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broad oclireous-yellow, in some examples tinged with ferruginous in 

 fore-wing. 



Under side. — Hind-iuing and costal horder and ivide apical area 

 of fore-wing ferruginous or yelloiv-oclireous ; in the ferruginous-tinted 

 examples the inner -marginal fold of hind-wing {except along its inferior 

 margin) is yellow-ochreous. Fore-wing : ground of lower half of wing 

 dull-fuscous ; upper part of discal band obliterated ; lower part and 

 disco-cellular spot paler than on upper side. Rind-ioing : three small 

 black spots before middle, viz., one in discoidal cell close to base, another 

 at extremity of cell, and the third between median and submedian 

 nervTires ; a strongly-curncd discal roio of five similar spots between 

 costal and submedian nervures, two being above the interrupting disco- 

 cellular fold and three below it. Cilia agreeing in colour with the 

 hind-margin. Above, the head and pxdpi, and the prothorax clothed 

 with ferruginous- or yellow-ochreous hairs; thorax and abdomen dark- 

 brown, the former with some yellow hairs posteriorly, and the latter 

 with the segmental incisions and a terminal tuft fulvous- or ochreous- 

 yellow. Beneath, the palpi, breast, and legs, and the base of abdomen 

 ochreous-yellow (in some examples tinged with ferruginous) ; median 

 band and terminal j^art of abdomen pale-yellow, with a row of small 

 black spots on each side. 



$ Like ^, but all the ochre-yellow markings narrower, especially 

 in fore-wing, where discal band is widely interrupted (from upper 

 radial to third median nervule), and is much reduced inferiorly, leaving 

 disco-cellular terminal spot isolated. Under side. — Fuscous ground 

 larger, and markings reduced in fore-wing. 



Allied to Lcpenula, Wallengr., but with much darker ground-colour 

 on upper side, and readily known by possessing small black spots on 

 the under side of the hiud-wings, and by the acuminate and slightly 

 hooked club of the antenni3e. From the East- African Herilus, Hopff.,'^ 

 which is also nearly related, it may be recognised by wanting the 

 yellow disco-cellular spot and sub-inner-marginal stripe on the upper 

 side of the hind-wings, and by having fewer and quite differently 

 situated black spots on the under side. 



I was disposed to keep separate Ranohxi, West,, in consequence of 

 its somewhat larger and paler upper- side markings, and paler yellow 

 under side, but finding that the Natalian Morantii varied in both these 

 characters in both sexes (the under side, especially in a ^ and two $ s, 

 being as pale in tint as in JRanoha from the Upper Limpopo), I have 

 decided that the two cannot be held distinct. 



This is a rare species ; I have seen only seven Xatalian examples, three of 

 whicli were of the decided ferruginous tinting on the under side, and one of an 

 intermediate colour. An injured (J was captured at D' Urban by my Kafir 

 collector on 5th February 1867, but I could not identify it as conspecific with 

 the 5 (taken in June 1869 at Pinctown by Mr. W. ]\[orant) on which I subse- 



^ Peters' Rcisc nach Mossninh., Ins., p. 419, t. xxvii. ff. 7, 8 (1862). 



