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nervular dentations. Cilia of fore-wing brownisli-grey, except about 

 posterior angle, where pale-ycllowisli prevails; of hind-wing wholly 

 pale-yellow. Under side. — llind-ioing, and all forc-toincj except imrt 

 of central and inner-marginal area, j^^aZe chrome-yelloiv or sulphur- 

 yellow, without marking. Fore-wing : in cell and on lower disc a faint 

 indication of the upper-side pattern and colouring ; from base, below 

 median nervure and its first nervule, a conspicuous blackish suffusion, 

 extending to rather beyond middle only along first median nervule, 

 but below submedian nervure to posterior angle. 



Head and body above blackish with yellowish hairs, beneath pale 

 chrome-yellow or sulphur-yellow. Antennas black ; palpi with mixed 

 yellow and brown hairs above, and pale chrome-yellow hairs beneath, — 

 the terminal joint black ; vertex with a median yellow line and a yellow 

 spot above each eye. Abdomen above with yellow segmental half- 

 rings. 



$ Like $, hut in fore-wing basal yellow marking is much narrower 

 inferiorly, and further reduced hy one dark-brotvn ray from base in dis- 

 coidal cell (widening outivardly), and by another between median and 

 submedian nervures. 



This species is well characterised by the wide development of the 

 yellow markings of the upper side, and by the almost (in the hind- 

 wings wholly) spotless pale-yellow under side. Its nearest ally in 

 these respects is Harona, Westw.,^ a species not hitherto recorded 

 from south of the Tropic, in which the yellow of the uj^per side is 

 still more extended, occupying the costa of the fore-wings and nearly 

 the whole of the hind-wings, but in which the under side of the hind- 

 wings is of a paler yellow." 



Le-pemda appears to belong to the interior tracts of South Africa, especially 

 the Transvaal country; but in 1881 I was surprised to receive from Mr. S. D. 

 Bairstow a ^ example captured by him at Uitenhage. At the end of 187 1 

 Colonel Bowker found this butterfly very sparingly on a hillside at Klipdrift 

 (now Barkly), on the Yaal Eiver, and sent me a specimen for determination. 

 About Potchefstroom it seems to be not uncommon. 



Localities of Thymelicus Lepenula. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage (^S*. D. Bairstoio). 



c. Griqualand West. — A-^aal River : Barkly (J". H. Bowker). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and District {T. Ayres and W. Morant). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



61. Eastern Interior (special locality not stated: A. W. Ericksson). 



1 App. Gates' Matabele Land, p. 353 (1881). 



- On the upper side Lepenula bears a close resemblance to Maro (Fab.), a Cingalese 

 species, but wants the fuscous spotting and brownish clouding of the latter on the under 

 side. 



