156 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



occurring in plenty at Barkly West ( = Klipdrift) at about the end of Decem- 

 ber 1885; and four specimens have been presented by him to the South- 

 African Museum. 



Localities of Ai^hnams Ella. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal Piiver {J. II. Boiclicr and //. 

 L. Fi'Iiham). 

 E. " Natal."— Ilewitson, 



K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {W. Movant and T. Ayres). Marico 

 and Limpopo Rivers {F. G. Sclotis). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



bi. Eastern Interior. — Makloutze and Tati Rivei'S (F. C. Selous). 



197. (5.) Aphnseus Phanes, Trimen. 



$ $ Aphuvus Phaites, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S73, p. iii, 

 pi. i. ff. 4, 5. 



Exp. al, (^) I in. i^ lin. ; ($) i in. 3I-5 liu. 



^ Fuscous, shot ivith rich purple; forc-ioing with yelluic-oclircous 

 markings. Fore-^ving : the purple gloss covers inner-marginal region, 

 but extends upward only as far as median nervure and its second nervule ; 

 costa rather broadly marked with dull ochreous at and near base ; an 

 almost square marking in discoidal cell near extremity ; beyond cell, 

 near costa, an irregular roughly V-shaped marking ; a narrow, s^^b- 

 marginal, irregular stripe commencing close to apex, more or less dis- 

 tinctly interrupted on third median nervule, and ending on first median 

 nervule. Hind-icing : purple gloss does not extend above subcostal or 

 below submedian nervure, but covers the space between those nervures 

 from base to hind-marginal edge ; a hind-marginal whitish streak from 

 radial to anal angle ; on either side of submedian nervure a hind-mar- 

 ginal black spot dotted with silvery; just before the space between 

 these two spots, an indistinct yellow-ochreous mark ; tails black, 

 ochreous at base and white at tip. Cilia white. Under side. — 

 Metallic silvcrg-whitc, with dull ochreous, mesially silvcry-strcalced, 

 narroivly Hack-edged, hroad traiisversc hands. Fore-wing : base narrowly 

 suffused with yellow-ochreous, inner margin widely with pale grey ; 

 three transverse bauds commence on costal edge ; the first, before 

 middle, short, straight, ending a little below median nervure ; the 

 second, long, oblique, commencing about middle, extending in direction 

 of anal angle, but becoming obsolete above submedian nervure ; the 

 third, near apex, rather short, ending abruptly between third and second 

 median nervules, where it touches the second band; between second 

 and third bands a costal spot of the same colouring ; a fourth band 

 (not marked with silvery) occupies hind-margin, and is traversed by an 

 interrupted black line, which is inwardly bordered by white sub-lunulate 



