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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDONYMPHA 

 (8ATYBINAE) FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 



BY ROLAND TBIMEN, M.A., F.E.S. 



PSEUDONYMPHA DETECTA, 8p. YhOV. (Plate XII, ff. 3-6). 



Closely allied to, and intermediate between, P. cassius (Grodt.), 

 and P. vigilans, Trim., but nearer to the former. 



Exp. al. (<J) l"3i-6'" ; ( ? ) r8f-5'" 



(J . Greyish-brown ; fore-wing with a large disco-cellular .and discal 

 deep-fulvous patch ; hind-wing with a small discal patch of the same deep- 

 fulvous, not far from hind-margin, between 1st and 3rd median nervules. 

 Fore-wing : a well-defined moderate-sized, sub-apical, ovate, black, bluish- 

 bipupillate ocellus in a distinct pale-yellowish, outwardly fuscous-edged ring ; 

 fulvous patch ocouping discoidal cell from n :ar base, and extending beyond 

 it, superiorly to lower edge of ocellus, and inferiorly below median nervure and 

 its first nervule, but bounded externally by a sub-marginal rather indistinct 

 transverse dark-brown line, commencing on costa beyond ocellus; this patch is 

 in three examples somewhat indistinctly crossed — in one example obscurely 

 divided — by a shorter dark brown line just beyond extremity of discoidal 

 cell. Hind-wing : small discal fulvous patch bounded externally by a rather 

 faint sub-marginal dark-brown line, and in three examples marked on its outer 

 edge between 2nd and 3rd median nervules with a minute unipupillate ocellus. 



Under-side. Costa and apical area of fore-wing and entire hind-wing pale 

 brownish-grey, more or less closely hatched and flecked generally with short, 

 irregular, thin, brown striolse and dots. Fore-wing : fulvous patch extending to 

 base itself. Hind-wing : two transverse angulated brown streaks, one before 

 the other about middle, usually rather indistinct, and in two examples not 

 traceable ; usually two minute unipupillate ocelli — the additional one between 

 1st and 2nd median nervules ; and also a third situated sub-apically between 

 sub-costal nervures. 



? . Like <$ . Hind-wing : on under-side, in one of the two examples, the 

 minute ocelli between 2nd and 3rd median nervules are wanting; and in both 

 the median transverse streak is only faintly discernible. 



Differs from P. cassius on the upper-side of fore-wing in the much 

 larger fulvous space, which begins much nearer base and rises higher 

 in discoidal cell ; and of hind-wing in possessing a small fulvous discal 

 patch on median nervules, while the conspicuous two sub-marginal 

 ocelli near anal angle in caseins are either wauling altogether or only 

 the upper one of them is very minutely represented. < >u 1 he under-side 

 in the fore -wing the fulvous space is not so much more developed than 

 in cassius as it is on upper-side ; while in the hind-wing the three small 

 ocelli are very minute or obsolescent ; and the ground-colour of both 

 wings is much greyer and paler, and its striolation and two transverse 



