328 SOUTU- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



moderately wide, ratlicr diffused on its inner edge, extending from apex 

 almost to second median nervule. Hijid-iving : yellow-oclireous coat- 

 ing of scales and hairs generally distributed except on the margins. 

 Cilia brownish-white throughout. Hind-iving, and narroio costcd lorder 

 and ivide apiccd area of fort-wing, pcde hroivnish-grey, with a slight 

 tinge of ochrc-yclloiv, and a %-ery faint violaceous gloss. Fore-wing : 

 vitreous spots as on upper side ; in discoidal cell a very small imper- 

 fect fuscous annulet with a whitish centre just above vitreous spot; a 

 subapical series of five similar annulets, acutely angulated on upper 

 radial nervule — the two lower ones in an oblique line with the two 

 discal vitreous spots; inner-marginal border very pale yellowish-grey. 

 Hind-wing : an irregular, strongly-curved discal series of seven or 

 eight very small dull-whitish fuscous-edged spots (varying in shape 

 from circular to cuneiform), angulated just beneath second subcostal 

 nervule ; a sub-basal curved series of four similar less distinct spots ; 

 inner-marginal fold darker. 



Head and lodg above very densely clothed with yellowish-brown 

 hair ; beneath of the same pale brownish-grey as the greater part of 

 the wings. 



Antenna} above whitish, but with the cluh (exce^yt the hooh) fure 

 silvery-ivhite ; beneath creamy, the club brownish, but with a white bar 

 just before the hook, which is reddish. 



$ Like $, but fore-wings icithout white hind-marginal border, and 

 with smaller disco-cellular and discoidal vitreous spots ; cilia browner ; 

 no purplish gloss. Under side. — Hind-wing : a conspicuous, straight, 

 narrow, pure-white streak from base to hind-margin, running along 

 subcostal nervure and its second nervule, and bordered inferiorly by 

 dark-brown shading off into ground-colour. 



Ante7incc above blackish, half-ringed with white, — club with a white 

 bar j ust before the hook ; beneath as in ^. 



Larva. — "Elongated; deep-green on the head and thoracic seg- 

 ments, light-green abdominally ; head with two small jet-black spots, 

 looking like eyes. Feeds on the dwarf wild date-palm {Phcenix recli- 

 nata), drawing the leaves together, and forming a silk-lined incomplete 

 tube, sometimes six or seven inches in length." — J. H. Bowker, 23d 

 March 1881. 



Colonel Bowker adds that he was indebted to Mr. A. D. IMillar, of D'Urban, 

 for the discovery of this larva and its food-plant ; and Mr. Millar has lately 

 (188S) written to me that he had bred about a dozen Dysmepldla from a 

 small date-palm in his garden. He notes that the larvae feed on the leaves 

 above the tube that they have formed, retiring to the tube when not feeding ; 

 and that they are most difficult to discover among the folds of the leaves. 



Pupa. — Elongate, cylindrical, abruptly acuminate at tip of abdo- 

 men. Shining reddish- brown, paler beneath. Attached to leaf by the 

 tail, and almost concealed in the channel or imperfect tube formed by 

 the larva. Length about one inch. 



