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Ramakwebani River, middle of March. 



The two butterflies in Mr. Oates's collection to which the name of 

 Erebia Narycia is here assigned, are in very bad condition, but agree 

 in having the orange-red patch on the fore wings entirely beyond the 

 discoidal cell and of an oval form, narrowed towards the posterior 

 angle of the wing, and bearing, towards the apical angle, a round 

 black spot with two white dots in its middle, and surrounded by an 

 orange ring. The hind wings on the upper side also bear an obscure 

 orange-red patch beyond the middle, on which are two minute black 

 dots with a white speck in each. On the under side these spots are 

 replaced by three black ocelli in the middle towards the outer margin, 

 and another of the same kind towards the outer costal angle ; each 

 of these spots bears a minute white central speck, and is surrounded 

 by an orange ring, and this by a brown one, and they are enclosed on 

 a rather paler ground by a slender fulvous brown line, which is 

 strongly bisinuated between the third and outer ocelli in the smaller 

 of our two specimens. I consider that these two insects and several 

 of the nearly allied supposed species are local varieties of one widely 

 diffused variable species. 



Genus YPTHIMA, Hiibner. 



56. (1) Ypthima Nareda, Kollar in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, 



p. 451 ; Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ser. 3, ii. p. 284, 

 pi. 17, f. 6, 7. 

 Near the Victoria Falls in January. 



Genus MYCALESIS, Hiibner. 



57. (1) Mycalesis Victorina, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, 



ed. 1, App. p. 350 (1881). 



Sordide fusca, alis anticis pone medium nonnihil pallidioribus ; 

 ocellis duobus nigris ochreo anguste cinctis, singulo punctum album 

 includente subapicali multo minori ; posticis concoloribus lineis dua- 

 bus tenuibus submarginalibus pallidioribus serieque ocellorum ut in 

 anticis : alis subtus pallidioribus magis lutescentibus, fascia angusta 

 recta communi pone medium, anticis 2-posticis 7-ocellatis, ocellis valde 

 inasqualibus, in posticis lineis pallidis valde sinuatis inclusis. Expans. 

 alar, antic, unc. if. 



Affinis M. Eusiro, Hopffer in Peters's Reise Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 



393, pl- 25, f- 3, 4- 



Habitat prope "Victoria Falls ;" mense Januario capta. 



This insect is doubtfully referred by Mr. Trimen (S. Afr. Butt., i. 

 p. 108) to M. perspicua, Trimen (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, P- io 4j 

 pl. 1, f. 3), but the type of M. Victorina has the ground colour of the 

 basal half of the wings unicolorous, without the slightest trace of the 

 close brown cross-hatching, and the two middle ccelli of the hind 

 wings beneath are as large as the larger one on the fore wings. 



