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  VI. 
  On 
  some 
  recent 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  South 
  African 
  

   butterflies. 
  By 
  Eoland 
  Trimen, 
  F.E.S., 
  F.L.S., 
  

   Curator 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  African 
  Museum, 
  Cape 
  Town. 
  

  

  [Eead 
  February 
  4th, 
  1891.] 
  

  

  The 
  butterflies 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  here 
  direct 
  notice 
  are 
  all 
  

   natives 
  of 
  Eastern 
  South 
  Africa, 
  and 
  three 
  of 
  them 
  

   appear 
  to 
  be 
  undescribed, 
  vid., 
  Pseudonympha 
  poetida, 
  

   Lyccenesthes 
  neglecta, 
  and 
  Zeritis 
  Oreas. 
  The 
  last-named- 
  

   species 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  form, 
  isolated 
  from 
  its 
  known 
  

   congeners 
  by 
  the 
  peculiar 
  characters 
  indicated. 
  Of 
  the 
  

   three 
  sj)ecies 
  already 
  known, 
  one, 
  Acraa 
  Admatha, 
  

   Hewits., 
  is 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  tropical 
  Western 
  Africa; 
  while 
  

   the 
  remaining 
  two, 
  Acrcea 
  Obeira, 
  Hewits., 
  and 
  Lyccena 
  

   Antanossa, 
  Mabille, 
  inhabit 
  Madagascar. 
  Both 
  the 
  

   Ac7-cecs 
  present 
  some 
  divergence 
  from 
  the 
  typical 
  forms. 
  

  

  Family 
  NYMPHALID^. 
  

   Subfamily 
  SATYEIN^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Pseudonympha, 
  Wallengren. 
  

   Pseudonympha 
  poetula, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  al. 
  {^) 
  1 
  in. 
  6^—9 
  lin. 
  ; 
  (?) 
  1 
  in. 
  9^ 
  lin. 
  Nearly 
  allied 
  to 
  

   P. 
  Trimenii, 
  Butl.* 
  

  

  ^. 
  Bather 
  dark 
  hroivn 
  ; 
  fore 
  wing 
  ivith 
  an 
  imdiviclecl 
  large 
  

   deej) 
  fulvous 
  patch 
  occupying 
  all 
  central 
  area, 
  hind 
  wing 
  ivith 
  a 
  

   small 
  discal 
  ill-defined 
  one 
  ; 
  hipupillate 
  sitbapical 
  black 
  ocellus 
  of 
  

   fore 
  loing 
  large, 
  markedly 
  oblique. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  : 
  Fulvous 
  patch 
  

   extending 
  from 
  near 
  base 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  subapical 
  ocellus 
  (which 
  it 
  

   almost 
  half 
  encircles), 
  filling 
  nearly 
  all 
  discoidal 
  cell, 
  and 
  descending 
  

   a 
  little 
  below 
  part 
  of 
  median 
  nervure 
  and 
  its 
  first 
  nervule 
  ; 
  external 
  

   border 
  of 
  patch 
  encroaching 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  on 
  dull 
  yellowish 
  grey 
  ring 
  

   of 
  ocellus, 
  but 
  not 
  sharply 
  defined 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus 
  ; 
  upper 
  border 
  

   of 
  patch 
  rather 
  sharply 
  indented 
  by 
  ground 
  colom" 
  at 
  extremity 
  of 
  

   discoidal 
  cell 
  ; 
  between 
  end 
  of 
  cell 
  and 
  ocellus 
  an 
  irregular 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  thin 
  transverse 
  streak 
  which 
  usually 
  becomes 
  obsolescent 
  

  

  - 
  Cat. 
  Sat. 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  p. 
  94, 
  n. 
  6 
  (1868). 
  

   TEANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC. 
  LOND, 
  1891.— 
  PART 
  I. 
  (MARCH.) 
  

  

  