RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALI3. 



"From Graham's Town to King William's Town." W 

 D'Urban, in litt. 



" Moselekatze's Country." Boisd. 



" Cape. Querimba." Hopffer, loc. cit. 



Genus D'UBBANIA. N. G. 



IMAGO. Head of moderate size : eyes ovate, smooth, 

 rather small, slightly prominent ; palpi rather long, porrected 

 divergently, scarcely rising above forehead, scaly, second 

 joint long and stout, terminal joint slender; antennae short 

 (especially in $ ), rather stout, with a well-marked, sub- 

 cylindrical, rather abruptly-formed, obtuse-ended club, and 

 with conspicuous white rings ; no tuft of hairs on forehead. 

 Thorax compressed, short, not stout, with a few short hairs 

 laterally and posteriorly : prothorax with a dense clothing of 

 short hair. Wings large, elongate, rounded entire. Fore- 

 wing : costa moderately arched from base ; apex rounded ; 

 hind-margin rather markedly convex, the anal angle being 

 very much rounded off; inner-margin straight; nervures 

 short and weak, yet with a slight inclination to be swollen at 

 base ; the nervules unusually long, the first subcostal and 

 third median nervules being inserted very near to base ; 

 discoidal cell short, rather wide at extremity, apparently 

 closed by a scarcely-perceptible nervule. Hind-wing : costa 

 strongly arched just at base, thence almost straight; hind- 

 margin as in fore-wing, the apical and anal angles being yet 

 more rounded off; inner-margins almost straight, just covering 

 the sides of abdomen, but no part of its under-surface, being 

 widely separate at its base ; discoidal cell closed, rather longer 

 and wider than in fore-wing. Legs short, the femora stout, 

 scaly ; tarsi of fore-legs of $ composed of a single elongate 

 joint, with the ungues obsolete, those of $ with the joints 

 compressed, and provided with minute ungues ; posterior 

 tibiae in both sexes destitute of spurs. Abdomen short, 

 compressed. 



Larva and pupa unknown. 



I have dedicated this curious and interesting Genus to my 

 friend W. S. M. D'Urban. It is, without question, the 

 most valuable result of his Kaffrarian researches. The single 

 species on which it is founded presents an aspect wholly at 

 variance with that of the typical Lyc&nida, possessing none 

 of the metallic or silky lustre of the Lyccence or Chrysophani; 

 the general colouring and texture, as well as the shape, of 

 the wings, and the weak structure of the body, forcibly 

 reminding one of the Satyridne. The fuscous-and-whitish 



