SATYEIE"^. 89 



Var. a. {$ and ?). 



^ Fore-wing : dusky, suffused ; cellular patch only indicated by a 

 fulvous gloss ; outer patch paler, wider, without bounding fuscous line ; 

 ocellus larger, but its two pupils indistinct. Hind-wing : five ocelli, 

 all apparent, the fulvous surrounding the two lowest expanded into a 

 good-sized patch. Under side. — Duller. Hind-ioing : neuration not 

 so white before middle ; ocelli with barely perceptible pupils ; whitish 

 clouding sparse and less extensive. 



$ like $ in most respects, but cellular fulvous of fore-wing on upper 

 side well developed and united to that beyond middle as on under side. 



ITab. — ? British Kaffraria. 



This is a close ally of P. Sabacus, niilii, and, while one example only was 

 known to me, I was disposed to regard it as a variety, or perhaps a mere indi- 

 vidual aberration, of tliat species. But having since taken specimens of both 

 sexes in three different localities, and found the differences constant, I think 

 that Mr. Butler rightly separated it from its near congener. The conspicuous 

 white neuration of the under side at once distinguishes Trimenii from its near 

 congeners, and the constancy of the unbroken row of five (rarely six) ocelli on 

 the under side of the hind-wing is also a very characteristic feature. 



The variety noted was taken by Mr. (now Colonel) Bowker in the year 

 1868, and sent by him to the South- African Museum while I was absent from 

 the Colony. Both specimens were unfortunately much broken; and Mr. 

 Layard, at that time curator of the Museum, could not tell me their precise 

 locality, but believed it was some part of British Kaffraria. 



P. Trimenii has quite the habits and appearance on the wing of the widely- 

 distributed and abundant P. Sabacus, but seems to be extremely local. On 

 Table Mountain I have met with it haunting a small tract at a considerable 

 elevation, where I did not find any Sabac2is, and it was not uncommon, under 

 the same conditions, near Simon's Town ; but on another occasion, near Eerste 

 River, in the Stellenbosch District, I found Trimenii in quite a lowland station, 

 — a few specimens flying among swarms of Sabacus which enlivened the spot. 

 It is on the wing in September and October. 



Localities of Pseudonympha Trimenii, 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Simon's Town. Eerste River, 



Stellenbosch District. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — 1 British Kaffraria (/. H. Bowker). 



18. (11.) Pseudonympha Cassius, (Godart). 



Papilio Hiiperbius, $ , Cram., Pap. Exot., ii. p. clxviii. ff. c, d (1779). 

 Satyrus Cassius, Godt. [part], Enc. Meth., ix. p. 526, n. 134 (18 19). 

 Pseudonympha liyperbioides, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, 



Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 32, n. 2. 

 Erebia Cassius, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 202, n. 115 (1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 3—7 lin. 



Grcy-broivn. Forc-wivg : a briclc-red, ill- defined central patchy vari- 

 able in size, on median nervure and nervules, and occupying outer lower 

 portion of discoidal cell ; beyond it, two transverse streaks darker than 



