HESPERID^E. 297 



Genus PAMPHILA. 



Pamphila, Fab. 

 Hesperia, Boisd. 



IMAGO. Head as wide as thorax, with tufts at bases of 

 antennae ; palpi thick, compact, closely and densely pilose, 

 the terminal joint very short (sometimes scarcely perceptible); 

 antenna rather short, with a distinct, rather abruptly-formed 

 club, ending (in many species) in a slender, acute, slightly 

 recurved tip. Thorax very robust. Fore-wings prolonged 

 and rather acuminate ; costa very slightly hollowed about its 

 middle ; anal angle sometimes rather prominent. Hind-wings 

 more or less prominently lobed at anal angle : costa very 

 prominent at base. Legs rather long, with pubescent femora. 

 Abdomen rather slender, usually not reaching as far as anal 

 angle of hind-wings. 



I have referred to this Genus twelve South African species*, 

 four of which, however, are doubtful members of it. In. 

 P. Macomo, Lepenula, and niveostriga, the tips of the 

 antennae are not recurved, but in all the others (P. Poutieri 

 and Havel probably only, as I have not seen these species) 

 the ti^s are more or less hooked. 



188. Pamphila Macomo* 



Cyclopides Macomo, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc., 3rd Ser., I, 



[p. 405. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. 1 in. 3 lin. 



$ . Brown ; with quadrate, ochr eons-yellow spots. Fore- 

 wing : base yellow-scaled ; a transverse row of three spots 

 from extremity of cell to submedian nervure before middle ; 

 beyond middle, a row of six spots three near apex, on 

 subcostal nervules, three larger, between first median nervule 

 and submedian nervure. Hind-wing : a small, disco-cellular 

 spot ; beyond middle, between first subcostal nervule and 

 submedian nervure, an irregular row of five spots, of which 

 the second is much the largest, and the last indistinct. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Creamy -yellow, tinged with greenish; with 

 black dots. Fore-wing: inner-marginal portion, from base, 

 blackish, contrasting strongly with lowermost spots of outer 

 transverse row ; a minute, disco-cellular, black dot ; a little 

 behind it, four similar dots marking inner extremities of 

 upper spots of outer transverse row ; a subrnarginal row of 

 four blackish dots, radiating to hind-margin. Hind-wing ; 



