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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIIDJE. 53 not correct, nor is the reference of the species to the genus Cyclopides made by M r . Trimen much better, though certainly more natural than the original location. I have been tempted to erect a new genus for the reception of this and the following form, but with the insufficient material at m y command for a close anatomical study I refrain. Manifestly the much shorter antennae, with obtuse clubs, the long cilia of the primaries and the secondaries, the rounded apex of the primaries, and the different general outline of the wings point to a different generic location than that given by the author of the species. 179. C. (?) PUNCTULATA, Butl. Ceratrichia punctulata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 265, pi. xv. fig. 7. Hab. British Central Africa (Butler). I think it very doubtful whether this is more than varietally distinct from the foregoing species. PROSOPALPUS, gen. nov. Antennae relatively long, reaching beyond the middle of costa; slender, with a moderately thick and elongated club terminating in a fine point, the terminal portion for a short distance bent, not hooked or recurved. Palpi: first joint short; second joint very long, produced for half of its length beyond the front; both second and third joints heavily clothed with scales ; the third joint is long, produced, acute, almost naked. The hind tibiae have a double pair of spurs. In the primaries the cell is moderately long, its end reaching fully to the middle of the wing; vein 12 terminating slightly before the end of the cell; vein 7 from end of the cell; vein 5 very slightly, if at all, nearer vein 4 than vein 6. The primaries are relatively broad, the outer margin and outer angle evenly rounded. Secondaries : cell short, not reaching to the middle of the wing ; vein 5 present, equidistant from veins 4 and 6 ; vein 7 from before the end of the cell, four times as far from vein 8 as from the end of the cell; vein 8 from very near the base; veins 3 and 4 both from the end of the cell; vein 2 from before the end of the cell; veins 1 a and 1 b curved ; fringes very long ; secondaries evenly rounded on the costa and the outer margin to the anal angle; the inner margin nearly straight. Type P. duplex, Mab. The small species which I have chosen as the type of this genus is very distinct in general appearance from all other species which appear to be in any wise related to it. In the structure of the palpi it approaches somewhat the genera Gorgyra and Parosmodes. In the form of the wings, broad and evenly rounded, as well as in the almost uniform black coloration, it is widely different ,from all the species included in those two genera. Instead of being robust, as those species are, it wholly differs, esembling more closely in some respects in the form of its wings |