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coating dark-brown above, with conspicuous oclireous-yellow incision 

 rings (becoming white laterally), and a terminal paler ochreous-yollow 

 tuft. 



A variation occurs in a $ taken at Highlands, near Grahamstown, 

 by Mrs. Barber, the hind-wings presenting on the upper side an addi- 

 tional short broken yellow-ochreous bar a little before the ordinary 

 discal one. 



This fine and handsome species was discovered in Kaffraria Proper by 

 Colonel Bowker in 1863 ; he noted it as occurring in deep sliade on the banks 

 of forest streams in January, settling soon after being roused on rocks among 

 moss and ferns. It flics about sunset, as a rule, but on damp and cloudy days will 

 visit flowers much earlier in the afternoon. In the Botanic Gardens at D'tlrban, 

 Natal, on 2d February 1867, I took easily with my fingers several specimens 

 which were at rest, with wings all erect, on the trunks of trees. At Highlands, 

 near Grahamstown, in January and February 1870, I noticed that the butterfly 

 chiefly frequented Petunia and Campanula flowers, and Mrs. Barber observed 

 one visiting the flowers of a Crotalaria during heavy rain. Mr. A. D. Millar 

 informs me that he has often taken it at D'Urban on the blossom of the honey- 

 suckle. Colonel Bowker has met with it on the ISTatal coast from December to 

 April. 



Localities of Pamplcila Erinnys. 



I. Soutli Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashes River {J. II. Bon-Jcer). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Pinetown (/. H. BoicJier). 



F. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 



355. (13.) Pamphila dysmephila, Trimen. 



? Pamphila dysmephila, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 96, n. 2, 

 pi. vi. f. 10. 



Uxp. al., ($) I in. 8-10 lin. ; (?) i in. 9-10 lin. 



$ Fale-h'oicn, the fore-iving ley and middle and the hind-iving along 

 hind-margin loith a ])urplish gloss ; hoth wings densely clothed from base 

 with dull yellowish-ocliTeous scales and hairs ; fore-iving ivith a disco- 

 cellular and tvjo discal vitreous spots, and a white border on ui^pcr half of 

 hind-margin. Fore-iving : yellow-ochreous scales and (inferiorly) hairs 

 covering basal third of wing, and thence extending narrowly along costa 

 to apex and widely along inner margin to posterior angle ; disco-cellular 

 vitreous spot of moderate size, longitudinally elongate, sub-terminal, 

 situated immediately above origin of second median nervule ; two discal 

 vitreous spots more quadrate, transversely elongate, obliquely placed be- 

 tween third and first median nervule, so that the lower (larger) one is not 

 far below and beyond disco-cellular spot ; hind-marginal white border 



