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mountainous tracts, new forms of Pseudonympha will very probably be 

 discovered. The known species are very closely related, and in several 

 cases are difficult to distingnisli. They all frequent open ground, 

 Cassius only seeming to show any liking for the neighbourhood of woods 

 or plantations, and their flight (except perhaps in the case of P. vigi- 

 lans) is very weak as well as wavering and close to the ground. They 

 bask on stones and on the bare earth, and only occasionally seem to 

 visit flowers. 



8. (1.) Pseudonympha Hyperbius (Linnaeus). 



Papilio Hyperhms, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 257, n. 76 (1764); and 



Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 769, n. 130 (1767). 

 9 Papilio Hyperhius, Cram., Pap. Exot., ii. pi. clxviii. ff. e, f. (1779). 

 Papilio Hyperhius, Wvilfen, Descr. Capens. Ins., p. 32, n. 31 (1786). 

 Pseudonympha Hyperhius, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Cafifr. in. K. Sv. Vet.- 



Akad. Handl., 1857, p. 32, n. 3. 

 Erebia Hyperhius, Trim., Rhop, Afr. Aust., ii. p. 197, n. iii (1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 6 lin. — l in. 9 lin. 



Dark-hroion, with a violaceous gloss ; fore-wing much coloured ivith 

 deep-fulvous; hind-wing with a small fidvous patch. Fore-iving : fulvous 

 occupies the same space as in U. Sabacus, but is not externally dark- 

 edged, nor ever divided into two patches, though its cellular portion is 

 often much obscured in ^ ; an apical ocellus, white-bipupillate, and 

 ringed indistinctly with pale ochreous, marks upper portion of fulvous. 

 Hind-wing : on median nervules an ill-defined fulvous patch, enclosing 

 two small unipupillate ocelli (one or both often wanting). Both wings, 

 but especially hind-wing, clothed with fulvous hairs on basal half. 

 Under side. — Hind-iuing, and costa, apex, and hind-margin of fore-wing 

 irrorated with whitish atoms. Fore-wing : fulvous paler (more regu- 

 larly extending from base in $) ; from its outer edge beyond ocellus 

 extends to costa a narrow ferruginous streak, sometimes almost obsolete ; 

 ring of ocellus more distinct. Hind-wing : beyond middle two parallel, 

 rather widely-apart, usually indistinct, ferruginous transverse lines, 

 parallel to hind-margin, between which is a row of inconspicuous 

 whitish dots, two of them representing the ocelli of upper side. 



Aberration ^. — Fore-wing : ocellus very small (not larger than those 

 often present in hind-wing), faintly unipupillate, in a very faint ring 

 scarcely distinguishable from contiguous fulvous ; adjoining this ocellus 

 and immediately below it (in the left fore-wing only) a second, similar, 

 very minute and indistinct ocellus. Hind-wing : no ocelli, but a single 

 whitish dot (occasionally found in ordinary examples) on fold beyond 

 extremity of discoidal cell. Under side. — Ordinary, except for the 

 very small ocellus in the fore-wing ; no trace of the second ocellus in 

 left fore-wing. 



Hah. — Cape Town, September 1870. 



