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'! prove to be inseparable from Nottoana, especially as one or two of the 
few known Cape $ s of the latter exhibit a slight tendency to a whitisli 
I suffusion about the inner margin of the hind-wings. The $ Nottoana 
from Natal is a little larger, darker, and more heavily fuscous-spotted 
, than most of the Cape $ s ; and it is not impossible that PhyllopMla 
|| may actually be merely the modified $ of this slight $ variation proper 
to ISTatal and Delagoa Bay, particularly as $ s of the Cape form have 
not reached me from those countries. 
I have before me nine Natalian specimens, and one from Delagoa Bay. 
Six examples from the latter locality are in the Hewitson Collection in the 
British Museum. The specimen figured was captured by myself at D'Urban 
in February 1867 ; it was settling on leaves, and resting with outspread wings. 
Two of the seven specimens collected in the same locality by Colonel Bowker 
were taken on the 15 th August 1878; they frequented leaves in the same 
manner. 
Localities of Pterygospidca phylloiMla. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren9o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
373. (7.) Pterygospidea Flesus, (Fabricius). 
Papilio Flesus, Fab,,^ Sp. Ins., ii. p. 135, n. 621" (1781); Ent. Syst., 
iii. I, p. 338, n. 286 (1793). 
^ Papilio Opliion, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xvii. if. i, 2 (1782). 
$ „ „ Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., p. 127, pi. xxvi. ff. 4, 
4 c (1791)- 
% Thymele Ophion, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag., &c., p. 63, pi. 9, f. 4 
(1833)- 
^ 5 Nisoniades Ophion, Trim., Bliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 313, n. 207 
(1866). 
ITagiades insidaris, Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 5, vi. p. 272, n. 21 
(1876). 
Pxp. al., ($) I ill. 8-10 lin. ; i in. 9 lin. — 2 in. 
J Pull pale greyish-broivii {darker in some specimens), with more or 
less indistinct disced blackish spots and sidjmarginal Uidsh-white irrora- 
tion ; fore-wing loith small vitreous spots, incompletely and diffiisedly 
llachish-edged. Fore-wing : about middle, close to costa, a vitreous 
spot ; below it, in discoidal cell near extremity, two very obliquely 
placed rather widely separated vitreous spots ; discal series of vitreous 
spots composed of a superior subcostal very oblique slightly curved row 
of three very small (or even minute) ones about midway between 
^ In 1 88 1 I examined the Fabrician type of Flesus in the Banksian Collection at the 
British Museum, and can confirm Mr. Butler's identification of it with Drury's Ophion, of 
which it is a small <J . 
