HESPERID^. 
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The species was discovered by Dr. Kersten (on Van Der Decken's East- 
African Expedition) at Lake Jip6, and in 1876 was renamed Taranis by 
Hewitson from Zanzibar specimens. I have included it in the South- African 
list on the strength of a coloured drawing of a Delagoa Bay butterfly forwarded 
to me in 1884 by Mr. H. Grose Smith, which appeared to represent the $ 
Anchises. The drawing differed from Gerstaecker's figures in the following 
particulars, viz., the hind- wings on the upper side duller and paler, and on the 
under side having tlie upper ochre-yellow spot smaller and on the hind-marginal 
edge (instead of some little way before it), and the lower spot more elongate 
and along hind-marginal edge (instead of only touching the edge just at anal 
angle) ; the cilia on anal-angular lobe Avhite instead of yellow ; the under side 
of the abdomen less regularly and distinctly banded with black and white. 
Localities of Hesperia Anchises. 
I. South Africa. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — " Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro).^^ — H. G. 
Smith. 
11. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Zanzibar." — Hewitson. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — "Lake ^i^Q {Kersten)." — Gerstaecker. " Yic- 
toria jSTyanza." — Butler. 
IV. Asia. — Arabia: " Aden (Fe?^6z/r?/)." — Butler. 
378. (5.) Hesperia unicolor, (Mabille). 
Ismene unicolor, Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, Ser. 5, vii. p. xxxix. 
n. 47 (1877); and Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 1877, p. 230. 
Uxp. al, {$) I in. 9 lin. ; ($) i in. 10 lin. 
$ Dark-brown, loithout markings, hut ivith a slight violaceous gloss ; 
hases {especially toivards inner margin in fore-iving) with a bronzy tinge ; 
a coating of bronzy-yellowish hairs (thickest towards inner margin) 
over basi-median and lower discal area of hind-wing, but leaving free 
a broad costal, apical, and hind-marginal border ; cilia dull-whitish in 
fore-wing, white in hind-wing, Under side. — Much paler, the viola- 
ceous gloss much stronger. Fore-iving : inner margin with a still paler 
ill-defined border. Cilia as on upper side. 
Head and body above brown, clothed with bronzy hair (intermixed, 
on head and front of thorax with grey and shining green hairs) ; an 
ochre-yellow streak inwardly edging each eye ; palpi clothed with 
mixed pale ochre-yellow and black hairs, and with a black exterior 
streak beneath ; anteimce black with the tip dark-red. Thorax beneath 
grey, but with a pale ochre-yellow median space in front. Legs brown, 
with some yellowish scales and hair. Abdomen beneath with a median 
dull pale-yellowish stripe and indistinct segmental half-wings. 
? Like ^. 
This sombre-tinted Hesperid seems to differ from H. Libeon, 
(Druce),^ a native of Angola, solely in wanting the " indistinct small 
1 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 416. 
