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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Pupa. — " Clothed witli a minute pubescence; reddish-brown, with i 
greenish-brown abdomen. Back of thorax slightly protuberant ; two i 
minute dark projections on base of wing-covers. Enveloped in leaf 
of Alutilon Sonneratianum, and attached by anal segment." — J. P. 
Mansell Weale, in episf., 1877. 
This is a species widely distributed over Eastern South Africa; to the 
westward it is common on the coast of the Knysna District of the Cape j 
Colony, and I once met with it as far to the west as Robertson. It is preva- ! 
lent in wooded spots, preferring pathways and open bits of ground, where it 
settles with expanded wings, the white bar of the hind-wings making it rather 
conspicuous. The summer months are its chief season, but I have noticed it 
on the wing as early as the middle of September. Mrs. Barber informed me 
that the eggs are deposited on a species of Sida. 
Localities of Pyrgus Elma. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Robertson. Mossel Bay. Knysna and Plet- 
tenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage. Grahamstown 
{Mrs. Barber), and Zwaartwater Port, Albany District. Mouth 
of Kowie River, Bathurst District {J. L. Fry). King William's 
Town {W. S. M. n Urban). Burghersdorp (Z). R. Kannemeyer). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. H. BoivJcer). "Lower 
Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. Verulam. 
b. Upper Districts. — Greytown. 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe (A. M. Goodrich). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ay res). Upper Limpopo 
River {F. C. Seloiis). 
11. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.— " Angola."— Kirby (Cat. Hewits. Coll.). 
hi. Eastern Interior. — " Lake Nyassa." — Kirby (Cat. Hewits. Coll.). 
335. (12.) Pyrgus Mohozutza, Wallengren. 
$ Hesperia Mohozutza, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; Lep. 
Rhop. Caffr., p. 50, n. 7. 
Pyrgus Mohozidza, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 291, n. 181, pi. 5, f. 9 
[?], (1866). 
JExp. al, ($) 11^ lin. — i in. lin. ; ($) i in. 1-3 lin. 
J BlacJcish-hvtun, with creamy-ivhite and fulvous spots Fore-wing : 
of the hind- wings not straight across, but angulated and more irregular on edges. The 9 ^^^t 
moreover, a reddish tinge, especially on the under side of the hind-wings, where the markings 
are almost obliterated. 
This is doubtless the insect which the late Mr. F. Walker {Entomologist, 1870, p. 56) referred 
to the Spanish Marruhii, Rambur (regarded by Kirby and Plotz as a variety of AlthecB, 
Hubn.) ; but the specimens I have do not agree at all closely with Herrish-Schafifer s 
figures {Schmett. Europ.-Hesp., ff. 14, 15) of Marruhii, in which the under side is repre- 
sented as decidedly greenish, with pale-yellowish neuration interrupting sharply the trans- 
verse white stripes. 
