374 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



go to the flowers of the tree for a drink, but soon return to go through the 

 same evohitions." 



Localities of Hcspcria Keithloa. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. — Port Elizabeth. Grahamstown {Mrs. Barber). King 

 "William's Town. 



D. Kaffraria. — " Baziya {Baur and Hartmann)." — Mbschler. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Pinetown and Mouth of Tugela River 



(J". H. BowJier). " Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. 



b. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg (S. Windham). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenco Marques {3Irs. Monteiro). 



377. (L) Hesperia Anchises, (Gerst.). 



<^ $ Ismene Andiises, Gerst., Gliederth.-Fauna d. Sansibar-Gebiet., p. 374, 



n. 29, pi. XV. ff. 6, 6a (1873). 

 Ismene Taranis, Hewits., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., vol. xviii. 



p. 347 (1876). 



Exp. al., 2 iu. — 2 in. 3-^ lin. 



*' Uniformly brown ; fore-wing lighter and with a greyish tinge, 

 hind-wing, except at base, darker pitch-brown ; bases with bluish slate- 

 grey hair; in hind-wing hair along inner margin light grey-brown, and 

 near anal angle even hoary ; cilia of fore-wing brown basally but nar- 

 rowdy chalk-white ontwardly, — of hind-wing broad and pure chalk- 

 white, edged with light golden-yellow at the anal-angular projection. 

 Under side. — Hind-icing: cbalk-white band ending rather farther 

 from inner margin than from hind-margin, elongately and bluntly trian- 

 gular, its broader base (towards inner margin) bearing a larger round 

 deep black spot and a smaller acute one ; beyond this two orange-red 

 scaled spots, of which the inferior one is smaller, immediately at anal 

 angle, and the superior one larger, more curved anteriorly and longi- 

 tudinally parallel to the outline of the superior side of anal-angular 

 projection. 



" Head above slate-grey ; border of eyes above and in front reddish- 

 yellow, behind almost vermilion ; p)o.lp'^ orange-yellow with black ter- 

 minal joint ; antenncB black. Tho7'ax above slate-grey, beneath bluish- 

 grey on the sides. Fore,-Ugs with femur above blackish, beneath with 

 a tuft of reddish-yellow hair ; middle and liind legs with tibia3 white- 

 scaled at tip and bearing vivid fox-red hair beneath. Abdomen above 

 brownish-grey, beneath chalk-white on each side, in the middle spotted 

 with reddish-yellow." 



Not having seen specimens of this Hesperid, I have above adapted 

 Gerstaecker's description (op. cit.). It should be added that his figure 

 shows the white under part of the abdomen to be crossed by four black 

 streaks. Anchises combines to some extent the markings on the under 

 side of the hind-wings of Pisistratus and Keithloa, having both a white 

 black-spotted band and two orange-red spots. 



