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trapezoidal spot, which is succeeded between the first median 

 nervule and the submedian vein by a small triangular spot. This 

 last spot is followed upon the same neural interspace by a still 

 smaller spot lying near the base, and partly concealed by the 

 hairy vestiture. Secondaries- ornamented by a band of five yel- 

 low spots separated by the nervures and traversing the wing for 

 about half its diameter in a line nearly at right angles with the 

 posterior margin. The three outermost of these spots gradually 

 diminish toward the interior, the last two are much longer, and 

 the band has thus imparted to it a sjnuate appearance. There is 

 also a small yellow streak in the cell partly concealed beneath the 

 vestiture of the wing. All the spots in the anterior wing are 

 yellow hyaline, except the small triangular spot near the base 

 above submedian vein. This spot and all the spots in the secon- 

 daries are opaque. The fringe of the secondaries near the anal 

 angle is white. 



Underside: 'Wi^ primaries are rich maroon, interrupted on the 

 costa at the end of the cell by a pearly gray patch, and by the 

 hyaline spots which reappear as on the upper surface. The apex 

 is lavender, with three oval spots of maroon on the outer margin. 

 The posterior margin is broadly ashen gray; the costa at the 

 base is white. The secondaries are dark lavender-gray, orna- 

 mented at the base by an oval spot and in the middle by a very 

 large and irregular spot of deep maroon margined with pinkish 

 gray; the palpi are white beneath. The thorax and abdomen are 

 dark brown; the antennae are dark above and light beneath, as 

 in most of the species of this genus. 



The female does not differ materially from the male, except in 

 being larger, and the markings more sharply defined upon the 

 underside. 



Hab. — Valley of the Ogove. Types in coll. Holland. 



I give this species the name Gahia after the tribe of the Galwas. 



5. P. benga n. sp. 



Upperside: The body and wings are uniformly brown, slightly 

 paler on the outer margin; the fringes of the secondaries are 

 narrowly white. The middle of the primaries is adorned by a 

 broad subquadrate band of hyaline yellow divided into three 

 spots by the nervures. Of these three the uppermost, situated 

 at the end of the cell, is outwardly bifid, with the tips of the bi- 



