SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
pale dull-yellowish, glossy. Hind-wing : about centre a very faint 
yellowish cloud, not large, and without any defined outline. 
Head and body as in Dysmephila, but abdomen whiter beneath. 
Antennce luholly white, except a brownish outer line and chestnut-red 
terminal hook. 
$ Similar, hut paler. Fore-iuing : an ill-defined yellow-ochreous 
space or suffusion from base to about middle, not reaching above disco- 
cellular fold or beneath submedian nervure. Hind-iving : central yellow- 
ochreous space duller, more diffused. Undee side. — Paler; in both 
wings hind-margin clouded with hoary grey (on which the fuscous 
irroration is more apparent), and a purplish discal submacular ray 
(more distinct and larger in hind-wing) across basal portions of median 
nervules. 
The fore-wings are in both sexes, and especially in the much 
more produced and pointed apically than in Dysmepliila, and the total 
absence of vitreous markings is a notable distinctive character. In 
general colouring the ^ has some resemblance on the upper side to 
Hesperia Keithloa, Wallengr. 
This large and dull-tinted species, conspicuous only in its white antennse, ' 
was first made known to me in 1874 by Mr. W. D. Gooch, who sent one of 
each sex, taken at Spring Vale, not far from D'Urban, Natal. Mr. Butler's 
type (from the description evidently a $ ) is noted with the locality " Kaffraria " 
only ] but as the insect has occurred as far south as the Kowie River (Port 
Alfred) in the Cape Colony, there can be little doubt that it inhabits the inter- 
mediate Coast country between that place and Natal, including Kaffraria Proper. 
I have seen only seven examples ; and Mr. A. D. Millar informs me that the 
butterfly is rather scarce at D'Urban, " usually appearing about dusk in search 
of food." A single , taken in the same locality early in 1884, was sent to 
me by Colonel Bowker. 
Localities of Pam;pliila Fiara. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Port Alfred, Kowie River, Bathurst District 
(H. Becker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Locality not noted specially. " (Druce)." — A. 
G. Butler. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {W. D. Gooch^ J. H. Bowker^ A. D. . 
Millar). Pinetown {B. Ayres). 
h. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg (A. Windham). 
Genus ANCYLOXYPHA. 
Ancyloxypha^ Felder, Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, p. 477. 
Apaustus (Hiibner, i8i6), Plotz (part), Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1884, p. 151. 
Imago. — Closely allied to Pamphila. Antennce rather long, with a 
well-marked rather short club, ending in a well-curved slender hook ; 
2)al2n closely appressed to face— the basal and middle joints broad and 
