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13. (6.) Pseudonympha Natalii, (Boisduval). 



Satyrus Natalii, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 594, n. 84 (1847). 

 Erehia Natalii, Trim., Eliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 203, n. 116 (1866). 

 Pseudonympha Natalii, Butl., Cat. Sat. Brit. Mus., p. 94 (1868). 



Exp. al., I in. 7-9 lin. 



Verif pale greyish-brown ; in both wings a pale fulvous-ochreous dis- 

 cal patch, — that of fore-wing enclosing subapical ocellus. Fore-ioing : ful- 

 vous-ochreous patch large, edged throughout with a streak darker than 

 the general greyish-brown ground-colour, lying between subcostal and 

 submedian nervures, its inner edge at or not much beyond extremity 

 of discoidal cell superiorly, — its outer edge running parallel to hind- 

 margin ; ocellus subovate, rather oblique, bipupillate with white, in a 

 wide and distinct ochre-yellow ring, outwardly vaguely circled with a 

 dark shade of rufous, and superiorly completely but narrowly enclosed 

 by fulvous-ochreous patch ; a thin dark streak just before hind-margin. 

 Hind-wing : fulvous-ochreous patch ill-defined superiorly about radial 

 nervule, reaching inferiorly to a little below first median nervule, inter- 

 nally bounded by a rather faint, externally by a very distinct dark line ; 

 enclosed by the patch, between first and third median nervules, two 

 small ocelli like that of fore-wing, but unipupillate and with a less dis- 

 tinct yellow ring ; in one example the upper of these ocelli is almost 

 obsolete, and there is a third inferior equally obsolescent ocellus ; close 

 to costa, not far before apex, a similar but larger obsolescent ocellus ; 

 submarginal streak as in fore-wing. Under side. — Fore-iving : like 

 upper side, but streak edging fulvous patch and submarginal streak 

 ferruginoiis ; fulvous obsolescent about superior part of ocellus ; outer 

 dark circle of ocellus more distinct, tinged with ferruginous. Hind- 

 wi7ig : brown, not so greyish in tint as that of fore-wing ; a dull ferru- 

 ginous border on costa at and near base ; before middle a rather 

 indistinct, interrupted, transverse ferruginous stria ; about middle a 

 well-defined, similar, but quite continuous and more or less angulated 

 stria from costa to submedian nervure ; four ocelli of moderate size, 

 very distinct, all unipupillate, the largest that near apex ; of the others 

 that nearest anal angle is the smallest; a little beyond ocelli a ferru- 

 ginous stria, tvhich, between second subcostal and third median nervidcs, 

 forms two very abrupt and deep inter-nervidar loo^is ; the end of the 

 lower loop encloses a minute fifth ocellus (obsolescent on left side in 

 one example) ; streak close to hind-margin distinct, ferruginous. 



Boisduval does not, in his description cited, mention the very sin- 

 gular double looping of the stria just beyond the ocelli on the under 

 side of the hind-wing, but the characters he notes of the rather large 

 fulvous patch in both wings marked with the ocelli, and the brown 

 under side of the hind-wing crossed by two transverse ferruginous striae 

 before the ocelli, are combined in no other Pseudonympha, and enable 

 me to identify with P. Natalii the specimens above described. The 



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