HESPERTUiE. 1^99 



S . Fuscous-brotvti ; fore-wing ivith iohite sjyots. Fore- 

 wing : costa tinged with dull-ochreous ; an elongate, sub- 

 reniform spot about extremity of discoidal cell ; beyood it, 

 a strongly inward-curved row of six more or less quadrate 

 spots, commencing below costa, of which the two first spots 

 are small and contiguous, the third all but obsolete, the fifth 

 largest and just below spot in cell, and the sixth (above 

 submedian nervure) somewhat suffused and invaded by 

 ground-colour. Hind-ioing : darker, spotless. Under-side. — 

 Wholly, excepting inner-marginal region of fore-wing, pale 

 reddish-ochreous, marked with paler creamy nervures (quite 

 like the Noctuee of the Geuus Leucania) ; on inner- 

 margin of hind-wing a glistening, s7iow-white border, edged 

 interiorly (along deep fold of wing) with blackish. Fore- 

 wing : only three spots, viz., that in cell, and the fourth and 

 fifth of transverse row ; fuscous greyer, paler. Cilia broad, 

 above and below dull-greyish. 



It is with doubt that I refer this very singular Hesperian to the Genus 

 Patnphila. The fore-wings are unusually acuminate ; the antemise (which 

 are wliite-ringed) remarkably stout, with a thick, very gradually-formed, 

 very slightly outward-curving club; the palpi very long, more hairy than in 

 Pamphila, with the terminal joint blunt, and far exserted ; and the 

 abdomen as long as hind-wings. 



Two specimens contained in Mr. Bowker's collection. 



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



191. Pamphila Poutieri. 



Hesperia Poutieri, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., p. Qo. 

 „ „ App. Voy. de DeUg., p. 594. 



" Nearly the size of* P. Comma, Linn. Blackish-brmvn ; 

 cilia a little paler. Fore-wing : about middle, two small, 

 transparent, white dots, often preceded towards apex by a 

 much smaller dot of the same colour, scarcely visible. 

 Hind-ioing : spotless. Under-side. — Hindwing and costa 

 of fore-wing dull-yellowish ; the former with two small, 

 indistinct dots, close together, of which one is sometimes 

 wanting. Body yellowish-brown beneath. Head and 

 thorax clothed with some greenish-yellow hairs. Antenncs 

 brown above, whitish beneath, with the end of the club 

 blackish." — Boisd. transl. 



" Natal. Madagascar (Tintinguc, Foulc Pointe, Ste. 

 Marie)." — Boisd. 



* Exp. 1 in. 2 lin. 1 in. 4 lie 



