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  . 
  LYC^NID^ 
  (AFRICAN). 
  — 
  DURBANIA. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  DURBANIA. 
  

  

  Burhaniu, 
  Trimen, 
  "Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  London, 
  " 
  

   ser. 
  3, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  p. 
  401 
  (1862); 
  " 
  Rhopalocera 
  Africa 
  Anstrali," 
  part 
  2, 
  p. 
  282 
  

   (1866) 
  ; 
  " 
  South 
  African 
  Butterflies," 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  213 
  (1887). 
  

  

  Type 
  Durhania 
  Amaliosa, 
  Trim., 
  from 
  South 
  Africa. 
  

  

  Tcriomima 
  (?) 
  Hiklegarda, 
  Kirh. 
  {aiitca, 
  p. 
  16), 
  may 
  he 
  included 
  in 
  this 
  genus. 
  

  

  I.— 
  DURBANIA 
  OTLAUGA. 
  9 
  • 
  Figs. 
  9, 
  10. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  fulvous, 
  with 
  rather 
  hroad 
  hrown 
  hind 
  margins 
  ; 
  on 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  costal 
  region, 
  including 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   and 
  a 
  spot 
  below 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule, 
  are 
  brown. 
  

  

  Underside 
  brown, 
  darker 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  costa 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  and 
  

   all 
  the 
  hind 
  margins 
  brown 
  mottled 
  with 
  yellowish, 
  disc 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  tawny, 
  

   edged 
  with 
  blackish, 
  base 
  of 
  cell 
  black, 
  and 
  three 
  black 
  transverse 
  spots 
  in 
  or 
  

   beyond 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  a 
  rather 
  indistinct 
  black 
  line 
  parallel 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  margin 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  orange-tawny 
  transverse 
  macular 
  bands, 
  

   the 
  last 
  unbroken 
  ; 
  the 
  latter 
  is 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  blackish 
  band, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  

   narrower 
  and 
  more 
  indistinct 
  blackish 
  line 
  between 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cameroons. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  Possibly 
  tlie 
  $ 
  of 
  D. 
  Hildegarda. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  regards 
  tins 
  species 
  as 
  Listeria 
  Girthi, 
  Dew, 
  but 
  it 
  api^ears 
  to 
  us 
  to 
  be 
  different. 
  

  

  n._DURBANIA 
  INFIMA. 
  $ 
  . 
  FiCxS. 
  15, 
  16. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1 
  inch. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  tawny 
  blotch 
  standing 
  on 
  

   the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  occupying 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  disc 
  below 
  the 
  cell, 
  beyond 
  which 
  

   it 
  is 
  produced 
  towards 
  the 
  costa 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  portion 
  filled 
  

   up 
  with 
  tawny, 
  but 
  leaving 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  marginal 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  wing, 
  and 
  the 
  

   greater 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  free. 
  

  

  Underside 
  with 
  the 
  tawny 
  blotch 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  as 
  above, 
  but 
  paler, 
  

  

  