New Species of Pais. 525 



Pale ochreous : hind-wing orange-flushed, except on hind-raargin : 

 stigmata and lunule wholly black, conspicuous. Fore-wing : no 

 ferruginous-red streaks ; the black lines from hind-marginal edg- 

 ing extending to transverse black line, which is more suffused and 

 much less angulated than above. Hind-wing: no blackish lines 

 from hind-marginal edge, which is narrower, to inner blackish 

 stripe, which is broader and darker than above. 



Palpi yellow beneath, black above, terminal joint wholly black ; 

 two creamy spots on front of head ; antennae wanting ; markings 

 of thorax defaced ; abdomen orange-ochreous, striped with black 

 above, paler on the sides, with a row of black spots, beneath 

 whitish, with two rows of black spots. 



Described from a single $ specimen, whose body has been 

 much injured by pressure in a book. A much worn and tattered 

 $ example appears to present no difference of marking. 



This fine and richly-coloured addition to the genus Pais, 

 hitherto represented only by a single South African species, was 

 taken by Mr. J. A. Bell, in Damara Land. It differs so widely 

 from P. decora, Linn., that it is scarcely necessary to point out 

 the distinctions between the species ; but it is most interesting to 

 observe the same general pattern and almost the same colours in 

 both. The creamy, steely-centred stigmata of the fore-wing, and 

 the ochrey-orange ground colour of the hind-wing, both of which 

 are ferruginous-red in P. decora, at once suffice to distinguish P. 

 pulchra from its congener. The above two specimens were all 

 that Mr. Bell's Collection contained, but I understood him to say 

 that the insect was not uncommon in some parts of Damara Land. 



VOL. I, THIRD SERIES, PART VII. — OCT. 1863, 



