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Eahira by its possession of a 'iuaculated Idnd-marginal 

 harder. This character is presented by A. serena, but 

 the small size of that species and its want of any discal 

 spots in the fore-wings preclude the possibility of con- 

 founding Anacreon with it. 



In April, 1865, two $ specimens, taken on the banks 

 of a small river called the Sogana, were received by me 

 from Mr. Bowker, and these Kaffrarian examples were 

 the only ones I had seen until March, 1867, when I 

 found the species pretty commonly in the Umvoti District 

 of Natal, particularly near Greytown and about the 

 Noodsberg. Like A. Raliira, the butterfly delights in 

 damp, reedy spots, and has a very weak, low flight. It 

 frequently settles on flowers, and the ? s may easily be 

 taken with the fingers. I met with Baliira in the same 

 region, and often in the same spots, but it was not more 

 abundant than Anacreon, 



In the Collections of the South- African Museum, and 

 R. Trimen. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Genus Panopea, Hiibn. * 



Panopca Tarqiiinia, (PL V. fig. 3). 



Exp. 2 in. 11 lin.— 3 in. 



$ . Broivmsh-hlaclh, with luJiite and yelloicish-ichite hands. 

 Fore-wing : an outwardly convex band of four white spots, 

 of which the 1st (smallest) is in discoidal cell close to its 

 extremity, and the 4th (largest) between 2nd and 3rd 

 median nervules ; two wide, elongate, yellowish-white 

 spots, one on each side of sub-median nervure, form an 

 irregular patch on inner margin rather beyond middle ; 

 two obliquely-lying sub-quadrate white spots between 

 white band and apex, one on each side of 1st discoidal 

 nervule ; a very narrow line of pure-white edges costa 

 from a little beyond middle, ending at apex in a conspi- 

 cuous white spot extending to the cilia immediately ad- 

 joining. Hind-iving : a broad yellowish-white band, con- 

 tinuous of inner-marginal patch of fore-wing, occupies 

 middle ; its inner edge not far from base, slightly crene- 



* Verz. Bek. Schmett. p. 39. A genus allied to Diadema, but distin- 

 guished by its much longer, very gradually-clavate antenna}; shorter, more 

 convergent jyalpi, with much shorter terminal joint ; and by the strongly 

 inward-curved nervule closing discoidal cell of fore-wing, which joins the 

 median nervure exactly at the origin of the 2nd median nervule. These 

 characters aiDproximate Panopea to Bomalaosoma. 



