162 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



gradually tapering, acutely pointed, ascendant almost perpen- 

 dicularly in front of head, convergent ; anfennce long, rather 

 stout, with an elongate, gradually-formed, cylindrical club, 

 curving outwardly. Thorax robust, ovate, elongate, clothed 

 with hair (which is thick and long on the sides and poste- 

 riorly). Fore-ivings large, somewhat truncate : costa but mode- 

 rately arched, the convexity commencing very gradually from 

 base ; apex rounded ; hind-margin almost straight, moderately 

 sinuate ; anal angle rounded ; inner-margin almost straight, 

 hairy near base ; discoidal cell closed, short, truncate, widest 

 near its extremity. Hind-wings large, ovate : costa remark- 

 ably straight after the first short convexity of base, only 

 slightly arched a little beyond middle ; hind-margin scalloped ; 

 anal angle rather marked ; inner-margins meeting to a little 

 beyond tip of abdomen, forming a deep groove ; discoidal cell 

 closed, broad, very short ; a dense clothing of long hairs, 

 commencing in cell, increases in length towards inner-margin. 

 Legs of moderate length, stout, with short, bristly hairs. 

 Abdomen short, moderately stout ; in i rather slender. 



This Genus has been founded on a single species, M. Tul- 

 haghia, Linn., hitherto only known as a native of Southern 

 Africa. Its large size and warm and harmonious colouring 

 render it one of the finest species found in the country. It is 

 a mountain-haunting insect, only occasionally descending to 

 level country. The position of this Genus among the Nym- 

 phalidm is at present somewhat uncertain, owing to our entire 

 ignorance of the Larva. There is a singularly Satyriform 

 aspect in the Imago, which the large ocelli in the hind-wing 

 tend to increase ; while its habits of frequenting dry and 

 rocky ground, and settling on large stones or on the eai'th, 

 are akin to those of the " Brown Butterflies" or Satyridce. 



96. Meneris Tulbaghia. 



Papilio Tulbaghia, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 775, n. 158. 

 „ „ Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 284, n. 102. 



„ „ Fah., Syst. Ent., p. 499, n. 241. 



,, ,, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. S, f. E, F. 



„ „ Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 105, n. 323, 



Papilio Tu\hachius,IIerbst,Nat.Bek.l7is. — Schmett.,YllI, 



[pi. 214, f. 5, 6. 

 Oreades marm. Tulbaghia, Hiihi, Samml. Exot. Schmett.f 



[Band I. 

 Tisiphone Tulbaghia, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett. 

 Nymphalis Tulbaghia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 400, n. 



[171. 

 Meneris Tulbaghia, E.DoubL, List. Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 106. 



