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This Cyclopidcs also inhabits the Amatola Mountains, 

 Mr. Bowker having met with it, a day after the dis- 

 covery of the last-described species, on the summit of 

 the ''Hog^s Back" in that range. It was '^not uncom- 

 mon among long grass in the neighbourhood of water." 



In the Collections of the South-African Museum and 

 E,. Trimen. 



Genus PAMPHILA, Fab. 

 1. Pamphila (?) MacTcenii, (PI. VI. fig. 8). 



Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. — 1 in. 2 lin. 



$ . Dull sooty-hlach : the last four segments of ahclo- 

 men, and the greater part of hind-marginal edging of 

 hind-wing (with accompanying cilia) imre white. Fore- 

 wing : usually two indistinct small, whitish, discal spots, 

 between 2nd median nervule and sub-median nervure : 

 cilia mixed with whitish. Hind-iving : the white edging 

 commences about second sub-costal nervule, and is 

 irregularly dentated inwardly. Undekside. — Fore-wing : 

 costa, apex, and most of hind-margin irrorated with 

 yellow ; discal spots always visible, sometimes larger 

 than above ; on hind-margin, about end of discoidal 

 nervule, a good-sized, circular, whitish-violaceous mark. 

 Hind-wing : beautifully varied with white and brownish, 

 and with fine dark-brown hatchings ; beyond middle, a 

 broad, darh band, occupying most of hind-margin, 7nuch 

 irrorated zvith yelloiv, and traversed by an irregular roiv of 

 dark-edged violaceous lumdes. 



$ ? Duller ; the discal spots of fore-wing much larger. 



The example which I believe to be a ? of this species 

 is much worn ; but, with the exceptions above noticed, 

 it does not differ from the S . 



1 doubtingly place this Skipper in the genus Pamphila, 

 owing to the remarkable structure of the palpi, the ter- 

 minal joint of which is very slender, acute, and directed 

 perpendicularly upward, with a slightly-backwai-d in- 

 clination. The club of the antennae is externally edged 

 with pure white. 



There is no described species that I know of which 

 nearly approaches MacJcenii, but a Skipper in the British 

 Museum, from Sierra Leone, strikingly resembles it in 

 the white-tipped abdomen and edging of the hind- wings. 

 The latter, however, is distinct, being- of greater size, 

 with a much broader head, and having white spots on 

 the hind- wings, as well as a totally different dark- coloured 

 underside. 



