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group of large species represented by P. erinm/s and P. dysmephila, 

 Trim., especially in its robust body, rather slender legs, and long 

 antennae with elongate but thick club (the tip of which is acute 

 and curved but not hooked) ; the terminal joint of the palpi is 

 short, very slender, acuminate, and pilose. 



As regards colouring and marking, P. chirala on the upperside 

 resembles P. malchus and P. gillias (Mab.), from Madagascar, but 

 has an entirely different underside, much recalling that of the 

 North-American group represented by P. zabulon, Boisd. & Le C, 

 P. peclcius, Kirb., and P. mystic (Scudd.), though unlike in the 

 oblique disposition of the ferruginous stripes. 



The only example was taken in Mineni Valley on 13th March. 



150. Pamphila moritili (Wallengr.). 



5 . Hesperia moritili, Wallengr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 — 

 Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 49. n. 4. 



S 2 • Pamphila moritili, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 319. n. 349, 

 pi. 12. fig. 4 [d] (1889). 



Three examples captured in the Mineui Valley, during March — 

 two males and a female. 



151. Pamphila borbonica (Boisd.). 



Hesperia borbonica, Boisd. Paune Ent. Madag. etc. p. 65. n. 3, 

 pi. 9. figs. 5, 6 (1833). 



Pamphila borbonica, Mab. in Grandid. Madag. etc., Lepid. i. 

 p. 360, pi. lv. figs. 6, 6 a (1885-86). 



The only example, a male from Christmas Pass, agrees with Natal 

 specimens in possessing a small subterminal vitreous spot in the 

 discoidal cell which is wanting in the type-form. 



152. Pamphila inconspicua (Bertol.). 



cf . Hesperia inconspicua, Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologna, 

 1849-50 (sep. cop.), p. 15, pi. i. figs. 4, 5. 



2 . Hesperia mohopaani, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 48 (1857). 



rf 2 • Pamphila micipsa, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. 

 p. 290 (1862). 



£ 2 . Pamphila mohopaani, Trim. Ehop. Afr. Aust. ii. p. 304. 

 n. 198 (1866); and S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 324. n. 353 (1889). 



Bertoloni's description and figures are from a single male from 

 Inhambane ; there can be no doubt that his species is identical 

 with H. mohopaani, Wallengr. 



A single male from Christmas Pass is somewhat greyer (less 

 greenish yellow) in tint on the underside, and has six spots in the 

 discal series of the underside of the hind wings 1 . 



1 A male Pamphila from Khasia Hills, Assam, received as " Chapra pro- 

 mincns" from Mr. de Niceville in 1889, is inseparable from the male P. incon- 

 spicua. I have already (S.-Afr. Butt., iii. p. 325) expressed the opinion that 

 mohopaani (= inconspicua) will eventually be recognized as merely a larger 

 form of the Oriental P. mathias (Fabr.). 



