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same author observes that he was acquainted with the $ only ; and the 

 two examples from which my description is made both appear to be of 

 that sex, but one has lost the abdomen and is otherwise injured. The 

 most striking distinctive features of this rare species are those specially 

 noticed, viz., on the upper side (i) the complete enclosure of the ocellus 

 of fore-wing in the fulvous patch, and (2) the exceptionally large extent 

 of the fulvous patch in the hind- wing; and on the under side (3) the 

 two transverse ferruginous stria before the ocelli of the hind-wing, and 

 (4) the extraordinary looping of the stria just beyond them. Apart 

 from these distinctions, Natalii on the whole resembles P. Narycia and 

 Neita, Wallengr,, more nearly than any others of the genus yet de- 

 scribed;-^ but in the first and fourth features just mentioned it stands 

 quite alone. 



Beyond the solitary much-injured specimen from Damaraland noted by me 

 {loc. cit.) in 1866, I have seen only three examples of this butterfly, viz., one 

 taken in 1875 ^7 -^^^ ■^- ^' I^arber on the N.W. border of the Transvaal; 

 another found on the Tati River in 1882 by Mr. F. C. Selous ; and the third in 

 the collection brought from Matabeleland by IMr. Jamieson in 188 1. Only 

 the first of these three localities is south of the Tropic. 



Localities of Pseudonympha Natalii. 



I. South Africa. 



F. " Zululand (Delegorgtie)." — Boisduval. 



K. Transvaal. — Crocodile River, S. of Shoshong (F. IF. Barber). 



11. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (/. A. Bell). 



hi. Eastern Interior. — Tati River {F. C. Selous). Matabeleland 

 {Jamieson). 



14. (7.) Pseudonympha Hippia, (Cramer). 



Papilio Hippia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. pi. ccxxii. ff. c, d {1782). 



? Papilio [Hipipar cilia) monta.na, Burchell, Travels Int. S. Afr., i. p. 45, 



note and woodcut (1822). 

 Satyrus Cassius, 9 > Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 526, n. 134 (1819). 



Exp. al, {$) I in. 7 lin. ; ($) i in. 9 lin. 



^ Dull greyish-broivn ; discoidal cell and a space, hcyond and leloio 

 it in fore-wing, and lower part of cell and wide space over median ner- 

 vules beyond and beloio it in hind-wing, very deep ohscure-fulvous. Fore- 

 iving : apical ocellus of moderate size, its two bluish-white pupils large 

 and conspicuous, its outer ring of pale-brownish suffused and indistinct ; 



1 In Mr. Selous's collection from the Tropical Interior of South Africa there are several 

 examples of a much closer ally of Natalii. This form is larger, has the fulvous patch in 

 both wings much smaller, and on the under side of the hind-wings wants the stria before 

 middle, and h:is that beyond the ocelli unlooped. 



