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Localities of Hijpohjcccna Lara. 



I. South Afiica. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town, Malmesbury. Kalk Bay. 



Stellenbosch. Caledon (,/. //. Merriman). Robertson. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Grahamstown. King 



William's Tovra (Tr. S. M. U Urban). 



c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal River (,7. //. Bou-Jier). 



d. Basutoland. — Maservi and Koro-Koro (/. H. Boiclier). 



C. Orange Free State. — Special locality not noted (C. Hart). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Buttervvorth and Bashee River {J. H. Boivlier). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 



h. Upper Districts. — Great Noodsberg. Grey town. Estcourt 

 (/. M. Ilutcliinson). 



F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley (/. //. Bowlcer). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — LourenQO Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K.Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg Districts (IF. Movant 

 and T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Intei-ior. — Bamangwato, Kama's Country (//. Barber). 



B. North Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — " Shoa, Abyssinia [Aid'mori)." — Obei-thiir. 



Genus IOLAUS. 



Idaus, Hiibn., Yerz. Bek. Schmett., p. 81 (1816); Westw., Gen. Diurn. 

 Lep., ii. p. 480 (1852); Hewits., Illustr. D. Lep., p. 40 (1865); 

 Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. j). 222 (1866). 



Imago, — Head of moderate size ; eyes smooth ; 2^('h'^ rather long, 

 slender, separated throughout, densely scaled, — the second joint very 

 long, rising to about level of summit of eyes, — terminal joint slender, 

 of moderate length (rather shorter in $) ; antennoi rather thick, of 

 moderate length (longer than in Myrina), very gradually clavate. 



Thorax of moderate size, clothed with silky down in front, on sides, 

 and at back. Fore-tvings rather broad ; costa rather strongly convex 

 near base ; apex usually rather prominent ; liind-margin almost straight, 

 or but slightly convex not far below apex ; inner margin always some- 

 what projecting in the ^ (in some species very strongly convex) before 

 middle, and usually bearing on under side a tuft of long stiff hairs 

 surmounted by a semicircular polished space ; costal nervure short, 

 ending a little before middle; subcostal nervures as in Myrina; upper 

 radial nervule joined to subcostal nervure at upper end of extremity of 

 discoidal cell ; middle and lower disco-cellular nervules of about equal 

 length, slightly curved inwardly, — the lower joining third median 

 nervule about latter's origin. Hinel-wings rather truncate, but some- 

 what produced in anal-angular portion ; costa convex ; hind-margin 



