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Localities of Cyclop ides Tsita. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts.— King William's Town (W. S. M. D' Urban). 

 d. Basutoland. — Koro-Koro (/. //. Bowker). 



C. Orange Free State. — Parijs, Upper Vaal Kiver (K G. Aldon). 



D. Ivaffraria Proper.— Tsomo and liashee Kivers (J. 11. Bowlder). 



E. Is^ital. 



a. Coast Districts.— D'Urban (J. //. Bowker). Verulam and 



Itongati Kiver. 



b. Upper Districts.— Ulundi, Weeneu County (./. M. Hutchinson). 

 r. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M Goodrich). 



K. Transvaal.— Potchefstroom and District {T. Ayrex). " Schonian's 

 Farm, Vaal River {N. Person)." — Wallengren. 



323. (9.) Cyclopides inornatus, Trimen. 



Cyclopides inornatus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud, 3rd Ser., ii. p. 179 

 (1864)5 and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 295, n. 185, pi. 5, f. 11 (1866). 



Exp. cd., {$) I in. — i in. i lin. ; (?) i in. i-ij liii. 



$ Bull-hroivn, rather glossy ; cilia pcder, greyish externally. Fore- 

 wing : beyond middle, about midway between apex and extremity of 

 discoidal cell, an oblique subcostal row of three exceedingly indistinct 

 pale-greyish dots. Under side. — Hind-iving, and costal harder, and 

 broad apical hind-marginal area of fore-vniig pcde reddish-hrown, with a 

 tinge of ochrcons-ycUow ; in both wings an indistinct terminal disco- 

 cellular dull greyish-white dot, and a discal series (elbowed in fore- 

 wing and very strongly curved in hind-wing) of six and eight similar 

 dots. Hind-ii-ing : inner marginal fold pale-grey ; a greyish white dot 

 near base, between costal and subcostal nervures. 



$ Like $, hut fore-wing longer and more pointed apically, and disco- 

 cellular and lower discal dots of under side {tvhich are hetter expressed 

 than in $) sometimes reproduced in fore-wing. 



This species is well distinguished from Tsita, Trim., by its smaller 

 size, minute subcostal spots in the fore-wings, and redder under side 

 (without whitish neuratiou or streaks, but with minute pale discal 

 spots). 



Colonel IJowker discovered this remarkably dull-coloured and inconspicuous 

 little butterfly in Kaffraria Proper. In February and j\Iarch 1867 I took 

 several examples on the coast of Natal, flitting about long grass ; but it was 

 certainly very local in its distribution. The only example known to me from 

 within the boundary of the Cape Colony is a (J captured by Colonel Bowker 

 in 1873 at Fort Warden, Kei River. At the end of October 1878 the 

 same collector met with several fine specimens at Northdene, near D'Urban, 

 Natal. 



