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imago, exhibit clear Satyrine affinities. In neuration Mcneris agrees 

 very closely with Lethe — especially with the South-African L. dendro- 

 philus and L. Indosa — and alike in general colouring and pattern bears 

 Great resemblance to the latter. 



The only species, Mcneris Tidbaghia, was named by Linnaeus in 

 honour of a Dutch governor of the Cape (173 1 — 5 l), who is said to 

 have been the first to send to Europe a collection of the insects of the 

 Colony. It is a very active, handsome butterfly, frequenting open ele- 

 vated ground, especially steep mountain-sides and rocky hills. It is 

 remarkably constant in colouring and pattern, only varying in being 

 rather smaller and darker in some of the drier interior districts. The 

 largest examples are found on the eastern side of the Cape Colony and 

 in Natal. 



33. (1.) Meneris Tulbaghia, (Linnseus). 



<J Papilio Tulbaghia, Linn., Mus, Lud. Ulr. Eeg., p. 284, n, 102 (1764); 



and Syst. ISTat., i. 2, p. 775, n. 158 (1767). 

 $ „ „ Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. iii, ff. e, f (1775). 



^ (as $ ) Oreas marmorea Tulbaghia, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., 



i. t. 93 (1806). 

 $ Nymphalis Tulbaghia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 400, n. 171 (18 19). 

 Meneris Tulbagliia, Doubl., List. Lep. Brit. Mus., i. p. 106 (1844). 

 (J Meneris Tulbaghia, Westw., Gen. D, Lep., ii. pi. 46, f. 3 (1850). 

 $ $ Meneris Tulbaghia, Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 162, n. 96 (1862); 



and ii. p. 339 (1866); and Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1870, p. 358. 



Exp. al., 3 in, 3 lin. — 4 in. 2 lin. 



Rich dark-brown, %oith deep ycllo^v-ochreous transverse stripes and 

 spots ; hind-iving with blue ocellated spots. 



^ Fore-iving : suffused with chocolate-brown from base ; beyond 

 middle, a short, transverse, deep yellow-ochreous band, from costa to 

 between second discoidal and third median nervules, divided unequally 

 into four by three crossing nervules ; a little before this band, com- 

 mencing immediately beneath extremity of discoidal cell, a similar, 

 longer, transverse band of the same colour, also crossed by three 

 nervules, and extending to inner-margin beyond middle ; beyond bands, 

 near and parallel to hind-margin, a row of eight yellow-ochreous spots, 

 the first three of which are contiguous and somewhat quadrate, the 

 fourth sub-obvate and inclining out from the line towards hind-margin, 

 the remaining four rounded, the last of them (between first median 

 nervule and submedian nervure) being the smallest ; along hind-margin, 

 a moderately- wide border, slightly paler than ground-colour, and con- 

 taining a thin, dark, median streak from apex nearly to anal angle. 

 Hind-uiing : ochreous band of fore-wing (that extends to inner margin) 

 continued across this wing by a slightly-paler band from costa, narrow- 

 ing to a little before anal angle, but not quite reaching inner margin ; 

 space before band almost wholly chocolate-brown, with a coating of 

 hairs of that colour, which are longest on submedian nervure ; beyond 



