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VII. On some new species of Butterflies from Tropical and 
Extra Tropical South Africa. By Roland Teimbn, 
F.R.S., F.L.S., Curator of tlie South- African 
Museum, Cape Town. 
[Read March 6th, 1895.] 
Plate Y. 
Three of the species here described and figured, viz., 
Ypthima mashuna, Mycalesis selousi, and Acrsea iriduna, 
have been received from Mashunaland only; another, 
Gapys disjunctus, from Mashunaland, Transvaal, and 
Natal ; and the remaining two, Lycsena nuhifer and 
lolaus semulus, solely from Natal. 
Gapys disjunctus is of special interest, both as a new 
member of a hitherto monotypic genus, and as an 
instance of remarkable and unexpected disparity between 
the sexes ; and Lycsena nuhifer finds no nearer ally than 
L. cordata (E. M. Sharpe), a native of the very remote 
territory of Kavirondo, to the east of Lake Nyanza. 
Family NYMPHALID^. 
Subfamily SATYRINiE. 
Ypthima mashuna, sp. n. (Plate V., fig. 1.) 
Exp, al.{$)l in., 2^-^ lin.; (?) 1 in., 2-3i lin. 
Obscure fuscous- grey ; forewing with a small suhapical 
ocellus; hindvnng vntJiout marking. Forewing: ocellus small, ver- 
tically oblong, indistinct, bipupillate with sub-metallic whitish, 
very obscurely ringed with yellowish-grey. Underside : Pale 
grey or hoary-grey^ more or less closely striolated with fuscous- 
hrownish along costal and apical harder of forewing and throughout 
hindwing. Forewing : Field somewhat paler and more brownish 
than on upperside ; subapical ocellus better defined, and in a 
more distinct ring. Hindwing : On disk a post-median series of 
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