30 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALI3. 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. Tri. et 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



King William's Town, British Kaffraria. W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. 



" Tette." Hpfr., in Peters' Reise. 



" Java." Godt. 



133. Amblypodia Hirundo. 



Thecla Hirundo, Wallgr.> Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 35, n. 4. 

 Exp. 911 lin. 



Dark ash-grey, irrorated from bases with very pale bluish" 

 grey : anal angle of hind-wing produced and lobed, and 

 ending in a long twisted, black, broadly white-edged and 

 fringed tail, on submedian nervure. Fore-wing : on hind- 

 margin, close to anal angle, a black, indistinctly white-ringed 

 spot (" sometimes, in ? , a second obsolete one before it," 

 Wallgr.) Hind - wing : paler near inner - margin ; along 

 hind-margin a row of dark white-ringed spots, very indistinct, 

 excepting the three last, which are black and well-marked 

 (that on anal -angular lobe being the largest) ; before this, a 

 row of indistinct whitish lunules. Cilia of fore-wing grey, 

 white at anal angle ; of hind-wing wholly white. UNDER- 

 SIDE. Whitish-grey; with white-bordered yellow-ochreous 

 stride : common to both wings a transverse, irregular streak, 

 interrupted on nervules, beyond middle a submarginal lunu- 

 late streak, a very indistinct row of dusky spots just beyond 

 this, and a line just within hind-marginal edge ; in each 

 wing a double disco-cellular striola, with two costal spots 

 above it. Fore-wing : ocellus at anal angle conspicuous, 

 bounded internally by last lunule of submarginal streak. 

 Hind-wing : spot on lobe and that between second and third 

 median nervules black, inwardly edged by a faint-yellow 

 lunule, the space between the two spots fuscous ; streak 

 beyond middle strongly recurved on third median. 



The under-side of this delicate little species is very like that of A. 

 Erylus. The ocellus of fore-wing and single long white tail of hind-wing 

 give a very peculiar aspect to the sombre colouring of the upper-side. 



" October, March, and June ; abundant." W. D'Urban, in litt. 



King "William's Town. Iteiskamma, near Bodiam. Coll. 

 Tri. et Coll. D'Urban. 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. 

 Mus. 



