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each margin of wing, and half-enclosing in its upper exterior 

 portion, a black, white-bipupillate ocellus in a paler-fulvous 

 ring. Hind-wing : beyond middle, between first and third 

 median nervules, two similar (but unipupillate) ocelli, which 

 are more conspicuous in ? , and of which the superior one is 

 the larger. UNDER-SIDE. Slightly paler ; markings very 

 distinct. Fore-wing: fulvous defined inwardly and outwardly 

 by a line darker than ground-colour, the outer line dentate in 

 # ; iris of ocellus ochreous, ringed with dark-brown. Hind- 

 wing : costa at base tinged with fulvous (in ? some indistinct 

 fulvous tinting along inner-margin) ; beyond middle a most 

 indistinct fascia, slightly paler than ground-colour, containing 

 four ocelli like that in fore-wing, of which the two wanting 

 on upper-side are respectively between first and second 

 subcostal nervules, and third median nervule and submedian 

 nervure, the latter being bipupillate. 



Wallengren's description gives the hind-wing as wanting ocelli above, and 

 being marked with five ocelli beneath ; but this does not make me hesitate 

 to refer the specimens above described to his Narycia, as a $ taken by Mr. 

 D' Urban has the ocelli nearly obsolete above, and as Wallengmi states the 

 second and third of the five ocelli beneath to be " minutissimi," so that one 

 or both may occasionally be obsolete altogether. The basal tinge of red on 

 underside of hind-wing is a good distinctive character of this species. la 

 some $ specimens taken by Mr. D'Urban, however, this character is 

 barely traceable : the pale fascia is more distinctly marked ; and the ocelli 

 smaller than usual, the last being unipupillate, like the rest. 



This species seems to be far less common than most of the other South 

 African Erebif, but probably its rarity is more apparent than real ; the 

 nearly allied insects of this genus being very liable to be overlooked by 

 collectors as identical with those everywhere to be met with. 



King William's Town, and Keiskamma, near Bodiam. 

 Coll. D'Urban. 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. mini, and 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



113. Erebia Hippia. 



Papilio Hippia, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 222, f. C, D. 



Hippius, Herbst, Inst. Schmett., VIII, pi. 204, 



[f. 5, 6. 



Satyrus Cassius, $ , Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 526, n. 134. 

 Pseudonympha Hippia, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 32, 



[n. 1. 

 Exp. 1 in. 7 lin. 2 in. 



Pale greyish-brown, with a fulvous patch in both wings. 

 Fore-wing : fulvous patch rotundate, filling outer third of 

 discoidal cell, and covering basal half of median nervules ; 



