304 SOUTH-AFEICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



white border, bounded interiorly (along deep fold of wing) with blackish. 

 Fore-iving : only three spots, viz., that in cell, and the fourth and fifth 

 of transverse row ; fuscous greyer, paler. Hind-tving : from base to 

 hind-margin, traversing discoidal cell, a straight very indistinct narrow 

 creamy streak. Cilia broad, above and below dull greyish- white. 



$ Similar to ^, hut hind-wing not, or very slightly, darker than 

 fore-wing. Fore-iving : last spot of discal row very small and indis- 

 tinct. U^'DER SIDE. — Rather more reddish ; fuscous of fore-wing 

 paler. 



Colonel Bowker discovered tliis curious species in the year 1863, on the 

 Bashee Eiver in Kaffraria, and subsequently sent several specimens from that 

 locality and from the Tsonio Eiver. In 1869 he sent a $ and two $ s from 

 Basutoland. These examples are a little smaller than the Kafirarian ones, and 

 the fore-wings are less acuminate apically. In tlie $ the hind-wings are scarcely 

 darker than the fore-wings, and in this example as well as iii one of the $ s 

 the first subapical and lowest discal spots of the fore-wings are wanting, and 

 the other spots on both upper side and under side much reduced. The snow- 

 white inner-marginal stripe on under side of the hind-wings is narrower and 

 less shining than in the Kaffrarian specimens and those taken by myself in 

 Natal. 



Colonel Bowker noted this very local " Skipper" as occurring among long 

 grass and rushes in the neighbourhood of water. Near the Hermansburg 

 Mission Station, in Natal, on loth March 1867, I captured six examples on 

 the summit of a lofty hill-ridge ; the}'- were flitting about the purple flowers of 

 a leguminous shrub of moderate height (which was numerous in one spot), in 

 company with Pyrgiis Moliozutza and other butterflies. 



Localities of Thymelicus niveostriga. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Basutoland. — Koro-Koro, Maluti Mountains, and Makaleng Eiver 

 (/. //. BowJcer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Elvers (</. H. BowJcer). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Hermansburg. 



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



34L (4.) Thymelicus Wallengrenii, Trimen. 



Thymelicus Walleyigrenii, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 361. 



Plate XL fig. 7 (?).' 



Exp. al., ($) I in. 2-4 lin. 

 Closely allied to T. niveostriga, Trim. 



$ Didl hrowii ; the hind-wing much darker, almost fuscous ; fore- 

 wiiuj with almost transparent disco-celhdar terminal spot and six discal 



^ In this figure the under side is depicted as much darker than it should be, and not 

 reddish enough, and the white stripe of hind-wing is not defined with sufRcient sharpness, 

 and not carried near enough to the base of the discoidal cell. 



