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prove to be inseparable from Noltoana, especially as one or two of the 

 few known Cape $ s of the latter exhibit a sli<^ht tendency to a wliitish 

 sulTusion about the inner margin of the liind-wiiigs. The $ Nottoana 

 from Natal is a little larger, darker, and more heavily fuscous-spotted 

 than most of the Cape $ s ; and it is not impossible that Phjjllophila 

 may actually be merely the modified $ of this slight $ variation proper 

 to Natal and Delagoa Bay, particularly as $ s of the Cape form have 

 not reached me from those countries. 



I have before nie nine Nutalian specimens, and one from Delagoa Bay. 

 Six examples from the latter locahty are in the Ilewitson Collection in the 

 British Museum. The specimen figured was captured by myself at D'Urban 

 in February 1867 ; it was settling on leaves, and resting with outspread wings. 

 Two of the seven specimens collected in the same locality by Colonel Bowker 

 were taken on the 15th August 1878; they frequented leaves in the same 

 manner. 



Localities of Pterygospidca phylloj^hila. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren90 Marques (3lrs. Monteiro). 



373. (7.) Pterygospidea Flesus, (Fabricius). 



Papilio Flesus, Eab.,^ " Sp. Ins., ii. p. 135, n. 621" (1781); Ent. Syst., 



iii. I, p. 338, n. 286 (1793). 

 ^ Papilio Ophion, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xvii. ff. i, 2 (1782). 

 ^ „ „ Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., p. 127, pi. xxvi. ff. 4, 



4 0(1791)- 

 1 Thymele Opiliion, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag., &c., p. St,, pi. 9, f. 4 



(1833). 

 ^ $ Nisoniades Ophion, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 313, n. 207 



(1866). 

 ITagiades insular is, Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 5, vi. p. 272, n. 21 

 ' (1876). 



Uxp. al., {$) I in. 8-10 lin. ; ($) i in. 9 lin. — 2 in. 



$ Dull pale greyish-b7'oivn {darker in some specimens), wilh more or 

 less indistinct discal blackish spots and siibmarginal hluish-tokite irrora- 

 tion ; fore-wing with small vitreous spots, incompletely and diffiisedly 

 hlackish-cdged. Fo7'e-iving : about middle, close to costa, a vitreous 

 spot ; below it, in discoidal cell near extremity, two very obliquely 

 placed rather widely separated vitreous spots ; discal series of vitreous 

 spots composed of a superior subcostal very oblique slightly curved row 

 of three very small (or even minute) ones about midway between 



^ In 1S81 I examined the Fabrician type of Flesus in the Banksian Collection at the 

 British Museum, and can confirm Mr. Butler's identification of it with Urury's Ophion, of 

 which it i3 a small 6 • 



