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from mentioning even the titles of the many valuable contri- 

 butions made by authors other than those who are his fellow- 

 countrymen. In a few months' time the " Transactions and 

 Proceedings of the First International Congress of Entomo- 

 logy " * will make their appearance, and then it will be for the 

 general public to decide how far entomology, from being the 

 Cinderella of the Natural Sciences, has established a claim to take 

 rank as a leading lady ! 



A NEW ANOPHELINE FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 

 By H. F. Carter. 



Pyretophonis transvaalensis, sp. nov. 



Head with white scales in front, black behind ; palpi with two 

 broad apical white bands and a narrow basal band. Thorax grey in 

 the middle, dark at the sides ; covered with narrow-curved pale grey 

 scales. Abdomen brown with golden hairs. Legs brown with very 

 faint apical banding. Wings with light and dark scales ; six costal 

 spots, the first and fourth spreading evenly on the first long vein, the 

 two basal ones small. 



? . Head dark, densely clothed with upright-forked white scales 

 in front, black ones behind ; a tuft of long white hairs projecting 

 forward between the eyes ; antennae brown with white pubescence ; 

 palpi, thin, dark brown with two broad apical white bands and a 

 narrow basal band. 



Fig. 1, wing of Pyretophonis transvaalensis, n. sp. 



Thorax grey in the middle with three longitudinal dark lines, 

 deep brown at the sides, clothed with pale grey, somewhat elongated, 

 narrow-curved scales ; scutellum dark in the centre, greyish brown, 

 laterally with scales similar to those on the thorax, border bristles 

 missing. Abdomen deep brown with golden hairs. Legs brown, 

 with very faint white apical spots, rather larger at the apices of the 

 tibiaB. 



Wings with six costal spots, the two basal ones somewhat small ; 

 the first and fourth spot spread evenly on to the first long vein, the 

 second and third are larger than the others, and the corresponding 



'■'■'■ A detailed account of the Congress and its work was published in ' The 

 Times ' of Wednesday, August 10. 



