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Under side. — Ground-colour of hind-wing {espccicdly near liiiul-mar gin), 

 and of apex and hind-margin of fore-iving , very much paler and greyer 

 than in $ — in one example quite hoary near hind-margins. 



This fine Satyride was first made known to me by Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban, 

 who took it abundantly in the year 1861, in forest country near Frankfort, to 

 the north of King William's Town. It afterwards proved to be rather widely 

 distributed in the eastern districts near the coast, from near Grahamstown as 

 far as the Bashee Kiver in Kaff"raria Proper. At the end of January and during 

 February 1870, I had the welcome opportunity of observing the species at High- 

 lands, near Grahamstown, where it was plentiful on the outskirts of woods 

 clothing the north sides of the hills. As noticed by Mr. D'Urban, Arclideacon 

 Kitton, and Colonel Bowker, I found that Dendrophilus very rarely settled on 

 leaves, but perpetually lighted on the stems of trees, near the ground, keeping 

 its head downward. It is a great lover of shade, seldom venturing into a spot 

 on which the sun is shining. I once found a number of specimens sucking at 

 moisture in a hollow part of a tree-trunk just above the surface of the ground. 

 I was struck by the scarcity of the $ ; out of thirty-six examples taken by 

 Messrs. F. and H. Barber and myself at Highlands, only four, or one-ninth, were 

 5 8 ; and this is the more noteworthy, because both sexes have the same haunts 

 and habits, flitting weakly about under cover of tlie trees. On examining 

 nineteen specimens from various localities in the collection of the South-African 

 Museum, I found about the same disproportion in the relative numbers of the 

 sexes, only two being ^ s. 



Localities of Lethe dendrojihilus. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. King William's Town {H. 



Kitten). Frankfort (TF. S. M. UUrljan). East London (P. 



BoTcherds). 

 D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Elvers (/. //. Boivker). 



32. (2.) Lethe Indosa, (Trimen). 



Plate VII. fig. i, ^ . 



^ Dehis deiidropMlus, Var., Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 285. 

 ^ $ Debts Indosa, Trim., op. cit., 1879, p. 324. 



Uxp. al., ($) 2 in. 9-1 1 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 3-6 liu. 



$ Dai-lc-lroicn ; the fore-iuing with white spots, the hind-wing with 

 oehrc-yelloiv disk and black ocelli. Fore-wing : white spots rounded, of 

 various sizes, forming two irregular transverse rows in outer half of 

 wing ; those of the inner row arranged so that four constitute a narrow 

 oblique bar commencing on costa just beyond middle ; a fifth is below 

 and rather before the fourth and much smaller, and the sixth large and 

 sub-ovate between second and first median nervules about as far from 

 base as the costal commencing spot of the row ; the outer row sinuated, 

 consisting of seven spots, of which the first and third are minute, and 

 the fifth and sixth about equal in size and largest ; an ochreous tinge 

 over basal region most pronounced on inner margin. Hind-unng : 



