1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 73 



typical form, and not, as might have been anticipated, of the larger 

 form (with paler, larger-spotted underside) prevalent throughout the 

 greater part of Eastern South Africa. 



141. Pyrgus deomus, Plotz. 



Pyrgus dromus, Plotz, Mitt, naturw. Ver. Neu-Yorpomm. u. 

 Eiigen, 1884, p. 6. n. 13. 



A male taken at Umtali on 8th March. 



142. Pyrgus elma, Trim. 1 



Pyrgus elma, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. i. p. 288 

 (1862). 



One example, apparently a female, from Christinas Pass. 



Genus Thymelicus, Herr.-Schaff. 



143. Thymelicus wallengrenii, Trim. 



Thi/melicus wallengrenii, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1883, 

 p. 361 ; and S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 304. n. 341, pi. xi. fig. 7 [ $ ] 

 (1889). 



Three specimens from Mineni Valley, taken from 9th to 22nd 

 March. This species was hitherto known to me from Natal and 

 Zululand only. 



144. Thymelicus catenas (Hewits.). 



Gyclopides capenas, Hewits. Descr. New Sp. Hesp. ii. p. 43. 

 n. 7 (1868) ; and Exot. Butt. v. p. Ill, pi. 59. tigs. 2, 3 [ tf ] (1874). 



Var. Gyclopides derbice, Hewits. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 

 xx. p. 327 (1877). 



A male from Christmas Pass, taken on 6th February, and four 

 males and a female from Mineni Valley, taken from 8th to 14th 

 March. All these examples belong to the form without yellow 

 neuration on apical half of the hind margin on the upperside, so 

 agreeing with the description of C. derbice, Hewits. In one male 

 the upperside spots are much reduced in size and of duller yellow. 

 The female has the upperside of a less dark brown and its spots 

 larger. 



This Butterfly was originally described from Zambesi specimens, 

 and the var. derbice from examples taken on Lake Nyassa by Messrs. 

 Thelwall and Simons. It is distinguishable from its near ally the 

 South-African T. macomo, Trim., by its darker upperside, with 



1 The Butterfly from Togo] and, N. West-Tropical Africa, referred to 

 P. elma by Karsch (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxviii. p. 245, n. 177, 1893), appears 

 from the figure (pi. vi. fig. 12) to be of a distinct species. This figure shows the 

 upperside of a more uniform dark tint, with more inclination to a rufous tone ; 

 the median vitreous spots in the fore wings are larger and whiter, and the 

 median white bar of the hind wings is prolonged superiorly almost to the costa 

 and is acuminate at its inferior extremity. On the underside the colouring is 

 much darker and has a reddish tinge ; in the fore wings the submarginal whitish 

 streak is wanting, and in the hind wings the median white stripe is more 

 irregular and the inner murginal border is pale brown instead of whitish. 



