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tinge much less conspicuous than in the anterior wings, and they 

 have each three broad fuscous bauds reaching right across ; the first 

 and second are similar in shape and broadly tri-furcate towards the 

 hind border, the third band is apical and encloses an arcuate juxta- 

 apical hyaline band and two or three hyaline spots along the fore 

 border ; the first fuscous band does not invade the costal area 

 although abutting on it, but the other two reach from the fore- to 

 the hind-border. 



Length of body 42 mm.; width: fore wings expanded 92 mm., 

 hind wings 92 mm. 



Hab. Limpopo Eiver. E. W. Eriksson. 



Palpares ovampoanus, n. sp. 

 Plate VII., fig. 1. 



? . Head fuscous black with the labrum sub-flavescent ; antennae 

 black ; thorax fuscous black with a less obscure patch on each side 

 of the metanotum, moderately densely villose, the erect pubescence 

 on the pronotum fuscous, on the sides of the mesonotum and on the 

 pronotum whitish and somewhat lanuginose ; abdomen yellow, but 

 fuscous below, and also on the upper side of the three terminal 

 segments ; legs black, numerojisly spinose, tarsal spines longer than 

 the two basal joints. 



Wings moderately obtusely rounded at apex but with the very 

 apex somewhat acute, light fuscous but marked with flavescent sub- 

 hyaline dots, patches, and bands. Anterior wing : costal spaces with 

 a short series of flavescent macules, pterostigma transverse, yellow ; 

 at the base is a broad sub-quadrate yellow patch reaching from the 

 sub-costal nervure to a short distance of the hind border, a narrow, 

 cross, slanting band of the same colour, a wide hyaline discoidal 

 area traversed at about the centre by a longitudinal yellow band, 

 continued slantingly to near the hind border, and at about the sixth 

 of the length a somewhat similarly narrow band of the same colour 

 coalescing with the pterostigma and nearly reaching the hind border, 

 at the very apex of the wing is a small yellow patch ; all the cells 

 are deeply iufuscate and the inner space flavous ; along the hind 

 border and at a short distance from the edge is a series of elongated, 

 small, yellow macules. Hind wings a little narrower than the 

 anterior, completely fuscous with the cells forming a light yellow 

 tessellation ; at the base is a large hyaline flavescent area extending 

 from the base to one-third of the length ; slightly past the middle is 

 a sub-quadrate discoidal yellow patch broadly disconnected from a 

 smaller one set close to the hind border, but which probably often 



