62 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OF THE RUWENZOSI EXPEDITION. 



Suborder PLANIPENNIA. 



Family M Y E M E L E o N i D ^E. 



Genus Palpares. 

 Rambur, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes : Nevropt^reSj p. 365 (1842). 



Palpares paucimaculata, sp. n. 



Exp. al. ant. 113 millim., post. 120 millim. ; long. corp. 45 millim. 



Body thickly clothed with shaggy grey hair ; head yellow, antennae, except at base, 

 black, as also the mandibles, a transverse band below the antennae, and three broad 

 longitudinal bands, one behind each eye, and the third median and continued over the 

 pronotum, which is otherwise yellow above and on the front and sides beneath ; legs 

 chestnut-red, tarsi black ; abdomen dark brown. Fore-wings hyaline, Avith yellow 

 nervures, the bounding nervure black ; the costal cross-nervures formed of two spots, 

 often united into a thick line ; pterostigma veined with yellow ; beyond it is a light brown 

 irregular patch, dentated on the costal side, and followed by one or two smaller blotches 

 and spots towards the apex of the wing; below these are two light brown dashes, 

 running to the hind margin ; about the middle of the wing are two irregular spaces 

 indicated merely by the blackish outlines of the cells, and there are several other 

 .nervures marked with blackish, the most conspicuous being along the forking fourth 

 nervure, where the spots take the appearance of thorns ; the nervules running to the 

 hind margin are also spotted with black on their inner half, except towards the base. 

 Hind-wings with many of tiae cross-nervures in the costal area marked with thick 

 black lines ; pterostigma marked with yellow ; three light brown apical blotches, and 

 some evanescent dusky marks on the hind margin below ; three brown blotches below 

 the subcostal nervure — the first nearly round, the second forming an irregular oval, 

 the third forming a longer and narrower irregular stripe, throwing off a curved branch 

 outwards towards its lower end j below the round spot is a dark sagittate spot, above 

 two or three small ones on the inner margin ; below the second are two small spots 

 between it and the hind margin ; and on the hind margin itself are one or two smaller 

 black or dusky marks here and there. 



The fore-wings are almost exactly similar to P. suhmaculatns Kolbe (Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afrika, iv. Netzfliigier, p. 10. n. 5, plate, f. 5), and the hind-wings are very 

 similar to some varieties of P. libelluloides Linn., except for the almost total absence of 

 spots towards the inner margin of the hind wings. 



One specimen, Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3500 feet, May 18, 1906. 



