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duced at their inner apex. The prothorax is fully rounded in 
the middle at the sides, is narrowed at the base, and still 
more at the apex ; the whole space above between the ante- 
rior and posterior transverse grooves is covered with nume- 
rous rather short and irregular ridges *. Mr. Fry had placed 
this species in the genus Massicus , and I have no doubt that 
this is the best place for it. 
[To be continued.] 
XXXI . — Descriptions of new Species of African Lyctenidse, 
chiefly from the Collections of Dr. Staudinger and Mr. 
Henley Grose Smith . By W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., 
&c. 
A large number of African Lycsenidae have been kindly sent 
over to Mr. H. Grose Smith by Dr. Staudinger to be figured 
in c Rhopalocera Exotica,’ several of which have already 
been published in that work or will appear immediately. 
By far the larger number, however, cannot be figured for 
some little time, and I therefore publish descriptions, pending 
the appearance of the figures. Nearly all belong to genera 
which have already been more or less fully treated of in the 
section of our work devoted to African Lycasnidse. 
Genus Aslauga, gen. nov. 
Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior 
wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind 
margin ; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner mar- 
gin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal 
nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near 
together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other 
three short and emitted near the apex of the wing ; the third 
and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the 
fifth running to the hind margin just below 7 the apex. 
Aslauga marginalis. 
Exp. 1 inch. 
Male . — Upperside tawny, with the hind margins and the 
costa of the anterior wings rather broadly brown. 
* Since writing the above I have seen a second male specimen in the 
possession of Mr. Oliver Janson. In this the prothorax is much more 
regularly transversely wrinkled, and in that respect presents little difle- 
rence from venustus, Pasc. 
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