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XII. On some neio species of South African LycsenldEe. 

 Bj KoLAXD TiiiMEN, F.L.S., &c., Curator of 

 the South African Museum. 



[Read 2nd March, 1874.] 



The Butterflies described in this paper are all natives of 

 the region lying to the South of the Tropical limit. The 

 six species belong to four genera, and have been named 

 as follows, viz. : — 



lolaus Mimosce, 

 Hypolycana Seamani, 

 AphncBus namaquus, 

 Zeritis Lycegenes, 



„ BarJdyi, 



„ Orthrus. 



Aphnaus namaguus and Zeritis Barklyi are very dif- 

 ferent from the other species of their respective genera, 

 and are noteworthy as coming fi'om a tract of the Cape 

 Colony hitherto very little knoAvn to naturalists, viz., the 

 Xorth- Western corner of Little Xamaqualand, which has 

 recently been opened up by the Cape Copper Mining 

 Company, making Port Xolloth its port of shipment and 

 connecting it by railway with the mines lying inland. 

 My visit to this district was limited to thirteen days in 

 August last — a season of the year too early for much 

 development of insect life — and was, moreover, chiefly 

 taken up with rapid travelling ; but the discovery of the 

 tAvo new butterflies in question, and the fact that four 

 other species of the same family presented more or less 

 strongly marked variation from the corresponding forms 

 met with in the more Southern disti-icts, convinced me 

 that the country was one that would well repay more 

 extended research than I could give it.* 



* Sir H. Barkly's simultaneous discovery in the same limited region of 

 so conspicuous a botanical novelty as a scarlet-flowered Melianthus, besides 

 two (if not three) new Ferns, and probably one new Stapella, at least, 

 serves to indicate how much yet remains to be found there in the way of 

 plants. 



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