SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
moderately wide, ratlier diffused on its inner edge, extending from apex \ 
almost to second median nervule. Hind-wing : yellow-ochreous coat- 
ing of scales and hairs generally distributed except on the margins. 
Cilia brownish-white throughout. Hind-wing ^ and narrow costal border 
and wide apical area of fore-ioing, pale hrownish-grey^ with a slight 
tinge of ochre-ydloio , and a very faint violaceous gloss. For e- wing : 
vitreous spots as on upper side ; in discoidal cell a very small imper- 
fect fuscous annulet with a whitish centre just above vitreous spot; a 
subapical series of five similar annulets, acutely angulated on upper 
radial nervule — the two lower ones in an oblique line with the two 
discal vitreous spots; inner-marginal border very pale yellowish- grey. 
Hind-iving : an irregular, strongly-curved discal series of seven or 
eight very small dull-whitish fuscous-edged spots (varying in shape 
from circular to cuneiform), angulated just beneath second subcostal 
nervule ; a sub-basal curved series of four similar less distinct spots ; 
inner-marginal fold darker. 
Head and hody above very densely clothed with yellowish-brown 
hair ; beneath of the same pale brownish-grey as the greater part of 
the wings. 
Antennae above whitish, but with the chcb (except the hook) pure 
silvery -lul lite ; beneath creamy, the club brownish, but with a white bar 
just before the hook, which is reddish. 
^ Like ^, but forc-ivings ivithout luhite hind-marginal border, and 
with smaller disco-cellular and discoidal vitreous spots; cilia broiuner ; 
no pitrplish gloss. Under side. — Hind-iuing : a conspicuous, straight, 
narrow, pure-white streak from base to hind- margin, running along 
subcostal nervure and its second nervule, and bordered inferiorly by 
dark-brown shading off into ground-colour. 
Antennae above blackish, half-ringed with white, — club with a white 
bar just before the hook ; beneath as in 
Larva. — " Elongated ; deep-green on the head and thoracic seg- 
ments, light-green abdominally ; head with two small jet-black spots, 
looking like eyes. Feeds on the dwarf wild date-palm (Fhcenix recli- 
nata), drawing the leaves together, and forming a silk-lined incomplete 
tube, sometimes six or seven inches in length." — J. H. Bowker, 23d 
March 1881. 
Colonel Bowker adds that he was indebted to Mr. A. D. Millar, of D'Urban, 
for the discovery of this larva and its food-plant ; and Mr. Millar has lately 
(1888) written to me that he had bred about a dozen Dysmephila from a 
small date-palm in his garden. He notes that the larvae feed on the leaves 
above the tube that they have formed, retiring to the tube when not feeding ; 
and that they are most difficult to discover among the folds of the leaves. 
Pupa. — Elongate, cylindrical, abruptly acuminate at tip of abdo- 
men. Shining reddish- brown, paler beneath. Attached to leaf by the 
tail, and almost concealed in the channel or imperfect tube formed by 
the larva. Length about one inch. 
