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nervules. Cilia throughout dull-whitish, but browner in upper half 

 of fore-wing. Under side. — Fahr ; hind-iving and narrow costal and 

 broad apical border of fore-wing more or less coloured tvith pale olivaceous- 

 yellow — m some specimens tvith a greyish tinge. Fore-iving : male badge 

 (streak between first median nervule and submedian nervure) not so 

 distinct as on upper side, but bounded externally by two diffused indis- 

 tinct whitish marks; vitreous spots as on upper side. Hind-iDing : in 

 upper part of discoidal cell, close to extremity, a small rounded white 

 spot ; discal spots more distinct and usually fully represented ; occa- 

 sionally a sixth spot between costal nervure and first subcostal nervule. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen superiorly with a rather dense clothing 

 of dull olivaceous-yellow hairs ; inferiorly dull-white. 



$ Like $ ; but the fore-wing with larger vitreous spots, and with 

 tioo additional spots (one minute, immediately beloiv sixth spot of discal 

 row, — the other larger, outivardly acuminate, immediately above subme- 

 dian nervure), in p)lace of the straight oblique streak of the $ ; olivaceous- 

 yellow scales and hairs of an obscurer tint. Under side. — As in $, 

 except that in fore-wing the two spots that replace the ^ badge are 

 distinct and well defined. 



This is a very close ally of the widely-distributed Indian and Indo- 

 Malayan Mathias, Fab., which has been recorded by Mr. Butler as 

 inhabiting Aden, and I think it very likely, when a full series from 

 Africa and Oriental localities can be compared, that Mohopaani will be 

 recognised as merely a larger form of Mathias. 



It is distinguishable without difficulty from its South-African allies, 

 Borbonica, Boisd., and Fatucllus, Hopff., by possessing two disco-cellular 

 vitreous spots in the fore-wings, and by the strong olivaceous-yellow 

 tinting over both wings ; while the $ has the further distinction of the 

 linear discal sexual badge in the fore-wings. 



Mohopaani seems to be pretty generally distributed throughout Southern 

 Africa, and its occurrence has been noted in such widely remote parts of the 

 continent, that it will probably be found to range throughout Tropical Africa. 

 I have taken it in the neighbourhood of Cape Town and Knysna, and met with 

 it numerously at D'Urban in Natal. Its habits are precisely those of its near 

 congeners ; — it is swift on the wing, but constantly arrests its flight to settle 

 on flowers — its special resort in the neighbourhood of Cape Town being the 

 flowers of the common cultivated vetch. On the Xatal Coast it appears to be 

 on the wing throughout the year. Colonel Bowker captured the paired sexes 

 on 28th March 1880. 



Localities of Pamjjhila Mohop)aani. 



South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Knysna. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers {J. H. Boivker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. A'erulam. Pinetown (/. //. Boivker 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (./. M. Ilutchiusou). 



