RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AXJSTRALIS. 



distinct species. But a comparison of it with a very extensive series of 

 Sabacm has convinced me of its identity with that species. For three 

 successive seasons I have searched the locality where it was captured, 

 without ever meeting with a second example.* 



Very common. Grassy spots on hill-sides, fields, sandy plains, &c. 



September (m) May (m). 



E. Sabacus appears in extreme abundance on the Cape Flats in October 

 and November, every step rousing two or three specimens. It was equally 

 plentiful in the Knysna marshes during the summer. It is very easily 

 taken, having a short, weak flight. Its abundance in British Kaffraria and 

 Kaffraria Proper has also been noted by Messrs. D'Urban and Bowker. 



Cape Town. Mossel Bay. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 Graham's Town (H. I. Atherstone). Coll. Tri. 



Butterworth and Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



"From Graham's Town to Windvogelberg." W. D'Urban, 

 in litt. 



Interior of South Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



115. Erebia Cassius. 



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

 Papilio Hyperbius, $ , Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 168, f. C, D. 

 Herbst, Ins. Schmett., VIII, pi. 



[203, f. 5, 6. 



Pseudonympha Hyperbioides, Wallengr.,Lep.Rhop. Caffr., 



[p. 20. 

 Expands 1 in. 3 lin. 1 in. 6 lin. 



Grey-brown. Fore-wing : a brick-red, ill-defined central 

 patch on median nervure and nervules, and occupying outer 

 portion of discoidal cell ; beyond it, two transverse streaks 

 darker than ground-colour, the first not extending below 

 red patch, the other, which is close to hind-margin, extend- 

 ing from apex to anal angle ; between the two streaks, near 

 costa, a large, nearly circular, black ocellus, yellow-ringed 

 and bipupillate with blue. Hind-wing : two transverse 

 streaks as in fore-wing ; two small ocelli near hind-margin 

 towards anal angle, coloured as in fore-wing, but unipupillate, 

 the ocellus nearer anal angle smaller than the other. 

 ^UNDER-SIDE. Paler : hind-margin near apex of fore-wing, 

 and whole of hind-wing, more or less closely hatched with 

 numerous short, thin, red-brown lines. Fore-wing : brick-red 



* Specimens since forwarded from Kaffraria and Graham's Town approach 

 this variety, possessing the white nervures, though not the accompanying 

 peculiarities. All these examples have the ocelli in hind-wing unusually large 

 and black, and, in one instance, the ocelli of hind-wing, as well as the large 

 ocellus of fore-wing, possess n 



