Species o/'Aryrnu>l('onltl;« /Jv)/;j yiiilnfjiiscir. .">1."* 



and often triaui^ular in form ; similar spots are seen on 

 the inner marj^in, and nearly the whoh; disk of the wing is 

 black-spotted, more strongly in the basal and apical portions ; 

 at the latter the spots are often united into a maculose ante- 

 apical band, and the extreme apex itself is narrowly margined 

 (the part of the wing least spotted is b.'twecn the siibradial 

 oblique indistinct bands) ; ))tero3tigma yellowish, rather 

 distinct ; neuration whitish yellow, blackish where it traverses 

 the black markings, the radius black at the base. Posterior 

 wings hyaline, with black markings : — in the costal area to 

 about the middle are spots as in the anterior ; a few small 

 spots forming a broken angular line about the furcation of 

 the lower cubitus ; there are also three transverse bands, the 

 first about tiie middle, arising under the radius, then angu- 

 lated outwardly in an obtuse manner in the middle of 

 the disk, and continued to the inner margin as three 

 branches, which may be wholly or partially connected with 

 the band or wholly disconnected; a second somewhat similar 

 band is placed beyond the middle, and usually arises below 

 the costa, but is sometimes only connected therewith by 

 spots, its termination on the inner margin being as irregular 

 and uncertain as the first band ; the third band is macular 

 and anteapical, and the apex itself is narrowly black ; ptero- 

 stigma and neuration as in the anterior, but the radius, 

 cubiti, postcosta, and ramule of the lower cubitus are black 

 for at least the basal fourth. 



Length of body, (^ 62-64 millim., ? 53-57 raillim. 

 Expanse of wings, ^ 114-124 millim., ? 135-142 milliin. ; 

 breadth of anterior wing, ^ 19-20 millim., 'i 22-24 millim. 



Apparently common. I have ten examples before me, and 

 have seen many more. There is reason to believe that the 

 markings of the wings vary locally, as in most species of the 

 genus. Allied to P. caffer and speciosus of the African con- 

 tinent, and more especially to the former, on account of its 

 broad wings. It is the only described species from Mada- 

 gascar, but I have seen others in a French collection. 



Myrmehoyi validuSj sp. n. 



Head and thorax dull blackish above, dusky yellowish 

 beneath, somewhat clouded with darker. Antennaj black, 

 nearly as long as the entire thorax and of nearly equal thick- 

 ness throughout ; the apex acute. Head much broader than 

 the pronotum, much swollen above, with a median impressed 

 longitudinal line, and two others, less deep, one on either side 

 of the median, the space enclosed between the outermost lines 



