78 SOUTH-AFRICAN" BUTTERFLIES. 



larger than the rest, — second ocellus usually smaller than the others 

 (except sometimes the last), and occasionally blind ; all ocelli very 

 clearly defined, unipupillate with silvery-white, and in dark-edged 

 pale-yellowish rings ; about middle an indistinct, irregular, dark, trans- 

 verse streak, and beyond ocelli a similar but regular and darker streak, 

 more or less suffused with fulvous in its upper portion ; at base, for a 

 little distance along costa, a pale-fulvous edging (in $ this is wider and 

 deeper in colour, and there is a similar second basal marking extending 

 on inner margin). In both wings a dark line, followed by a pale one, 

 immediately before hind-margin. 



Except in the character just mentioned, the $ only differs from the 

 ^ in being slightly paler, and having the hind-wing ocelli larger, and 

 the fulvous suffusion of the outer dark streak more pronounced. 



The fifth ocellus on the under side of hind-wing is rarely in both 

 sexes bipupillate. 



A $ taken by Mr. W. Morant near Pretoria, in the Transvaal, not 

 only presents the character last named, but has the second ocellus imme- 

 diately surmounted by a very minute blind ocellus, and also exhibits 

 the remarkable peculiarity of the ocellus of the fore-wing being tri- 

 pupillate on the upper side, and respectively quadri-pupillate (right) 

 and quinque-pupillate (left) on the under side. A ^ from Potchefstroom 

 has the fore-wing ocellus tripupillate both above and below, while a ^ 

 from Basutoland has it bipupillate above and tripupillate below.-^ 



The small size and pale ground-colour of this species, and its very 

 distinct yellowish-ringed ocellus of the fore-wings, give it something of 

 the aspect of P. Cassius (Godt.), but the perfectly unmarked upper side 

 of the hind-wings, no less than their very conspicuous under side series 

 of ocelli, at once characterise it as altogether another butterfly. All the 

 other PseudonymphcB have ocelli or a fulvous patch (or both) on the 

 upper side of the hind- wings, — even P. Neita, Wallengr., the nearest 

 ally of Narycia, presents some red-ringed ocelli. 



This insect seems confined to elevated country in the interior of South 

 Africa. In Basutoland, Colonel Bowker reports it as occurring " all over the 

 country, on high hills and rocks." It occurs as far north as Pretoria in the 

 Transvaal ; and in the Orange Free State, Mr. C. Hart, who sent me some 

 examples, found it " common in January 187 1." I have not heard of its having 

 been found to the south of the Orange River. 



Localities of Pseudonym'plia Narycia. 



L South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru, Maluti Mountains, &c. (/. H. Boioker). 



C. Orange Free State. — Special locality not recorded {0. Hart). 



K. Transvaal, — Potchefstroom District (T.^T/res). Pretoria (IT. Morant). 



^ In these cases of more than two pupils, it is remarkable that there is no indication of 

 additional ocelli having been incorporated in the ordinary one, — as is so often noticeable in 

 the Satyrince. 



