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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
Localities of Cydopidcs inornatus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Fort Warden, Kei Eiver {J. H. Bowker) 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. H. Boioker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban and Pinetown (J". H. Boivker). Yeru- 
lam. Umvoti. Mapumulo. 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (the late Colonel H. Tower). 
Genus PYEGUS. 
Pyrgus (Hlibner, 181 6), Westw., Gen. D. Lep., ii. p. 516 (1852). 
Syrichthus and Spilotliyrus, Boisd., " Gen. Ind. Meth., p. 35 (1840)." 
Sinlothyrus and Scelothrix, Eambur, " Cat. Lep. Andal., i. p. 63 (1858)." 
Pyrgus^ Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 286 (1866). 
Hesperia, Kirby, Syn. Cat. D. Lep., p. 6ti (1871). 
Pyrgus and Scelothrix, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1878, pp. 187, 189. 
Pyrgus, Speyer, loc. cit., 1879, P* 492- 
Hesperia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 182 (1881). 
Pyrgus and Carcharodus (Hiibner, 18 16), Plotz, Mitth. Nat. Yer. Neu- 
Yorpomm., &c., 1884, pp. 2 and 23. 
Imago. — Head not so broad as thorax, densely hairy ; palpi rather 
long, with basal and middle joints densely hairy and sometimes 
bristly, and with terminal joint of variable length, obliquely or hori^ 
zontally porrect, blunt, clothed with short appressed hairs ; antennce 
short, with a stout sub-cylindrical, rather gradually-formed, slightly 
compressed, usually straight (sometimes slightly bent) club, blunt at 
tip ; tufts at bases of antennae long, conspicuous. 
Thorax robust, more or less hairy (especially posteriorly and be- 
neath ^) ; pterygodes with long hair. Wings blunt, not (or very slightly) 
prominent apically. Fore-iuings with hind-margin usually rather convex 
(especially in $) ; neuration as in Cydopides ; in $ of some species 
(only P. Ehna in South Africa), costa from near base to about middle 
recurved so as to form a groove or deep fold. Hind-wings prominent 
at anal angle ; hind-margin usually entire, but moderately dentate in a 
few species (only P. Elma in South Africa) ; neuration as in Cydopides. 
Legs rather long ; fore-tibise with well-developed acutely-pointed 
appendage ; middle and hind tibige with very long and acute terminal 
spurs, — the latter also with a second pair of spurs well developed, 
hairy superiorly (and in $ of some species — none South-African — 
with a conspicuous tuft of very long hair springing from its base on 
^ The (5 in a considerable section of European species (of which Malvce, Linn., and 
Alveus, Hiibn., are well-known members) presents a singular pair of scabbard-shaped scaly 
and hairy appendages, springing posteriorly from the breast at the base of the hind-legs, and 
about one-third the length of the abdomen. They partly cover a very deep longitudinal 
groove which occupies the basal portion of the under side of the abdomen. 
