1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID. 53 
not correct, nor is the reference of the species to the genus Cyclo- 
pides made by Mr. Trimen much better, though certainly more 
natural than the original location. I have been tempted to erect 
a new genus for the reception of this and the following form, but 
with the insufficient material at my command for a close anatomical 
study I refrain. Manifestly the much shorter antennz, with 
obtuse clubs, the long cilia of the primaries and the secondaries, 
the rounded apex of the primaries, and the different general outline 
of the wings point to a different generic location than that given 
by the author of the species. 
179. C.(?) PuNcrunaTA, Butl. 
Ceratrichia punctulata, Butl. P. Z.S. 1895, p. 265, pl. xv. fig. 7. 
Hab. British Central Africa (Butler). 
I think it very doubtful whether this is more than varietally 
distinct from the foregoing species. 
PROSOPALPUS, gen. nov. 
Antenne relatively long, reaching beyond the middle of costa; 
slender, with a moderately thick and elongated club terminating in 
a fine point, the terminal portion for a short distance bent, not 
hooked or recurved. Palpi: first joint short; second joint very 
long, produced for half of its length beyond the front ; both second 
and third joints heavily clothed with scales; the third joint is 
long, produced, acute, almost naked. The hind tibize have a 
double pair of spurs. In the primaries the cell is moderately long, 
its end reaching fully to the middle of the wing; vein 12 termi- 
nating slightly before the end of the cell; vein 7 from end of the 
cell; vein 5 very slightly, if at all, nearer vein 4 than vein 6. The 
primaries are relatively broad, the outer margin and outer angle 
evenly rounded. Secondaries: cell short, not reaching to the 
middle of the wing; vein 5 present, equidistant from veins 4 and 
6; vein 7 from before the end of the cell, four times as far from 
vein 8 as from the end of the cell ; vein 8 from very near the base; 
yeins 3 and 4 both from the end of the cell; vein 2 from before 
the end of the cell; veins 1a and 1) curved; fringes very long; 
secondaries evenly rounded on the costa and the outer margin to 
the anal angle ; the inner margin nearly straight. 
Type P. duplex, Mab. 
The small species which I have chosen as the type of this 
genus is very distinct in general appearance from all other species 
which appear to be in any wise related to it. In the structure 
of the palpi it approaches somewhat the genera Gorgyra and 
Parosmodes. In the form of the wings, broad and evenly rounded, 
as well as in the almost uniform black coloration, it is widely 
different ,from all the species included in those two genera. 
Instead of being: robust, as those. species are, it wholly differs, 
esembling more closely in some respects in the form of its wings 
