairs 

 fringing the border of the pronotum are, however, black and erect ; 

 abdomen yellow, shghtly infuscate laterally on the two basal seg- 

 ments ; antennae black ; legs black, strongly and numerously 

 spinose, the tibial spurs are not quite as long as the three basal 

 tarsal joints and not distinctly incurved. 



Wings sub-obtusely rounded at tip, yet angular at the very apex ; 

 anterior ones a little wider than the posterior, and plainly longer ; 

 they are flavescent except for two wide discoidal areas, the cells of 

 which, however, have a broad square yellow central patch ; but all 

 the infuscated cells, which form a tessellation impossible to describe 

 accurately but which is well shown in the figure, have a pale 

 yellow centre, and when, as in the apical part, the infuscation has 

 invaded the whole cell, the cross nervules are pale flavescent. The 

 costal area is conspicuously tessellated with fuscous ; all the 

 nervures and also the nervules are infuscate ; at about one-fourth 

 of the length is a cross yellow band reaching from the costal area to 

 the hind border, broadly edged with a fuscous tessellation ; a little 

 further is a quadrate patch of the same colour reaching from the 

 median to nearly the sub-median nervure ; at about the middle is a 

 third band or patch also flavous, and separated from the preceding 

 one by a broad tessellated fuscous interval, and from an ante-apical 

 uninterrupted, plainly yellow band which reaches from and includes 

 the yellow pterostigma, to the hind border ; the infuscate apical part is 

 tessellated with yellow macules ; along the hind border is a series of 

 elongate, sub-vertical yellow patches extending from a third of the 

 length to a short distance from the supra-apical, entire, yellow, cross 

 band. Hind wings with the nervules of the costal area fuscous from 

 the base to past the median part ; they are hyaline with a flavescent 



