62 Mr. Roland Trimen on some Neiv 



genus Ncocomyra. I published (/. c. 1891) my view that 

 the characters specified, while separating the proposed 

 new genus from Cicnyra, Hewits., seemed identical with 

 those presented by Pscuclonymijlia, and this view was con- 

 firmed on my examination of the type specimen of duplex 

 in 1892. At the same time I found, on inspecting the 

 type of YjjtJmna hera, Hewits., — which I only knew 

 previously from Hewitson's description — that duplex was 

 quite a distinct species ; hera, though very nearly allied, 

 being at once recognized by its total lack of rufous 

 marking on both the upper and under surfaces. 



Several other species have since been described and 

 placed in Neoccenyra by Mr. Butler; but Prof Aurivillius 

 (Rhop. iEthiop., 1899, p. 72)— though he adds to these 

 Pseudonymplia natalii (Boisd.) — remarks that it is doubt- 

 ful, looking to species so intermediate as regards the form 

 of the antennal club as P. cassius (Godt.), whether 

 Pscudonyiivpha and Neoccenyra can be distinctly separated. 



Of late years, numerous examples of typical P. duplex 

 have been received from British East Africa; there are 

 eight (5 $ t and 8 $ ? ) in the National Collection from 

 various localities, and seven (6 .^ ^ and 1 ^ ) in Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson's collection from Gulu-Gulu and Kibwezi. All 

 these are of the same limited size, not exceeding about 

 1\ in. across the expanded wings. 



The large Variety here figured liad been long known 

 to me as occurring in tropical South Africa, Mr. F. C. 

 Selous having sent examples from Matabeleland in 1882, 

 and Mr. A. W. Eriksson a good series from the same country 

 in 1885, but it was not included in my " South African 

 Butterflies" (1887-89) because I had no evidence of its 

 having been met with in any extra-tropical habitat. I 

 referred to its existence, however (in vol. i, p. 82 note, and 

 vol. iii, p. 395), mentioning its relationship to P. natalii, 

 Boisd., its distinguishing features, and its probable identity 

 with dupilex, Butler ; and in 1891 {I. c. supra) I recorded its 

 capture — in a somewhat modified form — by Mr. Eriksson 

 on the Okavango River in 1887- 88, and described the 

 characters in which it differs from P. neita, Wallengr. 

 Not until July last had I the pleasure of seeing specimens 

 from an extra-tropical station, which were kindly presented 

 to me by the captor, Mr. Alfred T, Cooke, of Johannesburg. 

 These examples were taken in November and December 

 1903, at White River, 15 miles from Nelspruit (a station 



