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SOUTH-AFEICAISr BUTTEEFLIES. 
white horder, bounded interiorly (along deep fold of wing) with blackish. 
Fore-wing : only three spots, viz., that in cell, and the fourth and fifth 
of transverse row ; fuscous greyer, paler. Hind-wing : from base to 
hind-margin, traversing discoidal cell, a straight very indistinct narrow 
creamy streak. Cilia broad, above and below dull greyish- white. 
$ Similar to J, hut hind-vnng not, or very slightly, darker than 
fore-wing. Fore-wing : last spot of discal row very small and indis- 
tinct. Under side. — Eather more reddish ; fuscous of fore-wing 
paler. 
Colonel Bowker discovered this curious species in the year 1863, on the 
Bashee Eiver in Kaffraria, and subsequently sent several specimens from that 
locality and from the Tsomo Eiver. In 1869 he sent a $ and two $ s from 
Basutoland. These examples are a little smaller than the Kaffrarian ones, and 
the fore-wings are less acuminate apically. In the the hind-wings are scarcely 
darker than the fore-wings, and in this example as well as in one of the $ s 
the first subapical and lowest discal spots of the fore-wings are wanting, and 
the other spots on both upper side and under side much reduced. The snow- 
white inner-marginal stripe on under side of the hind-wings is narrower and 
less shining than in the Kaffrarian specimens and those taken by myself in 
Natal. 
Colonel Bowker noted this very local Skipper " as occurring among long 
grass and rushes in the neighbourhood of water. Near the Hermansburg 
Mission Station, in Natal, on loth March 1867, I captured six examples on 
the summit of a lofty hill-ridge ; they were flitting about the purple flowers of 
a leguminous shrub of moderate height (which was numerous in one spot), in 
company with Pyrgus Molwzutza and other butterflies. 
Localities of Thymelicus niveostriga. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Basutoland. — Koro-Koro, Maluti Mountains, and Makaleng River 
(J. H. BoioUr). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Elvers (/. H. Bowher). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Hermansburg. 
E. Zululand.— Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich). 
341. (4.) Thymelicus Wallengrenii, Trimen. 
Thymelicus Wallengrenii, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 361. 
Plate XL fig. 7 (?).^ 
Exp. al., {$) I in. 2-4 lin. 
Closely allied to T. niveostriga. Trim. 
^ Dull hrown ; the hind-wing much darker, almost fuscous ; fore- 
wing with almost transparent disco-celhdar terminal spot and six discal 
^ In this figure the under side is depicted as much darker than it should be, and not 
reddish enough, and the white stripe of hind-wing is not defined with sufiicient sharpness, 
and not carried near enough to the base of the discoidal cell. 
