290 Mr. R. Trimen on some New Species 



Genus Pamfhila, Fab. 

 PamphUa Micipsa. 



Exp. I in. 5 lin. — 1 in. 8 lin. 



^ . Glossy-brown, tinged with olivaceous ; marked with vitreous 

 spots. Fore-wing : 2 vitreous spots in cell, near its extremity ; 

 beyond middle, a transverse elbowed row of 6 vitreous spots, 

 the 2 next costa minute, the last largest, above 3rd median nervule ; 

 sexual oblique marking short, linear, whitish, reaching from last 

 vitreous spot to sub-median nervure. Hind-wing: 2 vitreous dots 

 beyond middle between 2nd sub-costal and 1st median nervules; 

 clothing of hairs towards inner-margin olivaceous. Underside. — 

 Paler, irrorated with olivaceous. Hind-wing: a whitish, sub- 

 diaphanous dot in discoidal cell ; 2 similar, smaller dots beyond 

 middle, — one above, the other below, 2 vitreous dots. 



J . Paler. Fore-wing : in place of the streak peculiar to S is 

 a vitreous spot, continuous of the transverse row. 



This species is nearly allied to P. Borbon'ica, Boisd., described 

 and figured in " Faune Ent. de Madagas.," but is distinguished 

 from it by the well-marked vitreous spots in discoidal cell of fore- 

 wing, and the two in hind- wing, all of which are wanting in 

 Borbonica, which is also without the whitish spot on underside 

 of discoidal cell of hind-wing ; the $ of Borbonica, as appears 

 from a Mauritian specimen in the South African Museum, is de- 

 void, too, of the oblique discal streak observable in the same sex 

 of P. Micipsa, — its position being occupied by a vitreous spot. I 

 found P. Micipsa very rare at Knysna, only taking one specimen 

 of each sex: it frequented the marshes bordering the river-lagoon. 



Hab. Knysna. — Coll. mihi. 



PamphUa Erinnys. 



Exp. 2 in. 1 lin. 



Dark-brown ; with yellow-ochreous and vitreous spots. Fore- 

 wing : from base, along inner-margin, a clothing of short, yellow 

 hairs ; 2 small, quadrate, vitreous spots at extremity of discoidal 

 cell ; 3 small similar spots form a short streak from costa, between 

 middle and apex; below them, from origin of 2nd median nervule 

 to sub-median nervure, a row of 3 larger, vitreous spots (the 

 lowest tinged with yellow) inclining towards middle of inner- 

 margin. Hind-wing: clothed with yellow hairs from base; an 

 angulated, transverse, macular, yellow-ochreous band from near 

 costa to middle of sub-median nervure, — the first three spots 



