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larger tlian ttie rest, — second ocellus usually smaller than tlie others ' 
(except sometimes the last), and occasionally blind ; all ocelli very ' 
clearly defined, unipupillate with silvery-white, and in dark-edged 
pale-yellowish rings ; about middle an indistinct, irregular, dark, trans- 
verse streak, and beyond ocelli a similar but regular and darker streak, 
more or less suffused with fulvous in its upper portion ; at base, for a j 
little distance along costa, a pale-fulvous edging (in $ this is wider and 
deeper in colour, and there is a similar second basal marking extending | 
on inner margin). In both wings a dark line, followed by a pale one, j 
immediately before hind-margin. | 
Except in the character just mentioned, the $ only differs from the j 
J in being slightly paler, and having the hind-wing ocelli larger, and j 
the fulvous suffusion of the outer dark streak more pronounced. 
The fifth ocellus on the under side of hind-wing is rarely in both I 
sexes bipupillate. j 
A $ taken by Mr. W. Morant near Pretoria, in the Transvaal, not ! 
only presents the character last named, but has the second ocellus imme- 
diately surmounted by a very minute blind ocellus, and also exhibits j 
the remarkable peculiarity of the ocellus of the fore-wing being tri- i 
pupillate on the upper side, and respectively quadri-pupillate (right) 
and quinque-pupillate (left) on the under side. A $ from Potchefstroom 
has the fore-wing ocellus tripupillate both above and below, while a ^ 
from Basutoland has it bipupillate above and tripupillate below. 
The small size and pale ground-colour of this species, and its very 
distinct yellowish-ringed ocellus of the fore-wings, give it something of 
the aspect of F. Cassms (Godt.), but the perfectly unmarked upper side 
of the hind-wings, no less than their very conspicuous under side series 
of ocelli, at once characterise it as altogether another butterfly. All the 
other Pseudonymiolice have ocelli or a fulvous patch (or both) on the ' 
upper side of the hind-wings, — even P. Neita^ Wallengr., the nearest 
ally of Narycia, presents some red-ringed ocelli. | 
This insect seems confined to elevated country in the interior of South 
Africa. In Basutoland, Colonel Bowker reports it as occurring " all over the j 
country, on high hills and rocks." It occurs as far north as Pretoria in the ' 
Transvaal ; and in the Orange Free State, Mr. C. Hart, who sent me some 
examples, found it " common in January 1871." I have not heard of its having 
been found to the south of the Orange Eiver. 
Localities of Pseudonympha Narycia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru, Maluti Mountains, &c. {J. H. Boioher). 
C. Orange Free State, — Special locality not recorded (G. Hart). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchef stroom District (T.^^/^es). Pretoria ( TF*. i[fbra?z^). j 
^ In these cases of more than two pupils, it is remarkable that there is no indication of 
additional ocelli having been incorporated in the ordinary one, — as is so often noticeable in 
the Satyrince. 
