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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
disposition of the subcostal nervules in the fore-wings, combine with ' 
the peculiar fades of these butterflies to distinguish the genus. Their 
structure is very weak, and their flight feeble and near the ground. 
The larvae and pupse do not rppear to have been observed. 
5. (1.) Ypthima Asterope (King). 
$ 5 HipparcMa Aste^vpe, Klug, Symb. Phys., dec. iii. t. xxix. fF. 11-14 
(1832). 
9 Satyrus Asterope, Lederer, Yerh. Zool.-Bot. Vereins in Wien, 1855, 
t. i. f. 6 [aimd Hopffer, op. cit.] 
Ypthima Asterope, HopfF., Peters' Reise Mossamb., p. 395 (1862). 
Yphthima Asterope, Hewits., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Sor., ii. p. 283, 
n. I (1865). 
Yphthima simpUcia, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xviii. p. 481 
(1876). 
Var. Ypthima Norma, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 67, f. i (185 1). 
Uxp. al., I in. 3-8 lin. 
Brownish-grey ; in fore- wing, a large, or rather large, hlacJc suhapical 
ocellus with ttuo hluish-silvery pupils and a well-defined pale-yellowish 
iris ; in hind-iuing, a suhanal-angular similar (hut unipupillate), small, 
or very small, ocellus. Fore-wing : ocellus in a discal more or less 
distinct rounded paler space, defined by a darker encircling streak ; iris 
of ocellus externally edged with a dark ring. Hind-wing: ocellus 
between first and second median nervules, sometimes minute, but seldom 
indistinct ; in some examples a faintly-marked submarginal dark line. 
Under side. — Hoary-grey, finely and closely hatched or striolated ivith 
greyish-hrown. Fore-wing : ring of ocellus paler, brighter ; dark en- 
circling streak well defined inwardly and outwardly, and inferiorly 
merged in a good-sized discal brownish-grey patch, free from any 
intermixture of hoary-grey, which reaches inner margin and posterior 
angle. Hind-wing : besides the ocellus between ist and 2nd median 
nervules (which is usually smaller than on upper side, and occasionally 
very minute), there is usually a subapical, quite similar one between 
the subcostal nervules, and almost invariably a third very small or 
minute one close to anal angle itself ; three irregular brownish trans- 
verse striae (of very variable definition, and seldom really distinct), viz., 
one (the most ill-expressed) before middle, — the second (usually the 
most apparent) just beyond middle, angulated rather acutely on radical 
nervule, — and the third (commonly fragmentary) submarginal, and 
biangulated on radial and third median nervules. 
In a J taken on the Shashani Kiver (Makalaka Country) by 
Mr. F. C. Selous, not only is the principal ocellus of the hind-wing 
larger than usual on the upper side, but the minute one at anal angle 
is represented, and there is a third minute ocellus quite abnormally 
situated between 2nd and 3rd median nervules ; while in the fore-wing 
a very minute ocellus is inferiorly attached to the large subapical one. 
