HESPERID^. 
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II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
hh. Eastern Islands. — Madagascar : Miirundava {Greve). Mauritius. 
'* Bourbon." — Boisduval. 
352. (10,) Pamphila Fatuellus, HopfTer. 
$ Pampliila Fatuellus, Hopff., "Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berl., 
1855, p. 643, n. 25." 
$ Fam^liila Fatuellus, Hopffi, Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 417, pi. 
xxvii. fF. 3, 4 (1862). 
Famigliila Borhonica, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 303, 304 (1866). 
Exp. ctL, {$) I in. 5-6 lin. ; ($) I in. 6-7 in. 
$ Very dark-hrown, with exceedingly obscure didl-olivaceous hasal 
suffusion; fore-iving ivitli a discal series of very small vitreous spots; 
cilia dull-whitish, obscured with brownish in upper two-thirds of fore- 
wing. Fore-wing: vitreous spots usually only fiye, viz., a curved 
subcostal row of three minute ones and two larger ones (of which the 
lower is considerably the greater, and transversely elongate), respec- 
tively immediately above and below second median nervule near its 
origin ; very rarely two other minute spots, viz. , one between lower 
radial and third median nervules, and the other just above submedian 
nervure slightly beyond middle. Under side. — Hind-ivi^ig and costal 
border and wide apical area of fore-wing didl-lrown, with an ochreous- 
yellow tinge, and with a slight brassy gloss. Fore-wing : costal border 
from base to beyond middle sparsely scaled with olivaceous-yellow ; 
spots as on upper side, but with the two additional ones almost always 
present (the lower one invariably). Flind-iving : a curved discal series 
of three minute whitish spots (sometimes very indistinct), lying between 
first subcostal and first median nervules ; just before this a very vague 
and ill-defined median dull-whitish fascia, — in some specimens all but 
obsolete. 
$ Duller and paler than ^, ivith more developed dull-olivaceous hasal 
suffusion ; the vitreous spots in fore-wing considercdjly enlarged, cdways 
seven in mcmher, and the lowest of them rather conspicuously white, and 
only semi-transparent. Under side. — Considerably paler than in 
with the submetallic gloss more pronounced and usually sub-violaceous, 
and with some hoary clouding on hind-margins ; median whitish in 
hind-wing better developed, and in some specimens conspicuous. 
In my former work I gave this form as synonymous with Borbonica, 
Boisd., bat fuller material has convinced me of its clear claim to be 
held a distinct species. As far as the $ sex is concerned, there is no 
chance of confounding the two butterflies, Fatuellus being much darker, 
with very much smaller (and usually fewer) vitreous spots in the fore- 
wings, and wanting on the under side the conspicuous olivaceous- 
yellow of Borbonica. The $ is, however, very like that of Borbonica 
