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11. (4.) Pseudonympha Neita (Wallengren). 
Plate 7, fig. 2, . 
Pseudonympha Neita, Wallgrn., K. Vet.-Akad. ForliandL, 1875, p. 84, 
n. 3. 
Erebia Narycia, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 198, n. T12 (1866). 
Ex;p. al., I in. 7 lin. — 2 in. 
Dull-hrown. Fore-wing : a large subquadrate fulvous patcli on 
disc, commencing immediately beyond discoidal cell, leaving a broad 
border of ground-colour bounding it on each margin of wing, and lialf 
enclosing in its upper exterior portion a black, wliite-bipupillate ocellus 
in a paler fulvous ring. Hind-wing : beyond middle, between first and 
third median nervules, two similar (but unipupillate) ocelli, which are 
more conspicuous in and of which the superior one is the larger ; the 
pale fulvous rings of these ocelli, and especially that of the upper one, 
often suffused. Under side. — Slightly paler ; markings very distinct. 
Fore-wing: fulvous defined inwardly and outwardly by a line darker 
than ground-colour, the outer line dentate in $ ; iris of ocellus ochreous, 
ringed with dark-brown. Hind-iving : costa at base tinged with fnhous 
(in $ some indistinct fulvous tinting along inner margin) ; beyond 
middle a most indistinct fascia, slightly paler than ground-colour, con- 
taining four ocelli like that in fore-wing, of which the two wanting on 
upper side are respectively between first and second subcostal nervules 
and first median nervule and submedian nervure, the latter being 
bipupillate. 
Wallengren (loc. cit.) notes a $ from Potchefstroom, in the Transvaal, 
which has on upper side of hind-wing two fulvous spots in place of the ocelli. 
Before seeing the typical Narycia from the interior country, I took this 
larger, darker form from the Eastern Coast districts for it. Good distinguishing 
characters, irrespective of size, are the more restricted area of the fulvous patch 
in the fore-wing, which does not intrude on the discoidal cell, and the presence 
of ocelli in more or less suffused fulvous rings on the upper side of the hind- 
wing. On the under side of the hind-wing there are only four ocelli, that 
which in Narycia is the second of a series of five being always wanting in 
Neita. Specimens taken by myself near Greytown, Natal, and others found in 
the Transvaal by Mr. W. Morant and Mr. T. Ayres, are smaller and paler than 
the Kaffrarian examples, but present the distinguishing characters noted. One 
$ of those I captured has the costal ocellus of the hind- wing distinctly repre- 
sented on the upper side ; while another ^ received from Mr. Morant has that 
ocellus faintly, and the fourth (near anal angle) pretty clearly shown on the 
upper side. 
I met with this butterfly rather sparingly in grassy places near Greytown 
in March 1867. There was nothing in its flight or appearance distinguishing 
it from its congeners. Wallengren notes that Mr. N. Person found it not 
uncommonly in similar country near Potchefstroom during February. 
Localities of Pseudonympha Neita. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kafifraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (</. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {W, Morant and T. Ayres). 
