7o LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA 



Genus PARDOPSIS Trimen 



Acraea Boisduval (nee Fabricius, 1S07), Faune Madag. Bourb. et Maurice, p. 3i (i833); Trimen, 



Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. io5 (1862). 

 Pardopsis Trimen, S. Afr. Butt. Vol. 1, p. i83 (1887); Aurivillius, Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. Vol. 3i, 



p. So, n. 5 (i8gg); Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 4 (1912). 



Genotype. — - P. punctatissima Boisduval (i833). 



Characters. — Differs from Adinote, Acraea and Planema especially in the antennae, legs and 

 neuration. 



The antenna is strongly clavate, the club being broad and rather abrupt; the shaft is completely 

 covered with dentate scaling, there being no grooves and no carinae; underside of club and entire last 

 segment without scaling, with distinct grooves and three carinae, the latter being low, obtuse and incons- 

 picuous, contrasting with the sharp carinae found in the three previous genera. 



The labial palpus as in Acraea, slender, derm pale, upper and under sides rough with hair-scales 

 and bristles, outer and inner sides covered with entire, denticulate or bidentate scales, the hair-scales 

 not feathery. 



The proboscis bears at and near the apex about six papillae on each side, the papillae being sub- 

 cylindrical, non-dentate at the apex, with the usual apical central conical projection. 



The fore tibia of the rj< is somewhat longer than the fore femur and bears long hair-scales and a 

 few stout spines on the ventral surface, the dorsal and lateral surfaces being covered with elongate but 

 broad, more or less irregularly bidentate, scales. The fore tarsus of the (J 1 is not much shorter than the 

 femur; it is non-segmented, but a few spines placed at intervals indicate the apices of the segments; 

 scaling as on the tibia; claw-segment represented by a strongly chitinized pointed hispid cone. In the Q 

 the fore tibia has no long hair-scales, but is smoothly covered on all sides with elongate broad scales; it 

 bears a few stout-spines on the ventral surface on each side, one of them being apical. The fore tarsus of 

 the 9 consists of five segments, the upper side being scaled like the tibia, and the ventral surface minu- 

 tely hispid only, without scales; segments 1 to 4 bear strong apical spines, the first segment having in 

 addition several ventro-lateral spines; segments 2 to 5 are swollen at the base and provided on each side 

 with a bundle of pale (sensor}') bristles placed close behind the apical spine of the preceding segment. 



The mid and kind tibiae and tarsi have no strong bristles on the dorsal surface, excepting the apices 

 of the distal tarsal segments, the dorsal spines found in Acraea, etc., being represented in Pardopsis by 

 pale inconspicuous hairs. The apical hispid spurs of the mid and hind tibiae are absent. The parony- 

 chium of the claw-segment is as strongly developed as in Argynnis, bearing two lobes on each side, the 

 upper lobe being longer than the lower one ; the pulvillus is likewise large; and the claws are simple, not 

 bearing a basal lobe or tooth. 



The shape of the body and wings as well their scaling is essentially the same as in Acraea. 

 The distal margins of the wings are entire; the scaling is not dense, the scales being non-dentate except 

 in the distal areas. The long hair-scales on the veins and in the fringes are simple, none of them being 

 deeply forked. The basi-costal lobe of the hindwing is prominent. 



Neuration. — SO of the forewing from the cell, SC C to SC 5 stalked together and branching off 

 a long dictance proximally to the cell-apex, R 1 and R 2 (arising from or from near upper cell-angle, sepa- 

 rately or conjointly, R 3 from lower cell-angle, first discocellular D 1 ) long, almost parallel with costa, 

 D 2 short or absent, D 3 long, oblique, slightly incurved, lower cell-angle 90 or somewhat less. In hind- 



