352 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



external fringe of broad scale-like Lairs, extending also to first joint 

 of tarsi, or (Mokeczi) with a dense coating of short liair, somewhat 

 lengthened at extremity of tarsi ; hind-femora at base beneath and 

 hind-tibite throughont above in some species (Bjaicclcv and Mokeezi) 

 bearing very long bristly hairs, forming a tuft directed posteriorly ; 

 or hind-tibifB and first joint of hind-tarsi (the latter enlarged to thick- 

 ness of tarsus) tnfted superiorly throughout with long dense softer hair 

 {Motozi and Kottoana) ; or, lastly, hind-tibia3 with two fringes, supe- 

 rior and inferior, of fine long silky hair (Flcsus). 



Abdomen moderately stout, variable in length, but always shorter — 

 usually much shorter — than inner margin of hind-wings ; in $ hollowed 

 and hairy in basal part beneath ; in ^ not blunt and broad at tip as in 

 Caprona. 



It is difficult to separate this genus from Nisoniadcs — represented 

 by Tagcs, Linn., and Marloyi, Boisd., in Europe, and by a considerable 

 number of species in North America — except by the length and flexure 

 of the antennal club, and the shorter and less hairy palpi. The South- 

 African species have been dispersed in several Hiibnerian genera, — 

 Plotz, for instance,! makes Motozi an Ephyriadcs^ Nottoana an Antigonus, 

 and Dja'Icclcc, Kohda, Mokeczi, and Flesus species of Tagiades, — but I 

 have not succeeded in discovering among them any distinctions of 

 generic value. The remarkable variation as regards the secondary 

 sexual characters of the J", as in the case of Pgrgus (to which genus 

 Fterygosindea presents considerable afiinity), does not afford any constant 

 criterion for grouping the species, these badges differing in such closely- 

 allied forms as Flesih and Nottoana, while the $ s throughout offer no 

 tangible points of distinction. 



Fjcelcclcc approaches nearest to Nisoniades in respect to palpi and 

 antennae, but is singular in the toothed and excised hind-margin of the 

 hind-wings (which resembles to a slight extent that found in Caprona) ;^ 

 its small size, purplish-glossed black-brown upper side and reddish 

 under side render it easily recognised. All the South-African species 

 possess some transparent markings in the fore-wings, but these are 

 very small in Dja:Ic€la\ Kohela, and the $ b oi Nottoana, Motozi, and 

 Flcsus, while in both sexes of 3Iokeczi they are enlarged into two 

 oblique bars, and of a light-yellow tint. The ground-colour is in all 

 of some shade of brown (in Nottoana much darker in the ^ than in the 

 $). In general aspect Kohela is more like a Nisoniadcs than any of 

 the others. 



The species known to inhabit South Africa are sylvan ; they rest 

 with fully-expanded wings, chiefly on leaves — Flcsus and Mokeezi almost 

 always, and Nottoana by preference, on the under surface of the latter. 

 I have frequently taken Djcclaice and Motozi settled on the ground. 



^ Jahrh. Nass. Vcr. filr Nat., 1884, pp. 59, 85, 94, &c. 



- The larger P. crosula and P. angulata, Feld., from the Oriental Region, are figured as 

 possessing a very similar hind-marginal outline. 



