230 RHOPALOCERA AFRICvE AUSTRALTS. 



Bashee River, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker). — ColL Tri. et 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



King William's Town, British KafFraria. — W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. 



" Tette." — Hpfr., in Peters' Reise. 



" Java."— Godt. 



133. Amblypodia Hirundo. 



Thecla Hirundo, Wallgr., Lep, Rhop. Caffr., p. 35, n. 4. 

 Exp. 9— 11 liu. 



Darh ash-grey, irr orated from bases with very pale bluish- 

 grey : anal angle of hind-wing produced and lobed, and 

 ending in a long twisted, black, broadly white-edged and 

 fringed tail, on submedian nervure. Fore-wing : on hind- 

 margin, close to anal angle, a black, indistinctly white-ringed 

 spot (*' sometimes, in ? , a second obsolete one before it," — 

 Wallgr.) Hind-wijig : paler near inner - margin ; along 

 hind-margin a row of dark white-ringed spots, very indistinct, 

 excepting the three last, which are black and well-marked 

 (that on anal -angular lobe being the largest) ; before this, a 

 row of indistinct whitish lunules. Cilia of fore-wing grey, 

 white at anal angle ; of hind-wing wholly white. Under- 

 side. — Whitish-grey; with white-bordered yellow-ochreotcs 

 strice : common to both wings — a transverse, irregular streak, 

 interrupted on nervules, beyond middle— a subraarginal lunu- 

 late streak, — a very indistinct row of dusky spots just beyond 

 this, — and a line just within hind-marginal edge ; in each 

 wing a double disco-cellular striola, with two costal spots 

 above it. Fore-wing : ocellus at anal angle conspicuous, 

 bounded internally by last lunule of submarginal streak. 

 Hi7id-wing : spot on lobe and that between second and third 

 median nervules black, inwardly edged by a faint-yellow 

 lunule, — the space between the two spots fuscous ; streak 

 beyond middle strongly recurved on third median. 



The under-side of this delicate Hi tie species is very like that of A. 

 Hrylus. The ocellus of fore-wing and single long white tail of hind-wing 

 give a very peculiar aspect to the sombre colouring of the npper-side. 



" October, March, aud June ; abundant." — W. D'Urban, in litt. 



King William's Town. Keiskamma, near Bodiam. — Coll. 

 Tri. et Coll. D'Urban. 



Bashee River, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A. 

 Mus. 



