76 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES PROM [Jan. 16, 



The four males and four females described were taken in the 

 Mineni Valley, from the 7th to the 25th March, settling on bushes 

 in a wooded ravine. 



148. Pamphila zeno, Trim. 



$ . Pamphila zeno, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ii. p. 179 

 (1864) ; and S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 313. n. 345, pi. 12. fig. 2 (1889). 

 Two males, from Christmas Pass and Revue River respectively. 



149. Pamphila chirala, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 18, $ .) 



Exp. al. 1 in. 4 lin. 



$ . Dull brown ; fore iving with a few transparent ivhitish sp>ots 

 and one semitransparent yellow spot, hind wing with a suffusion of 

 ochre-yellow from base to a little beyond middle ; cilia uniform dull 

 whitish-brown. Fore wing : six transparent spots, viz. : two small 

 ones in discoidal cell, near its extremity, disposed transversely one 

 immediately above the other ; two a little beyond and beneath 

 these, only separated from each other by the 2nd median nervule, 

 of which the upper is small and triangular and the lower large and 

 quadrate ; and two near costa, midway between discocellular spots 

 and apex, only separated from each other by the 5th subcostal 

 nervule, of which the upper is minute and subquadrate and the 

 lower small and wedge-shaped ; immediately above submedian 

 nervure, about middle, a pale dull-yellow wedge-shaped spot, 

 smaller than the largest of the transparent spots, with its narrow 

 end baseward ; from base to before middle a faint suffusion of 

 ochre-yellow. Hind iving : without markings ; ochre-yellow suffu- 

 sion from base fading away beyond middle and not extending to 

 costa. Underside. — Hind wing and apical area of fore wing rather 

 bright yellow, varied with dull ferruginous. Fore wing : transparent 

 spots with a fuscous edging ; field of wing fuscous-grey ; costa 

 narrowly and hind margin more widely bordered with pale dull 

 reddish ; a large subapical costal patch of yellow, beginning at 

 extremity of discoidal cell and outwardly bounded by an oblique 

 ferruginous streak from apex to 3rd median nervule ; a hind- 

 marginal series of small indistinct internervular brown spots ; 

 inner margin dingy-whitish. Hind wing : from apex to submedian 

 nervure an oblique ferruginous band, narrowed on 3rd median 

 nervule ; hind margin evenly bordered by an even rather narrow 

 dull-reddish band, externally brown-spotted as in fore wing, but 

 internally edged with ferruginous ; costa diffusedly edged with 

 ferruginous ; a minute subbasal ferruginous spot between costal 

 and subcostal nervules ; an ill-expressed transverse series of three 

 very small similar spots before middle ; and a small ring-spot 

 rather beyond middle, between subcostal nervules. 



Antennae dark brown, with thin whitish rings marking the joints, 

 and with outer third of club white. Palpi (except terminal joint) 

 clothed with brown hair above and very densely with yellow hair 

 beneath. 



This Hesperid, though of small size, resembles in structure the 



