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14. S.(?) AFRICANA, nov. sp. (Bubo festivus, Ramb. N^rop. p. 356, 

 part.) Antennae nigrae ; clava lurida. Frons flavidus, cinereo-villosus. 

 Vertex fusco-villosus. Occiput piceum, in medio nigrum. Thorax 

 supra griseo-fuscus, utrinque niger, griseo-villosus ; lineis indistinctia 

 pallidis : infra pallidior, cano-villosus, linea utrinque flavida. Pedes 

 pallide flavidi ; tibiis ad basin apicemque et in medio fusco-semi- 

 cinctis; tarsis nigro-annulatis. Abdomen attenuatum, infuscatum, 

 supra ad basin rubidum, infra ad basin utrinque vitta flava notatum j 

 apice nigro-hirsuto. Alsc vitrese; pterostigmate pallide brunneo; 

 venis venulisque fuscis. Long. corp. 14'"} exp. alar, antic. 27'", 

 postic. 23'". 

 Hab. Gaboon, Madagascar. 



The individual from the Gaboon is in my collection. "I cannot 

 separate it specifically from the old specimen, said to be from 

 Madagascar, that is one of Eambur's types of festivus. My in- 

 dividual is certainly a cf , and hence cannot be an JEncyoposis. 

 It is possible there may exist another African genus, and that 

 in it should be placed Suphalasca qf/'icana, Mncyoposis rvfo- 

 f ictus, E. longistigma, and E. festivus. 



V Genus Bubo, Bamhur. 



Wings elongate, narrow, scarcely dilated; the extreme base of 

 the inner margin of the anterior wings with a semicircular 

 excision, the axillary angle being somewhat produced : transverse 

 branch of the lower cubitus confluent with the postcosta in all 

 the wings. 



Antenna; much shorter than the wings, straight ; club broadly 

 pyriform, almost truncate. 



Eyes with the lower division one -half smaller than the upper. 



Thorax villose. 



Abdoinen short: appendices of the ^ long, twisted, geniculate, 

 with a process in the middle. 



Legs with the spurs of the posterior tibiao as long as the first two 

 tarsal joints. 

 Sab. Spain, Syria, Egypt, &c. 



Species. 



1. B. AGRioiDES, Rambur. (Ascal. agrioides, Ramb. In. Andalus. 

 pi. ix. fig. 2. — Bubo agrioides, Ramb. N^vrop. p. 353.) 



Hab. Spain. 



2. B. HAMATUS, Klug. (Ascal. hamatus, Klug, Symb. Phys. iii. 

 tab. xxxxvii. fig. 10. — Bubo hamatus, Ramb. N^vrop. p. 354. — 

 A. forcipatus, Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxiii. p. 280, tab. v. fig. 4.) 



