144 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS, 



Genus MYSCELIA. 



Myscelia (Boisd. MS.), E. DouU. 

 Crenis, Boisd. 



IMAGO. Head small, narrower than thorax, thickly 

 clothed with hair ; eyes smooth, prominent ; palpi rather 

 long, projecting considerably beyond head, directed upwards, 

 convergent at tips ; antennae rather long, slender, with a 

 gradually -formed, compressed club. Thorax rather narrow, 

 moderately hairy. Fore-wings with costa moderately arched ; 

 apical portion moderately produced, somewhat truncate ; 

 hind-margin slightly concave in middle ; inner-margin nearly 

 straight, very slightly concave ; costal and median nervures 

 much swollen from base almost to middle. Hind-wings with 

 costa very convex at base, and from thence almost straight ; 

 hind-margin rounded, moderately sinuate-dentate. Legs of 

 moderate size. Abdomen slender, about two-thirds the 

 length of the inner-margin of hind-wing. 



This Genus is remarkable for the swollen or dilated ner- 

 vures in the fore-wing, a character that is one of the most 

 marked in the Family Satyridce. The slender structure and 

 dull-brownish hue of the only South African species increase 

 its Satyriform aspect, and render one doubtful whether to 

 consider it as a true member of the Nymphalidce, to class it 

 with the Satyridce, themselves, or to include it in the Eury- 

 telidce. I think it presents a considerable affinity to the last- 

 named Family. 



86. Myscelia Natalensis. 



Crenis Natalensis, Boisd.) App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592. 



Expands 1 in. 10 lin. 2 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Dull ochreous-brown. Fore-wing : unicolorous, with 

 only the faint indications of a transverse row of darker spots 

 near hind-margin. Hind-wing : an ochreous tint prevails 

 towards hind-margin, which has an edging of thin lunules, 

 darker than ground-colour ; beyond middle, parallel to hind- 

 margin, a row of five small, rounded, blackish spots, between 

 nervules. UNDER-SIDE. Paler. Fore-wing : dull-ochreous, 

 somewhat glistening ; on costa, a little before middle, an 

 obliquely-transverse, dark streak, inclining outwards as far 

 as first median nervule ; immediately beyond streak, a dusky, 

 ill-defined, darker space ; apical portion pale yellowish-grey- 

 ish, with four elongate, black spots near the inner edge of 

 the greyish colouring ; a row of seven dusky-blackish, short 

 streaks, parallel to hind-margin, not reaching to anal angle. 

 Hind-wing : pale yellowish-grey ; before middle, a broad, 



