66 Mr. Roland Trimen on some New 



butterflies could hardly move. Some other Acrxse occa- 

 sionally make their appearance here, whether as stragglers 

 or bred locally one cannot say, but almost invariably when 

 the cold weather begins. It is difficult to conjecture why 

 these butterflies should select the winter to visit or emerge 

 upon the highest and coldest area for many miles round, 

 considering what much more favourable conditions appear 

 to be offered by the rapid downward trend of the country 

 to the Northward as far as the ' Low Veldt ' just beyond 

 the Magaliesberg." 



Subfamily NYMFEALINJE. 



Genus Harma, Westw. 



Harma coranus (H. Grose Smith). (Plate IV, 

 figs. 5, 5«.) 



^ , $ . Cymotlwe coranus, H. Grose Smith, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. iii, p. 133 (1889). 

 ^ , ^ . Harma coranus, Trim., S.-Afr. Butt., iii, App. I, 



p. 382 (1889). 



I am glad to have the opportunity of figuring this 

 species, which seems to be still decidedly rare in collections. 

 The types described by Mr. Grose Smith were noted as 

 captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa ; 

 but a broken specimen of the $ had reached me some years 

 previously from Pinetown, Natal, where it was taken by 

 Col. Bowker in June 1883. In a collection formed in Zulu- 

 land by Captain A. M. Goodrich a $ and a ^ occurred, which 

 were labelled as taken in April 1887, and October 1886, 

 respectively ; and a $ sent from the same locality by Mr. W. 

 H. Heale is — I am informed by Mr. Heron — in the British 

 Museum. To these examples may now be added, two 

 brought home by Mr. Feltham, a $ taken by Mr. Roberts 

 in June 1904, at Port St. John's, Pondoland, and a $ 

 captured by Mr. Feltham himself, on 14th February, 1904, 

 at Port Shepstone, Umzimkulu, Natal. 



This $ is here figured; and on comparing it with a 

 coloured drawing of the type example — made and kindly 

 lent to me by Mr. Heron — I find that on the upper-side it 

 differs in presenting a narrower discal common white band, 

 and a much narrower and more macular sub-costal oblique 

 white bar in the fore-wing, and also in the latter wing in 

 having the sub-costal commencement of the discal band 



