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14. S. (?) africana, nov. sp. (Bubo festivus, Ramb. Nevrop. p. 356, 

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

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

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

 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 ; 

 apice nigro-hirsuto. Alae vitreae ; 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 S , and hence cannot be an Encyoposis. 

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

 in it should be placed Suphalasca africana, Encyoposis rufo- 

 pictus, E. longistigma, and E. festivus. 



Grenus Bubo, Marnbur. 



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. 



Antennce much shorter than the wings, straight ; club broadly 



pyriform, almost truncate. 

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

 Thorax villose. 



Abdomen short: appendices of the $ long, twisted, geniculate, 



with a process in the middle. 

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



tarsal joints. 



Hab. Spain, Syria, Egypt, &c. 



Species. 



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

 pi. ix. fig. 2. — Bubo agrioides, Ramb. Nevrop. p. 353.) 



Hab. Spain. 



2. B. ham at us, Klug. (Ascal. hamatus, Klug, Symb. Phys. iii. 

 tab. xxxxvii. fig. 10. — Bubo hamatus, Ramb. Nevrop. p. 354.— 

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



