42 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFKICAN [Jan. 14, 



Hah. Sierra Leone (Mabille) ; Gaboon (Oood). 



I have the figure of a female Osmodes to wliieh Mons. Mabille 

 has afRxed the name argenteigutta, and to the orio;inal type of which 

 in the Staudinger collection be has attached the name argentei- 

 puncta. It is undoubtedly the female of the species named 

 adosus by him. I know this because I have specimens of the two 

 taken in coitu. 



137. O. LUX, Holl. (Plate IV. figs. 23 d , 25 $ .) 



Osmodes lux, Holl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1892, p. 291. 

 Hah. Valley of the Ogove. 



138. O. STAUDiNGEBi, sp. nov. (Plate III. fig. 20.) 



5 . Antennae, upperside of head, upper and lower side of thorax, 

 and abdomen dark brown. The palpi on the underside are yellowish. 

 The thorax on the upperside is clothed with a few obscure 

 greenish scales. The primaries and secondaries on the upperside 

 are dark brown. There are two bright yellow confluent spots on 

 the cell near the end, three subapical spots which are situated in 

 the usual place, and a series of spots extending from vein 1 to the 

 subapical spots constituting a sharply defined macular baud upon 

 the disc. The lower spot of the series in interval 1 is subtriangular. 

 The spot in interval 2 is elongated, subquadrate, and the largest 

 of the series. The spot in interval 3 is the same form as the spot 

 in interval 2 but smaller. The spots in intervals 4 and 5 are 

 minute, elongated. The lower subapical spot is larger and elong- 

 ated. The two upper subapical spots are small. ' In the 

 secondaries there is a small circular yellow spot at the end of the 

 cell, and beyond it an irregularly curved series of five discal spots 

 likewise bright yellow. On the underside the primaries and 

 secondaries are more obscure in colour than on the upperside, the 

 spots and markings being, however, identical in form and position. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hah. Valley of the Ogove. 



Type in my collection. 



I do not know the male of this species. The solitary female in 

 my collection is, however, so totally distinct from every other 

 species known to me that I do not hesitate to describe it as a new 

 form. 



139. 0. BANG-HAASii, sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 9.) 

 cJ . Antenuffl black. Upperside of palpi, head, thorax, and 

 abdomen rufous-brown. Lower side of the palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen of the same colour, somewhat more obscure. The pri- 

 maries on the upperside have the ground-colour bright rufous. The 

 apex, the outer margin, and the outer half of the inner margin are 

 broadly deep black. Beyond the end of the cell there is a broad 

 irregular black spot. The costal margin and the base of the wing 

 as far as the middle of the cell are fulvous, shading outwardly 

 about the middle of the wing into blackish. The secondaries are 



