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costal spot about the middle of the costa. There is a narrow ray of 

 cinereous on the costa at the base; the cinereous apical tract is marked by 

 a band of darker submarginal cloudings, and the margin at the apex is ac- 

 centuated by a series of dark brown spots, shading about the middle into 

 the dark ground-color of the wing. The third spot of the median series, 

 which is very conspicuous on the upperside, scarcely appears on the low- 

 erside, but is lost in the prevalent yellow shade of the inner margin. The 

 secondaries are dark brown, laved with purplish-ashen arranged in trans- 

 verse bands. At the Base, running diagonally from the costa to the sub- 

 median nerve, tiiere is a narrow, pale cinereous streak; the outer margin 

 is dark brown. The fringe at the anal angle is bright yellow. Expanse 

 68 mm. 



Hab. — Valley of the Ogov6. 



This fine species, which is one of the largest of the African Hes- 

 periidae, is represented in my collection by a single female. It 

 strongly suggests, in some respects, the well-known Gangara 

 thy r sis of India; but I suspect that an accurate examination of 

 the neuration, which I am reluctant at present to make, will 

 reveal that it is generically distinct. 



PARNARA. 

 8. P. anistrlga sp. nov. J". — The antennae are black, paler on the lower- 

 side, with the lowerside of the club bright yellow; the upperside of the 

 palpi, the head, and the body is dark brown; the lowerside of the palpi 

 is whitish, of the thorax gray, and of the abdomen pure white. The legs 

 are gray, like the thorax. The primaries on the upperside are blackish 

 brown, with greenish hairs at the base. There are two narrow, elongated 

 •spots at the end of the cell, one above the other. There are two minute 

 subapical dots and a transverse median series of four spots, of which the 

 uppermost is very minute; the next larger subquadrate; the third the 

 largest of all, trapezodial; and the fourth, which is located on the subme- 

 dian vein near its middle, is lunate. The fringes are slightly paler than 

 the body of the wing. The secondaries, upon the upperside, are of the 

 same color as the primaries, with the fringes at the anal angle, and the 

 inner margin quite pale. They are traversed by a transverse median 

 tand of four or five white opaque spots, which gradually widen from the 

 first subcostal to the first median nervule, where the series terminates. 

 On the underside the primaries are fuscous, slightly darker in the region 

 of the cell. The spots of the upperside reappear on this side, and are 

 much larger, though less dstinctly defined. The secondaries are fuscous, 

 slightly tinged with rufous, and externally bordered with a darker shade; 

 there is a circular whitish spot at the end of the cell. The transverse me. 

 •dian series of spots reappears upon the lowerside, but more distinctly 

 defined, and a narrow whitish ray runs from the innermost of these spots 

 to the outer margin. The female is unknown to me. Expanse 30 mm. 

 Hab. — ^^Valley of the Ogov6, 



