Butterjlies of Soutliern Africa. 105 
I first met with this Mycalesis (which seems nearer to 
the Chinese and Indian species just mentioned than to 
any of its African congeners) at Port Natal, where I took 
a single 2 specimen on the 3rd August, flitting about 
long grass in some rough ground at the base of the Botanic 
Garden, near D'Urban. On the 4th March, 1867, I 
again met with the species, capturing one of each sex 
among grass at the bottom of a deep ravine at the Mapu- 
mulo Mission Station, between the Umvoti and Tugela 
Rivers, in Natal. During the same year the $ variety 
above mentioned Avas taken at St. Lucia Bay, and INIr. PI. 
C Harford has since forwarded me a $ captured on the 
29th January, 1869, " among long grass by a river side," 
near Pinetown, in Natal. These five examples are the 
only ones Avhich have come under my notice. 
Hab. — Natal and St. Lucia Bay. In the collection of 
R. Trimen. 
Sub-family Nympiialin^, Bates. 
Genus DiADEMA, Boisd. 
Diadema deceptor, n. sp. 
Exp. 3 in. ^ lin. 
$. Black, with white {very slightly pink-glossed^ 
markings. Foreioing : costa dusted Avith pale-bluish 
scales near base ; a small rounded spot in discoidal cell 
near base ; an irregular, oblique central bar, consisting of 
a narrow cellular stripe and a large ovate patch lying 
mainly between 2nd and 1st median nervules (but ex- 
tending slightly above the former and considerably below 
the latter nervule) ; a narroAV sub-apical stripe of 3 spots, 
extending from a little below costa to 3rd median nervule 
(the lowest spot largest) ; a small spot near apex, and a 
similar one near anal angle, just above sub-median nervure. 
Hindwing : in basal region a large, sub-i^otundate patch, 
not reaching base, and scarcely extending above sub- 
costal nervure, but spreading indistinctly to inner mar- 
gin, and projecting outwardly between radial and 3rd 
median nervules ; outer edge of patch indented by black 
between nervules ] a sub-marginal roAV of 4 minute Avhitish 
spots, between 1st sub-costal and 2nd median nervules — 
that nearest costa less indistinct than the rest ; beyond 
them, but toAvards anal angle, very faint traces of a hind- 
marginal, lunulate, Avhitish streak. Underside. — Hind- 
wing, and costal and apical border of foreicing, pale, 
glossy, greyish-brown. Forewing : violaceous-pink lustre 
