IIESPEEID^. 
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densely clotlied with squamose hair, — the terminal joint long, slender, 
naked, erect {slighthj curved hachivard), rising considerably ahove head, 
and suddenly and sharply acuminate at tip. Thorax moderately robust. 
Abdomen as long as, or rather longer than, inner margin of hind-wings. 
Plotz (loc. cit.) refers seventy-one species to Apaustus, and among 
them seventeen African forms, of which I have been able to examine 
only two, viz., Nothus, Fab., from West Africa, and Philander, HopfF., 
from the East and South-East. The former is the type of Butler's 
genus Ceratrichia,^ and appears to be widely different from Ap)aiistus 
{ = Ancyloxypha, Feld.), alike in its very long scarcely hooked antennae, 
short terminal joint of palpi, comparatively slender body, and rounded 
hind-wings. The type of Ancyloxypha, is stated by Felder to be the 
North- American Numitor, Fab., and the few species that he describes 
are from Tropical South America. 
The very remarkable structure of the terminal joint of the palpi at 
once distinguishes the members of this genus. I referred to it in 
describing^ one of the three now known South-African species — 
MacJcenii, Trim. — as a doubtful member of the genus Pamphila. An 
approach to this character is exhibited by the European species of 
Thymelicus. The South- African species are all blackish above, and are 
more or less white on the under side of the hind-wings ; Mackcnii is 
the smallest, and the ^ has no white spots above, but a white edging 
and fringe to part of the hind- wings ; Philander has large spots, some 
transparent and some opaque-white ; and Producta has all the spots 
transparent, except one opaque-white spot in the fore-wings. The abdo- 
men in Mackenii is tipped, and in Philander belted with white above. 
These species are in South Africa only found on the south-east 
coast, but Machenii (which is not uncommon at Natal) is recorded also 
from Angola ; and Philander (which has occurred at Delagoa Bay) was 
originally discovered at Querimba, and has also been noted from Angola. 
Producta is only known to me by three specimens from Delagoa Bay 
and one from Kimberley. 
357. (1.) Ancyloxypha Mackenii, Trimen. 
^ Pamphila? Mackenii, Trim., Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 95, 
pi. vi. f. 8. 
Exp. ah, {$) I in. 1-2 lin. ; (?) i in. i-|-2^ lin. 
J Didl sooty-black ; hind-iuing xoith greater part of hind-margin 
edged loith pure-white ; cilia of fore-wing dark-broiunish, becoming ivhitish 
about posterior angle, of hind-iuing broivnish about apex, but thence pure- 
white. Fore-iving : usually two very indistinct dull-greyish discal spots, 
the upper between first and second median nervules, the lower imme- 
diately above submedian nervure. Hind-iuing : hind-marginal white 
^ Cat. Fab. Diurn. Lep., p. 274 (1869). ^ Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 95. 
