loo SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



L. Boivlceri is a lover of higli-lying localities, all the recorded 

 specimens having occurred at a tolerable elevation. Colonel Bowker 

 notes it as not rare in Basutoland, and in Kaffraria observed that it 

 was confined to lofty hill ridges.-^ 



The only $ that I have seen was acquired by the South- African Museum 

 in 1879 from Mr. T. Ayres, who noted it as having been captured in the 

 Lydenburg District of the Transvaah 



Localities of Leptoneura Boivkeri. 



1. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Katberg {31. E. Barber). Aliwal North Dis- 

 trict : heads of Kraai River (/. H. Bowker). Bedford District : 

 Kagaberg and Winterberg (J. P. Mansel Weale). 

 d. Basutoland. — Koro-Koro (/. H. Bowker). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Boicker). North Pondoland 



{Sir H. Barkly). 



E. Natal. 



b. Upper Districts. — Karkloof ( W. Morant). Weenen County (/. 

 M. Hutchinson). 

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



24. (6.) Leptoneura Cassus, (Linn.) 



Papilio Cassus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 269, n. 88 (1764); and 



Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 768, n. 125 (1767). 

 5 ,, ,, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxiv., tf. c, d (1782). 



Satyrus Cassus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 526, n. 133 (1819). 

 Erebia Cassus (Linn.), [1 Glytus $ ], Westw., Gen. D. Lep., p. 380, n. 44 



(1851). 

 Leptoneura Cassus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 195, n. no (1866). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 1-6 lin. 



Very dark hroivn, ivith a purplish gloss ; fore-wing ividely coloured 

 with deep-fulvous. Fore-iving : fulvous in ^ much obscured, ferruginous, 

 or almost merged in ground-colour, nearly filling discoidal cell, covering 

 basal halves of median nervules, and extending to the inner edge of a 

 large white-bipupillate, ill-defined black ocellus, near apex — in ^ 

 broader, paler, and crossed by a faint disco-cellular streak of brown, 

 and a long, more conspicuous streak from costa beyond middle, — in 

 neither sex extending above subcostal or below submedian nervure. 

 Hind-wing : a row, beyond middle, of 3-5 white-pupilled black ocelli 

 in deep-fulvous rings, between second subcostal nervule and median 

 nervure. Under side. — Paler; costa and a'pex of fore-wing, and hind- 

 wing wholly, more or less suffused with greyish-ochreoiis ; fulvous of fore- 



1 Three specimens presented to the South-African Museum in 1874 were taken by 

 Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., "on a steep grassy ridge" on the border of Jojo's Country, 

 North Pondoland. Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale also informed me that he never met with the 

 butterfly away from mountains in the Bedford District ; it appeared there from October to 

 December. 



