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Palparidius capicola, n. sp. 

 Plate VII., fig. 5. 



Head of a greyish colour slightly edged with flavescent, labrum, 

 forehead, vertex, and legs flavous, antennae entirely black, broadening 

 considerably towards the apex ; thorax ashy grey, with four or five 

 sub-flavescent patches on the discoidal part ; abdomen sub-flavescent 

 with longitudinal broad fuscous black bands ; wings hyaline with the 

 patches fuscous, cross veins sub-flavescent or light brown, speckles 

 distinctly brown. Pore wings each with three cross bands and a 

 sub-basal spot, the first, sub-median, and the second, post-median 

 bands are incised inwardly somewhat in the shape of a hook in the 

 male, but in the female the first one is not distinctly hooked ; the 

 third one is more or less sharply triangular, somewhat in the shape 

 of an arrow, and connected at the upper basal part with the ptero- 

 stigma which is flavescent for a very short distance and fuscous 

 afterwards ; on the basal part of the disk are a few spots ; the hind 

 border has a continuous series of them, and the nervules of the 

 costal space are speckled with brown at the base. Hind wings also 

 with three cross bands corresponding to the position of those of the 

 anterior wings, but broader and therefore better defined ; the first 

 one, also hooked, extends from the border to three-fourths of the 

 width ; the second extends over the whole width, is strongly zig- 

 zagged, and even occasionally narrowly interrupted in the centre, 

 the upper part abuts on the distinct, elongated, flavescent white 

 pterostigma, the apical band encloses a narrow hyaline spot, the 

 hind border is edged with continuous macules from half the length 

 to the apical band. Head and thorax sparsely, abdomen densely 

 but briefly bristly and hairy, the bristles black, the hairs whitish ; 

 legs bristly and spinose. The arcuate, dilated basal part of the 

 clasping organs of the <? has inwardly two parallel hairy lobes, 

 filling half the circumscribed space. 



Length of body 29-31mm. ; clasps of ^ 11 mm. ; fore wings ex- 

 panded 70-81 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Carnarvon (Wyk's Vlei), G. Alston ; Beaufort 

 West (Hottentot River), A. R. Walker. 



Palparidius concinnus, n. sp. 



(^ . Head yellow with a triangular fuscous macule on the vertex ; 



prothorax flavous with three longitudinal sub-interrupted fuscous 



bands ; legs yellow, abdomen yellow, with two broad lateral fuscous 



bands on the upper side and a broader one underneath ; clasps 



