On new Sjjecies of African LyctBuidEe. 261 



duced at their inner apex. The prothorax is fully rounded in 

 the middle at the sides, is narrowed at the base, and still 

 more at the apex ; the whole space above between the ante- 

 rior and posterior transverse grooves is covered with mime- 

 rous rather short and irregular ridges *. Mr. Fry had placed 

 this species in the genus Massicus, and I have no doubt that 

 this is the best place for it. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXT. — Descriptions of nev) Species of African Lyc£enida^, 

 chiefij from the Collections of Dr. Staudinger and Mr. 

 Henley Grose Smith. By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 &c. 



A LARGE number of African Lyca^nidaj have been kindly sent 

 over to Mr. H. Grose Smith by Dr. Staudinger to be figured 

 in ' Rhoj)alocera Exotica,' several of which have already 

 been published in that work or will appear immediately. 

 By far the larger number, however, cannot be figured for 

 some little time, and I therefore publish descriptions, pending 

 the appearance of the figures. Nearly all belong to genera 

 which have already been more or less fully treated of in the 

 section of our work devoted to African Lyca3nida3. 



Genus ASLAUGA, gen. no v. 

 Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior 

 wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind 

 margin ; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner mar- 

 gin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal 

 nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near 

 together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other 

 three short and emitted near the apex of the wing ; the third 

 and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the 

 fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex. 



Aslanga marginalis. 

 Exp. 1 inch. 



Hale. — U]jperside tawny, with the liind margins and the 

 costa of the anterior wings rather broadly brown. 



* Since wiiting the above 1 have seen a second male specimen in the 

 possession of Mr. Oliver Janson. In this the prothorax is much more 

 regularly transversely wrinkled, and in that respect presents little diile- 

 rence from vcnustus, Pasc. 



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