On new iSj)ecies of African LyciBnidtc. 2()1 



tluccd at their inner apex. Tlic protliorax is fully rounded in 

 the middle at the sides, is narrowed at the base, and still 

 more at the apex ; the whole space above between the ante- 

 rior and posterior transverse grooves is covered with nume- 

 rous rather short and irregular ridges *. J\Ir. Fry IkuI phucnl 

 this species in the genus Massicus, and I have no doubt that 

 this is the best place for it. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXI. — Descriptions of new Species of African LycajnidiO., 

 chief y from the Collections of Dr. Staudinger and Mr. 

 Henley Grose Smith. By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 &c. 



A LARGE number of African Lyca^nidaj have been kindly sent 

 over to j\lr. II. Grose Smith by Dr. Staudinger to be figured 

 in ' Ehopalocera Exotica,' several of which have already 

 been ]niblished in that work or will appear immediately. 

 By far the larger number, however, cannot be figured for 

 some little time, and I therefore publish descriptions, pending 

 the appearance of the figures. Nearly all belong to genera 

 which have already been more or less fully treated of in the 

 section of our w^ork devoted to African Lyesenidse. 



Genus AsLAUGA, gen. nov. 

 Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior 

 wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind 

 margin ; posterior wings with a concavity on tiie inner mar- 

 gin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal 

 nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near 

 together before the end of tlie cell and parallel, the other 

 three short and emitted near the apex of the wing ; the third 

 and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the 

 fifth ruiniing to the hind margin just below the apex, 



Aslauga marginalis. 

 Exp. 1 inch. 



Male. — Upperside tawny, with the hind margins and the 

 costa of the anterior wings rather broadly brown. 



* Since writing the above I have seen a second male ppecimcn in the 

 possession of Mr. Oliver Janson. In this the prothorax is imicli more 

 regularly transversely wrinkled, and in that respect presents little diile- 

 rence from vcmisttis, Pasc. 



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