322 SOUTH- AFEICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of PampMla Ayresii. 



1. South Africa. 



K. Transvaal. — Lyclenburg District (T. Ayres). 



IL Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



ai. Western Interior. — Omrora River (J. W. Eriksson). 



351. (9.) Pamphila Borbonica, (Boisduval). 



Eesjperia Borhonica, Boisd., Faune Ent. Ma Jag., &c., p. 65, n. 3, pi. 9, ff. 



5, 6 (1833). 

 Hesperia FatueUus, Wallengr. {nee Hopff.), Iv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; 



Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 48, n. i. 

 $ 9 Pamphila Borbonica, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr, Aust., ii. p. 303, n. 



197 (1866). 



Exp. ah, {$) I in. 4-6 lin. ; ($) 1 in. 6-6\ lin. 



^ Glossy Iroivn, widely suffused from bases ivitli olivaceous; ivith 

 vitreoxis spots. Fore-wing : in upper part of discoidal cell, near ex- 

 tremity, a small vitreous spot ; beyond middle a transverse row of 

 seven spots (of which the first three are minute, subcostal, and form- 

 ing one narrow streak, — the other four larger, separate, the sixth being 

 the largest, and the seventh, which is just above submedian nervure, 

 tinged with yellowish), abruptly angulated iuAvardly on first median 

 nervule. Under side. — Paler ; hind-ioing and costal and apical border 

 of fore-wing olivaccous-yclloia. Fore-wing : spots as above. Plind-wing : 

 beyond middle a row of three small white, thinly fuscous-ringed spots, 

 between first subcostal and third median nervl^les ; inner-marginal fold 

 fuscous-grey superiorly, widening to anal angle. 



$ Similar; vitreous spots larger. Under side. — As in ^, but 

 slightly duller in tint. 



Cilia, in both sexes, throughout dull brownish-white. 



The South- African examples differ from the typical form in their 

 yellower under side, with larger white discal spots, and in possessing the 

 small vitreous disco-cellular spot of the fore-wing. 



I took two or three examples near D'Urban, Natal, in February 1867, and 

 Colonel Bowker has also met with it there, and has further sent me two ^ s, 

 captured respectively at Pinetown in June and at Umbilo in December 1879. 

 It seems to be decidedly much scarcer on the Natal coast than either of its near 

 allies — P. Fatuellus, llopfl'., and P. Molwpaani, AVallengr. 



This butterfly was abundant in Maiu'itius during my visit in July 1865, 

 and I captured many specimens at flowers in gardens. 



Localities of Pamp)Mla Borbonica. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Pinetown and Umbilo (/. H. 

 Bowlcer). 

 K. Transvaal — 1 Locality " (N. Person)." — Wallengren. 



