84 DB. W. J. irOLLAND ON TllB AFlllCAN [Jan. 14, 



that the neurntioa is quite peculiar, and that Mons. Mabille, the 

 autlior of tlie genus, was abundantly justified by the facts in 

 erecting it for the reception of the typical species. 



Gamia, gen. nov. 



Antenna) 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 tibias with a double pair of spurs, 

 and heavily clothed with long hair. Pore 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 ; 



Antennn) und ])alpi of Gamia yalua, lloll. f . 



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 tliis genus are large in size, 

 dark in colour, with the primaries and secondaries ornamented 

 with large translucent yellow spots. G. buchhohi is the largest 

 of all the African Hesperiida), with the exception of lUiopolocampta 

 ithis. They are distinctly separate from the genus Cauides, to 

 which they are apparently allied by the peculiar form of the palpi. 

 Type O. galua, Holl. 



. 284. G. GALUA, Holl. (Plate I. fig. 1, $ .) 



Proteides galua, Holl. Ent. News, vol. ii. p. 3 (1891). 



Hesperia zinlgraffi, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. vol. xviii. p. 178 

 (1892). 



? Proteides ditissivius, Mab. 0. R. See. Ent. Belg. vol. xxxv. 

 p. cxii (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. ditissimiis, 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. 



