98 SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 



no) trace of fulvous band ; compound ocellus smaller than above, ill- 

 defined, but the pupils conspicuous. Hijicl-wing : the six ocelli present, 

 but without fulvous rings ; usually an additional small ocellus next 

 costa ; before them indistinct traces of an irregular transverse streak, 

 darker than ground-colour, but inwardly edged by a paler line ; beyond 

 them two indistinct, parallel, hind-marginal dark streaks ; before 

 middle a similar irregular streak, with a paler external edging. 



^ Pahr. Fore-ioing : fulvous-ochreous band broader, especially 

 in its lower portion. Hind-wing : rings of ocelli paler, broader. 

 Under side. — Fore-iuing : band present, but much narrower through- 

 out. Hind-wing : median transverse stria rather more distinct. 



This Leptoneura is nearly allied to L. Bowkeri, mihi, but is of the 

 larger size of Clgtus, Linn., and presents a very different appearance 

 from the former species, owing to its fulvous band and very much 

 larger compound ocellus in the lore-wing. 



I founded this species on a single specimen taken in N"atal (October i86S) 

 by Mr. Walter Morant. Examples of both sexes received from the Transvaal 

 in 1S78 and 1879 show that the original specimen in question is a ^ . Mr. 

 Morant wrote that he observed it flying low, and settling on the ground and on 

 rocks, with the wings open. 



A fine (J specimen was sent to me from Estcourt, Xatal, by Mr. J. M. 

 Hutchinson, in i^ovember 1884. 



Localities of Leptoncura Dingana. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. I^atal. 



b. Upper Districts. — Malang Spruit, between Mooi and Bushman's 

 Rivers (W. Morant). Estcourt (/. M. Hutcliinson). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. AyrcJ). 



23. (5.) Leptoneura Bowkeri, Trim en. 



$ Leptoneura Boivlceri, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S70, p. 348, 



pi. vi. f. 2. 

 (J Leptoneura CJytus (Linn.), Var. B., Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 194 



(1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 10 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



^ Dark-hrown, with a rufous gloss. Fore-wing : a strongly-curved 

 row of six whitish irregularly-shaped spots (of which the upper three 

 are in contact with each other, but the lower three separate, sub- 

 rhomboidal, and diminishing in size downward) running from the costa 

 a little beyond the middle to just above the first median nervule, near 

 hind-margin ; rarely a seventh indistinct spot below the first median 

 nervule ; externally contiguous to the second spot of this row, near the 

 apex, an indistinct small black ocellus, unipupillate with bluish-white. 

 Hind-wing : a submarginal row of four or five moderately-sized white- 

 unipupillate black ocelli, in narrow dull-rufous rings. Under side. — 



