8o SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



12. (5.) Pseudonympha D'Urbani, sp. nov. 



Exp. al., I in. 8-10 lin. 



BuU-hrown ; a suhquadrate discal fulvous jpatch and rather small 

 Hack, ivJiite-hijmpillate ocellus in fore-wing ; two indistinct (sometimes 

 obsolete) minute unipujjillate fulvous-ringed ocelli in hind-wing. Fore- 

 going : fulvous patch small, clearly defined, even on both edges, — reach- 

 ing superiorly as far as dull-yellowish ring of ocellus along inner and 

 lower edge, and inferiorly to a little below first median nervule, — not 

 infringing on discoidal cell ; along median nervure a more or less 

 distinct suffused fdvous streak. Hind-wing : ocelli between first and 

 third median nervules, the upper one usually a little larger, and with 

 its fulvous ring sufiused. Under side. — Fore-wing: outer edge of 

 fulvous patch bounded by a dentated dark-brown streak, commencing 

 close to costa ; in some examples the discoidal cell presents, a little 

 beyond its middle, a faint, transverse, fulvous mark. Hind-wing : 

 three dark-brown irregular transverse streaks — one before, one about, 

 and the third beyond, middle ; between the central and outer streaks 

 the ground-colour is paler, forming a broad fascia, marked exteriorly 

 with four minute but well-defined unipupillate, black, yellow-ringed 

 ocelli, of which the first is between the two subcostal nervules and the 

 others in a row between third median nervule and subraedian nervure ; 

 these ocelli very finely encircled exteriorly with dark-brown. 



This Pseudonympha is nearly related to P. Neita, Wallengr., but is 

 easily distinguished by its total want on the under side of the hind- 

 wings of any hasal fulvous, and its possession of a quite distinct pale 

 discal fascia, and of a third (pre-median) dark transverse streak. On 

 the upper side as well as on the under side all the ocelli are smaller, 

 and in much duller rings, especially those of the hind-wings. 



Mr. "W. S. M. D'Urban, F.L.S., late curator of the Exeter Museum, dis- 

 covered males of this butterfly at King WiUiam's Town and Bodiam, in the 

 colony of British KafFraria, in the year 1861 ; and it gives me great pleasure to 

 name the species in his honour. It was not until 1870 that I saw three other 

 (J examples, which were taken by Mrs. Barber, two near Grahamstown and 

 the other at King William's Town; and in 1872 Colonel Bowker sent a $ 

 and two $ from the Albert District in the north-east of Cape Colony. No 

 other specimens have come under my notice. 



Localities of Pseudonympha D' Urhani. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {M. E. Barber). King William's 

 Town (TF. S. M. U Urban and M. E. Barber). North of Albert 

 District (/. H. Boivker). 



