46 DE. w. J. HOLLAND ON THE ArmcAN [Jan. 14, 



The type of icteria is before ine as I write. It is strictly <jou- 

 generic witli morantii. Trim. 



145. P. HAEONA, Westw. 



Pamplnla Juirona, "Westvv. Ajip. Oates's Matabeleland, p. 353 

 (1881) ; Trim. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 74. 



Ilah. Manica-land {Trimen); Palls of the Zambezi (TFesiiwooc?). 



OsPHANTES, gen. nov. 



AntennaB moderately long, slender ; club gradually enlarging 

 and terminating in aline 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. Tlie third 

 joint is minute, conical. The hind tibise are armed with a double 

 pair of spurs. The primaries have the inner mai-gin strongly 

 angulated about the middle and clotlied with along bundle o£ 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 neuratiou 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. Im- 

 mediately behind this naked glazed tract is a pocket-like depres- 

 sion on the up])erside lying between vein 1 h and the lower margin 

 of the cell near the base. The ])rimaries on the underside have 

 the basal portion almost naked toward the base, covered with 

 shining closely appressed scales. 



Type 0. ogoivena, Mab. 



I was inclined originally to refer this peculiar species to Osmodes, 

 to which it is allied, but the very peculiar structure of the In'nd 

 wing shows such a great divergence from the typical s])ecies of 

 Osmodes that I feel constrained to erect a new genua for its recep- 

 tion. Purthermore, 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. 0. OGOWENA, Mab. 



Plastim)ia offowena, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. cxxi ; 

 Novit. Lepidopt. p. 94, pi. xiii. lig. 5. 



Ifab. Valley of the Ogovc. 



This species was evidently placed by Mous. Mabille with doubt 

 in the genus Plastingia, in which he has put a number of other 

 African species. The type of Plastinc/ia is Jlavescens, 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 



