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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Vak. a. ($ and $.) — Darker; the Mack spots almost indistinguish- 
ahle ; the vitreous spots of fore-wing, on the contrary, very distinct (except, 
in ^, the two lowest of discal row) ; always tw^o disco-cellular vitreous 
spots in $y confluent into one elongate mark in Cilia with more 
distinct pale marks in fore-wing, and of a clearer creamy-white in hind- 
wing ; beneath in both wings the paler portions are wider and whiter. 
Hab. — Transvaal. 
In marking this rather large and very dark species much resembles 
the considerably smaller P, Nottoana^ Wallengr. ; but, irrespective of 
size, it differs in its robuster structure, blunter and more rounded 
wings, tendency to vitreous or subvitreous centres to the dark spots 
on the fore-wings of the ^, and much smaller development of lower 
discal vitreous spots in the $. 
Colonel Bowker discovered this Hesperid in 1862, frequenting thick forest 
on the Bashee River in Kaffraria Proper ; he reported it as being more numerous 
in the following year, but restricted to certain localities. In 1872 he sent five 
specimens from the Perie Bush in the King William's Town district. The 
occurrence of the variety above described in tlie Eastern Transvaal renders it 
most probable that the butterfly inhabits the intermediate tracts of country, 
but I have seen no specimens from either Natal or Zululand. 
Localities of Ftcrygospidea Kobela. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Perie Bush, King William's Town District 
Boivker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. IL Bowker'). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres — Var.). 
368. (2.) Pterygospidea Djaelaelae, Wallengren. 
$ Pterygospidea Djcel(jelce, Wallengr., K. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; 
Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 54, n. 5. 
Nisoniades Umbra, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. p. 289 (1862). 
Nisoniades DJcelcelce, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 311, n. 204 (1866). 
Plate XII. fig. 7 {^)} 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 1-3 lin. ; ($) i in. 1^-3^ Im. 
J Very dark glossy piirple-hrown, varied with some almost Hack 
patches, and very sparsely sprinkled with yellowish-white scales ; fore- 
wing with very small discoidal vitreous spots. Fore-wing : a very large 
indistinctly defined roughly-triangular darker patch rather before 
middle, — its wide base on inner margin, its apex on costal nervure ; 
on outer edge of this patch two minute subcostal vitreous spots — the 
lower one just within discoidal cell — and three other small vitreous 
^ This figure does not sufficiently exhibit the excision of the hind-margins — in fore- wing 
just above posterior angle, and in hind-wing between second subcostal sCnd third median 
nervules. On the upper side of the fore-wing, the subapical vitreous streak of three small 
spots is obscured ; it should be quite distinct. 
