294 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



Pupa. — " Clotlicd with a minute pubescence; reddish-brown, with 

 greenish-brown abdomen. Back of thorax slightly protuberant ; two 

 minute dark projections on base of wing-covers. Enveloped in leaf 

 of AbutiJon Sonneratianum, and attached by anal segment." — J. P. 

 Mansell Weale, in ejjist., 1877. 



This is a species Avidely distributed over Eastern South Africa ; to tho 

 westward it is common on the coast of the Knysna District of the Cape 

 Colony, and I once met with it as far to the west as Eobertson. It is preva- 

 lent in wooded spots, preferring pathways and open bits of ground, where it 

 settles with expanded wings, the white bar of tlie hind-wings making it rather 

 conspicuous. The summer months are its chief season, but I have noticed it 

 on the wing as early as the middle of September. JNIrs. Barber informed mo 

 that the eggs are deposited on a species of Sida. 



Localities of Fijrrjiis Elma. 

 I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Robertson. Mossel Bay. Knysna and Plet- 



tenberg Bay. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage. Grahamstown 



{Mrs. Barher), and Zwaartwater Port, Albany District. Mouth 

 of Kowie River, Bathurst District (J. L. Fry). King William's 

 Town (TF. S. M. D' Urban). Burghersdorp (D. It. Kannemeyer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River {J. H. Boicker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. H. BowJcer). "Lower 



Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. Verulam. 



b. Upper Districts. — Greytown. 



F. Zululand. — Etshowe (.4. M. Goodrich). 



K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District (7". Ayres). Upper Limpopo 

 River {F. C. Selom). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.—" Angola."— Kirby (Cat. Hewits. Coll.). 



Jr. Eastern Interior, — " Lake Nyassa." — Kirby (Cat. Hewits. Coll.). 



335. (12.) Pyrgus Mohozutza, Wallengren. 



$ Hesperia Mohozutza, Wallengr., K. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; Lep. 



Rhop. CafFr., p. 50, n. 7. 

 ryrgus Mohozutza, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 291, n. iSi, pi. 5, f. 9 



[?], (1866). 



Exp. al, ($) ii|^ lin. — i in. i^ lin. ; (?) i in. I-3 liu. 



$ Blackisli-brown, with creamy-white and fulvous spots Fore-icing : 



of the hind- wings not straight across, but angulated and more irregular on edges. The ? has, 

 moreover, a reddi.-sh tinge, especially on the under side of the hind-wings, where the markings 

 are almost obliterated. 



This is doubtless the insect which the late Mr. F. Walker {Entomologist, 1870, p. 56) referred 

 to the Spanish Marruhii, Rambur (regarded by Kirby and Plotz as a variety of Althca; 

 Hiibn.) ; but the specimens I have do not agree at all closely with Herrish-Schiiffer's 

 figures {Schmett. Eur op. -Heap., ff. 14, 15) of Marrubii, in which the under side is repre- 

 sented as decidedly greenish, with pale-yellowish neuration interrupting sharply the trans- 

 verse white stripes. 



