348 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTP:RFLIES. 



any tropical locality) is not uncommon on the eastern side of South 

 Africa, especially in Natal, I have not seen living Pillaana, but 

 observed in Natal that Canopus frequented the borders of woods and 

 often visited the flowers of Labiate plants, and that it held the wings 

 fully expanded when settled. 



365. (1.) Caprona Pillaana, Wallengreu. 



Capro7ia Pillaana, AVallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Haiidl., 1857; Lep. 



Rhop. Caffi'., p. 51. 

 ? ,, ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 308, 11. 202 (1866). 



Plate XII. fig. 6 (^), 6a ($).i 



$ Grcyish-hroivn, varied with darker and with paler transverse 

 markings ; fore-wing ivith transverse vitreous markings, hind-icing with 

 semi-transparent dingy -ivhitish median fascia. Fore-wing: just about 

 middle a narrow, transverse, sinuated, submacular vitreous stripe, finely 

 black-edged, from costa to submedian nervure, interrupted on first 

 median nervule, between which and submedian nervure are a minute 

 and a small spot in succession ; a minute separate vitreous black-edged 

 spot just beyond stripe, between origins of second and third median 

 nervules ; a little beyond vitreous stripe a submacular blackish irregular 

 stria from first median nervule to submedian nervure ; on costa, about 

 midway between vitreous stripe and apex, a short narrow rather irre- 

 gular oblique vitreous streak, crossed by three nervules and immediately 

 succeeded by a fuscous cloud ; immediately beyond this a whitish costal 

 transverse mark, which is the beginning of an almost imperceptible 

 waved pale discal streak, bounding exteriorly the blackish irregular 

 stria ; a rather narrow paler hind-marginal edging. Hind-icing : basal 

 area dark-brown, with a tinge of ferruginous superiorly ; median semi- 

 transparent fascia broad, extending from costa to below median nervure 

 and its first nervule (where it ends abruptly, but emits two small 

 acute projections), and traversed by two parallel unequal greyish-brown 

 streaks, traces of a discal pale streak continuous of that of fore-wing ; 

 ground-colour beyond this tinged with ferruginous ; hind-marginal pale 

 streak as in fore-wing, but inclining to whitish at anal angle. Cilice of 

 the ground-colour black-spotted at extremities of nervules. Under 

 SIDE. — Ilnch paler, especially in hind-wing, where dull-whitish (slightly 

 grcy-clondcd at base) occupies area to heyond middle. Fore-wing : 

 viti-eous markings as on upper side ; a hind-marginal pale cloud suc- 

 ceeds sinuated discal streak. Hind-wing : streaks traversing median 

 fascia almost obsolescent ; an obsolescent similar streak crossing disk 

 beyond them. 



$ Lilcc $, hut ^mlcr ; the discal deirker and paler markings more 



^ In fig. 6rt the under-side colouring is not accuratt-ly given, the fore-wing being much 

 too dark and the hind-wing too yellow. 



