190 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



107. Gnophodes Parmeno. 



Grnophodes Parmeno (E. Doubl. MS.), DoubL, Westw., 



[Hewits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 61, f. 2. 



Gnophodes Parmeus, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pap., 



[f, 294. 

 Expands 2 in. 8 lin. 3 in. 2 lin. 



Dull ochreous-brown. Fore -wing : on costa, beyond 

 middle, commences an ochreous stripe (in $ broad and 

 well-marked), strongly-curved outwardly as far as first median 

 nervule near hind-margin, and thence extending, and narrow- 

 ing, almost straight to anal angle ; between median and 

 submedian nervures, before middle, in $ , a thick tuft of 

 long silky hairs, of the ground-colour, lying longitudinally. 

 Hind-iving : in some specimens a narrow ochreous border 

 along hind-margin, nearly to anal angle ; besides tail on 

 first, a short but marked projection at extremity of third 

 median nervule. UNDER-SIDE. Varied with dark and light 

 reddish-brown, and irr orated with dark -brown : in each wing, 

 beyond middle, a transverse row of pale, creamy -ochreous 

 spots. Fore-wing : position of transverse stripe of upper-side 

 indicated by the apical portion beyond it being paler than 

 rest of wing (especially in $ , in which it is pale-ochreous) ; 

 spots of row four, parallel to apical half of hind-margin. 

 Hind-wing : a pale-ochreous band the whole length of costa 

 (more conspicuous in ? ), varied with brown irrorations ; 

 spots of transverse row six or seven. 



The only South African examples I have seen are those from Natal in the 

 British Museum, and one, from the frame locality, in Mr. Gultery's 

 collection. 



Port Natal. Sierra Leone. Ashanti. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Genus DEBTS. 

 Debis (Boisd. MS.), Westw. 



IMAGO. Head rather wide : eyes large, with a close 

 clothing of short hair ; palpi long, much flattened laterally, 

 separate but not divergent, beneath with a smooth dense 

 fringe of hair ; antennae short, with a very slender and 

 elongate incrassation. Thorax short, pilose, rather stout. 

 Fore-wings often produced in apical region : costa strongly 

 arched from base ; apex rounded ; hind-margin bluntly 

 dentate ; inner-margin straight ; nervures all simple at base. 

 Hind-wings with costa very prominent at base, but thence 

 very slightly curved ; hind-margin more or less deeply 



