South. African Butterflies. 387 



Exp. 1 in. 1-14 lin. 



Dark brown, spotless ; cilia paler. 



Underside. Hind-wing, and costal and apical border 

 of fore-wing, pale grayish-oclireous, sometimes with a 

 slightly rufous tinge. Fore-wincj : the ground-colour 

 leather paler than on the upperside. Hinrl-iving : discoi- 

 dal and median nervules more or less defined with dull- 

 whitish ; the inner-marginal fold dusky brown, like the 

 field of the fore-wing. 



This inconspicuous insect occupies an intermediate 

 position between the two species mentioned above, being 

 smaller than Lepeletiern and larger than inornatus, and 

 wanting alike the conspicuous white stripes on the under- 

 side of the hind-wings of the former, and the somewhat 

 ferruginous tint and indistinct spotting of the under- 

 surface of the latter. 



Mr. Bowker forwarded several examples from Koro- 

 Koro in December, 1868, noting that the insect was local, 

 flitting about long grass by the river sides in the valleys, 

 and occurring in such spots up to a considerable eleva- 

 tion. I took examples of this butterfly in Natal, on the 

 Tongaati and Jutzutze Rivers, but at the time thought 

 them to be G. inornatus. Their habits quite agreed with 

 those described by Mr. Bowker. 



Cycloindes Syrinx. 

 Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 93, pi. v. f. 8, S. 



$ . Exp. 1 in. 3 lin. Spots of a deeper yellow than 

 in the $ . Fore-iving : the outermost spot of the discal 

 row, forming in the $ the third or fourth of the oblique 

 streak between the cell and apex, scarcely traceable. 

 (Scarcely a trace is visible in either wing of the sub- 

 marginal row of ill-defined spots.) 



Underside. Hind-wing : the ground-colour very much 

 paler, inclining to grayish ; both the longitudinal stripes 

 laroader, the superior being yellower, and the inferior 

 whiter than in the $ . 



Mr. Bowker only sent the $ of this species from the 

 site of its discovery in the Amatola Mountains. The 9 

 from which the above description is made, was taken in 

 the Maluti Mountains, where Mr. Bowker found the 

 butterfly frequenting the same " mountain bamboos " as 

 on Gaika's Kop. 



