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clothed with scales and very fine short hairs (most developed on second 

 joint above), the terminal joint not distinctly separated from the second, 

 rather wide, moderately acute ; antennae of moderate length, with a 

 narrow, elongated, gradually-formed club, somewhat flattened and hol- 

 lowed externally. 



Thorax rather slender, moderately clothed with longish hair above, 

 closely and shortly pubescent beneath. Fore-wings : with costa slightly 

 arched ; apical portion slightly prominent, or produced and moderately 

 truncate ; hind-margin slightly or moderately concave about middle ; 

 inner margin almost straight ; costal and median nervules swollen 

 for some distance from base ; submedian nervure curved downward at 

 a little distance from base ; first subcostal nervule emitted considerably 

 before extremity of discoidal cell, second about midway between first 

 and extremity of cell ; middle disco-cellular nervule rather long, much 

 curved towards base ; lower disco-cellular longer, less curved, slender 

 but distinct, meeting third median nervule at or just beyond its origin ; 

 discoidal cell very short, truncate. Ilind-ioings : with costa mode- 

 rately humjoed close to base, and thence almost straight ; hind-margin 

 rounded, moderately sinuate-dentate ; discoidal cell very short, the 

 nervule closing it very much attenuated or almost obsolete ; internal 

 nervure terminating in a line with tip of abdomen ; groove formed by 

 inner margins moderately deep. Forc-lcgs of $ clothed rather thickly 

 throughout with long hairs ; of $ not much larger, with the femur 

 hairy, and the tibia and tarsus scaly, with a few short hairs. Middle 

 and hind legs of moderate size, scaly ; tibite wdth only a few small spines 

 laterally and beneath, and with the terminal spurs short and weak ; 

 tarsi moderately spinulose beneath, the terminal claws strong and curved. 



Abdomen rather short, very slender in ^. 



Pupa. — Head rather acutely and deeply bifid ; thorax rather deep, 

 and very broad (owing to lateral expansion of wing-covers, forming 

 blunted angulations at bases and posterior angles) ; dorso-thoracic pro- 

 minence very high, acute ; abdomen slender, slightly recurved. 



(Described from a pencil drawing by Mr. W. D. Gooch of a 

 Natalian example of either C. Natalcnsis or C. Boisduvali.) 



Crenis is doubtfully separable from Funica,, Hiibn. — a South- 

 American genus — the only differences that I can discover being that in 

 the former the head is smaller, the palpi longer, the thorax less robust, 

 and the costa of the hind- wings not nearly so prominently humped 

 near the base. 



The swollen costal and median nervures of the fore-wings afford a 

 ready mark of distinguishing Crenis from any other South-African 

 genera of Nymphalinm except Furytela and Hypanis, and both the 

 latter are at once recognised by their very much longer palpi. All the 

 nine species^ recorded are natives of the Ethiopian Kegion, and the 



^ Earma Concordia, Hopffer (figured in Peters' Reise nach Mossambique, Ins., t. xxii. 

 £f. 3, 4), is evidently a Crenis not distantly allied to C. Amiilia (Cram.) Only the ? is 

 recorded ; its locality is yiveu as Querimba. 



