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nervule and sub-median nervure ; inner margin rather 
narrowly edged with ferruginous-ochreous. CiKa in each 
wing of the same colours as the several adjacent portions 
of the hind margin. 
Above, the head, palpi, patagia and pterygodes ferru- 
ginous-ochreous ; back of thorax and of abdomen dark 
purplish-brown, the former having posteriorly some yellow 
hairs, and the latter the segmental incisions, and a terminal 
tuft, fulvous-yellow. Beneath, the palpi, breast and legs 
(with abdomen near base) yellow, tinged Avith ferruginous- 
ochreous ;* median line and terminal portion of abdomen 
pale yellow, a lateral (and inferior) row of small black 
spots being on each side of median line. AntennfE black 
throughout ; the clubs not recurved at tip, but slightly 
bent outwards. 
Near P. Herilus, Hpfr.,* but easily recognized by the 
fewer and differently situated black spots of the underside 
of the hindwings ; and further differing from that species 
in the ferruginous colouring of the underside, and in 
wanting the yellow cellular spot and conspicuous longi- 
tudinal sub-inner-marginal stripe on upperside of hind- 
Avings. Morantii is besides much larger than Herilus. 
A species from Celebes, P. Jiavescens, Felder,t presents 
almost the same spotting as Morantii on the underside of 
the hindwings, but has the spot nearest base above the 
sub-costal nervure, and possesses an additional spot just 
beyond that spot. 
I have named this species after Mr. Walter Morant, 
wdio has been a most successful collector and careful ob- 
server of South African Lepidoptera. Mr. Morant informs 
me that the single specimen fi-om which the above descrip- 
tion is made was taken sitting on a shrub at the edge of a 
small wood, on the 30th June, 1869. 
i/aZ*.— Pinetown, near D'Urban, Natal. In the collec- 
tion of W. Morant. 
* Peters' Reise nach Mussamhique, t. xxvii., f . 7, 8 ; p. 419. 
f Ileisc der Novara, Lep. iii., t. Ixxii., f. 0. 
