388 Mr. Roland Trimen on some hitherto 



on outer edge of the third submarginal whitish spot, and 

 two having besides a minute third ocellus as in the %. A 

 similar variableness prevails as regards the ocelli on the 

 uppersideof the hindwing; though usually four in number, 

 no fewer tlian fourteen examples exhibit a more or less 

 ill-defined fifth ocellus (as in $) below the first median 

 nervule ; in one $ these markings are so small as to be 

 only just visible, while in another they are reduced to 

 minute rufous rings. The $$ vary on the upperside as 

 follows, rid. in the forewing, nine want the third ocellus ; 

 and, in the hindwing, six want the small inferior fifth 

 ocellus, but eight have another (usually more distinct) 

 additional ocellus between the subcostal nervules. On 

 the underside of the hindwing there is variation in the 

 development of the greyish scaling — in two examples this 

 is exceptionally strong — between the two median dark 

 transverse stripes and about the upper three of the 

 ocelli. 



This Leptoneura ranges widely over eastern South 

 Africa, from the Bedford District of the Cape to the 

 Lydenburg District of Transvaal, but appears to be strictly 

 confined to elevated areas and lofty hill-ridges. Mr. 

 Graham, who carefully observed this species in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Dordrecht, found that, in its principal locality 

 (" The Kloof"), and in other similar spots, it was confined 

 to the bush growing below the bare crest of the slope on 

 the north (shady) side of the ravine, and was found chiefly 

 among long wiry grass in the open spaces between the 

 thickets. He was struck with the apparent excess in 

 number of the $^, but estimated it as very much less than 

 I had judged it to be in L. clytus (Linn.), and not more 

 than from twelve to fifteen for every $ met with. 



Fam. HESPERIIDAE. 



Sub-fam. Hesperiinae. 



Pyrgiis zebra, Butl. 



Pyrgus zehra, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), i, 

 p. 207 (1888). 



Plate XVII, fig. 5 ($). 



The type of this species was recorded by Dr. A. G. Butler 

 as a native of India — " Campbellpore and Chittur Pahar 

 (Major Yerhury)" — but I referred to it in my " S.-Afr. 



