398 Mr. R. Trimen on some New Species of 



XXIX. On some New Species of South African Butterflies, 

 collected in British Kaffraria by W. S. M. D'Urban, 

 Esq., during 1860-61. By Roland Trimen, Esq. 



[Read 7th July, 1862.] 



Mr. D'Urban's researches in British Kaffraria, a region hitherto 

 almost unknown to the Lepidopterist, have resulted in the dis- 

 covery of a Rhopalocerous Fauna of upwards of 90 species. 

 When it is borne in mind that Mr. D'Urban was barely a twelve- 

 month in the country, and that the season was an unfavourable 

 one, and remarkable for the scarcity of many Lepidopterous in- 

 sects usually abundant, it must be granted that this is a highly 

 satisfactory result, and one that seems to give promise of a rich 

 harvest to future entomological explorers. The following table 

 gives an approximate idea of the relative representation of the 

 various Families in British Kaffraria, as compared with the whole 

 number of species at present known to me as natives of extra- 

 tropical South Africa. 



No. of South No. of British 



African Species. KafFrarian Species. 



6 



22 



1 



11 



7 



1 







33 



10 



199 94 



Among Mr. D'Urban's British KafFrarian captures, as above 

 tabulated, I find nine apparently new species, thus distributed 

 among the families : — Satyridce, 1 ; Lyccenidce (comprising a new 

 genus), 5 ; Hesperidce, 3.* In addition to these are several insects 

 concerning whose specific identity I am much in doubt, such as an 



* One of these three, Nisoniades Pato, was taken, not in Kaffraria, but in 

 Albany. It is found in Natal. 



Papilionidce 



.. 11 



Pieridce 



.. 42 



Danaidce . . 



4 



Acrceidce . . 



.. 15 



NymjphaUda: 



.. 34 



Satyridce . . 



.. 17 



Eurytelidce 



2 



Erycinidce ? 



1 



Lyccenidce 



' .. 47 



Hesperidce 



.. 26 



