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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This species is allied to P. Galenus, (Fab.),i from Tropical Western Africa, 
but differs widely in the simple two-striped instead of many-spotted pattern of 
the fore-wings, and wholly distinct markings and colouring of the hind-wings. 
It is a strictly sylvan insect, and apparently more prevalent in high-lying 
woods than in those situated at low levels. It was scarce at D' Urban during 
the summer of 1867 : but Mr. W. D. Goocli and Colonel Bowker have taken 
a good many specimens in that neighbourhood, and Mr. A. D. Millar writes 
that he has found it numerous in bush-lands along the Natal coast. At 
Tunjumbili, I found it very abundant on the 7th and 8th March, flitting 
actively about the undergrowth in open glades of the hill-forest, and often 
lighting suddenly on the under side of leaves. In Kaffraria Proper, Colonel 
Bowker noted the butterfly as of rare occurrence ; but in the King WilUam's 
Town district, Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban took it in abundance in the forest on the 
hill above Frankfort, Mokeezi is a very handsome warmly-tinted " Skipper," 
and conspicuous on the wing. Some of Colonel Bowker's specimens are re- 
corded as taken in iSTovember and December; Mr. D'Urban's were captured 
on 28 th March. 
Localities of Pterygospidea Mokeezi. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Frankfort, near King William's Town (W. S. 
M. Urban). Lower Kei River (/. H. Bowker). 
D. Kaftraria Proper. — Basliee River (J. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Isipingo (J. H. Bowker). 
b. Upper Districts. — Tunjumbili, Umvoti County. 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe (J.. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (7". Ayres). 
37L (5.) Pterygospidea Nottoana, Wallengren. 
^ Pterygos^oidea Nottoana, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; 
Lep. Rhop. CafFr., p. 54, n. 4. 
^ $ Nisoniades Sabadius, Trim.. Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 315, n. 208 
(1866). 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 3^-5 lin. ; ($) I in. 3I-6 lin. 
J Ve?^ dark glossy brown, tinged more or less obscurely with ferru- 
ginous ; in both luings a sid)terniinal disco-celhdar spot, a disced series 
of spots, and a hind-marginal series, all black, more or less i7idistinct ; 
in fore-iving, the first and second (and rarely also the third) spots of dis- 
cal se7'ies tuith a minute vitreous centre ; cilia not quite so dark as ground- 
colour. F ore- wing : disco-cellular mark very oblique, composed of two 
(sometimes quite separated) spots ; nine spots in discal row, of which 
the seventh (between first and second median nervules) is the largest, 
and the eighth and ninth are almost as small as spots first to fifth ; 
two small black spots before middle, one above the other, between first 
median nervule and submedian nervure. Hind-wing : disco-cellular 
spot and seven spots of discal series very indistinct ; two spots before 
middle, one above and the other below disco-cellular spot. Under 
^ For figure of this species, see Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., i. pi. lOO (1888). 
