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6. P. argyrodes sp. nov. (^. — The upperside of the thorax and abdomen 

 dark brown, clothed lightly with grayish hairs at the insertion of the 

 wings. On the underside the thorax and abdomen are dark brown. The 

 legs are concolorous. The primaries on the upperside are black, marked 

 by a subquadrate spot at the end of the cell constricted near the middle. 

 There are three subquadrate spots on the median interspaces beyond the 

 cell regularly diminishing in size toward the apex, and two or three mi- 

 nute subapical spots forming a curved series near the costa. The secon- 

 daries on the upperside are black with two minute and obscure spots 

 beyond the end of the cell, the inner fold of the wing near the base being 

 clothed with grayish green hairs. On the underside the primaries are 

 dark brown, becoming paler toward the outer margin, and slightly laved 

 with purplish brown. The spots of the upperside reappear, .and in addi- 

 tion there is a whitish spot above the submedian nerve. The secondaries 

 are dark brown tinged with purplish on the outer margin and having the 

 fringes very pale fuscous. The middle of the wing is traversed by a some- 

 what irregularly curved series of four silvery spots, the innermost of which 

 is the largest. Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. — Valley of the Ogov6. 



7. P. lencophaea sp. nov. (^. — Upperside of head, thorax and abdomen 

 black; lowerside of palpi inclining to ochraceous; lowerside of thorax and 

 abdomen grayish; legs concolorous. The primaries on the upperside are 

 black, margined with glaucous hairs on the inner margin at the base. 

 There are two round spots at the end of the cell: three forming a median 

 series beyond the cell, the lower spot on the submedian nerve being small, 

 quadrate, silvery white; the second and third on the middle interspaces, 

 the second the largest. In addition there are three subapical spots form- 

 ing a curved series near the costa. The secondaries on the upperside are 

 black with two oval white spots, one on either side of the second median 

 near its origin, the uppermost being the largest. The fringes at the anal 

 angle are broadly white. On the underside the primaries are marked 

 much as on the upperside, but the spots are not so sharply defined as on 

 that side. The secondaries are blackish. There is a small white spot at 

 the end of the cell, and three similar small spots forming a transverse 

 series beyond the cell. These spots are bordered with blackish. The 

 outer third of the wing toward the anal angle is washed with bluish gray, 

 upon which the nervules, which are dark, stand out distinctly. The 

 fringes at the anal angle are broadly white, and the white color of the 

 fringe runs inwardly as a whitish ray along the submedian nervule. 



$ . — The female is marked like the male, but the secondaries are more 

 broadly whitish at the anal angle, and have, in addition, a white spot an- 

 nulated with dark brown beyond the end of the cell near the outer angle. 

 Expanse: (^, 30 mm.; $, 34 mm. 



Hab. — Valley of the Ogove. 



Mons. Mabille, to whom I showed the type, declared the spe- 



