312 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



I found this species not common at Plettenberg Bay, but Mr. D'Urban 

 notes it as abundant in British Kaffraria, and it appears to be common 

 further to the East. Its habits closely resemble those of the European 

 JV. Tages y Linn. 



Plettenberg Bay. King William's Town (W. D'Urban). 

 Coll. Tri. 



Butterworth and Bashee River, Kaffraria(J. H. Bowker). 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



205. Nisoniades Kobela. 



Nisoniades Kobela, mihi, N. Sp. 

 Exp. 1 in. 5 lin. 1 in. 10 lin. 



Dusky blackish-brown, here and there clouded with paler 

 scales ; with small vitreous, and indistinct larger black spots : 

 in both wings a disco-cellular spot, and a transverse row of 

 spots. Fore-wing: cellular spot encloses a vitreous dot, 

 often wanting in $ ; transverse row beyond middle much 

 elbowed on discoidal nervules, composed of nine spots, the 

 three first of which (on costa) are always vitreous, the fourth 

 and fifth black only and nearer margin than the rest, the 

 others more or less markedly vitreous-centred ; between 

 third median nervule and submedian nervure, near base, a 

 large black spot, indistinct, sometimes pale-centred in ? ; 

 beyond transverse row and also along hind-margin some 

 faint-yellowish scaling. Hind-wing : spots without vitreous 

 centres ; transverse row more regular than in fore-wing, of 

 six or seven spots. UNDER-SIDE. Rather paler, more 

 glossy ; spots more distinct, but smaller. Fore-wing : inner- 

 margin bordered with dull-greyish ; a dark streak, rather 

 than spot, closing cell ; spot near base obsolete. Hind-wing : 

 a double streak closing cell ; spots of transverse row 

 bounded outwardly and often centred with dull-yellowish 

 scales. Cilia of fore-wing fuscous, indistinctly mixed with 

 greyish-yellow near anal angle ; of hind-wing conspicuously 

 greyish-yellow interrupted with fuscous : paler beneath. 



In the $ , which is darker than the $ , the spots are often very in- 

 distinct, but when all others are scarcely distinguishable, and without a 

 trace of vitreous centres, the three vitreous dots on costa are invariably 

 well marked. In marking the species resembles the $ of J!V. Sabadius, 

 Boisd. (Nottoana, Wallgr ), but very much exceeds it in size. 



This large and sombre Hesperian is met with in the thick forests of the 

 Bashee River, where its habits are reported by Mr. Bowker to be quite 

 similar to those of its more gaily coloured congener, N. Mokeezi of 

 Wallengren. Though rare in 1862, Mr. Bowker reports it as common in 

 1863, but restricted to certain localities. 



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

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



