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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 
wholly different above from tlie spotless or almost spotless, paler and ! 
more or less yellow-suffused $ Hottentot a. 
I captured both sexes of this inconspicuous little Hesperide at D'Urban 
Natal, in February 1867, and have since received a few examples from the late 
Mr. M. J. M'Ken and from Colonel Bowker, captured in the same locality. It 
is so very like the 9 Hottentota in flight and appearance, that no doubt it is ' 
constantly mistaken for that butterfly, and so overlooked by collectors. | 
Localities of Famphila Monasi. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 
348. (6.) Pamphila lugens, Hopffer. 
^ Pamphila lugens, Hopff., Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berl, 1855, 
p. 643 and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 418, t. xxvii. ff. 5, 
6 (1862). 
Exp. al., ($) I in. 3 lin. ; ($) I in. 4 lin. 
J Very dark hroiun, with a hronzy gloss in some lights; without 
markings of any kind; cilia brown, but greyish externally in both 
hind-wing and lower half of fore-wing. Under side. — Not so dark, 
especially in fore-wing, which has a very faint tinge of dull ochreous- 
yellow ; in both wings a paler very ill-defined median shade, more 
apparent in fore-wing, which has also a very narrow similar paler shade 
along hind-margin. 
Head and hody, with legs, all dark-brown, above with a slight 
admixture of bronzy-yellow hairs. Falpi beneath with a considerable 
admixture of pale-yellowish hairs ; antennce black above, yellowish- 
white narrowly barred with black beneath. 
^ Fuller and pcder. Fore-wing : a discal series of five very indis- 
tinct minute transparent spots, viz., a subcostal curved row of three ■ 
some way beyond extremity of discoidal cell, and two larger sublinear 
ones, situated one above, the other below second median nervule (the 
lower one nearer base). Under side. — Paler than in $ ; transparent 
spots of fore-wing as on upper side. 
Hopffer mentions that the $ when in fine condition exhibits on the 
under side of the fore-wings a scarcely perceptible discal series of five 
minute spots paler than the ground-colour. He records three $ s from 
Querimba, collected by the Peters' Expedition. 
I have seen only two specimens — one of each sex — of this very sombre little 
butterfly ; they were received at the South- African Museum in 1886 in a small 
series collected at Delagoa Bay by Mrs. Monteiro. 
