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III. On some hitherto imfcrfcctly- known South African 

 Lepidoptera. By Roland Trimen, M.A., F.R.S., etc. 



[Read February 7tli, 1912.] 



Plate XVII. 



The few forms here figured are such as need illustration 

 either from their close alliance to congeners or from their 

 rarity. 



Mycalcsis cna, Hewits., Pyrgus zebra, Butl., and P. se- 

 ccssus. Trim., form, aestiv., have been received from my 

 friend Mr. H. L. Langley Feltham, of Johannesburg ; the 

 Mycalcsis and P. sccessus being now for the first time 

 recorded from extra-tropical South Africa.* Pseudo- 

 nympha d'urhani, Trim., and Lcptoncurct hotuheri, Trim., 

 $, are figured from examples collected in N.E. Cape 

 Colony by Mr. F. Graham in 1891 ; and Ps. hijypia 

 (Cram.), from one taken on Table Mountain in 1890, by 

 Mr. R. M. Lightfoot. 



The Smerinthine hawkmoth, Platysphinx hourhei. 

 Trim., is figured from the type (a $) cajitured in Zululand 

 by Admiral E. Bourke, in 1909. 



Fam. NYMPHALIDAE. 



Sub-fam. Satyrinae. 



Mycalcsis cna, Hewits. 



Mycalcsis cna, Hewits., Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 107 (1877). 



Plate XVII, figs. 1 {$), \a ($). 



This form is, as Hewitson (/. c.) pointed out, very close 

 to the West African M. miriam (Fab.), but readily dis- 

 tinguished by its larger size and paler colouring, and by 

 having on tlie tcj^j^orside, as well as on the underside, of 



* Mr. Feltham also sent anotlier interesting addition to the extra- 

 tropical South African list of Hesperidae. rid. Platylesches rohnstiis, 

 Neave (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1910, p. 83, pi. iii, f. 1,^), hitherto 

 recorded from N. and S. Rhodesia on.y, but taken (three examples) 

 by Mr. A. T. Cooke at White River in the Transvaal, in August 

 1907. 



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