84 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 
that the neuration is quite peculiar, and that Mons. Mabille, the 
author of the genus, was abundantly justified by the facts in 
erecting it for the reception of the typical species. 
GAMIA, gen. nov. 
Antenne long, slender; club robust, tapering gradually, pro- 
duced at the apical extremity to a fine point, which is slightly 
recurved. Palpi: first joint short; second joint long, both 
heavily clothed with hair; the third joint long, produced and 
conical, almost naked ; the hind tibize with a double pair of spurs, 
and heavily clothed with long hair. Fore wing : inner margin longer 
than outer margin ; the costa evenly rounded; the apex obtuse ; 
the outer margin slightly excavated above the outer angle; cell 
more than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaches the 
costa before the end of the cell; vein 5 very slightly nearer vein 4 
than vein 6; vein 7 from the end of the cell, very near vein 6; 
vein 3 very near vein 4, from near the lower angle of the cell; 
Antenne and palpi of Gamia galua, Holl. 2. 
vein 2 from one-third of the distance from the base to vein 3. 
Secondaries : costal and outer margins evenly rounded, produced 
at the anal angle and slightly truncated at anal angle; vein 5 
present and distinct; vein 4 from the lower angle of the cell; 
vein 3 slightly before the lower angle; vein 2 twice as far from 
vein 3 as the latter is from vein 4; vein 7 from about the middle 
of the cell.—The insects belonging to this genus are large in size, 
dark in colour, with the primaries and secondaries ornamented 
with large translucent yellow spots. G. buchholz is the largest 
of all the African Hesperiidx, with the exception of Rhopolocampta 
ithis. They are distinctly separate from the genus Canides, to 
which they are apparently allied by the peculiar form of the palpi. 
Type G. galua, Holl. 
284. G. eatua, Holl. (Plate I. fig. 1, 9.) 
Proteides galua, Holl. Ent. News, vol. ii. p. 3 (1891). 
Hesperia zintgraffi, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. vol. xviii. p. 178 
(1892). 
? Proteides ditissimus, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 
p. exii (1891). 
Hab. Tropical West Africa. . 
A comparison of my species with the type of H. zintgraffi, 
Karsch, shows the two to be identical. I am also strongly 
inclined to the opinion that P. ditissimus, Mab., is the same insect. 
Unfortunately I have not seen the type of P. ditissimus. Mons. 
Mabille affirmed the identity of the two species when examining 
my type, but has since expressed in letters a different opinion. 
