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These peculiarities are alike on right and left sides, but are limited to 
the upper side. 
The largest example (i in. 8 lin. in expanse) is a $ taken at Delagoa Bay- 
by Mrs. Monteiro. This specimen has the ocelli on the under side of the hind- 
wing very minute, but the transverse striae better marked than usual. 
The Arabian and Syrian type of this butterfly — with which Mr. Butler's 
Y. simplicia from Abyssinia seems very closely to agree — has the ocelli repre- 
sented as larger than those of the South-African specimens which " I have 
examined, especially in the $ ; and scarcely any trace is depicted of the 
transverse striae of the under side of the hind-wing. This latter feature is 
almost always more or less characteristic of the species, the central stria only 
being of frequent definition. The only individual in which I have found all 
three striae well marked is a (J taken in Swaziland by the late Mr. E. C. 
Buxton; but a $ sent from Delagoa Bay by Mrs. Monteiro (in which the 
hind-wing is whiter than usual) exhibits them very fairly, and so does also a 
$ captured by Mr. W. Morant at Colenso, in Natal. As a rule, these striae 
are most obsolete, as far as South Africa is concerned, in examples inhabiting 
the Cape Colony, and more developed in the countries to the east and north- 
east of it. A Cape Coast Castle- ^ in the South- African Museum, which was 
taken by Mr. J. Morton Pask, not only has the striae well defined on the under 
side, but the central and marginal ones also expressed strongly on the upper 
side. The dark discal space below the ocellus on the under side of the fore- 
wing is variable in extent, but, as Hewitson (loc, cit.) points out, a constant 
distinguishing character of Asterope. 
I have not seen the Y. Norma of Westwood, from China; but both 
Hewitson and Mr. A. G. Butler (Cat. Satyridae in Brit. Mus., p. 148) agree in 
regarding it as a variety of Asterope, and the figure in the " Gen. Diurn. Lep.," 
cited above, appears to difi'er only in its smaller size, darker colour, and want 
of the ocellus on the upper side of the hind-wing. Hewitson (loc. cit.) notes 
that " there are similar varieties from the Holy Land." 
In 1867 I took a single $ near Grey town, in Natal, in the same spot in 
which Physcceneura Panda and Coenyra Hebe occurred ; its weak flight and 
habit of frequently settling on the ground made it resemble those two species. 
I also met with several specimens at Klipdrift, on the Vaal River, Griqualand 
West, in September 1872; they were flitting among and sitting on the large 
stones on the river-banks ; and I observed the same habits in others of the 
species which, in the summers of 1876 and of 1877, I found near Montagu 
and Robertson in the Cape Colony. Robertson is the most southern locality 
of this butterfly known to me ; but the insect is so very inconspicuous and 
haunts such arid rocky stations, that it would easily escape the notice of any 
one but a lepidopterist, and may occur in many places from which it is at 
present unrecorded. In 1870 Colonel Bowker sent me the paired sexes, tcap- 
tiired by him at Aliwal North, on the north-eastern boundary of the Cape 
Colony; except in its larger size and less pronounced darker streaks, the 9 
example does not differ from the $ . 
Localities of Ypthima Asterope, 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Robertson. Montagu. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Between Somerset East and Murraysburg (J. 
H. Bowker). Aliwal North (/. H. Bowker). Burghersdorp (D. 
R. Kannemeyer). 
c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift. 
