3i8 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



wholly different above from the spotless or almost spotless, paler and 

 more or less yellow-suffused $ HoUentota. 



I captured both sexes of this inconspicuous little Hesperide at D'Urban, 

 Xatal, in February 1867, and have since received a few examples from the late 

 Mr. M. J. INI'Ken and from Colonel Bowker, captured in the same locality. It 

 is so very like the 5 HoUentota in flight and appearance, that no doubt it is 

 constantly mistaken for that butterfly, and so overlooked by collectors. 



Localities of Pamphila Monasi. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 



348. (6.) Pamphila lugens, Hopffer. 



$ Pamphila lugens, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berl., 1855, 

 p. 643 ;" and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 418, t. xxvii. ff. 5, 

 6 (1862). 



Exp. al, {$') I in. 3 liu. ; (g) i in. 4 lin. 



$ Very dark hroivn, with a hronzy gloss in some lights ; without 

 marJcings of any kind; cilia brown, but greyish externally in both 

 hind-wing and lower half of fore-wing. Under side. — Not so dark, 

 especially in fore-wing, which has a very faint tinge of dull ochreous- 

 yellow ; in both wings a paler very ill-defined median shade, more 

 apparent in fore-wing, which has also a very narrow similar paler shade 

 along hind-margin. 



Head and body, with legs, all dark-brown, above with a slight 

 admixture of bronzy-yellow hairs. Falpi beneath with a considerable 

 admixture of pale-yellowish hairs; antcnnce black above, yellowish- 

 white narrowly barred with black beneath. 



^ Duller and jKder. Forc-iving : a discal series of five very indis- 

 tinct minute transparent spots, viz., a subcostal curved row of three 

 some way beyond extremity of discoidal cell, and two larger sublinear 

 ones, situated one above, the other below second median nervule (the 

 lower one nearer base). Under side. — Paler than in ^ ; transparent 

 spots of fore-wing as on upper side. 



Hopffer mentions that the ^ when in fine condition exhibits on the 

 under side of the fore- wings a scarcely perceptible discal series of five 

 minute spots paler than the ground-colour. He records three $ s from 

 Querimba, collected by the Peters' Expedition. 



I have seen only two specimens — one of each sex — of this very sombre little 

 butterfly ; they were received at the South-African Museum in 1886 in a small 

 series collected at Delagoa Bay by Mrs. IMonteiro. 



