Under Side. Palpi and thorax red-brown. Abdomen yellowish. Anterior wings yellowish clay-coloured, with three black lines crossing them transversely, the middle one being the broadest. Posterior wings orange-brown, with a small white spot placed near the centre. Margins of the wings plain.
PLATE XVII.
HESPERIA OPHION.
Plate [XVII]. fig. 1, 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Hesperiidæ, Steph.
Genus. Hesperia, Fabr. Latr. Erinnys P. Schr. Papilio (Pleb. Urb.), Drury.
Hesperia Ophion. Alis fuscantibus, anticis utrinque punctis quinque discoidalibus alterisque tribus subapicalibus albis; posticis subtùs albis margine antico nigro 3-maculato serieque punctorum submarginalium. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 10 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Pleb. Urb.) Ophion, Drury, App. vol. 3. Stoll Suppl. Cram. pl. 26. f. 4.
Habitat: Sierra Leone.