62 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



6. Aphnaeus Natalensis. Plate XXV. figs. <j 1, 6 2. 



Aphnaeus Natalensis, Doubleday § Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 75. f. 4. 



Amblypodia Natalensis, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 479. Hopfferin Peters 's Reise nach Mossam- 

 bique, p. 399. 



Spindasis Masilikazi, Wallengren, Lep. Caffrorum in Acta Reg. Acad. Scient. Holm. N. S. t. xi. no. 4. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Natal and Old Calabar. 



7. Aphnaeus Acamas. 



Thecla Acamas, King <$f Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. pi. 40. f. 7, 8, 9. 



Zeritis Acamas, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 501. 



Polyommatus Epargyros, Euersmann, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mos. pt. ii. vol. xxvii. pi. 1. f. 1, 2 (1854). 



Cigaritis Acamas, Stiiudinger, Cat. Lep. Europ. p. 4. 



8. Aphnaeus Nilus, Hewitson. 



Upperside. Female.- — Banded and clouded with brown. Anterior wing with a spot in 

 the cell, a transverse broad band of dark brown in the middle joined to and forming a triangle 

 with a broad band which has its origin near the apex, and enclosing a triangular space of white 

 marked by an irregular brown spot. Posterior wing crossed obliquely near the middle by two 

 bands of brown, and transversely beyond the middle by a band of the same colour. Both wings 

 with a submarginal band of brown. 



Underside pale rufous-yellow. Both wings with the outer margin and a submarginal 

 line of spots dark brown. Anterior wing with two spots within the cell, a band of three distinct 

 spots at the end of the cell, three spots forming a triangle and a broad transverse band. Posterior 

 wing with an oblique band of three separate spots near the base : a band of four spots (touching) 

 before the middle, a short undivided band, a small brown spot on the costal margin, and a 

 transverse band : two small black spots near the anal angle with orange between them. 



All the bands and spots of both wings of the same colour as the rest of the iving, bordered 

 with dark rufous-brown and sparingly decorated with gold. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the White Nile. 



The spots and bands on the underside of this species are placed nearly as in A. Acamas ; they 

 are, however, more divided into spots, are of the same colour as the rest of the wing, and much 

 less spotted with gold. Above it is much obscured with brown. 



9. Aphnaeus Iza, Hewitson. Plate XXV. <3 fig. 5. 



Upperside. Male. — Brown with obscure spots of paler and darker colour. 



