HESPERID^. 
359 
Exp. aL, ($) I in. 8-9 lin. ; ($) i in. 9-io\ lin. 
$ Dark-broivn ; fore-wing with two suhvitreous, pale yellow-ocTireous, 
transverse stripes. Fore-wing : in basal portion and along inner margin 
irrorated with dull-yellowish ; a rather wide oblique stripe, irregularly 
indented externally and internally, from costa slightly before middle to 
submedian nervure not far before posterior angle, where it ends almost 
in a point ; a subapical much shorter and narrower stripe, touching 
neither costa nor hind-margin, and ending abruptly on third median 
nervule. Hind-wing : irrorated with yellowish scales, excepting along 
costa and hind-margin ; at extremity of discoidal cell a sub-reniform 
yellow-ochreous spot ; in some specimens a discal submarginal series 
of from five to seven elongate yellow-ochreous spots rarely distinct; 
inner-marginal area with brownish-yellow hairs. Cilia of fore-wing 
brown, of hind-wing pale-yellow. Under side. — Paler ; yellow mark- 
ings as above, hut tvith fewer scales than on npper side ; a very limited 
yelloivish irroration at hases. Fore-wing : a pale yellowish-grey inner- 
marginal border, joining extremity of longer transverse stripe. Hind- 
wing : spot at extremity of cell larger, more conspicuous ; in cell, a 
more or less distinct, small, yellow spot ; in some specimens the discal 
row of yellow spots is more or less distinct, and there is also a pair 
of small spots of the same colour below terminal disco-cellular spot, 
between first median nervule and submedian nervure. 
Head above dark-brown, with the following pale-yellow markings, 
viz., a transverse streak in front, another between bases of antennae, a 
spot behind each antenna, and an outer half-ring round each eye ; 
palpi black above, pale-yellow beneath ; antennm black, the club pale- 
yellow beneath. Thorax and ahdomen above dark-brown, with bronzy- 
yellow hair ; beneath pale-brown, — the former with a pale-yellow 
median longitudinal stripe in front. Legs pale yellow-ochreous, shaded 
with brown on femora and tibia. 
? Like ^, hut slightly paler ; semi-transparent strip)es of fore-wing 
rather hroader. 
Both sexes are subject to the same amount of variation as regards 
the yellow spotting of the hind-wings beyond the middle ; but a single 
t taken near D'Urban, Natal, by Mr. W. D. Gooch, presents on the 
under side, in addition to the spots above described, two small sub- 
costal ones, one just above costal nervure before middle, and the other 
just below it about middle. This ^, as well as two others from the 
same locality and one from the Kei Eiver in the Cape Colony — two of 
the four with the yellow discal spottings of the hind-wings undeveloped 
— is remarkable for having a minute subvitreous ochre-yellow spot in the 
fore-wings between and near the origins of the second and third median 
nervules, and about midway between the two subvitreous stripes.^ 
^ In a fifth ( 9 ) specimen, taken by myself at Tunjumbili, Natal, this additional spot in 
the fore-wings is considerably larger. This example has the stripes of the fore-wings de- 
cidedly broader than usual ; in the hind-wings, however, the disco-cellular terminal spot is 
a mere line, and on the upper side almost obsolete. 
