292 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



cell, succeeded by a sinuate transvers? row of six smaller 

 spots of the same colour (of which the three upper are 

 separate from the others, forming one elongate streak on 

 subcostal nervules) ; bordering hind-inar<. in a row of elongate 

 fulvous spots, becoming obsolete below second median 

 nervule. Hind-wmg : some ochreous hairs on median and 

 submedian nervures ; disco-ctUular spot as in fore-wing, but, 

 as well as hind-marginal row of spots (which extends to 

 submedian nervure, not to anal angle), fulvous. Cilia broad, 

 creamy, irregularly varied with ground-colour. Under-side. 

 — Costa and hind-marginal row of spots (which latter is in 

 both wings a continuous broad band) bright orange -fulvous. 

 Fore-wing : ground-colour not so dark ; creamy spots less 

 distinct. Hind-vAng : ground-colour pale greyish-creamy, 

 excepting for a dark space at aual angle, gradually narrowing 

 along submedian nervure to base ; two black spots at base, 

 one on costa, the other between costal and subcostal nervures ; 

 discoidal cell bright orange-fulvous, divided about its middle 

 by a bUick V, and exteriorly tipped with black ; a stripe of 

 the same colour, also black-tipped, extends from base to 

 beyond middle, between median and submedian nervures : 

 hind-marginal fulvous band internally edged with black, 

 interrupted by creamy nervures. 



This highlv-ornamented species, though somewhat like a Cychpides in 

 colouring and general aspect, is quite a Pyrgus in structure and pattern. 

 A $ specimen has the upper-side of hind-iving entirely spotless. 



Mr. Bowker givts me the following note on its habits : " Very tame : 

 found upon small flowers in the grass, open country, from January to 

 April, 1863 : not seen in 1862." 



Bashee River, Kaifraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. Tri. et 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Genus CYCLOPIDES. 



Cyclopides, Hiihn. 

 Steropes, Boisd. 



Imago. — Head as wide as thorax, with tufts at bases of 

 antennae : palpi very hirsute, so that the terminal joint is 

 almost hidden ; antenna as in Pyrgus, but the club more 

 flattened laterally, shorter, more abruptly formed, and rather 

 more acute at tip. Thorax short and slender for a Hesperian. 

 Wings rather broad, truncate, entire. Fore-tvings with costa 

 slightly convex. Hind-wings large, not produced at anal 

 angle. Legs slender, smooth ; femora only slightly pubescent. 

 Abdomen slender and elongate, extending as far as, or beyond, 

 anal angle of hind-wings. 



