204 SOUTH AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



aspect, especially in the case of E. Schcencia, Trim., a form which 

 appears to be peculiar to South Africa. lu flight and habits they 

 resemble Fi/ranicis, but are more partial to wooded sjjots. 



61. (1.) Eurema Hippomene. (Hiibner). 



H>/panartia Hippomene, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., ii. pi. 25, IT. 3, 4 



(1806). 

 Pijrameis Hippomene, 9 (nec^), Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 122 (1S62). 



Krp. al., I in. 10^ lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



$ Broionish-hlach (darker in apical area of fore-wing) ; a hand of 

 oclirc-ycllow in both wings; fore-wing ivith small hut consjncuoiis white 

 spots near apex. Fore-wing : yellow band obliquely transverse, running 

 from costa before middle (where it is narrowed and tinged slightly 

 with whitish) to inner margin near posterior angle (where it is abruptly 

 narrowed and pointed ; inner edge of band slightly indented here and 

 there, its lower portion a little hollowed ; outer edge convex through- 

 out ; midway between band and apex an oblique costal row of three 

 rather small spots, of which the first (touching the second) is linear 

 and irregular and ochre-yellow, while the others are somewhat rounded 

 and white ; parallel to upper half of hind -margin, between costa and 

 second median nervule, a row of six white spots, of which all are 

 minute but the fifth, w^hich is of moderate size and rounded, and the 

 first and second are only separated by a nervule ; cilia white, inter- 

 rupted by broad nervular black spots. Hind-wing : yellow band hind- 

 marginal ; rather narrower than that of fore-wing, extending from apex 

 to second median nervule, where it abruptly narrows to a point ; two 

 parallel lunulated submarginal black lines, all but obsolete where they 

 traverse the yellow band, but thickened and strongly defined between 

 third median nervule and anal angle, in which part the space between 

 them is superiorly ochre-yellow and inferiorly closely irrorated with 

 metallic greenish-blue ; a little before these lines, between third and 

 first median nervules, two rather large black ocelli pupilled with 

 shining blue, of which the upper is less distinct, and is bordered by 

 extremity of yellow band, while the lower is marked with a dull- 

 crimson lunule inwardly edging the blue pupil, and is surrounded by a 

 thin outer ochre-yellow ring only distinct on the external side ; cilia 

 white with very small black nervular interruptions. Under side. — 

 Beautifully variegated with oehreous-hroum, dark-brown, white, metallie- 

 bluish, and bronzy-green ; yellow band of hind-wing wanting, that of 

 fore-wing much paler and rather wider. Fore-wing : costa from base 

 to commencement of yellow band finely striated transversely with 

 bluish-white ; in discoidal cell at base a white mark, succeeded by two 

 linear white striae, and a broader less distinct chestnut-red stria, quite 

 across cell ; on costa, just above extremity of cell, a small whitish 



