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nervules. Cilia througliout dull-whitisli, but browner in upper half 
of fore-wing. Under side. — Paler ; hind-wing aiid narroiv costal and 
hroad apical border of fore-wing more or less coloured with pale olivaceous- 
yellow — in some specimens loith a greyish tinge. Fore-wing : male badge 
(streak between first median nervule and submedian nervure) not so 
distinct as on upper side, but bounded externally by two diffused indis- 
tinct whitish marks ; vitreous spots as on upper side. Hind-iving : in 
upper part of discoidal cell, close to extremity, a small rounded white 
spot ; discal spots more distinct and usually fully represented ; occa- 
sionally a sixth spot between costal nervure and first subcostal nervule. 
Head, thorax, and ahdomen superiorly with a rather dense clothing 
of dull olivaceous-yellow hairs ; inferiorly dull-white. 
$ Like $ ; hut the fore-iving luith larger vitreous spots, and loith 
two additional spots {one minute, immediately helow sixth spot of discal 
row, — the other larger, outivardly acuminate, immediately above subme- 
dian nervure), in place of the straight oblique streak of the $ ; olivaceous- 
yellow scales and hairs of an obscurer tint. Under side. — As in ^, 
except that in fore-wing the two spots that replace the $ badge are 
distinct and well defined. 
This is a very close ally of the widely-distributed Indian and Indo- 
Malayan Ifathias, Fab., which has been recorded by Mr. Butler as 
inhabiting Aden, and I think it very likely, when a full series from 
Africa and Oriental localities can be compared, that Mohopaani will be 
recognised as merely a larger form of Mathias. 
It is distinguishable without difficulty from its South- African allies, 
Borbonica, Boisd., and Fatuellus, HopfF., by possessing two disco-cellular 
vitreous spots in the fore-wings, and by the strong olivaceous-yellow 
tinting over both wings ; while the $ has the further distinction of the 
linear discal sexual badge in the fore-wings. 
Mohopaani seems to be pretty generally distributed throughout Southern 
Africa, and its occurrence has been noted in such widely remote parts of the 
continent, that it will probably be found to range throughout Tropical Africa. 
I have taken it in the neighbourhood of Cape Town and Knysna, and met with 
it numerously at D'Urban in JSTatal. Its habits are precisely those of its near 
congeners ; — it is sAvift on the wing, but constantly arrests its flight to settle 
on flowers — its special resort in the neighbourhood of Cape Town being the 
flowers of the common cultivated vetch. On the ISTatal Coast it appears to be 
on the wing throughout the year. Colonel Bowker captured the paired sexes 
on 28th March 1880. 
Localities of Pamphila Mohopaani. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Knysna. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers {J. H. Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Pinetown ( /. H. Bowker). 
b. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 
