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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
external fringe of broad scale-like Lairs, extending also to first joint 
of tarsi, or (Mokeezi) with a dense coating of short hair, somewhat 
lengthened at extremity of tarsi ; hind-femora at base beneath and 
hind-tibiae throughout above in some species {Djcelcelm and Mokeezi) 
bearing very long bristly hairs, forming a tuft directed posteriorly; 
or hind-tibiae and first joint of hind-tarsi (the latter enlarged to thick- 
ness of tarsus) tufted superiorly throughout with long dense softer hair 
{Motozi and Nottoana) ; or, lastly, hind-tibiae with two fringes, supe- 
rior and inferior, of fine long silky hair (Flesus). 
Ahdomeii moderately stout, variable in length, but always shorter — 
usually much shorter — than inner margin of hind-wings ; in $ hollowed 
and hairy in basal part beneath ; in $ not blunt and broad at tip as in 
Caprona. 
It is difficult to separate this genus from Nisoniades — represented 
by Tagcs, Linn., and Marloyi, Boisd., in Europe, and by a considerable 
number of species in North America — except by the length and flexure 
of the antennal club, and the shorter and less hairy palpi. The South- 
African species have been dispersed in several Hiibnerian genera, — 
Plotz, for instance,! makes Motozi an Epliyriades, Nottoana an Antigonus, 
and Djcelcelce^ Kohela, Mokeezi^ and Flesus species of Tagiades^ — but I 
have not succeeded in discovering among them any distinctions of 
generic value. The remarkable variation as regards the secondary 
sexual characters of the (J, as in the case of Pyrgiis (to which genus 
Pterygospidea presents considerable affinity), does not afford any constant 
criterion for grouping the species, these badges differing in such closely- 
allied forms as Flesus and Nottoana, while the $ s throughout offer no 
tangible points of distinction. 
Djcelcelce approaches nearest to Nisoniades in respect to palpi and 
antennae, but is singular in the toothed and excised hind-margin of the 
hind-wings (which resembles to a slight extent that found in Caprona) ;^ 
its small size, purplish-glossed black-brown upper side and reddish 
under side render it easily recognised. All the South-African species 
possess some transparent markings in the fore-wings, but these are 
very small in Djcelcdm, Kohela, and the ^ s of Nottoana, Motozi, and 
Flesus, while in both sexes of Mokeezi they are enlarged into two 
oblique bars, and of a light-yellow tint. The ground-colour is in all 
of some shade of brown (in Nottoana much darker in the $ than in the 
$). In general aspect Kohela is more like a Nisoyiiades than any of 
the others. 
The species known to inhabit South Africa are sylvan ; they rest 
with fully-expanded wings, chiefly on leaves — Flesus and Mokeezi almost 
always, and Nottoana by preference, on the under surface of the latter. 
I have frequently taken BjceloilcB and Motozi settled on the ground. 
^ Jahrb. Nass. Ver. fur Nat., 1884, pp. 59, 85, 94, &c. 
- The larger P. crosula and P. angulata, Feld., from the Oriental Region, are figured as 
possessing a very similar hind-marginal outline. 
