Butter files from British Kaffraria, 405 



Genus Cyclopidks, Hiibn. 

 Cyclopides Macomo. 



Kxp. 1 in. 2 lin. (single specimen). 



Brown ; with quadrate, ochreous-yellow spots. Fore-wing : base 

 yellow-scaled ; a transverse row of 3 spots from extremity of cell 

 to sub-median nervure before middle ; beyond middle, a row of 

 C spots — 3 near apex, on sub-costal nervules, — 3 larger, between 

 1st median nervule and sub-median nervure. Hind-wing : a small, 

 disco-cellular spot; beyond middle, between 1st sub-costal nervure 

 and sub-median nervure, an irregular row of 5 spots, of which the 

 2nd is much the largest, and the last indistinct. Underside. — 

 Creamy-yellow, tinged with greenish; with black dots. Fore-wing : 

 inner-marginal portion, from base, blackish, contrasting strongly 

 with lowermost spots of outer transverse row ; a minute, disco- 

 cellular, black dot ; a little behind it, 4 similar dots marking inner 

 extremities of upper spots of outer transverse row ; a sub-marginal 

 row of 4 blackish dots, radiating to hind-margin. Hind-wing : 2 

 black dots below costal nervure, one close to base, the other be- 

 fore middle ; beyond middle, two nearly parallel, irregular rows 

 of black dots, those of inner row larger, more irregularly placed. 



"King William's Town, December 8th, I860."— D'Urban, in 

 litt. 



Two damaged specimens in the South African Museum were 

 forwarded from Butterworth, (Kaffraria,) by Mr. J. H. Bowker. 



Genus Hesperia, Fab., Sws. 

 Hesperia Amaponda. 



Exp. 1 in. 7 lin. — 1 in. 9 lin. 



$ Dark-brown; with sub-vitreous, yellow-ochreous, transverse 

 markings. Fore-tving : in basal portion, and along inner-margin, 

 irrorated with dull-yellowish ; a rather wide stripe, irregularly 

 dentate externally and internally, from costa slightly before middle 

 to sub-median nervure near anal angle, where it ends almost in a 

 point ; near apex, a parallel shorter band, touching neither costa 

 nor hind-margin. Hind-wing : irrorated with yellowish scales, 

 excepting along costa and hind-margin ; at extremity of discoidal 

 cell a sub-reniform spot. Cilia of fore-wing brown, of hind- 

 wing yellow. Underside. — Paler ; yellow markings as above, 

 but with fewer scales than on upperside ; a very limited yellowish 

 irroration at bases. Fore-wing : a pale yellowish-grey space at 

 anal angle, adjoining extremity of transverse band. Hind-wing : 



