308 KHOrALOCEKA AFlUCiF. AUSTUAT-IS. 



colouring Rud marking, Z. hicolor seen.s fo be very slaiilar- to Hesjieria 

 Lepenula, Wallgr., but tbe latter wants the central fascia and basal spot 

 of forewiug, and its des' riber mentions no black bor 'ering except that of 

 biud-margin, and notes, beside other differences, th'ftHi^ legs of Lepenula 

 are yellow as well as the cilia, both of which are black iu Bicolor. 



A single specimen of this handsome and conspicuous " Skipper" was in 

 the collection of Lepidoptera sent to the South African Museum by Mr. 

 Bowker. It was taken in January, on the edge of a fortst. 



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

 Mus. 



Genus CAPRONA. 



Caprona, Wallgr. 



Imago. — Antenncs short, with an abrupt, thick, cjliiidrical, 

 obtuse, strongly re-curved club ; palpi thick, moderately 

 long, densely pilose, the last joint very short, blunt and 

 naked. Thorax thick, as long as abdomen (in $ rather 

 longer). Fore-wings somewhctt elbowed on first median 

 nervule, the hind-margin being slightly concave below third 

 median, so that anal angle is well marked : costa nearly 

 straight, but little curved at base ; apex acute ; inner-margin 

 concave. Hind-wiiigs angulated between first and second, 

 sub-costal, and more prominently between first and second 

 median, nervules ; anal angle prominently lobed ; discoidal 

 nervule wanting, Discoidal cells of both wings closed. 

 Hind femora, and fore coxce with long hairs. Abdomen not 

 so long as hind-wings ; thick and blunt in ? . 



Like Leucochitonea, this Genus of Wallengren's creation 

 is founded on a single species, to which 1 am able to add the 

 allied, but very distinct, C. Canopus, mihi. The ground- 

 colour of Canopus is white, while that of Pillaana \s 

 brownish-grey ; both insects being marked with transparent 

 spots. The angulated hind-wings at once distinguish th« 

 Caproni from all known South African Hesperidce. 



202. Caprona Pillaana. 



Caprona Pillaana, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 51. 



Exp. 1 in. 6 lin. 



? . Brownish -grey, with lighter hind-margins : some 

 vitreous markings in fore-wing. Fore-wing : darker in basal 

 region ; a central vitreous fascia, from costa (commencing 

 with a sub-vitreous spot) to sub-median nervure, thinly 

 black-edged on both sides, very irregular in shape, broadest 

 and clearest just beneath median nervure, and interrupted 

 on third median nervure, below which is only a small 



