in the Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 279 



superans. Pedes breves, robusti, dense pilosi. Alse latse, 

 breviusculae, costa recta, margine exteriore vix convexo. 



Male. — Body thick, densely clothed. Proboscis obsolete. 

 Palpi short, obliquely declining. Antennae rather short, broadly 

 pectinated. Abdomen cylindrical, extending rather far beyond 

 the hind-wings. Legs short, stout, densely pilose. Wings broad, 

 rather short. Fore-wings slightly rounded at the tips ; costa 

 straight ; exterior border hardly convex, moderately oblique. 



Sena plusioides. 

 Mas, — Rufescente cinerea, alis anticis fasciis tribus obliquis 

 fuscis, la strigam albam includente costam versus retracta, 

 2a Saque antice abbreviatis, alis posticis rufescentibus. 



Male. — Reddish -cinereous. Fore-wings with three oblique 

 brown bands : 1st band containing an oblique shining white streak, 

 in front of which it is retracted and acutely angular ; 2nd and 3rd 

 bands not extending to the costa. Hind-wings reddish, excepting 

 the fringe. 



Length of the body 1 1 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Natal. 



XX. On some New Species of South African Butterflies. 

 By Roland Trimen, Esq. 



[Read 2nd December, 1861.] 



The following species of South African Rhopalocera were mostly 

 taken by myself in the Cape Colony in 1858 — 59; five were 

 described from un-named specimens in the British Museum, and 

 one has been discovered since my return to Cape Town in 1860. 

 Descriptions of them would have been previously published had 

 I not reserved them for intended publication in my " Catalogue 

 of South African Butterflies," the first volume of which is now in 

 the press. As, however, the publication of the latter half of ray 

 Catalogue is unavoidably postponed, I think it advisable to publish 

 descriptions of the new species not comprised in the first volume 

 without further delay. 



