IIESPERIDJE. 371 



r>. Xortli Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Accra: " Aburi (TFe/r/Ze)." — IMosehler. "Gambia 



River {Moloney)."— O. E. Shelley. " Senegal."— Ilopffer. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — " j\Ionbuttu {Emin Pasha)." — Butler. Abys- 

 sinia : " Slioa {Antlnori)." — Oberthiir. "Nubia." — Ilopffer. 



375. ('2.) Hesperia Pisistratus, Fabricius. 



Hespcria Pisidrahis, Fab,, Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 345, n. 311 (1793). 

 Rhopalocamijta Valmaran, Wallengr., K. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Ilundl., 1857 ; 



Lep. Khop. Caffr., p. 48. 

 L<tmene Florcstan, IVar., Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 319 (1866). 

 Isviene Pmsiratus, Westw. [part]. Gates' ISIataljelc Lan(l, App., p. 352 



(1881). 

 Ismerie Pisisfratus, Stand., Exot. Schmctt., i. pi. 98 (1S88). 



Plate XII. fig. 10 ($). 



Exp. al., {$) 2 in. i-ij lin. ; (?) 2 in, 3-3^ lin. 



Closely allied to H. Forestan, (Cram.), 



$ Not differing from H. Forestan, except that cilia of hind-wing 

 on anal-angular lobe is of a duller and paler yellow. Undee side. — 

 WJiitc hand of Mnd-iving differently shaped from that in Forestan, heing 

 muck narroiver on costa and much ivider on suhmcdian ncrvure, and 

 marked inferiorly ivith three conspicuous black spots, viz., two small 

 rounded ones on outer edge between third and first median nervules, 

 and the third larger, elongated, piercing it upwards from submedian 

 nervure. 



Head above with a much larger and paler yellow lateral spot on 

 each side (the antennae springing from the centre of it), and with also 

 a median longitudinal yellow mark ; px^^pi above with paler and wider 

 yellow tufts at extremity of middle joint, beneath much paler, creamy- 

 white tinged with yellow on middle joint. Legs with ochreous-yellow 

 tufts and whitish stripes. Abdomen beneath with a white or creamy 

 middle longitudinal stripe. 



$ Like $, but darker in ground-colour. 



The distinctive characters above noted appear to be very constant-^ 

 in both sexes, and fully warrant the separation of Pisistratus from 

 Forestan. From some pencil notes and outline drawings made by Mr. 

 W. D. Gooch near D'Urban, Natal, I gather that the larvo3 is very like 

 that of Forestan, but the front view of the head shows a third (inferior) 

 transverse row of three spots ; and the transverse bands are described 

 as black, and two on each segment, while the parallel lines between 

 each two pairs of bands are also black and enclose an orange spiracular 

 spot. It is also noted that the food-plant is a wild species of Indigo- 

 fcra. Outlines given of the pupa exhibit no appreciable difference 



1 Professor Westwood, however, observes (App. to Oates^ 3Iatabcle Land, 1881, p. 352) 

 that " the black mark extending from near the anal margin on the under side of the hind- 

 wings was more divided than usual in Drury's specimen, figured by Jones, so as to have led 

 Fabricius to describe the hind-wings as four-spotted," 



