96 SOUTH-ArRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Leptoneura Oxylus. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. — East London District : bank of Kei River (/. //. 



Boivker). 

 D. Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River (/. //. Boivker). 



2L (3.) Leptoneura Mintha, (Geyer). 



Dira Mintlia, Geyer, Zutr. Samml. Exot. Schmett., 5tli Cent., p. 15, 



n. 426, ff. 851-852 (1837). 

 Erebia Mintha [an E. Chjtus, Linn. Var. ?], Westw., Gen. D. Lep., p. 380, 



n. 48(1851). 

 Leptoneura Ch/tus (Linn.), 1 Var. C, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. 



p. 194 (1866). 

 Leptoneura Mintha, Butl., Cat. Sat. Brit. Mus., p. 71, n. 2 (1868). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 1-5 lin. 



^ Bull hroivn, with a bronzy surface-gloss ; fore-ioing with a pale- 

 creamy macular transverse stripe beyond middle. Fore-wing : stripe 

 occupying same position as in Z. Clytus, but more distinctly inten^upted 

 on tliird median nervule, and more curved inward inferiorly ; the three 

 lower spots of the stripe quite disconnected, and, though blunter inte- 

 riorly, exteriorly quite sharply acuminate — the reverse of what occurs 

 in Clytus ; compound ocellus near apex bipupillate (rarely tripupillate) 

 with white (not blue, as in Clytus), and bordered externally by a narrow 

 quadri-macular dull-creamy stripe ; a little before middle, a transverse 

 fuscous streak, crossing cell, and interrupted on median nervure. Hind- 

 wing : beyond middle, an interrupted, often very indistinct, fuscous 

 streak, externally edged narrowly with dull ochreous-yellow ; a sub- 

 marginal row of four moderate-sized white-pupilled ocelli (often a 

 minute indistinct fifth ocellus near anal angle) in pale dull ochreous- 

 yellow rings. Under side. — Paler and duller ; neuration of hind- 

 wing clouded with white. Fore-wing : base suffused with deep-fulvous 

 as far as fuscous transverse streak ; apical margin narrowly clouded 

 with white, fading into pale-brown along hind-margin. Hind-ioing : 

 near base, two fuscous whitish-edged spots in discoidal cell, and a 

 short longitudinal fuscous whitish-edged streak between median and 

 submedian nervures ; a fuscous streak marking extremity of cell ; 

 before middle, across wing, a highly irregular dentated fuscous streak, 

 exteriorly clouded with white ; beyond middle, a similar but stronger, 

 less dentated streak, exteriorly much more widely white-clouded, and 

 sharply interrupted on first and on tliird median nervules ; six ocelli, much 

 smaller than those on upper side, and with scarcely any trace of yellowish 

 rings ; a rather narrow submarginal shining-white stripe, thinly edged 

 on both sides with fuscous, running from costa just before apex to 

 anal angle ; costa itself with a linear white edging. 



1^ Pale-creamy stripe beyond middle of fore-wiug of a yellower tint 



