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coating dark-brown above, with conspicuous ocbreous-yellow incision 
rings (becoming wbite laterally), and a terminal paler ochreous-yellow 
tuft. 
A variation occurs in a ^ taken at Highlands, near Grabamstown, 
by Mrs. Barber, the hind-wings presenting on the upper side an addi- 
tional short broken yellow-ochreous bar a little before the ordinary 
discal one. 
This fine and handsome species was discovered in Kafifraria Proper by 
Colonel Bowker in 1863 ; he noted it as occurring in deep shade on the banks 
of forest streams in January, settling soon after being roused on rocks among 
moss and ferns. It flies about sunset, as a rule, but on damp and cloudy days will 
visit flowers much earlier in the afternoon. In the Botanic Gardens at D'Urban, 
Natal, on 2d February 1867, I took easily with my fingers several specimens 
which were at rest, with wings all erect, on the trunks of trees. At Highlands, 
near Grahamstown, in January and February 1870, I noticed that the butterfly 
chiefly frequented Petunia and Campamda flowers, and Mrs. Barber observed 
one visiting the flowers of a Crotalaria during heavy rain. Mr. A. D. Millar 
informs me that he has often taken it at D'Urban on the blossom of the honey- 
suckle. Colonel Bowker has met with it on the ISTatal coast from December to 
April. 
Localities of Pam;phila Erinnys, 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. 
D. Kaff'raria Proper. — Bashee River H. Boivlcer). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Pinetown (/. H. Bowker). 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
355. (13.) Pamphila dysmephila, Trimen. 
? Pamphila dysmephila, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 96, n. 2^ 
pi. vi. f. 10. 
Exp. al, {■$) I in. 8-10 lin. ; (?) I in. 9-10 lin. 
J Pale-hroiun, the fore-wing heyond middle and the hind-ioing along 
hind-margin with a purplish gloss ; hoth wings densely clothed from hase 
with dull yelloivish-ochreous scales and hairs; fore-wing with a disco- 
cellular and tivo discal vitreous spots, and a ivhite horder on upper half of 
hind-margin. Fore-vnng : yellow-ochreous scales and (inferiorly) hairs 
covering basal third of wing, and thence extending narrowly along costa 
to apex and widely along inner margin to posterior angle ; disco-cellular 
vitreous spot of moderate size, longitudinally elongate, sub-terminal, 
situated immediately above origin of second median nervule ; two discal 
vitreous spots more quadrate, transversely elongate, obliquely placed be- 
tween third and first median nervule, so that the lower (larger) one is not 
far below and beyond disco- cellular spot ; hind-marginal white border 
