524 Mr. R. Trimen's Descriptions of 



The specimens before me having been pressed in a book, it is 

 difficult to ascertain their sex. Some specimens, larger than the 

 others, and with the inner edging of apical marking more strongly 

 marked, may be females. An individual in Mr. Andersson's Col- 

 lection (to which I have not access at present), I find from my 

 notes to be " dusted with grey beneath, over apical region of 

 fore-wing and whole of hind-wing.'' 



I know of no species of Anthochans which Eosphorus can be 

 said to resemble, the only species whose apical marking ap- 

 proaches its own in colour being A, Eris, Klug-Ehrenb., but the 

 purple gloss, and dark borderings and crossing nervules of the 

 latter's marking give it a totally different aspect. In other respects 

 the species strikingly differ. The wings of Eosphorus are exceed- 

 ingly delicate in texture, the fore-wings rather markedly elongate 

 but without any elbowing of hind-margin. 



Besides Mr. Andersson's specimen above mentioned, I have 

 examined seventeen examples in Mr. J. A. Bell's Collection, all 

 from Damara Land, but have heard nothing of the habits of the 

 species. 



Genus Pais (Hiibn.), Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., pt. i. p. 62. 

 1 . Pais pulchra. 



Exp. 1 in. 7 lin — 1 in. 10 lin. 



Fore- wing : Pale creamy ; costa edged blackish to beyond mid- 

 dle ; from base, between median and sub-median nervures, a fer- 

 ruginous-red, longitudinal streak, abruptly ending before middle ; 

 a transverse stripe of the same colour, bi-angulated, not far from 

 hind-margin, quite across wing, almost immediately preceded by 

 a black line parallel to it ; three black transverse striae near base, 

 the first not passing median nervure, the other two parallel, 

 sinuous, reaching inner margin ; three conspicuous stigmata (like 

 those of most Noctuce in position and shape), composed of black 

 rings, enclosing a steely-centred spot of the ground colour, the 

 two first rounded, contiguous, connecting costal blackish and 

 extremity of longitudinal red stripe — the outer reniform, elongate, 

 touching costal blackish stripe at one extremity and second angle of 

 transverse black line at the other ; hind-margin edged with black, 

 from which extend short, straight, well-defined black lines be- 

 tween nervules to transverse red stripe. Hind-wing: ochreous- 

 orange ; a large fuscous lunule at extremity of discoidal cell; 

 hind-margin with a black edging, united to an inner, parallel, 

 blackish stripe by blackish lines between nervules. Underside. — 



