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Famity—HESPERUD. 
Grnus—HESPERIA. Sus-Genus—OXYNETRA Felder. 
Species 1—HESPERIA (Oxynerra Feld.) ZAMBESIACA. Puate XXXIV, Fic. 9. 
Alis chalybeo-nigris albo-maculatis ; corpore nigro, capite et thorace albo maculatis, hujus patagiis, fascia 
curvata post scutellari et ano sanguineis ; abdomine fascia lata media lutea (in medio interrupta). 
Expans. alar. antic. une. 13. 
Habitat ; Zambesi (Rev. D. Rowley). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoniz. 
The fore wings are chalybeous black, with seven spots of white: one close to the base on the hind margin ; 
three between the base and middle, of unequal size; two large ones near the middle, one of which is at the 
extremity of the discoidal cell, and one in the space between the first and second branches of the median vein. 
These are followed by a smaller one in the space between the second and third branches of the median vein ; and 
there is an oval 4-partite spot between the cell and the apex of the wing. 
The hind wings have a very narrow white transverse streak close to the base, the middle of the wing being 
occupied by a large white bar divided by the median and postcostal veins, and their branches (which are broadly 
black) into five portions, the broader outer margin of these wings being more strongly chalybeate than the base. 
The head and body are black, the head with a large white frontal spot, and two small ones between the eyes. 
The tippets of the collar or prothorax are clothed with scarlet hairs, the tegule or wing scales, together with 
a pair of dots in front of them, and a second pair behind them, at the sides of the disc, as well as the narrow 
hind margin of the scutellum, white: the latter is followed by a curved band of scarlet, the extremity of the 
abdomen being of the same colour: the four middle segments of the abdomen are luteous, with a narrow 
dark longitudinal line down the centre. 
The palpi are broadly truneate, being porrected but slightly in front of the head; the terminal joint is very 
minute; the antennz have a tuft of curved hairs at the base, and their tips form a long reflexed club. 
Srecres 2—HESPERIA (Oxynerra Feld.) NAMAQUANA. Puate XXXIV, Fie. 10. 
Alis nigris albo vel albido maculatis ; corpore nigro; capite et thorace nigris albo et aurantio maculatis ; 
abdomine fulvo, segmentis in medio maculis triangularibus nigris notatis. 
Expans. alar. antic. une. 1%. 
Habitat; Africa australior. In Mus. D. Hewitson. 
I am indebted to W. C. Hewitson, Esq., for allowing me the opportunity of figuring his unique specimen 
of this pretty undescribed species in illustration of the closely allied one from Zambesi in the Oxford Museum. 
It is somewhat larger than the latter, and wants the chalybeous gloss of the wings, which are black, the fore 
ones marked with nine spots of white of various sizes, namely, one at the base, on the inner margin, three of 
unequal size forming a triangle between the base and the middle of the wing, of which the outer one is the 
largest. These are followed by three near the centre of the wing, placed transversely, the one at the extremity 
of the discoidal cell and that between the first and second branches of the median vein being the largest, and 
the third, nearest the hinder angle of the wing, being small. Between the middle spots and the apex of the wing 
are two other white spots, of which the anterior is narrow, transverse, and tripartite. 
The hind wings have a small transverse line at the base, the centre of the wing being occupied by a broad 
pale buff bar, which is divided by the median and posteostal veins and their branches, which are broadly black, 
into five portions. 
The head is black, with two small white dots at the base of the antenne, the upper orbits of the eyes, and 
a small spot on the crown of the head of the same colour. The thorax is black, the patagia of the collar, the 
wing scales, and a dot on each side behind the wing scales of orange red; there is a slender white line across 
the front of the mesonotum (interrupted in the middle), and the hind margin of the sides of the scutellum is 
white. The abdomen is orange-red, the basal segment and a triangular spot in the middle of each of the four 
intermediate segments being black. 
