62 RHOPALOCERA AFRICi^ AUSTRALIS. 



*41. Idmais Vesta. 



Idmais Vesta, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 588, n. 29. 



? ? . Idmais Chrysonome, Doubl., Westw., Hewits., Gen. 



[Diurn. Lep., pi. 7, f. 5. 

 ? . Expands 1 in. 10 lin. 



Soft creamy -ochreous ; with black markings, and black- 

 clouded nervures. Fore-wing : powdered with white at base ; 

 a large, ovate, black, disco-cellular spot ; beyond middle, a 

 transverse, W-shaped band of connected black spots, com- 

 mencing on costa, and ending on inner-margin about middle ; 

 on hind-margin, a black band, containing elongate yellow 

 marks between nervules. Hind-wing : powdered with white 

 at base, but not so widely as in fore-wiiig ; no disco-cellular 

 spot ; yellow spots in hind-marginal band indistinct. Un- 

 derside. — Fore-wing : warm yellow-ochreous ; nervures 

 unclouded ; costa, apex, and hind-margin, bordered with 

 pale sulphur -yelloio ; disco-cellular spot distinct ; transverse 

 waved band represented by five separate spots ; anal angle 

 marked with blackish. Hind-iving : pale sulphur-yellow ; 

 two transverse waved bands of yellow-ochreous ; within and 

 parallel to hind-margin a thin, ochreous, waved streak. 



I am unable to state whether M. Boisduval is right in considering the 

 Idmais which Mr. Doubleday named as /. Chrysono7ne of Klug to be the 

 female of his 1. Vesta ; not having had an opportunity of seeing Klug's 

 work, and no description being given by M. Boisduval of his new species. 

 The specimens in the British Museum are from Congo; and it is very 

 probable that the insect, whatever be its rightful name, may range over a 

 considerable portion of Southern Africa. 



Congo.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Amazoulu Country." — Boisd. 



Genus ERONIA. 



Eronia, Hiibn., Boisd. 

 Dryas, Boisd. (pars). 



Imago. — Head of moderate size ; eyes smooth, prominent ; 

 palpi short, compressed, hairy on their under edge ; antennas. 

 rather short, thick, with an elongate, gradually-formed, yet 

 stoutish club. Thorax ovate, robust, clothed with long, 

 silky pubescence. Fore-wings broad, truncate ; costa con- 

 siderably arched ; apex more or less acute ; hind-margin 

 nearly straight, very slightly concave about its middle por- 

 tion, and a little dentate ; anal angle more or less rounded ; 

 inner-margin slightly concave. Hind-wings large, rounded, 

 sub-truncate ; hind-margin more or less dentate (remarkably 

 so in E. Leda) ; inner-margins produced convexly, and meet- 

 ing beneath abdomen so as to hide all or most of its under 



