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patcli larger, almost filling discoidal cell ; ocellus and 

 transverse streaks more distinctly marked. Hind-wing : two 

 angulated, transverse, reddish-brown streaks, one before, the 

 other about middle ; hind-margin densely hatched with red- 

 brown lines ; only the smaller ocellus visible near anal angle, 

 and that very minute ; another small ocellus just above 

 subcostal nervule, close to apex : in some specimens, the 

 whole hind-wing is so densely hatched that the two transverse 

 streaks are inconspicuous. 



A $ specimen in my collection has in both fore-wings a minute ocellus 

 adjoining the lower extremity of the ordinary large ocellus; and there is 

 an additional ocellus in the hind-wings, smaller and more towards costa 

 than the two ordinary ones. 



In a ? example, the small ocellus on under-side of hind-wing, near 

 apex, is also distinct on the upper surface of the wing. 



Bushy and grassy spots, woods, gardens, &c. Very common, 



August (e) — May (e). 



This pretty and disiiuctly-marked species is widely distributed in South. 

 Africa, and seems to be as common in the well-wooded districts of the East 

 as in the dry and shrubby Western regions. Its flight is very low and 

 weak, and it is most easily captured. The collector cannot fail to meet 

 with it during his first season. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Port Elizabeth 

 (W. D'Urban).— Coll. Tri. 



Butterworth, KafFraria. — Coll. J. H. Bowker. 



Cape of Good Hope. Interior of South Africa. Delagoa 

 Bay.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



•' Graham's Town to Frankfort, British KafFraria." — 

 D'Urb., in litt. 



116. Erebia Natalii. 



Satyrus Natalii, Boisd., App. Voy, de Deleg., p. 591, n. 84, 

 Expands 1 in. 6 lin. 



*' All the wi7igs brown, each having towards the hind-margin 

 a rather large fulvous patch, containing on the fore-wings a 

 black ocellus, with two white pupils and a yellowish-fulvous 

 iris, and on the hi?id-wings two or three minute ocelli of 

 similar colouring. Under-side oi fore- wings like the upper- 

 side : that of hind-wings brown, with two parallel, transverse, 

 sinuated, ferruginous streaks, succeeded by an almost marginal 

 row of four black ocelli, pupilled with white and circled with 

 fulvous, of which that at anal angle is a little smaller than the 

 rest. Beyond the ocelli, parallel with the cilia, are also two 

 thin streaks, darker than the ground-colour. We are only 

 acquainted with the ? ." 



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