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SOUTH-AFJRICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 
keeping much about a particular spot, but usually singly ; it haunts bushes, 
often settling with expanded wings on leaves, sometimes on their under 
surfaces. I have taken it on the flowers of Lentana and Acacia. The $ s, 
like Djcelcelce, soon lose their dark glossy freshness and grow worn and reddish ; 
they occur much more frequently than the $ s. 
Localities of Pterygospidea Nottoana. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {Mrs. Barher). Bathurst {Mrs. 
Barher) and Tharfield {Miss M. L. BoivJier). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo Kiver {J. M. Bowlder). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 
K. Delagoa Bay. — Louren9o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
372. (6.) Pterygospidea phyllophila, (Trimen). 
5 Nisoniades phyllophila, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 362. 
Plate XII. fig. 8 (?). 
Very closely allied to F. JVottoayia, Wallgrn. 
Uxp. al, ($) I in. 5-7 lin. 
$ Fale didl reddish-hrown with fuscous spots; fore-iuing cdso toith 
disco-cellular and disced vitreous spots ; all arranged as in Nottoana, and 
quite similar in relative size and shape. Fore-iuing : dark edges of 
vitreous spots better marked ; two dark spots between upper and lower 
vitreous spots of discal row sometimes much enlarged and elongated 
longitudinally. Hind-iuing : dark spots more distinct than in Nottoana ; 
along hind-margin, except near apex, a narrow irroration of whitish 
scales, more developed towards anal angle. Cilia in fore-wing reddish- 
brown, except in slight concavity just above posterior angle, where it 
is white ; in hind-wing brown apically, but elsewhere white. Under 
SIDE. — Hind-wing white, hroadly hordered with pale reddish-broivn 
costally and apiccdly. Fore-iving : at base a little whitish suffusion; 
fuscous inferior spot before middle faint, but marked with two sub- 
vitreous dots. Hind-iving : costal brown border very narrow at base, 
but broadening before middle, and very broad in apical area ; lowest 
dark spot before middle (and often also fifth spot of discal row) obso- 
lete ; a short brown hind-marginal edging between first median nervule 
and submedian nervure. 
Body and palpi beneath white, — the latter tinged with ochre- 
yellow at tip of middle joint ; legs white. 
Although the conspicuous white field of the under side of the 
hind-wings gives this form such a distinct appearance, and makes it 
resemble a small Flesus, Fab., I am inclined to the opinion that it may 
