160 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



ferruginous ; white markings as on upper-side. Fore-wing : 

 two zic-zac, transverse, ferruginous striee in cell (the outer 

 one inwardly edging white bar), meeting below median ner- 

 vure ; at extremity of cell, two russet striae, enclosing a paler 

 space ; commencement of broad, white band on costa a little 

 more apparent than on upper-side, but still very indistinct ; 

 white spots very ill-defined ; dark marks wanting, but streaks 

 edging them whiter than on upper-side. Hind-wing : an 

 annulated, 8-like, ferruginous mark in cell, which is closed 

 (as in fore-ioing) by ferruginous striae including a narrow, 

 paler space ; a zic-zac ferruginous streak, from costa beyond 

 middle, edges the inner side of an irregular, white marking, 

 immediately before commencement of white band, and is 

 interruptedly continued to submedian nervure ; two rows of 

 whitish spots ill-defined ; orange-ochreous hind-marginal dots 

 not so conspicuous as on upper-side, more ferruginous. 



Woods. 



At Knysna, on 1st December, 1858, I saw a solitary specimen of this 

 species, or one very closely-allied, in a small wood near the village. It 

 floated rapidly over a small opea spot, and settled with expanded wings on 

 a young tree, just out of reach of my net, and provokingly sat still for 

 about two minutes,- — so that I could observe, as the sunlight shone through 

 the white markings of its wings, that tlie pattern of its markings differed 

 from that of Emytela Hiarbas, Drury — a Butterfly that is somewhat similar 

 in pppearance. At last I made a jump at the insect, but it escaped and 

 darted away, much to my disappointment. Two specimens, taken by a 

 resident at Knysna a few years ago, are in my collection ; and a third has 

 been recently sent me from the same locality, with the following note of its 

 capture : "Found settled on the ground, in sheep-kraal, April 27th, 1860." 

 So that this insect, as many other species of Nymphalidie are known to do, 

 would seem to visit the excrement of animals for the purpose of imbibing 

 its moisture. A single specimen, in the British Museum, was brought 

 from South Africa by Dr. A. Smith. 



Knysna. — Coll. mihi. 



South Africa. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



95. Harma Eupithes. 



Adolias Neocles, Boisd., MS. 



Harma Eupithes (Pallene Eupithes, E.Douhl., MS.),Douhl. 

 \_Westw., Hewits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 41, f. 1. 



Expands 1 in. 9 lin. — 1 in. 11 lin. 



Pale-ochreous, ivith a greeiiish tinge ; with dark-hrown 

 marginal lunules. Fore-wing', base suflTused with greyish ; 

 in discoidal cell, about its middle, a small, irregular, dark- 

 brown ring, open on median nervure, beneath which its outer 

 edge indistinctly descends ; a large, somewhat quadrate, dark- 

 brownish marking, commencing within cell, extends con- 

 siderably beyond it, but leaves a conspicuous, narrow streak 



