04 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



This description is a translation of that given by Boisduval in the 

 Appendix to Delegorgue's Travels. Mr. John A. Bell's collection of 

 butterflies from Tropical South- Western Africa contained a single, much- 

 worn example of this species. 



" Amazoulu Country." Boisd. in Deleg. 

 Damaraland (J. A. Bell). Coll. Tri. 



117. Erebia Panda. 



Satyrus Panda, Boisd., App. Toy. de Deleg., p. 594, n. 85. 

 Erebia Panda, Hpfr., Peters' Reise nach Mosamb., Ins., 



[pi. 25, f. 1, 2. 

 Expands 1 in. 6 lin. 



Dull-brown : each wing with a transverse row of ochrey-red, 

 black-centred spots. For e -wing : base of dilated subcostal 

 nervure tinged with ochrey-red ; near and parallel to hind- 

 margin the five connected spots of the transverse row form 

 rather a broad band. Hind-wing : six spots in transverse 

 row near hind-margin, all separate but the two next anal 

 angle, which form a single, bipupillate marking ; a whitish 

 line on hind-margin, near anal angle. UNDER-SIDE. Very 

 different: transversely and irregularly streaked with alternate 

 pale-yellowish and dark-brown slender lines, in many places 

 confluent ; rows of spots situated as on upper-side, but 

 ochrey-yellow, with conspicuous silvery centres. Fore-wing : 

 dilation of subcostal nervure ochrey-yellow ; transverse 

 yellowish lines not extending beyond median nervure and 

 third median nervule, below which the wing is wholly dark- 

 brown ; beyond row of spots the dark lines become fewer, 

 thinner, and shorter, the hind-margin itself being wholly 

 yellowish ; parallel to hind-margin two dark-brown streaks, 

 one festooned just beyond spots, the other straight and 

 immediately within margin. Hind-wing : the transverse 

 streaking extends to inner-marginal edge ; an additional 

 spot, like those in row, beyond middle, between first and 

 second subcostal nervules ; two spots of row next anal angle 

 not so closely confluent as on upper-side ; streaks along 

 hind-margin as in fore-wing. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Mr. C. J. Andersson in 

 Tropical South-Western Africa. One of the most elegant butterflies of the 

 Family, and rare in collections. 



" Amazoulu Country." Boisd. in Deleg. 



Damaraland. Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



" Inhambane," Hopffer, in Peters' Reise. 



