IIESPERID^. 357 



$ Nisoniades Palo, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. LonJ., 3rtl Ser., i. p. 404 



(1862). 

 $ Nisoniades Moiozi, Trim., Khop. Afr. Aust, ii. p. 313, n. 206, pi. 6, 



f. 3 (1S66). 



Hxp. al., Q) I in. 2-3 lin. ; (?) i in. 4-5! lin. 



$ Palc-broivn ; fore-ivlng ivit/o a hroad dai'k-hrown median fascia, 

 and some small discal vitreous spots ; liind-iving ivith indistinct darker 

 discal spots; in hath tvings a sid)marginal indistinct suhmacidar darker 

 streak ; cilia of the ground-colour, fading into gregish-white e3i:ternally. 

 Fore-wing : median fascia very broad on costa, where it encloses a 

 triangular mark (apex downward) of ground-colour, terminating in a 

 small narrow subterminal disco-cellular vitreous spot; inner edge of 

 fascia not well defined, except between first median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure, where it is bounded by an indistinct j'ale linear mark ; 

 outer edge well defined, strongly elbowed between upper radial and 

 third median nervules, bounded subcostally by the usual slightly 

 oblique streak of three small vitreous spots, and between third and 

 first median nervules by two small vitreous spots (of which the lower 

 is elongate vertically and considerably larger). Hind-wing : a good- 

 sized subterminal disco-cellular darker spot, sometimes with an indis- 

 tinct pale centre ; two indistinct smaller sub-basal spots, and another 

 below larger disco-cellular one ; seven spots of discal series forming an 

 irregular streak, and containing sometimes traces of paler centres. 

 Underside. — Pcde ochre-yellow ; vitreous spots as above, hut luith diffused 

 dark-grey horders ; suhmarghial macular streak of both wings, and all 

 spots ofhind-iving (the latter with more distinct pale centres), dull-greyish ; 

 hind-margin hounded hy a slender hlackish line. Fore-vjing : imme- 

 diately beyond vitreous spots a rather narrow dark-grey discal fascia 

 with ill-defined edges. 



Antenna: fuscous with thin white rings, and a broad white ring at 

 base of club ; palpi brown above, pale-yellow beneath. 



$ 3Iore varied than in $, some hoary-grey clouding more or less 

 p>revalent hasally and discally, and the less strongly-defined dark fascia of 

 fore-wing mixed ivith paler ferruginous-hrown ; vitreous spots of fore- 

 iving greatly enlarged (especially the lowest discal one, which is sid)- 

 quadrate) ; suhterniinal disco-cellular sp)ot in hind-iving enlarged, rounded, 

 vitreous. Fore-iving : line of inner edge of median fascia between first 

 median nervule and submedian nervule by two small black spots ; 

 enlarged subterminal disco-cellular vitreous spot very variable in 

 shape and size, and surmounted by an also variable very small vitre- 

 ous spot ; submarginal streak usually more developed and externally 

 clouded slightly with ferruginous-brown. Bind-wing : submarginal 

 streak widened apically into a good-sized border. Under side. — 

 Variahlc in tint, hut almost always much duller and hroivner than in $ ; 

 the yellow being usually much suffused with hroivnish, and its brighter 

 portions in most specimens confined to median discal and submarginal 



