114 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



richly coloured Meneris Tulhaghia, Linn., warm-brown and 

 ochre, with blue ocellated spots. The strong-winged species 

 of Nymphalis, also, with their beautifully variegated under- 

 surface, are insects of considerable size, N. Xiphares ex- 

 panding nearly four inches and a quarter. It is in forests, 

 that the species of the most typical Genera must be looked 

 for ; but many others frequent gardens and open ground. The 

 species most likely to be the first taken by the collector is the 

 abundant Pyrameis Cardui, Linn. Sp., which is not only spread 

 over nearly the whole globe, but appears to be everywhere 

 common. Though very wary of approach, and, as before 

 stated, possessed of great powers of flight, the habit that 

 most of the Nymphalidoe possess, of haunting some spot 

 of limited extent — sometimes even a particular twig of some 

 tree or plant — returning to it again and again, often makes 

 them fall a prey to the entomologist, who might otherwise 

 despair of obtaining them. 



Genus A T E L L A . 



Atella, E. Douhl. 

 Argynnis, Godt., Boisd. 

 Phalanta, Horsf. 



Imago. — Head rather strikingly broad, being wider than 

 thorax : eyes prominent, naked ; palpi not meeting at tips, 

 which are sharply pointed, but slightly divergent, rather long, 

 finely hairy, projecting considerably beyond and above fore- 

 head ; anfennce long and stout, terminating in a'short, rounded, 

 laterally-compressed, yet gradually-formed club. Thorax 

 moderately robust, short, ovate, moderately hairy. Fore-wings 

 with the apical portion produced, so as to make the hind- 

 margin rather concave in the centre ; costa strongly arched 

 from base ; apex not acute, but rounded ; inner-margin very 

 slightly emarginate about its centre ; discoidal cell short, closed 

 by slender nervules. Hind-wings sub-ovate, rather truncate : 

 costa slightly arched ; hind-margin moderately dentate ; anal 

 angle rather marked ; inner-margins barely meeting beneath 

 abdomen, forming a shallow incomplete grove ; discoidal cell 

 very short, closed by slender nervules. Abdomen short, much 

 compressed laterally. 



Larva. — " Spiny ; the spines all of equal length." — Chenu. 



Pupa. — " Ovate, elongate, constricted, spinous." — Chenu. 



This Genus, which is closely allied to Argynnis, Fab., is 

 very limited in species, of which one only is found in South 

 Africa. 



