HESPERID^. 
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costa and main nervures irrorated with ochreous to about middle ; a 
quadrate creamy spot at extremity of discoidal cell, succeeded by a 
sinuate transverse row of six smaller spots of the same colour (of which 
the three upper are separate from the others, forming one elongate 
streak on subcostal nervules) ; bordering hind-margin a row of five or 
six elongate fulvous spots, becoming obsolete below second median ner- 
vule. Hind'wing : some whitish-ochreous hairs on median and sub- 
median nervures ; usually a very indistinct whitish spot at extremity 
of discoidal cell. Cilia broad, creamy-white, with thin nervular black 
interruptions, irregular in hind-wing. Under side. — Costa and hind- 
marginal roio of spots (which latter is in hoth wings a continuous hroad 
hand) hright orange-fulvous. Fore-iuing : ground-colour not so dark; 
creamy spots less distinct. Hind-wing : ground-colour pale greyish- 
creamy, excepting for a wide fuscous space at anal angle, gradually 
narrowing along submedian nervure to base : two black spots at base, 
one on costa, the other between costal and subcostal nervures ; discoidal 
cell pale orange-fulvous, divided about its middle by a black Y, and 
exteriorly tipped with black ; a stripe of the same colour, also black- 
tipped, extends from base to beyond middle, between median and sub- 
median nervures ; hind-marginal fulvous band internally edged with 
black, interrupted by creamy nervures. In hoth wings, a thin sub- 
macular black streak along hind-marginal edge. 
$ Not so dark; hind-iving taith a hind-marginal scries of seven fulvous 
spots; cilia more creamy. Fore-iuing : fulvous spots of hind-marginal 
row larger, better developed inferiorly, with occasionally an indistinct 
seventh spot below first median nervule. Hind-wing : disco-cellular 
spot enlarged, pale-fulvous, always distinct, and sometimes conspicu- 
ous ; seven spots in hind-marginal series, usually larger (more elongate) 
than those in fore-wing. Under side. — Fulvous colouring everywhere 
deeper and hrighter ; creamy area of hind-iuing didler, and fuscous of 
inner-marginal fold and anal angle not so deep, shading off into more 
or less developed cream-colour along inner-marginal edge. 
This handsome Hesperid was discovered by Wahlberg ; and the first speci- 
mens brought to my notice were taken in Kaifraria Proper in 1863, by Colonel 
Bowker, who wrote to me that it occurred in open country near the Bashes 
River from January to April, frequenting low flowers among the grass. In 
March 1867 I took a good many specimens in the Umvoti district of Natal; it 
frequented flowers on the open hills, and was on one occasion rather numerous 
about a violet-flowered papilionaceous shrub near Grey town. It is not very 
alert, and easily captured while feeding. 
Localities of Pyrgus Mohozidza. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers {J. H. Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {A. D. Millar). Pinetown [J. H. 
Bowker). "Lower Umkomazi." — /. H. Buwker. 
