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mountainous tracts, new forms of Pseudonympha will very probably be 
discovered. The known species are very closely related, and in several 
cases are difficult to distinguish. They all frequent open ground, 
Cassius only seeming to show any liking for the neighbourhood of woods 
or plantations, and their flight (except perhaps in the case of F. mgi- 
lans) is very weak as well as wavering and close to the ground. They 
bask on stones and on the bare earth, and only occasionally seem to 
visit flowers. 
8. (1.) Pseudonympha Hyperbius (Linn^us). 
Papilio Hyperhius^ Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Eeg., p. 257, n, 76 (1764); and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 769, n. 130 (1767). 
$ Papilio HyperhiiLs, Cram., Pap. Exot., ii. pi. clxviii. fF. e, f. (1779). 
Papilio Hyperbius, Wulfen, Descr. Capens. Ins., p. 32, n. 31 (1786). 
Pseudonympha Hyperbius, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. CafFr. in. K. Sv. Vet.- 
Akad. Handl., 1857, p. 32, n. 3. 
Erebia Hyperbius, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 197, n. iii (1866). 
Exp. al, I in. 6 lin. — I in. 9 lin. 
Darh-hrown, with a molaceous gloss ; fore-wing much coloured with 
deep-fulvous; hind-wing with a small fidvous patch. Fore-ioing : fulvous 
occupies the same space as in E. Sabacus, but is not externally dark- 
edged, nor ever divided into two patches, though its cellular portion is 
often much obscured in J ; an apical ocellus, white-bipupillate, and 
ringed indistinctly with pale ochreous, marks upper portion of fulvous. 
Hind-ioing : on median nervules an ill-defined fulvous patch, enclosing 
two small unipupillate ocelli (one or both often wanting). Both wings, 
but especially hind-wing, clothed with fulvous hairs on basal half. 
Under side. — Hind-wing, and costa, apex, and hind-margin of fore-wing 
irrorated with whitish atoms. Fore-wing : fulvous paler (more regu- 
larly extending from base in ; from its outer edge beyond ocellus 
extends to costa a narrow ferruginous streak, sometimes almost obsolete ; 
ring of ocellus more distinct. Hind-iuing : beyond middle two parallel, 
rather widely-apart, usually indistinct, ferruginous transverse lines, 
parallel to hind-margin, between which is a row of inconspicuous 
whitish dots, two of them representing the ocelli of upper side. 
Aberration J. — Fore-wing : ocellus very small (not larger than those 
often present in hind-wing), faintly unipupillate, in a very faint ring 
scarcely distinguishable from contiguous fulvous ; adjoining this ocellus 
and immediately below it (in the left fore-wing only) a second, similar, 
very minute and indistinct ocellus. Hind-iving : no ocelli, but a single 
whitish dot (occasionally found in ordinary examples) on fold beyond 
extremity of discoidal cell. Under side. — Ordinary, except for the 
very small ocellus in the fore-wing ; no trace of the second ocellus in 
left fore-wing. 
Hah. — Cape Town, September 1870. 
