HESPERIDJS. 317 



Mr. D'Urban informs me that the $ Mokeezi is in the Collection of 

 the British Museum. 



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

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Zoolu, S. Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Genus ISMENE. 



Ismene, Swains. 

 Thymele, Boisd. 



IMAGO. Head as wide as thorax ; palpi very thick, the 

 second joint much swollen and densely clothed with scales 

 and hairs, terminal joint linear, naked, rather long ; 

 antenna gradually incrassate, the tips acuminate, and very 

 much re-curved. Fore-wings much elongated : costa slightly 

 curved near base ; inner-margin short : discoidal cell narrow, 

 very long, closed. Hind-wings broadly and prominently 

 lobed at anal angle ; costa much arched ; cell open. Legs 

 rather long : femora and middle and hind tibiae with long 

 hairs. Abdomen short. 



The insects of this Genus are the largest of the South 

 African Hesperida. Their strong, bulky bodies, and dull 

 colours give them much general resemblance to Moths : the 

 large head, with its thick palpi and hooked antennae, being 

 not unlike that of some Sphingina. 



211. Ismene Ratek. 



Thymele Ratek, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., pi. 61. 



Exp. 2 in. 1 lin. 



Dull-brown. Fore-wing : base and part of inner-margin 

 tinged with yellow-ochreous. Hind-wing : base and inner- 

 marginal region clothed with short orange-ochreous hairs. 

 Cilia brown, but orange on lobe of anal angle of hind-wing. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Glossy olive-brvwn or bronze-colour, spotless, 

 Cilia as above. 



This species seems to be much rarer in collections than I. Florestan. 

 Its haunts and habits are unknown to me. 



Natal. Coll. Tri. 



" Madagascar." Boisd. 



212. Ismene Keithloa. 



? . Rhopalocampta Keithloa, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., 



[p. 48, n. 3. 



Ismene Stella, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 3rd Ser., I, p. 



[287. 



