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Localities of Thymelicus Barhercc. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Stormbergen (Mrs. Barber). Burghersdorp, 
Albert District (D. R. Kannemeyer). 
K. Transvaal. — Special locality not noted {H. Barber). 
Genus PAMPHILA. 
Pam;pMla, Eabricius, " Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 287 (1807)." 
„ Westw. (part), Gen. Diurn. Dep., ii. p. 521 (1852). 
„ Trim, (part), Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 297 (1866). 
„ Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1878, p. 183, and 1879, p. 489. 
Hesperia, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1882, p. 314. 
Imago. — Head broad, sometimes broader in $ tban in $ ; palpi 
usually short, — middle joint broad, — wider anteriorly, densely clothed 
with stiff hair with the appearance of having been evenly clipped, — ter- 
minal joint usually rather short and thick, conical, often scarcely showing 
beyond hair of middle joint ; antenncB variable in length, stout, — club 
well marked, rather thick, cylindrical, more or less elongate, almost 
always ending in a short, slender, more or less pronounced hook ; tuft 
near base of each antenna rather short. 
Thorax very robust, about as long as abdomen, clothed with short 
hair, which is usually less dense on the back. Wings rather small, 
thick. Fore-wings prolonged apically, especially in $ ; apex itself more 
or less acute ; costa nearly straight, or slightly hollowed beyond middle ; 
hind-margin in some species (more markedly in ^) moderately concave 
inferiorly; discoidal cell always more than half, and usually two- 
thirds the length of the wing, pointed superiorly at its extremity, — 
the closing nervules (middle and lower disco-cellular) being inwardly 
oblique, and usually well developed ; lower radial nervule originating 
considerably nearer to third median nervule than to upper radial, and 
usually so curved in conjunction with lower disco-cellular as to look like 
a fourth median nervule ; first median nervule variable as to distance 
of its origin from that of second nervule, sometimes originating about 
half-way between latter and base, but in many species much nearer to 
second nervule ; in $ sometimes a lower discal linear groove, situated 
as in some species of Thymelicus^ or farther from base, shorter, mode- 
rately oblique inwardly, between submedian nervure and first median 
nervule. Hind-wings rather short, apically rounded, always more or less 
produced, and commonly lobate, at anal angle (especially in $) ; costa 
more or less strongly lobate and fringed with hair basally ; discoidal 
cell short, seldom extending to middle, — its closing nervule very slender, 
outwardly oblique ; radial nervule reduced to a mere line or wanting ; 
costal nervure ending at or just before apex ; subcostal nervure branch- 
