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V. Descriptions of some New Species of Butterflies found 
in Southern Africa. By Rovanp TRIMEN. 
{Read 4th July, 1864.] 
TuirTEEN of the following sixteen species of Rhopalocera will be 
figured in the forthcoming second part of my “ Catalogue of the 
South African Butterflies.” Ten of the species have been dis- 
covered by Mr. James Henry Bowker, Inspector of the Frontier 
Armed Mounted Police, a gentleman who has devoted his leisure 
for several years past to the collection and observation of the 
Fauna and Flora of Kaffraria, and has specially given his atten- 
tion to the Lepidoptera, an order in which the densely-wooded 
valley of the Um-Bashee appears to be particularly rich. The 
new species enumerated are thus distributed among the several 
Families, viz. :— 
Fieride@ 0s ce Se ee Bye | 
Satyride .. se oe oe Ape 
Lycenide .. as ee oe os 6 
Hesperide .. os se We ares 
Family PIERIDZ, Dup. 
Genus Eronia, Hiibn. 
Eronia varia. 
Exp. 2 in. 10 lin.—3 in. 1 lin. 
$. Fore-wing white, with contiguous (at apex confluent) hind- 
marginal black spots; a basal orange-red suffusion nearly fills 
cell; hind-wing creamy-yellow with white nervures, and suffused 
ill-defined hind-marginal spots. Underside.—Hind-wing and edges 
of fore-wing rich chrome-yellow: marginal spots small, ferru- 
ginous grey, some wanting; basal red of fore-wing deeper; a 
whitish, ferruginous-grey-clouded blotch at apex of fore-wing and 
two similar blotches on hind-margin of hind-wing. 
¢. Smaller: markings fainter; basal red almost obsolete ; 
hind-wing of a deeper yellow. Underside.—Of a deeper yellow ; 
basal suffusion orange-yellow. 
Hab.—Bashee River, Kaffraria. 
