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basal yellow ray of the primaries does not reappear. The 

 colour of the secondaries is yellow as upon the upper surface, 

 and not whitish as in xanthius. There is no black upon the 

 costa. The border of the outer margin is uniformly brown, 

 slightly produced at the first median nervule. Tliere is a 

 very small brown spot below the cell halfway from the base 

 near the inner margin. 



? . Like the male, but lacking the yellow basal ray on the 

 primaries. 



Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



Hah. Valley of Ogove River. 



Type in Coll. Holland. 



Genus Osmodes *, Watson, MS. 

 13. Osmodes lux, sp. n. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown above, more or less 

 clothed with shining fulvous hairs. Palpi, thorax, and end 

 of abdomen below greenish grey. Upperside : Anterior wing- 

 black, with the basal half of costa and base suffused with 

 greenish fuscous ; at the end of the cell there is a bright 

 fulvous spot, at the apex a large subquadrate spot of the 

 same colour, and below it a broad transverse band of the same 

 colour running from above the third median nervule to the 

 middle of the inner margin and indented between the sub- 

 median and first median nervule. The, posterior wing is 

 bright fulvous, very heavily bordered on the costa with black, 

 the black area being extended inwardly at the end of the cell, 

 which it partially covers. The margin is bordered with 

 black, which is produced inwardly just above the slightly 

 lobed anal angle. The inner margin is more heavily bor- 

 dered with black. The sexual brand is slightly darker in 

 colour than the body of the wing and is oval in form. The 

 underside is pale brownish. The spots of the upperside 

 reappear upon the primaries. Upon the underside of the 

 secondaries the ba§al half is dark brown and the limbal area 

 washed with yellow, and the outer and inner margins clouded 

 with pale brown. There are four silvery-white spots 

 margined with dark brown upon the wing — one on the cell, 

 one near the middle of the costa, one beyond the cell, and one 

 between the first and second median nervules. 



* The type of this new genus, which Lieut. Watson has erected, is 

 Pardaleodvs laronia, Hew. The genus may be recognized by the sexual 

 brand upon the cell of the posterior wings of the males. ' It includes, 

 among otlier species, laronia, Hew., adon, Mab., thora, Mab., aud anfen- 

 teiyutta, Mab. 



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