66 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



disposition of the subcostal nervules in the fore-wings, combine with 

 the peculiar fades of these butterflies to distinguish the genus. Their 

 structure is very weak, and their flight feeble and near the ground. 

 The larv« and pupse do not i ppear to have been observed. 



5. (1.) Ypthima Asterope (Klug). 



$ $ Hiijparclda Asterope, Klug, Symb. Phys., dec. iii, t. xxix. ff. 11-14 



(1832). 

 5 Satyrus Asterope, Lederer, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Vereins in Wien, 1855, 



t. i. f. 6 \apud HopfFer, o^j. cit.'] 

 Yptliima Asterope, Hopff., Peters' Reise Mossamb., p. 395 (1862). 

 Yphtliima Asterope, Hewits., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii, p. 283, 



n. I (1865). 

 Yphtlmna simpUda, Butl., Ann. and Mag, Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xviii. p. 481 



(1876). 

 Var. Ypthima Norma, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 67, f. i (185 1). 



Exp. al, I in. 3-8 lin. 



Brownish-grey ; in fore-wing, a large, or rather large, black subapical 

 ocellus loith tivo hluish-silvery pupils and a well-defined pale-yelloivish 

 iris ; in hind-wing, a suhanal-angular similar (but imijnipillatc), small, 

 or very small, ocellus. Fore-wing : ocellus in a discal more or less 

 distinct rounded paler space, defined by a darker encircling streak ; iris 

 of ocellus externally edged with a dark ring. Hind- wing : ocellus 

 between first and second median nervules, sometimes minute, but seldom 

 indistinct ; in some examples a faintly-marked submarginal dark line. 

 Under side. — Hoary-grey, finely and closely hatched or striolated luith 

 greyish-broivn. Fore-wing : ring of ocellus paler, brighter ; dark en- 

 circling streak well defined inwardly and outwardly, and inferiorly 

 merged in a good-sized discal brownish-grey patch, free from any 

 intermixture of hoary-grey, which reaches inner margin and posterior 

 angle. Hind-wing: besides the ocellus between ist and 2nd median 

 nervules (which is usually smaller than on upper side, and occasionally 

 very minute), there is usually a subapical, quite similar one between 

 the subcostal nervules, and almost invariably a third very small or 

 minute one close to anal angle itself; three irregular brownish trans- 

 verse striae (of very variable definition, and seldom really distinct), viz., 

 one (the most ill-expressed) before middle, — the second (usually the 

 most apparent) just beyond middle, angulated rather acutely on radical 

 nervule, — and the third (commonly fragmentary) submarginal, and 

 biangulated on radial and third median nervules. 



In a ^ taken on the Shashani River (Makalaka Country) by 

 Mr. F. C. Selous, not only is the principal ocellus of the hind-wing 

 larger than usual on the upper side, but the minute one at anal angle 

 is represented, and there is a third minute ocellus quite abnormally 

 situated between 2nd and 3rd median nervules ; while in the fore-wing 

 a very minute ocellus is inferiorly attached to the large subapical one. 



