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This species stands nearer to P. Rypcrhius, Linn., than to any other 

 South- African Pseudonymioha ; but it differs from the latter in its much 

 paler colouring throughout, its total want of any ocelli or fulvous 

 colouring on the upper side of the hind-wings (in which respect it is 

 like P. Narycia, Wallengren), its hatching of greyish-yellow on the 

 upper side of the costa of the fore-wings, its much yellower and more 

 distinct under-side hatching and irroration, and its want of the two 

 transverse ferruginous striee on the under side of the hind-wings. 



Colonel Bowker discovered this species in the Uitenhage District in August 

 1870 ; and in July 1872 he sent an example from the District of Albert. In 

 the latter year Mrs. Barber forwarded a specimen captured by her in the Storm- 

 bergen, forming the southern boundary of the Albert District. 



It was not until January 1876 that the butterfly was recorded from the 

 Western Districts, owing to my taking two individuals at the village of Robert- 

 son; and a few years afterwards (September 1879) I ^^^ with a solitary speci- 

 men at Malmesbury, about thirty miles north of Cape Town. These examples 

 occurred only singly, flitting about stony spots, and looked on the wing like 

 rather faded P. Hyperhius. 



Localities of Pseudonympha irrorata. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Malmesbury. Robertson. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Zwaarte Ruggens, Uitenhage District {J. H. 

 Boivker). Stormbergen {M. E. Barber). North of Albert Dis- 

 trict (J. H. Bowker). Burghersdorp, Albert District [D. R. 

 Kannemeyer). 



10. (3.) Pseudonympha Narycia (Wallengren). 



Pseudonympha Narycia, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, Lep. 



Rhop. CaflTr., p. 32, n. 4. 

 5 Erehia Narycia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 350, pi. vi. 



f. I. 



Exjj. al., I in. S-g— 8 lin. 



Pale-brown, inclining to grey ; in fore-ioing a well-defined discal 

 patch of fulvous ; hind-wing loholly without marking. Fore-wing : api- 

 cal ocellus rather large, very distinct, black, with two small silvery- 

 white pupils, and in a very pale-yellowish ring outwardly edged with 

 fuscous ; fulvous patch beginning near extremity of discoidal cell, ex- 

 tending as far as inner and beyond lower edge of ring of ocellus, not 

 rising above first radial nervule, or descending quite as far as submedian 

 nervure ; a rather indistinct submarginal dark streak from costa bound- 

 ing the even outer edge of fulvous patch. Under side. — Very similar 

 to upper side, hut hind-iving ivith a discal series of five very distinct ocelli. 

 Fore-wing : fulvous patch slightly smaller, being straighter along its 

 inner edge ; submarginal dark streak more distinct than on upper side. 

 Hind-iving : series of ocelli sharply angulated on third median nervule, 

 — first ocellus (between subcostal nervules) almost always considerably 



