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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This is the darkest of the South- African species of Pseiidonympha, and is, | 
moreover, peculiar in the dense fulvous hair coating the basal area of the wings, i 
The specimens taken by me in Namaqualand in 1873 were considerably smaller 
than ordinary examples, expanding only i in. 4-6 lin. 
It is the first of the genus to appear in the spring, in some seasons occurring 
as early as the end of July, but is not long out, disappearing towards the end of 
September. It frequents mountain-sides and rocky situations of some eleva- 
tion, often sitting on large stones, and sometimes on flowers ; its flight is very | 
low, feeble, and irregular. About Cape Town it is abundant, but in other 
western districts I have not noticed many specimens ; and to the eastward of 
the district of "Worcester it is not known to occur. I captured the paired sexes , 
near Cape Town on the 9th September 1870. 
Localities of Fseudonpnplia Hyperhius} 
1. South Africa. 
A. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Kalbas Kraal, Cape District. 
Malmesbury. Piketberg. Ookiep. Springbokfontein and | 
Tweefontein, Namaqualand District. Konstabel's, Worcester 
District. 
9. (2.) Pseudonympha irrorata (Trimen). 
Erebia irrorata, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, P- 103, pi. i. f. 2. 
Exp. al.^ {$) I in. 5 lin. ; (?) i in. 6-7 lin. 
Pah greyisli-'brown. Fore-wing : a fulvous patch occupies discoidal 
celly not rising above it, but extending beyond it and over median 
nervules to about their middle, as well as below median nervure and 
its first nervule, but not reaching submedian nervure or quite to base; 
touching extremity of upper portion of patch, a bipupillate black ocellus 
in a pale yellowish-grey ring ; costal margiii indistinctly hatched with 
grcyish-yelloiv from base to beyond middle. Hind-iuing without mark- 
ings. Under side. — Hind-wing and costal and apical region^ with hind- 
margin of fore-wing irrorated with greijish-yellow. Fore-iuing : fnlvous 
patch slightly smaller than on upper side ; ring of ocellus paler, more 
distinct. Hind-wing : beyond middle a submarginal row of eight ill- 
defined greyish-yellow spots ; preceding fourth spot, and between it 
and extremity of discoidal cell, a similar spot ; an indistinct similar 
spot near base, between median and submedian nervures ; two smaller 
ones on edge of cell, marking origins of radial and second subcostal ner- 
vules ; and two or three small ones on costa before middle. In hoth 
goings, on hind-marginal edge, a row of small, inter-nervular, greyish- 
yellow spots, more apparent in hind-wing than in fore-wing. 
The sexes do not difier, except that the irrorations and spots of the 
under side of the wings are more conspicuous in the 
1 In Rhopalocei^a Africce Australis (ii. p. 198) I noted that a specimen of P. Hyyerbius in 
the British Museum was registered as having been collected in "Afghanistan." No confir- 
mation of this surprising habitat has been given ; and it is extremely unlikely that the 
butterfly should occur so far from the known range of its genus. 
