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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
342. (5.) Thymelicus Barberse, (Trimen). 
$ '? Cyclopides Barheroe, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, P* 120, pi i 
Ex;p. al., ($) I in. 1-2^ lin. ; (?) i in. 4 lin. 
J Glossy Iroionish-fuscoiis, with an ochreous tinge, spotted with white, 
Fore-iving : a narrow, elongate spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; 
beyond middle, a very irregular row of eight spots, of wMch the first 
three touch each other, and form a short costal and subapical stripe, 
the fourth and fifth (nearest hind-margin) are small and almost obsolete, 
and the seventh (immediately below disco-cellular spot) the largest. 
Hind-ioing : a scarcely visible paler spot marks extremity of discoidal 
cell. Cilia varied with fuscous and white. Under side. — Hind-wing 
and costal and apical horde?' of fore-iuing hoary-grey, va^^ied with brownish. 
Fore-wing : a small whitish spot immediately above disco-cellular spot ; 
five minute white marks on costal edge, of which the fourth adjoins 
first three spots of transverse row ; fourth and fifth spots of transverse 
row merged in aji oUique apical marking of hoary-grey. Hind-wing : 
an elongate white mark in discoidal cell before middle is scarcely sepa- 
rated from a large irregular ivhite marking occupying extremity of cell, 
and extending to a hoary-grey hind-marginal suffusion ; this marking 
is joined, at its upper portion, by an oUique white stripe from costa about 
middle ; between median and submedian nervures an ill-defined longi- 
tudinal white stripe, extending from near base to join hind-marginal 
hoary-grey near anal angle. 
$ All the spots rather larger ; especially (in fore-wing) the disco- 
cellular spot, which is broader and reniform or subreniform, and the 
fourth and fifth spots of transverse row ; and (in hind-wing) the disco- 
cellular spot, which is quite distinct, though suffused and tinged with 
yellowish. Under side as in 3^. 
This species is at once distinguished from all its congeners in South 
Africa by the remarkable disposition of the white markings of its under 
side, which indeed are unlike those presented by any member of the 
Hesperidm that I can call to mind. 
I have named this curious butterfly in honour of my friend Mrs. Barber, of 
Highlands, near Grahamstown, whose kind and valuable aid in working out the 
Ehopalocerous fauna I have had such frequent occasion to acknowledge. A single 
$ specimen was taken by Mrs. Barber in October 1871, "among long grass 
and rushes near water," in the Stormbergen, a range of mountains forming the 
boundary between the Queenstown and Albert Divisions. The only other Cape 
Colony example I have seen is a sent from Burghersdorp in 1883 by Dr. 
D. R. Kannemeyer ; but ten years previously I received a fine pair captured in 
the Transvaal by Mr. H. Barber. The insect must be exceedingly local, as 
the four specimens mentioned are the only ones that have come under my 
notice. 
