190 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA. At^STRALIS. 



107. Gnophodes Parmeno. 



Gnophodes Parmeno (E. Bouhl. MS.), Douhl., Westw., 



[Hcivits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 61, f. 2. 



Gnophodes Parrneus, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. — Pap., 



[f. 294. 

 Expands 2 in. 8 lin. — 3 in. 2 lin. 



Dull ochreous-brown. Fore -wing : on costa, beyond 

 middle, commences an oclireous stripe (in ? broad and 

 well-marked), strongly-curved outwardly as far as first median 

 nervule near hind-margin, and thence extending, and narrow- 

 inc^, almost straight to anal angle ; between median and 

 ■ubmedian nervures, before middle, m $ , a thick tnft of 

 long silky hairs, of the ground-colour, lying longitudinally. 

 Hind-wing : in some specimens a narrow ochreous border 

 along hind-margin, nearly to anal angle ; besides tail on 

 first, a short but marked projection at extremity of third 

 median nervule. Under-side. — Varied with dark and light 

 reddish-brown, and irrorated ivith dark-brown : in each wing, 

 beyond middle, a transverse row of pale, creamy -ochreous 

 spots. Fore-wing : position of transverse stripe of upper-side 

 indicated by the apical portion beyond it being paler than 

 rest of wing (especially in ? , in which it is pale-ochreous) ; 

 spots of row four, parallel to apical half of hind-margin. 

 Hind-wing : a pale-ochreous band the whole length of costa 

 (more conspicuous in ? ), varied with brown irrorations ; 

 spots of transverse row six or seven. 



The only South African examples I have seen are those from Natal in the 

 British Museum, and one, from the faint3 locality, in Mr. Gutterj'a 

 collection. 



Port Natal. Sierra Leone. Ashanti. — Coll. Brit, Mus. 



Genus DEBIS. 



Debis (Boisd. MS.), Westw. 



Imago. — Head rather wide : eyes large, with a close 

 clothing of short hair ; palpi long, much flattened laterally, 

 separate but not divergent, beneath with a smooth dense 

 fringe of hair ; antennce short, with a very slender and 

 elongate incrassation. Thorax short, pilose, rather stout. 

 Fore-wings often produced in apical region : costa strongly 

 arched from base ; apex rounded ; hind-margin bluntly 

 dentate ; inner-margin straight ; nervures all simple at base. 

 Hind-wings with costa very prominent at base, but thence 

 very slightly curved ; hind-margin more or less deeply 



