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Ailes noires, avec de petits espaces hyalins tout & leur base et 

 ornees de plusieurs petits points hyalins. Le bord posterieur 

 de Fareole ayant son angle place en son milieu. La veine 

 recurrente presque droite. Les points hyalins places, aux ailes 

 anterieurs : un sur 1'extremite posterieure de chacune des deux 

 premieres veines transverses, au contact de la veine anale, et 3 

 autour de 1'areole ; Tune sur Fangle posterieur-externe de 

 Pareole; les deux autres plus grands, allonges, sur la veine 

 cubitale et la veine recurrente, & quelque distance de Tareole; 

 ces 3 taches toutes & cheval sur les nervures, qui restent noires 

 et les partagent. Aux ailes posterieures un point sur 1'extremite 

 posterieure de la veinule trans verso-cubitale et de la veinule 

 transverso-discoidale. 



Pretoria, 1 $ . 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 RHOPALOCE RA. 



I found no undescribed Butterflies around Pretoria, nor did I 

 very much expect to do so, for when a specialist like Mr. Roland 

 Trimen has presided for years at the Cape Town Museum, the 

 captures made in South Africa have naturally found their way 

 to him, and it would be well if such still continued to be the 

 practice, at least for the present, and thus much synonymy 

 might be prevented. These remarks apply only to the Butter- 

 flies, and not to other groups or orders of the South-African 

 Insecta, which can only thoroughly be worked out in Europe. 



On the open plains which surround Pretoria butterfly-life is 

 not seen in much profusion, nor are many species to be found. 

 In the Danainse Danais chrysippus flies all the year round, 

 throughout the warm, wet, and cool dry seasons ; both its 

 varietal forms may also here be obtained, but they are very 

 scarce, and constitute no appreciable proportion to the dominant 

 form of the species (see ante, p. 65). In the Satyrinae I only 

 met with the genus Ypthima in the warmer lowlands of Zout- 

 pansberg, and did not see a single example about Pretoria. 

 Among the Nymphalinae that world-wide (excluding South 

 America, New Zealand, and Australia) distributed butterfly 



