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and veinlets pale yellow, excepting those placed in the black spots, 

 where they are blackish. Legs orange yellow, the tips of the tibise 

 and the whole of the tarsi shining black ; spines black ; spurs and 

 claws pitchy. Abdomen pale yellow, with whitish hairs at the base, 

 and afterwards with minute black bristles; a broad band on each side 

 and the under surface black ; terminal segment wholly yellow ; ap- 

 pendices cylindrical, regularly curved, yellow. 

 The above description applies to a male taken by Mr. T. Baines 

 on the Daka Eiver in the Zambesi valley in March. 



The female from Damara Land differs in vs^anting the yellow tint 

 on the subcostal area ; the small dots on the posterior wings are 

 less numerous, and in these wings are three rather large blackish 

 reticulated spots, one on the disk about the middle, and two 

 others placed obliquely a little within the pterostigma, the larger 

 of which is near the costal margin ; the reticulation is paler, 

 almost colourless (excepting in the black markings). The tibiae 

 have a vestige of a black mark externally. 



As I have seen but one example from each locality, respectively 

 male and female, I am unable to say if the small differences above 

 noted are actually sexual or dependent upon local influences. 



Palpares DAMARENSis, n. sp. Fuscus, flavo varius. Antennae nigrse. 

 Caput valde convexum, nigro-fuscum ; labro flavo. Prothorax fuscus, 

 antice flavo marginatus (interdum flavus, fusco signatus). Meso- 

 thorax metathoraxque fusci, obscure flavo varii. Alse antice elongatse, 

 obtusse, pallide flavo-albidae ] maculis costalibus (ad basin numerosis) 

 et ad marginem dorsalem fasciisque tribus interru^Jtis plus minus 

 nigris aut fusco-nigris ; pterostigmate venis venulisque flavis : posticse 

 anticis fere sequales, pallide flavo-albidae ; macula magna basin versus, 

 fasciis duabus vel interruptis vel postice furcatis maculisque margi- 

 nalibus apicalibusque nigris. Pedes nigri. Al)domen testaceum, apicem 

 versus obscurius. $. Long. corp. 1" 5'"; exp. alar. 3" 2'". 



Hah, "Damara Land" {Andersson). In collect, auct. 



Antenncs about the length of the thorax, black, the club obtuse, but not 

 abruptly capitate. Head blackish, with a few whitish hairs, the vertex 

 very convex, with a median impressed longitudinal line ; clypeus and 

 Zairwm yellow; ^a/pi black, ^yes castaneous. Pro^^or«a? very short, 

 much widened posteriorly, and with the posterior angles strongly pro- 

 duced downwards ; the margins all raised, the middle space some- 

 what flattened; dark fuscous, with a few white hairs, the anterior 

 portion broadly yellow. In one example (more immature?) the 

 whole prothorax is bright yellow, with blackish spots in the middle. 

 Mesothorax blackish fuscous, with few whitish hairs ; a large yellow 

 spot occupies the posterior lobe, above which are other yellowish 

 markings. Metathorax similarly coloured, with three yellowish spots. 



