Butterflies of SoiitJiern Africa. 103 
Genus Ereeia, Dalman. 
Erehia irrorata, n. sp. (PI. I. fig. 2.) 
Exp. (^) 1 in. 5 lin. ; ( 5 ) 1 in. G lin. 
Pale greyisli-broicn. Foreioing : a fulvous ■patch occu- 
pies discoiclal cell, not rising above it, but extending beyond 
it and over median nervules to about their middle, as well as 
below median nervure and its 1st nervule, but not reaching 
sub-median nervure or quite to base ; touching extremity 
of upper portion of patch, a bipupillate black ocellus in 
a pale yellowish-grey ring ; costal margiu indistinctly 
hatched loith greyish-yelloro from base to beyond middle. 
Hindwiny without markings. Underside. — Hindiciny 
and costal and apical region, with hind margin of fore- 
icing irrorated with greyish-yellow. Foreioing : fulvous 
patch slightly smaller than on upperside ; ring of ocellus 
paler, more distinct. Hindwiny : beyond middle a sub- 
marginal roAv of 8 ill defined greyish-yellow spots ; pre- 
ceding 4th spot, and between it and extremity of discoidal 
cell, a similar spot ; an indistinct similar spot near base, 
between median and sub-median nervures ; two smaller 
ones on edge of cell, marking origins of radial and 2nd 
sub-costal nervules ; and 2 or 3 small ones on costa before 
middle. In both wings, on hind-marginal edge, a row of 
small, inter-nervular, greyish-yellow spots, more apparent 
in hindwing than in forewing. 
The sexes do not differ, except that the irrorations and 
spots of the underside of the wings are more conspicuous 
in the $ . 
This species stands nearer to E. HyperMus, Linn., 
than to any other South African Erehia ; but it differs 
from the latter in its much paler colouring throughout, 
its total want of any ocelli or fulvous colouring on the 
upperside of the hindwings (in which respect it is like 
E. Naryria, Wallengren), its hatching of greyish-yellow 
on the upperside of the costa of the f brewings, its much 
yellower and more distinct underside hatching and irrora- 
tion, and its want of the two transverse ferruginous strise 
on the underside of the hindwings. 
Mr. J. H. BoAvker discovered a ? of this butterfly in 
the Zwaarte Ruggens, division of Uitenhage, in the month 
of August, 1870; and, quite recently (July, 1872), 
forwarded a ^ caj^tured on the road from Bethulie to 
Burghersdorp, on the Colonial side of the Orange River. 
These are the only examples that I have seen. 
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