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convex: hind-margin entire or very slightly denticulate. 

 Hind-wings much rounded ; costa very prominent at base ; 

 hind-margin more or less dentate. Legs rather long, coxae 

 and femora and hind tibiae very hairy. Abdomen not 

 reaching to anal angle of hind-wings. 



The seven South African species that I have included 

 under this Genus are all rather dull in colouring, and all 

 have transparent markings in the wings. The most cheerful- 

 looking is N. Mokeezi, in which the yellow hue of the 

 sub-vitreous bands relieves the brown of the general surface. 

 N. Kobela is very dark, and the largest of the seven species ; 

 the smallest being N. Djczloelce. 



204. Nisoniades Djselselse. 



Pterygospidea Djaelaelaa, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Cqffr., p. 



[54, n. 5. 



Nisoniades Umbra, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc. t 3rd Series, I, 



[p. 289. 



Exp. 1 in. 1 in. | lin. 



Dark-brown, dusted with yellowish and whitish scales ; a 

 few small vitreous spots. Fore-wing : a conspicuous darker 

 triangle, its broad base on inner-margin, its apex on costal 

 nervure, a little before middle ; on the outer edge of this 

 marking are a sub-diaphanous spot close to costa, and a 

 vitreous litura (like a ? reversed) bordering it between first 

 median nervule and sub-median nervure; a smaller dark 

 triangle on costa rather beyond middle, its base on first 

 median nervule, outwardly edged by a line of three small 

 vitreous dots; traces of a sub-marginal dark streak from 

 apex; cilia greyish, interrupted with dark-brown. Hind- 

 wing : a vitreous or sub-diaphanous dot about extremity of 

 discoidal cell, sometimes obsolete traces of two darker fasciae 

 about middle ; cilia as in fore-wing. UNDER-SIDE. Dull- 

 ferruginous / vitreous spots as above. Fore-wing : edges 

 only of dark triangles faintly indicated ; about extremity 

 of cell a brighter, almost orange space. Hind-wing : fasciae 

 more distinct, sometimes well-marked. 



On the hind- margin of fore-wing there is a shallow concavity between 

 third median nervule and sub-median nervure, and on that of hind-wing a 

 deeper one between discoidal and first median nervules. The hind-margin 

 of both wings is generally more dentate than in others of the genus. 



Hillsides, settling on stony footpaths. 



February. " August to December ; March." W. D'Urban, in litt. 



