1896.] BUTTEBrLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPBKIID^. 53 



not correct, nor is tbe reference oE the species to the genus Gyelo- 

 2ndes 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 antennae, 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.(?) PUNOTULATA, Butl. 



Ceratricliia punctulata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 265, pi. xv. fig. 7. 

 Hab. British Central Africa (Butler). 



I think it very doubtful whether this is more than varietally 

 distinct from the foregoing species. 



PeosopaIiPus, gen. nov. 



Antennse 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 tibiae 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; 

 veins 3 and 4 both from the end of the cell ; vein 2 from before 

 the end of the cell ; veins 1 a and 1 b 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 Oorgyra and 

 Paroswodes. 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 



