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the forewings the ordinary two ocellate spots well 

 developed. Hewitson's type specimens are from Lake 

 Nyassa,* but the form has since been found as far to the 

 southward as the Transvaal. The first examples from the 

 latter region that came under my notice were taken in the 

 Barberton District in the year 1888 by Mr. J. P. Cloete 

 and Mr. C. F. Palmer ; and the specimens now figured are 

 a dry-season ^, captured at Nelspruit by Mr. H. L. 

 Feltham on May 10, 1904, and a wet-season ^, taken by 

 Mr. A. T. Cooke at White River, near Nelspruit, in 1909. 

 Mr, Feltham writes that he met with this Mycalcsis very 

 sparsely, flying in wet, grassy spruits or hollows in com- 

 pany with Ypthima asterope, and notes the resemblance 

 between the two butterflies when on the wing. 



I think it likely that M. cna will prove — when a good 

 series of it can be compared with one of M. miriam 

 throughout its range — to be not separable as a distinct 

 species. 



Pseudonympha d'urhcoii, Trim. 



Pseudonyinp)ha d'^crhani, Trim., S.-Afr. Butt., i, p. 80 



(1887). 



Plate XVII, fig. 2 ($). 



This butterfly is nearly allied to P. neita, Wallengren,t 

 but it is constantly recognisable by the absence on tiie 

 underside of the hindwing of the basal fulvous, and by 

 the presence thereof a third (ante-median) dark transverse 

 streak as well as of a paler discal fascia. On the upper- 

 side, too, as well as on the underside, all the ocelli are 

 smaller and in much duller rings, especially those of the 

 hindwings. 



The sexes differ scarcely at all, except that the $ has 

 blunter forewings, and is usually rather paler. As regards 

 the ocellate spots there is a good deal of variation in both 

 sexes, the ocellus of the forewing varying in size, and 

 being in many examples rather ovate than circular, and 

 the two minute ocelli of the hindwing being seldom both 

 present. On the underside the ocelli of the hindwing 



as 



* Mr. S. A. Neave (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1910, p. 9) notes M. cna 

 occurring throughout N. Rhodesia, and being especially common in 

 the Luangwa Valley. 



t K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl., 1875, p. 84, n. 3 ; see also Trimen 

 {I. c), p. 79, pi. 7, f. 2 (1887). 



