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Show 72 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 246. B. (?) AYRESII, Trim. Pamphila ayresii, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 321, pi. xn. fig. 1 (1889). Hab. South Africa; South Tropical Africa. PLATYLESCHES, gen. nov. Allied to Parnara, Moore. The thorax and head are very broad, and the general appearance of the body is more robust than in Parnara. The antennae are more than half as long as the costa of the primaries, slender, terminating in a stout club, with a strongly recurved hook at its end. The palpi are broad, flattened horizontally, appressed, heavily clothed with long scales upon the first and second joints, and with the third joint (which is minute, acute, and situated on the outer edge of the horizontally widened second joint) naked. The wings are relatively somewhat narrower than in the genus Parnara, with the outer margin of the primaries nearly straight, or, as in P. picanini, Holl., slightly excavated above the outer angle. The secondaries are more or less lobed at the anal angle in the male. The neuration of the wings does not materially differ from that in Parnara, so far as I have been able to determine with the limited material at my disposal. Type P. picanini, Holland. 247. P. PICANINI, Holl. Parnara (?) picanini, Holl. Ent. News, vol. v. p. 91, pi. hi. fig. (1894). Pamphila grandiplaga, Mab. M S . in Staudinger collection. Hab. Valley of the Ogove. 248. P. MORITILI, Wallgr. Hesperia moritili, Wallgr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 ; Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 49 (1857). Pamphila (?) moritili, Trim. Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 305 (1866). Hesperia neba, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xix. p. 84 (1877). Pamphila moritili, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 319, pi. xii. fig. 4 (1889). Hab. South Africa; South Tropical Africa. 249. P. GALESA, Hew. (Plate I. fig. 7.) Pamphila galesa, Hew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xix. p. 79 (1877). Hab. West Africa. I only know this species from the type, which is preserved in the British Museum. It is a very robust insect, and very closely allied to H. nigerrima, Butl. |