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fulvous patch presents an extension in the direction of the base, especially in 

 the 5 , where it sometimes occupies rather over the outer third of the discoidal 

 cell. 



From its very near ally, P. Hippia, Cram., this species is distinguished by 

 its paler ground-colour, and paler, much smaller, fulvous patches on the up)per 

 side in both wings, and by the total absence of the dentated dark transverse 

 streak heyoJid the middle on the under side of the hind-wing. 



This Pseudonympha haunts broken and rocky ground in elevated situations, 

 but is also to be found sometimes at lower levels near mountains and stony 

 hdlsides. It is not uncommon on and about Table Mountain, and I have 

 twice taken it flitting about the Museum enclosure in Cape Town. Its flight 

 is extremely wavering and irregular, though weak and near the ground, and it 

 is fond of settling on stones or on the soil. On the 4th April 1872 I took 

 the paired sexes near the summit of the Lion's Head Mountain. The butterfly 

 appears in the months of September and October, but I once met with it 

 towards the end of August. It is, however, more numerous near Cape Town 

 in March and April, and it was in March that I found it sparingly in Natal. 

 Near Grahamstown I took it pretty commonly at the end of January and in 

 February. 



Localities of Pseudonympha vigilans. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Constantia, Muizenberg, Kalk 



Bay, Simon's Town, Cape District. Genadendal, Caledun Dis- 

 trict (tr. Hettarscli). Worcester. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. King William's Town (IF. *S. 



M. D' Urban). Stormberg [M. E. Barber). Burghersdorp, 

 Albert District {D. R. Kannemeyer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Heads of St. John's Kiver (/. //. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



b. Upper Districts. — Noodsberg. Greytown. Estcourt (/. M. Hut- 

 chinson), Biggarsberg and Eorke's Drift (/. H. Bowker). 

 d. Basutoland. Maseru and Koro-Koro (/. //. Boivker). 



F. Zululand. — Isandlhwana and Napoleon Valley (/. //. Bowker). 



K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg Districts (T. Ayres). 

 VvQiono. {W. Morant). 



16. (9.) Pseudonympha Sabacus, (Trimen). 



Erebia Sabacus, Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 200, n. 114, pi. 4, f. i 



(1866). 

 Pseudonympha Sabacus, Butl., Cat. Sat. Brit. Mus., p. 93 (186S). 

 Pseudonympha Hippia,'^ Wallengr., Iv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. HandL, 1857, 



Lep. Khop. Cafl'r., p. 32, n. i. 



Exp. al, {$) I in. 6-8l lin. ; (?) i in. 4-8 lin. 



Greyish-brown; fore-wing with a disco-cellular and discal deep 

 fulvoiis patch, extending up to Imver half of suhapical ocellus ; hind-wing 

 ivith tivo small ocelli in confluent fulvous rings near loivcr half of hind- 



1 Among the typical examples of Wahlberg's butterflies, kindly forwarded to me from 

 the Stockholm Museum by Mr. Aurivillius, was "P. Hippia, Wallengren, 6," which turned 

 out to be a small ? of P. Sabacus, mihi. 



