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description, the s coursing rather rapidly and irregularly over the underwood, 
while the ? s hovered flutteringly near the ground, and often settled on leaves. 
The species seems by no means generally distributed in forest tracts, 
evidently preferring, if not being limited to, woods lying at some elevation. 
Several examples have been sent to me by Mr. T. Ayres from the Eastern 
Transvaal. 
Localities of Fapilio Ucherioides. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town (Archd. Kitton). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. H, Boivlcer). 
E. Natal. 
b. Upper Districts. — Tunjumbili, Tugela River. 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenberg District {1\ Ayres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
B. l^orth Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Cameroon Mountains; Bonjongo {Buchliolz)y 
— Plbtz.i 
Family V.— HESPERID.^. 
Eesperides, Latreille, "Cons. Gen. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. (1810) Encyc. 
Meth., ix. p. 706 (18 19), [excl. Urania]. 
Hesperidce, Leach, " Samouelle's Comp., p. 242 (1819). " 
Hesperides^ Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 167 (1836). 
Hesperidce, Swainson, Hist, and Nat. Arr. Ins., p. 97 (1840). 
Hesperiidce, Westwood, Intr. Mod. Class. Ins., ii. p. 360 (1840) ; and Gen. 
Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 505 (1852). 
Hesperidce, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p, 285 (1866). 
Hesperiina, Herricli-S chaffer, Corresp.-Blatt. ZooL-Min. Yer. Regensb., 
1869, pp. 28 and 50. 
UrUcolce (Fab.), Scudder, Bull Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1874, p. 195. 
Hesperiina, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1879, p. 175 j and Mitth. Nat. Yer. 
Neu-Yorpomm. u. Rligen, 1884, p. i. 
Hesperiidce, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 366 (1886). 
Imago. — Head very broad; eyes large, very prominent, smooth; 
;palpi set apart from each other, broad, thick, short, appressed to face, 
densely clothed with scales and hair on basal and middle joints, — ter- 
minal joint very slender, usually very short (often minute and almost 
hidden by hair of middle joint), clothed with extremely fine and short 
appressed hairs ; antennce tuide apart at origin, loith a more or less 
elongate chd), usually curved, often reflexed or attenuated into a slender 
hooked tip ; haustellum (maxillae) much elongated ; tisually a compact 
tuft or pencil of stiff hairs between base of each antenna and margin 
of eye. 
Thorax usually very robust, sometimes broader than head. Wings 
^ This is probably p. Zoroastres, Druce {Ent. M. Mag., 1878, p. 226), from Fernando Po, 
described as nearly allied to P. EcJierioides, but larger and with the bands pure white ( 6 ). 
