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nervular dentations. Cilia of fore-wing brownish- grey, except about 
i posterior angle, where pale-yellowish prevails ; of hind-wing wholly 
pale-yellow. Under side. — Hind-iuing, and all fore -wing except part 
j of central and inner-marginal area, pale chrome-yellow or sidphur- 
I yellow, without marking. Fore-wmg : in cell and on lower disc a faint 
I indication of the upper-side pattern and colouring ; from base, below 
median nervure and its first nervule, a conspicuous blackish suffusion, 
extending to rather beyond middle only along first median nervule, 
but below submedian nervure to posterior angle. 
Head and body above blackish with yellowish hairs, beneath pale 
chrome-yellow or sulphur-yellow. Antenna black ; palpi with mixed 
yellow and brown hairs above, and pale chrome-yellow hairs beneath, — 
the terminal joint black ; vertex with a median yellow line and a yellow 
spot above each eye. Abdomen above with yellow segmental half- 
rings. 
$ Like hut in fore-wing hasal yclloiv marking is much narrower 
inferiorly, and further reduced hy one dark-hrown ray from hase in dis- 
Goidal cell (widening outwardly), and hy another hetiveen median and 
submedian 7iervures. 
This species is well characterised by the wide development of the 
yellow markings of the upper side, and by the almost (in the hind- 
wings wholly) spotless pale-yellow under side. Its nearest ally in 
these respects is Harona, Westw.,"^ a species not hitherto recorded 
from south of the Tropic, in which the yellow of the upper side is 
still more extended, occupying the costa of the fore-wings and nearly 
the whole of the hind-wings, but in which the under side of the hind- 
wings is of a paler yellow.^ 
Lepemda appears to belong to the interior tracts of South Africa, especially 
the Transvaal country; but in 1881 I was surprised to receive from Mr. S. D. 
Bairstow a ^ example captured by him at TJitenhage. At the end of 187 1 
Colonel Bowker found this butterfly very sparingly on a hillside at Klipdrift 
(now Earkly), on the Yaal Kiver, and sent me a specimen for determination. 
About Potchefstroom it seems to be not uncommon. 
Localities of Thymelicus Lepenula. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — TJitenhage (S. D. Bairstoiv). 
c. Griqualand West. — Vaal Kiver : Barkly (/. H. Bowker). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and District {T. Ay res and W. Morant). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
hi. Eastern Interior (special locality not stated : A. W. Ericksson). 
1 App. Gates' Matahele Lmid, p. 353 (1881). 
^ On the upper side Lepenula bears a close resemblance to Maro (Fab.), a Cingalese 
species, but wants the fuscous spotting and brownish clouding of the latter on the under 
side. 
