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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 77 group of large species represented by P. erinnys and P. dysmephila, Trim., especially in its robust body, rather slender legs, and long antennae with elongate but thick club (the tip of which is acute and curved but not hooked); the terminal joint of the palpi is short, very slender, acuminate, and pilose. As regards colouring and marking, P. chirala on the upperside resembles P. malchus and P. gillias (Mab.), from Madagascar, but has an entirely different underside, much recalling that of the North-American group represented by P. zabulon, Boisd. & Le C, P. peckius, Kirb., and P. mystic (Scudd.), though unlike in the oblique disposition of the ferruginous stripes. The only example was taken in Mineni Valley on 13th March. 150. PAMPHILA MORITILI (Wallengr.). 2 • Hesperia moritili, Wallengr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857- Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 49. n. 4. 3 2 • Pamphila moritili, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 319. n. 349, pi. 12. fig. 4 [<J] (1889). Three examples captured in the Mineni Valley, during March- two males and a female. 151. PAMPHILA BORBONICA (Boisd.). Hesperia borbonica, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madag. etc. p. 65. n. 3, pi. 9. figs. 5, 6 (1833). Pamphila borbonica, Mab. in Gran did. Madag. etc., Lepid. i. p. 360, pi. Iv. figs. 6, 6 a (1885-86). The only example, a male from Christmas Pass, agrees with Natal specimens in possessing a small subterminal vitreous spot in the discoidal cell which is wanting in the type-form. 152. PAMPHILA INCONSPICUA (Bertol.). 3. Hesperia inconspicua, Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologna, 1849-50 (sep. cop.), p. 15, pi. i. figs. 4,5. 2 . Hesperia mohopaani, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 48 (1857). 3 2 • Pamphila micipsa, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 290 (1862). 3 2 • Pamphila mohopaani, Trim. Ehop. Afr. Aust. ii. p. 304 n. 198 (1866); and S.-Afr. Butt. hi. p. 324. n. 353 (1889). Bertoloni's description and figures are from a single male from Inhambane; there can be no doubt that his species is identical with H. mohopaani, Wallengr. A single male from Christmas Pass is somewhat greyer (less greenish yellow) in tint on the underside, and has six spots in the discal series of the underside of the hind wings1. 1 A male Pamphila from Khasia Hills, Assam, received as " Chapra pro-minens" from Mr. de Niceville in 1889, is inseparable from the male P. inconspicua. I have already (S.-Afr. Butt., iii. p. 325) expressed the opinion that mohopaani ( = inconspicua) will eventually be recognized as merely a larger form of the Oriental P. mathias (Fabr.). |