46 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 
The type of icteria is before me as I write. It is strictly con- 
generic with morantii, Trim. 
145. P. Harona, Westw. 
Pamphila harona, Westw. App. Oates’s Matabeleland, p. 353 
(1881); Trim. P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 74. 
Hab, Manica-land (Trimen); Falls of the Zambezi ( Westwood). 
OSPHANTES, gen. noy. 
Antenne moderately long, slender; club gradually enlarging 
and terminating in a fine point, the terminal portion being recurved. 
The palpi are short, appressed, suberect, the first joint short, the 
second long, both densely covered with thick scales. The third 
joint is minute, conical. The hind tibie are armed with a double 
pair of spurs. The primaries have the inner margin strongly 
angulated about the middle and clothed with along bundle of hairs 
on the elongated portion of the hind margin, which is as long as 
the outer margin. Vein 5 nearer 4 than 6. Vein 12 terminating 
on the costa before the end of the cell. The cell more than half 
the length of the costa. The secondaries have the neuration as in 
Osmodes. On the lower edge of the cell and about the origin of 
veins 2 and 3, the cell of the secondaries is naked, marked by an 
opaque tract, suboval in form, having a glazed appearance. Jm- 
mediately behind this naked glazed tract is a pocket-like depres- 
sion on the upperside lying between vein 1} and the lower margin 
of the cell near the base. The primaries on the underside have 
the basal portion almost naked toward the base, covered with 
shining closely appressed scales. 
Type O. ogowena, Mab. 
I was inclined originally to refer this peculiar species to Osmodes, 
to which it is allied, but the very peculiar structure of the hind 
wing shows such a great divergence from the typical species of 
Osmodes that I feel constrained to erect a new genus for its recep- 
tion. Furthermore, the coloration of the insect differs in many 
important particulars from that of typical Osmodes. The figure of 
the insect given in the ‘Novitates’ by Mabille is sufficiently charac- 
teristic, though the spots on the underside are not delineated as 
they are in the examples before me. They recall somewhat in the 
specimens I have the maculation of Padraona zeno, Trim. 
146. O. oGowrna, Mab. 
Plastingia ogowena, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. exxi; 
Novit. Lepidopt. p. 94, pl. xiii. fig. 5. 
Hab. Valley of the Ogové. 
This species was evidently placed by Mons. Mabille with doubt 
in the genus Plastingia, in which he has put a number of other 
African species. The type of Plastingia is flavescens, Feld., with 
which this species has but little in common, save the general style 
of coloration. It does not agree with any other African species 
