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broad ochreous-yellow, in some examples tinged with ferruginous in 
fore-wing. 
Under side. — Hind-wing and costal horder and wide apical area 
of fore-wing ferruginous or yellow-ochreous ; in the ferruginous-tinted 
examples the inner-marginal fold of hind-ioing {except along its inferior 
margin) is yelloiv-ochreous. Fore-wing : ground of lower half of wing 
dull-fuscous ; upper part of discal band obliterated ; lower part and 
disco-cellular spot paler tlian on upper side. Rind-wing : three small 
hlacJc spots Icfore middle, viz., one in discoidal cell close to base, another 
at extremity of cell, and the third between median and submedian 
nervures ; a stroQigly- curved discal row of five similar spots between 
costal and submedian nervures, two being above the interrupting disco- 
cellular fold and three below it. Cilia agreeing in colour with the 
hind-margin. Above, the head and palpi, and the prothorax clothed 
with ferruginous- or yellow-ochreous hairs ; thorax and ahdomen dark- 
brown, the former with some yellow hairs posteriorly, and the latter 
with the segmental incisions and a terminal tuft fulvous- or ochreous- 
yellow. Beneath, the palpi, breast, and legs, and the base of abdomen 
ochreous-yellow (in some examples tinged with ferruginous) ; median 
band and terminal part of abdomen pale-yellow, with a row of small 
black spots on each side. f 
$ Like ^, but all the ochre-yellow markings narrower, especially 
in fore-wing, where discal band is widely interrupted (from upper 
radial to third median nervule), and is much reduced inferiorly, leaving 
disco-cellular terminal spot isolated. Under side. — Fuscous ground 
larger, and markings reduced in fore-wing. 
Allied to Lepemda, Wallengr., but with much darker ground-colour 
on upper side, and readily known by possessing small black spots on 
the under side of the hind-wings, and by the acuminate and slightly 
hooked club of the antennas. From the East- African Herilus^ Hoplf./ 
which is also nearly related, it may be recognised by wanting the 
yellow disco-cellular spot and sub-inner-marginal stripe on the upper 
side of the hind-wings, and by having fewer and quite differently 
situated black spots on the under side. 
I was disposed to keep separate Ranoha, West., in consequence of 
its somewhat larger and paler upper- side markings, and paler yellow 
under side, but finding that the Natalian Morantii varied in both these 
characters in both sexes (the under side, especially in a ^ and two $ s, 
being as pale in tint as in Ranoha from the Upper Limpopo), I have 
decided that the two cannot be held distinct. 
This is a rare species ; I have seen only seven JSTatalian examples, three of 
which were of the decided ferruginous tinting on the under side, and one of an 
intermediate colour. An injured ^ was captured at D' Urban by my Kafir 
collector on 5th February 1867, but I could not identify it as conspecific with 
the ? (taken in June 1869 at Pinetown by ]\Ir. W. Morant) on which I subse- 
^ Peters' Reisc nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 419, t. xxvii. ff. 7, 8 (1862). 
