162 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRAL1S. 



gradually tapering, acutely pointed, ascendant almost perpen- 

 dicularly in front of head, convergent ; antennae long, rather 

 stout, with an elongate, gradually-formed, cylindrical club, 

 curving outwardly. Thorax robust, ovate, elongate, clothed 

 with hair (which is thick and long on the sides and poste- 

 riorly). Fore-wings large, somewhat truncate : costa but mode- 

 rately arched, the convexity commencing very gradually from 

 base ; apex rounded ; hind -margin almost straight, moderately 

 sinuate ; anal angle rounded ; inner-margin almost straight, 

 hairy near base ; discoidal cell closed, short, truncate, widest 

 near its extremity. Hind-wings large, ovate : costa remark- 

 ably straight after the first short convexity of base, only 

 slightly arched a little beyond middle ; hind-margin scalloped ; 

 anal angle rather marked ; inner-margins meeting to a little 

 beyond tip of abdomen, forming a deep groove ; discoidal cell 

 closed, broad, very short ; a dense clothing of long hairs, 

 commencing in cell, increases in length towards inner-margin. 

 Legs of moderate length, stout, with short, bristly hairs. 

 Abdomen short, moderately stout ; in $ rather slender. 



This Genus has been founded on a single species, M. Tid- 

 baghia, Linn., hitherto only known as a native of Southern 

 Africa. Its large size and warm and harmonious colouring 

 render it one of the finest species found in the country. It is 

 a mountain-haunting insect, only occasionally descending to 

 level country. The position of this Genus among the Nym- 

 phalidcB is at present somewhat uncertain, owing to our entire 

 ignorance of the Larva. There is a singularly Satyriform 

 aspect in the Imago, which the large ocelli in the hind-wing 

 tend to increase ; while its habits of frequenting dry and 

 rocky ground, and settling on large stones or on the earth, 

 are akin to those of the " Brown Butterflies " or Satyridce. 



96. Meneris Tulbaghia. 



Papilio Tulbaghia, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 775, n. 158. 

 Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 284, n. 102. 

 Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 499, n. 241. 



Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 3, f. E, F. 

 Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 105, n. 323. 

 Papilio Tulbachius,//erfotf, Nat.Bek.Ins. Schmett.,VllI, 



[pi. 214, f. 5, 6. 



Oreades marm. Tulbaghia, Htibn, Samml. Exot. Schmett., 



[Band I. 



Tisiphone Tulbaghia, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett. 

 Nymphalis Tulbaghia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 400, n. 



[171. 

 Meneris Tulbaghia, E.Doubl., List. Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 106. 



