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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
feature it resembles Pyrgus^ but, unlike that group, the $ in Thyme- i 
licus never exhibits a costal fold in the fore-wings, a tuft on the hind- 
tibi«, or posterior thoracic appendages in any species. 
About thirty species are recorded, pretty evenly distributed among 
the great zoological regions, with the exception of Australia. The 
Ethiopian Region has yielded eight species, the Pal^arctic, Nearctic, 
and Oriental Regions six each, and the Neotropical Region five. I 
The African species have a very different facies from that of the 
European ones ; their hind- wings are apically shorter, and the terminal 
joint of their palpi is not erected. Five are natives of South Africa ; 
of these two, Lefpmida, Wallengr., and Macomo, Trim., are brown, with 
ochre-yellow markings ; two, Niveostriga and Wallengrenii, are brown, 
with a few whitish spots in the fore-wings ; and the fifth, Barherce, 
Trim., has conspicuous ]3ure- white spots on a brown ground, and black- 
and-white cilia as in Pyrgus. All five inhabit the eastern side of the 
country, and the only one known to me to extend into the tropical belt 
is Lepenula. Macomo ^ appears to be the least rare ; of the scarcest 
species, Barhcra\ I have seen only four examples. 
338. (1.) Thymelicus Lepenula, (Wallengren). 
^ Hesperia Lepenula^ Wallengr., K. S. Vet.-Akad. Haiidl, 1857; Lep. 
Rhop. Caffr., p. 50, n. 6. 
$ Pamphila? Lepenula, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 298, n. 189 (1866), 
Cydopides Chersias, Hewits., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xx. p. 
327 (i877).2 
Plate XI. fig. 6 
Exp. aL, ($) I in. 1-2 lin. ; ($) i in. 2^ lin. 
$ Brown, luith wide pale ochreous-yellow markings. Fore-wing : a 
large basal marking filling all discoidal cell and a shorter area between Ii 
median and submedian nervures, from base itself ; costa to about , 
middle and inner margin very densely to beyond middle irrorated with 
ochreous-yellow ; a short transverse subapical and subcostal mark, ex- 
ternally tridentate on nervules ; beneath this, and between third median 
nervule and submedian nervure, an oblique wide discal band, externally 
quinquedentate and internally strongly indented by ground-colour below 
first median nervule. Hind-iuing : basi-cellular and inner-marginal 
area clothed with some pale-yellow hairs ; in discoidal cell, near 
extremity, a good- sized spot ; beyond it a wide irregular discal band 
on patch, between subcostal and submedian nervures, inwardly rather 
vaguely defined, outwardly better defined, more even, forming short 
^ A near but quite distinct ally is T. Capenas (Hewits.), from the Zambesi, at once recog- 
nised by having the nervules yellow near the superior half of the hind-margin of the fore- 
wings on upper side. 
2 I examined the six specimens of Chersias in the Hewitson Collection, and found them 
unquestionably identical with Lepenula, Wallengr. 
