im/perfedly-hnmon South African Lepidoptcra. 387 



somewhat lower elevation, by Mr. R. M. Liglitfoot in 

 February 1889. Subsequently, on December 28, 1889, 

 Mr. Felthani met with four hippia, and on January 2, 

 1890, with four more ; these occurred on the lower plateau 

 of the same mountain, above the top of Hout Bay gorge. 

 On the last-named date Mr. Lightfoot in the same place 

 took no less than twelve specimens. 



There is good reason for considering this Pseudonympha 

 to be confined to the higher levels of the Cape Promon- 

 tory, in marked contrast to its nearest congener and 

 companion P. vigilans, Ti'im.* — with which at first I 

 confused it — the latter extending in range (and under 

 some variation as regards the tint and ocellate marking of 

 the underside of the hindwings) over the greater part of 

 South Africa. 



Leptoneura bowJceri, Trim. 



Leptoneiira howheri, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, 

 p. 347, pi. vi, f. 2 {$) ; and S.-Afr., Butt., i, pp. 98-9 

 a ?) (1887). 



Plate XVII, fig. 4 ($). 



Only the $ of this very distinct form of Leptoneura was 

 known to me when I first described it, and in 1887 {op. 

 cit.) I could record but a solitary %, sent in 1879 from the 

 Lydenburg district of the Transvaal by Mr. T. Ayres. It 

 was not until 1891-93 that an extensive series of both 

 sexes was secured, at Dordrecht, in N.E. Cape Colony, by 

 Mr. Francis Graham, who forwarded to me no few^er than 

 twenty-seven $ % and sixty-nine $$ ; and I am glad to 

 have the oj)portunity of giving here a figure of one of 

 these $$, and of indicating the variation exhibited by 

 both sexes in so numerous a series all collected in one 

 locality. 



The ^^ vary much, on the upperside of the fore- 

 wing, in the size and distinctness of the whitish sub- 

 marginal spots, and the extent to which the lower three 

 spots are reddish-tinged — in thirty-one $$ there exists a 

 seventh spot (often indistinct) below the first median 

 nervule ; and there is considerable instability as to the 

 number of ocelli, twenty-four specimens having only a 

 single ocellus, twenty having also a minute second ocellus 



* For a figure ( (?) of this form from the Weenen District of Natal, 

 see Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1897, pi. 1, f. 1 (1898). 



