NYMPH ALIN^. 207 



62. (2.) Eurema Schoeneia, Trimeu. 

 Plate IV., fig. i (cj). 



Pi/rameis Hippomene (Boisd.), Trimen, $, Eliop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 121 



(1862). 

 $ ^Eurema Schoeneia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, P- 329.^ 



Ex/p. al., ($) I in. i i lin. — 2 in. ; ($) 2 in. 3-5 lin. 

 Broivnish-hlach ; both wings with a hand of ochre-yellow ; the fore- 

 toing with small white spots in apical portion. 



$ Fore-wing : band from costal edge a little before middle to inner 

 margin just before anal angle, narrowest on costa and widening down- 

 ward, slightly arched outward ; about midway between band and apex, 

 three small spots form a thin transverse costal streak, the spot on costal 

 edge being ochre-yellow, and the other two spots white ; parallel to 

 hind-margin a row of five to six small white spots between costa and 

 second median nervule, the spot next costa germinate ; costa from 

 base to ochre-yellow band dull-ferruginous. Hind-wing : baud hind- 

 marginal, much narrower than that of fore-wing, extending only from 

 apex to third median nervule, traversed longitudinally by an indistinct 

 lunulated ferruginous-brown streak ; a little before baud two suffused 

 transverse black streaks, convergent, but not extending below third 

 median nervule ; anal angle acuminate, and anal-angular portion pro- 

 duced ; a long, ferruginous, whitish-tipped tail at extremity of third 

 median nervule ; another (not whitish-tipped and only half as long) 

 on first, and an acute dentation on second median nervule ; between 

 third and second nervules a very imperfect blue-dotted black ocellus 

 edged outwardly by an ochre-yellow lunule, and immediately below it 

 a similar but almost complete ocellus ; close to hind-margin some in- 

 distinct black lunulate marks, that at anal angle preceded by a 

 pale-bluish streak. Cilia white between nervures. Under side. — 

 Hind-ioing and apical portion of fore-wing variegated with ochreous 

 and ferruginous hrown and with lilac-Uue irrorations. Fore-wing : 

 band much paler than on upper side, and white on costa ; apical white 

 markings as on upper side, but fuscous-edged, the streak from costa 

 wider and immediately preceded by some lilac-blue irroration ; in dis- 

 coidal cell, a black ferruginous-centred spot in a bluish-white ring, and 

 a similarly-coloured transverse bar (touching inner edge of yellowish 

 band) whose white edges are irregularly prolonged below cell to sub- 

 median nervure ; hind-margin edged with ochreous and ferruginous 



1 Mr. A. G. Butler {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. V. vol. v. No. 28, April 1880, 

 p. 336) has proposed for Boisduval's Jlippomene of Bourbon and Mauritius the name of 

 Ilypanartia commixla, observing that it, as well as the true Hippomene of Hiibner, occurs 

 in Natal. He thus evidently associates as identical Boisduval's Hippomene and my South- 

 African Schcentia ; but, to judge by Boisduval's figures, the two forms are distinct. How- 

 ever this may be, Mr. Butler's name commixta will have to yield precedence to Oberthiir's 

 title of Boriovica, given to Boisduval's insect in the Ann. Miis. Civ. d. St. Nat. Geneva, vol. 

 XV., E.-bruaiy i88o,'p. 36. 



