IIESPERID.E. 2^. 



Only Djcelcelce and Nottoana are known to extend as far to the south- 

 west as Knysna in Cape Colony. The former and Flcsns are most widely 

 distributed over the African continent, but tlie only other known to me 

 to occur within the tropical boundary is Motozi. From Natal I have 

 obtained all but Kohela ; this last, with Motozi and Mokeezi, extend into 

 the eastern border of Capo Colony. 



I am not acquainted with many species of this f^enus from other 

 countries ; but several near allies of Flcsus occur in the Indo-INfalayan 

 area, and some related to Mokeezi in the same region and in Tropical 

 Africa. 



367. (1.) Pterygospidea Kobela, Trimen. 



S ? Nisoniades Kohela, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 180 

 (1864) ; and Rhop. Afr. Aust., p. 312, 11. 205, pi. 6, f. 4 [ ? ], (1866). 



Exp. al, Q) I in. 5I-9 lin. ; ($) i in. /-lO^ lin. 



$ Dusky Mackish-hroiun, here and there clouded with ptciler scales ; 

 with small vitreous, ayid indistinct larger Uack spots ; in hoth wings a 

 suUerminal disco-cellular spot, and a transverse discal row of spots. 

 Fore-xoing : cellular spot encloses a vitreous dot, — often wanting ; discal 

 row of spots elbowed on discoidal nervules, composed of nine spots, the 

 three first of which (next costa) are minute and always vitreous, the 

 fourth and fifth black only and nearer margin than the rest, the others 

 more or less indistinctly vitreous-centred ; between first median nervule 

 and submediau nervure, before middle, a large indistinct black spot ; 

 beyond discal spots and also along hind-margin some faint-yellowish 

 scaling. Hind-iving : spots without vitreous centres ; discal row more 

 regular than in fore-wing, of six or seven spots. Under side. — Bather 

 paler, more glossy ; spots more distinct, hut smaller. Fore-wing : inner 

 margin bordered with dull-greyish ; spot before middle obsolete. Riiid- 

 wing : a double streak closing cell ; spots of transverse row bounded 

 outwardly and often centred with dull-yellowish scales. Cilia of fore- 

 wing fuscous, indistinctly mixed with dull greyish-yellow, more apparent 

 near anal angle ; of hind-wing conspicuously dull yclloivish-white inter- 

 rupted tvith fuscous on nervules, — paler beneath. 



$ Paler, browner ; spots of fore-wing (especially lower ones of 

 discal ro^v) always with vitreous or subvitreous centres, — that in dis- 

 coidal cell sometimes containing a second (inferior) vitreous spot ; all 

 spots more apparent than in $. 



Antennce fuscous above ; half-ringed with creamy-yellow beneath, 

 and with the club (except its dull-red tip) of the same colour. 



Palpi beneath with some pale-yellowish hairs mixed with the 

 fuscous ones. 



However indistinct the spots in general may be in the $, the three 

 minute vitreous ones commencing the discal row in the fore-wings are 

 always well marked. 



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