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In separating from the genus Precis, as constituted by Aurivillius, 

 the Kallima-like forms which he has brought together in part in his 

 fourth group, I think I am not doing violence, in spite of the fact that 

 in my arrangement I am compelled to introduce as one of the members 

 of this group the species named pelarga, which in its dry-season form 

 shows a resemblance to the species which I have included under Precis. 

 However, K. pelarga, in its dry -season form, always has the hind wings 

 more or less elongated at the anal angle and thus may be discriminated 

 from Precis octavia and its allies, which do not have the anal angle 

 greatly produced. K. pelarga marks the transition between the genus 

 Precis and the genus Kallimula. 



The species which I refer to the new genus are the following: K. 

 osborni, new species; eurodoce (Westwood); milonia (Felder); sinuata 

 (Ploetz); cwlestina (Dewitz); actia (Distant); antilope (Feisthamel) ; 

 aniilope, var. cuama (Hewitson); pelarga (Fabricius); pelarga, var. 

 leodice (Cramer); pelarga, var. harpyia (Fabricius). 



(130) 1. Kallimula osborni, new species 



Plate VII : Figure 7, cf ; Figure 8, 9 

 c? . Palpi black above, brillianth' white below. Upper side of head, thorax, and 

 abdomen black. Pectus white, like the lower side of the palpi. Legs pale j^ellowish, 

 dorsally shaded with fuscous. Lower side of abdomen pale fulvous. Fore wings with 

 costa strongly arcuate; outer margin at apex very falcate, strongly produced at the 

 end of vain 6; deeply excised below this and then gently rounded to the lower angle. 

 The hind margin of the fore wing is nearly straight. Hind wings with the costal 

 margin gently (flatly) curved from the base to the upper angle; the outer margin 

 regularly curved outwardly to a point opposite the lower angle of the cell and then 

 inwardly toward the anal angle, the curve running to the tip of the long tail-like pro- 

 jection of the anal angle. On the inner margin the hind wings are strongh^ curved 

 inwardly from the abdomen until a little after the middle, and then the curve is reversed 

 to the tip of the anal projection. The wings are very dark brown on the upper side 

 interrupted on the discal area with a bright rufous mesial band. This band on the 

 primaries is widest at the inner margin, and sweeps upward toward the costa termina- 

 ting near the origin of vein 6, being externally delimited by an almost regular curve, 

 running from the inner margin from a point about three millimeters behind the outer 

 angle to the origin of vein 6; internally the band is more irregular, being deeply 

 invaded bj' an outward projection of the dark basal tract on interspace 4. The band 

 has the outline of an inverted cornucopia. There is a sharply defined, small, white 

 spot not far from the apex between veins 5 and 6 ; and three black spots in the transverse 

 rufous band, one on each of the interspaces 2, 3, and 4, nearer the outer than the 

 inner margin of the band. The transverse band of the hind wing is continuous with 

 the band on the fore wing, narrower at the costa than on the inner margin. It is 

 evenly curved externally, except on interspaces 6 and 7, where the dark outer border 

 invades it by step-like inner projections. The outer band is wider on the secondaries 

 than on the primaries. The inner margin of the light band is somewhat irregular, 



