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Localities of Tlnjmcliais Barhercc. 



I. South Africa. 

 B, Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Stormbergen {Mrs. Barber). Burghersdorp, 

 Albert District (D. li. Kannemeijer). 

 K. Transvaal. — Special locality not noted {H. Barber). 



Genus PAMPHILA. 



Pamphila, Fabricius, " lUiger's Mag., vi. p. 287 (1807)." 



„ "Westw. (part), Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 521 (1852). 



„ Trim, (part), Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 297 (1866). 



,, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1878, p. 183, and 1879, p. 489. 



Hesperia, Picitz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1882, p. 314. 



Imago. — Head broad, sometimes broader iu $ tLan in $ ; 2Mlpi 

 usually short, — middle joint broad, — wider anteriorly, densely clothed 

 with stiff hair with the appearance of having been evenly clipped, — ter- 

 minal joint usually rather short and thick, conical, often scarcely showing 

 beyond hair of middle joint ; antennce variable in length, stout, — club 

 well marked, rather thick, cylindrical, more or less elongate, almost 

 always ending in a short, slender, more or less pronounced hook ; tuft 

 near base of each antenna rather short. 



Thorax very robust, about as long as abdomen, clothed with short 

 hair, which is usually less dense on the back. Wings rather small, 

 thick. Fore-winrjs prolonged apically, especially in $ ; apex itself more 

 or less acute ; costa nearly straight, or slightly hollowed beyond middle ; 

 hind-margin in some species (more markedly in $) moderately concave 

 inferiorly ; discoidal cell always more than half, and usually two- 

 thirds the length of the wing, pointed superiorly at its extremity, — 

 the closing nervules (middle and lower disco-cellular) being inwardly 

 oblique, and usually well developed ; lower radial nervule originating 

 considerably nearer to third median nervule than to upper radial, and 

 usually so curved in conjunction with lower disco-cellular as to look like 

 a fourth median nervule ; first median nervule variable as to distance 

 of its origin from that of second nervule, sometimes originating about 

 half-way between latter and base, but in many species much nearer to 

 second nervule ; in ^ sometimes a lower discal linear groove, situated 

 as in some species of Thymclicus, or farther from base, shorter, mode- 

 rately oblique inwardly, between submedian nervure and iirst median 

 nervule. Hind-wings rather short, apically rounded, always more or less 

 produced, and commonly lobate, at anal angle (especially in ^) ; costa 

 more or less strongly lobate and fringed with hair basally ; discoidal 

 cell short, seldom extending to middle, — its closing nervule very slender, 

 outwardly oblique ; radial nervule reduced to a mere line or Avanting ; 

 costal nervure ending at or just before apex ; subcostal nervure branch- 



