242 ME. E. Ji'LACHLAIf OX NEW SPECIES ETC. OF JsTEUEOPTEEA. 



The sides and under surface of the thorax are blackish, with j^ellow 

 markings thickly clothed with white hairs. Anterior loings elongate, 

 obtuse, pale yellowish white, with black markings ; pterostigma yellow; 

 a series of broad transverse costal spots, a large number of small spots 

 on the basal fourth of the wing, and also along the apex and dorsal 

 margin ; three transverse fasciae more or less divided into large spots, 

 one at about a third from the base, another at two thirds, and the last 

 following the pterostigma, the spaces between these fasciae without 

 dots, excepting on the margins ; costal veins blackish, the rest of the 

 veins and veiulets yellow, except where they traverse the black mark- 

 ings, with which they are there concclorous. Posterior icings similar 

 in form to the anterior, scai-cely shorter, coloured the same but with 

 fewer small black spots, viz. several very indistinct transverse costal 

 ones and some larger ones on the dorsal margin ; on the disk at about 

 one-quarter of the length from the base is a large isolated spot ; at 

 about the middle a broad angulated fascia, sometimes interrupted 

 towards the dorsal margin, where it is forked ; a similar, but straighter, 

 fascia at a fourth of the length from the apex, and some apical spots 

 forming a greatly interrupted third fascia ; veins and veinlets coloured 

 as in the anterior. Legs black, with black spines and white hairs ; 

 tibial spurs nearly as long as the fii'st three tarsal joints, dark shining 

 castaneous, slightly curved; claws similarly coloured, very long. Ab- 

 domen yellowish testaceous, more obscure towards the apex. 

 I possess tvi'O examples from Damara Laud. I bad at first re- 

 ferred this and the next species to Tomateres, to which in their 

 comparatively small size and general form tliey bear much re- 

 semblance ; but the autennsD, at any rate in P. damarensis, are not 

 so short and abruptly capitate as in the species of that genus. 



Palpares flavo-fasciatus, n. sp. Fuscus. (Caput prothorax- 

 que desunt.) Mesothorax metathoraxque fusco-nigri, cano hirsuti.- 

 Alae anticae elongatae, subacutae, subhyahnae, densissime fusco-nigro 

 reticulatae ; fasciis tribus completis obliquis maculisque numerosis, 

 baud reticulatis, flavis : posticae albae ; fasciis tribus latis fuscis, quarum 

 duae ad marginem dorsalem trifiircatae. Pedes nigri. Abdomen attenua- 

 tum, fuscum ; appendicibus divaricatis, curvatis, subclavatis, nigris( S )• 

 Long. Corp. (sine eapite et appendicibus) 1" 11'"; exp. alar. 3" 9'". 



Hub. " Damara Laud *' (-4«c?ersso;i). In collect, auct. 



(Head and prothorax wanting in my example). Meso- and metathorax 

 blackish, clothed with hoary hahs. Anterior wings subhyaline, densely 

 reticulated with blackish, and with very numerous small yellow spots, 

 costal margin black and yellow alternately ; three bright yellow oblique 

 transverse fasciae without reticulation, viz. one, nearly equal in breadth 

 throughout, at about a quarter of the length of the wing from the base, 

 another, interrupted, at about a third from the apex, and another, 

 complete, just before the apex ; these fasciae are all very broadly 



