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Show 1875.] ON RARE MAMMALS IN THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION. 417 wing with a white spot close to the base, crossed at the middle a band of four white spots and a submarginal row of minute white spots; the fringe of both wings alternately black and white. The underside the same as above, except that all the white spots are a little larger. Exp. 3f in. Angola (J. J. Mi). Type, Mus. Druce. A beautiful little species allied to P. diomus, Hopff. Genus ASTICTOPTERUS, Feld. A. LEPETETIERII, Latr. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 777 (1823). Genus CYCLOPIDES, Hiibn. C. METIS, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 325 (1764). Genus PARDALEODES, Butl. 1. P. SATOR, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. D. L. t. 79. f. 4 (1852). 2. P. LARONIA, Hew. Desc. Hesp. p. 35 (1868).. A single specimen of this species was in the collection. Genus TAGIADES, Hiibn. TAGIADES HEREUS, n. sp. Upperside, anterior wing dark brown, palish at the anal angle, four minute semitransparent spots on the middle of the costal margin, two below them, and six near the apex ; posterior wing yellowish white, the base and the costal margin dark brown, with three brown spots on the hind margin close to the apex. Underside the same as above, except the costal margin of the posterior wing, which is not nearly so brown as above. Exp. 1| in. Angola. Type, Mus. Druce. Mr. Monteiro only obtained a single specimen of this insect; it is quite unlike any other with which I am acquainted. 7. On several rare or little-known Mammals now or lately living in the Society's Collection. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Eeceived May 12, 1875.] (Plates XLVII.-LI.) The difficulty of determining living animals accurately, especially where the species is of rare occurrence or belongs to a genus imperfectly known, must be obvious to every naturalist. I need hardly, therefore, apologize for finding it necessary to make occasional revisions of the terms employed in the lists now printed every month of P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1875, No. XXVII. 27 |