HESPEEID^ 
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B. Nortli Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Accra: " Aburi (TFe/p'?e)." — Moschler. "Gambia 
Eiver {Moloney):'— C^. E. Shelley. " Senegal."— Hopffer. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — " Monbuttu (Mniri Pasha)." — Butler. Abys- 
sinia : " Slioa {Antinori)" — Oberthiir. "Nubia." — Ilopffer. 
375. (2.) Hesperia Pisistratus, Eabricius. 
Hesperia Pisistratus, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 345, n. 311 (1793). 
Rhopalocainpta Valmaran, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; 
Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 48. 
Ismene Florestan, '?Var., Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 319 (1866). 
Ismene Pisistratus, Westw. [part], Gates' Matabele Land, App., p. 352 
(1881). 
Ismene Pisistratus, Staud., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 98 (1888). 
Plate XIL fig. 10 
Ex;p. al, ($) 2 in. i-i^ lin. ; (^-) 2 in. 3-3I lin. 
Closely allied to H. Forestall, (Cram.). 
$ ISTot differing from H, Forestall, except that cilia of hind- wing 
on anal-angular lobe is of a duller and paler yellow. Under side. — 
White hand of hind-wing differently sharped from that in Forestan, heing 
much narroiver on cost a and much wider on suhmedian nervure, and 
marked inferioiiy with three conspicuous hlach spots, viz., two small 
rounded ones on outer edge between third and first median nervules, 
and the third larger, elongated, piercing it upwards from submedian 
nervure. 
Head above with a much larger and paler yellow lateral spot on 
each side (the antennte springing from the centre of it), and with also 
a median longitudinal yellow mark ; above with paler and wider 
yellow tufts at extremity of middle joint, beneath much paler, creamy- 
white tinged with yellow on middle joint. Legs with ochreous-yellow 
tufts and whitish stripes. Ahdomen beneath with a white or creamy 
middle longitudinal stripe. 
^ Like but darker in ground-colour. 
The distinctive characters above noted appear to be very constant^ 
in both sexes, and fully warrant the separation of Pisistratus from 
Forestan. Erom some pencil notes and outline drawings made by Mr. 
W. D. Gooch near D'Urban, Natal, I gather that the larvae is very like 
that of Forestan, but the front view of the head shows a third (inferior) 
transverse row of three spots ; and the transverse bands are described 
as black, and two on each segment, while the parallel lines between 
each two pairs of bands are also black and enclose an orange spiracular 
spot. It is also noted that the food-plant is a wild species of Indigo- 
fera. Outlines given of the pupa exhibit no appreciable difference 
^ Professor Westwood, however, observes (App. to Gates' Matalele Land, 1881, p. 352) 
that '* the black mark extending from near the anal margin on the under side of the hind- 
■wings was more divided than usual in Drury's specimen, figured by Jones, so as to have led 
Fabricius to describe the hind-wings as four-spotted." 
