Species of African Lepidoptera. 289 



of the yellow colour upon the underside of the secondaries 

 will easily enable the student to distiuf^uish the species. 



Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



Hah. Valley of the Ogove. 



Types in Collection Holland. 



Genus Pardaleodes, Butl. 



10. Pardaleodes xanthopeplus, sp. n. 



($ . Head and body greenish fuscous, lighter beneath. 

 Fore wings above dark brown, with the base heavily clothed 

 with greenish hairs. Two small spots at end of cell, of which 

 the upper one is the largest ; two small subapical spots, of 

 which the lower one is the largest ; three small subhastate 

 spots, one above the submedian and one on each of the 

 median interspaces, forming a series of which the middle spot 

 is the largest. All these spots are orange-yellow. The hind 

 wings are heavily bordered above upon the costa with black, 

 which extends over the base and the cell, where there is a 

 small orange spot. The black of the base is partly concealed 

 by a heavy vestiture of greenish hairs. The remainder of 

 the hind wing is bright orange-yellow, and the fringe is of 

 the same colour except just below the outer angle, where it is 

 feebly shaded with brown. Upon the underside the dark 

 portions are more subdued and the lighter portions of the 

 wings not so bright as upon the upperside, and the spots are 

 larger. In addition, upon the anterior wing there is a 

 marginal shade of light fuscous. Upon the posterior wing- 

 there are two small yellow spots in the dark costal band, the 

 yellow spot at the end of the cell reappears below as a bifid 

 spot, and there are a few cloudy brown marks in the broad 

 yellow outer margin of the wing. 



? . In the female the spots upon the upperside of the 

 primaries are greatly increased in size. The spots on the cell 

 coalesce and form a large quadrate spot bifid at either end, 

 while the middle spot of the submarginal series is greatly 

 increased and extended toward the cell, coalescing, save for 

 the dark median nerve, with the spot in the cell. In the 

 secondaries the orange-yellow outer margin of the male is 

 contracted into an irregularly oval spot upon the limbal area 

 beyond the cell. Upon the underside the spots are very 

 much as in the male, but larger and conforming to the modi- 

 fications already noticed as occurring upon the upperside. 



Expanse of wings 38 millim. 



Uab. Valley of the Ogov^. 

 Ann. (fc Mag. N. Hist. !Ser. 6. Vol. x. 20 



