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Genus PHYSCiENEUEA. 



PhysccBiieura, Wallengr., Koiigl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Haiidl., 1857, Lep. Rhop. 



Caffr., p. 32. 

 Periplysia, Gerst., Gliederth. -Fauna d. Sansibar-Geb., p. 370 (1873). 



Imago. — Closely allied to the two preceding genera, YptJiima and 

 Cmnyra. Antennce very short and slender, with a cylindrical, elongate, 

 gradually-formed but distinct club, rather blunted at the tip; jm/pi 

 with long bristly hairs beneath (not so thickly set as in Ypthima), the 

 terminal joint very long and sharply pointed, not hairy. Fore-wings 

 shaped as in Ypthima, except in being a little more elongate and 

 more rounded at apex ; costal nervure largely swollen basally, the other 

 nervures simple; first subcostal nervule originating before extremity 

 of cell (a little nearer base than in YptJmna), the second at some 

 distance beyond it. Hind-wings longer than in Ypthima, and more 

 rounded at anal angle. Cilia of wings remarkably long and sparse, 

 especially in $. 



I have not had sufficient material to admit of dissection, but it is 

 evident under the lens that while the fore-legs of the ^ cannot be 

 made out at all among the hairs of the breast, those of the $ are 

 greatly reduced, being very much smaller than those of $ Ypthima, 

 and with the tarsus apparently almost obsolete. 



Irrespective of the structural differences mentioned, Physcmneura 

 exhibits the peculiarity in marking of possessing on the fore-wings a 

 series of five, and on the hind-wings a series of six or seven ocelli, 

 which, while conspicuous and silvery-centred on the under side of the 

 wings, are on the upper side ill-defined and almost blind {Panda), or 

 wanting altogether (Leda). The two known species differ remarkably 

 in colouring, P. Panda (Boisd.) being on the upper side of the ordi- 

 nary dull-brown, with dull-rufous, ill-marked ocelli, while P. Lcda 

 (Gerst.) is white margined with blackish, after the manner of a Terias ; 

 and on the under side the conspicuous vermiculation, general in Panda, 

 is confined in Leda to the margins of the wings. 



The genus is not known to extend northward beyond South-Tropical 

 Africa ; and while Panda, the type of the genus, ranges from Natal to 

 Matabeleland and Damaraland, Leda has hitherto only been recorded 

 from Mombas on the East Coast, where it was discovered by Dr. Kersten. 



7. (1.) Physcseneura Panda (Boisduval). 



Satyrus Panda, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., ii. p. 594, n. 85 (1847). 

 Physcoeneura Panda, AVallengr., Kongl. Sv, Vet.-Akad., 1857, Lep. Rhop. 



Caffr., p. 33. 

 $ Erehia Panda, Hopff., Peters' Reise nach Mossamb.,— Ins., p. 392, pi. 



XXV. ff. I, 2 (1862)'. 

 (J Erehia Panda, Trhii., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 204, n. 117 (1866). 



