362 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



keeping much about a particular spot, but usually singly ; it haunts bushes, 

 often settling with expanded -wings on leaves, sometimes on their under 

 surfaces. I have taken it on the flowers of Lentana and Acacia. The $ s, 

 like DJcelcelce, soon lose their dark glossy freshness and grow worn and reddish ; 

 they occur much more frequently than the ? s. 



Localities of Pterygospicha Nottoana. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. AVestern Districts. — Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {Mrs. Barber). Bathurst {Mrs. 

 Barber) and Tharfield {Miss M. L. Bowler). 



D. Kaffraria Proper.- — Tsomo River (J. M. Bowlier). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 

 K. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 



372. (6.) Pterygospidea phyllophila, (Trimen). 



$ Nisoniades pliyllopJiila, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 362. 

 Plate XII. fig. 8 (?). 



Very closely allied to F. Nottoana, Wallgrn. 



Exp. al, ($) I in. 5-7 lin. 



^ Pale dull rcddish-hroivn with fuscous spots ; fore-wing also with 

 disco-cellular and disced vitreous spots ; all arranged as in Noitoana, and 

 quite similar in relative size and shape. Fore-iving : dark edges of 

 vitreous spots better marked ; two dark spots between upper and lower 

 vitreous spots of discal row sometimes much enlarged and elongated 

 lonfTitudinally. Hind-wing : dark spots more distinct than in Nottoana ; 

 alonf-f hind-margin, except near apex, a narrow irroration of whitish 

 scales, more developed towards anal angle. Cilia in fore-wing reddish- 

 brown, except in slight concavity just above posterior angle, where it 

 is white ; in hind-wing brown apically, but elsewhere white. Undee 

 SIDE. — Hind-tving white, hroadhj bordered loith ^^a/g reddish-hvion 

 costally and apically. Fore-wing : at base a little whitish suffusion ; 

 fuscous inferior spot before middle faint, but marked with two sub- 

 vitreous dots. Hind-iving : costal brown border very narrow at base, 

 but broadening before middle, and very broad in apical area ; lowest 

 dark spot before middle (and often also fifth spot of discal row) obso- 

 lete ; a short brown hind-marginal edging between first median nervule 

 and submedian nervure. 



Body and palpi beneath white, — the latter tinged with ochre- 

 yellow at tip of middle joint ; legs white. 



Although the conspicuous white field of the under side of the 

 hind-wings gives this form such a distinct appearance, and makes it 

 resemble a small Flcsus, Fab., I am inclined to the opinion that it may 



