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I Var. B. 
Same size as Yar. A. Forc-iving : cellular fulvous very mucli 
: reduced (in two examples barely visible). Hiiid-iving : subapical ocellus 
j of under side reproduced in three out of four examples ; two lower 
I ocelli large, well-defined, with a very distinct bluish pupil, and set 
in moderately wide fulvous rings ; accompanying them an additional 
smaller ocellus between radial and third median nervules. Under 
SIDE. — Fore-iving : fulvous field as usual ; apical white reduced to a 
short streak between brown transverse line and ring of ocellus ; on 
apex, some fulvous scaling. Hind-wing : the four ocelli and (in three 
examples) a fifth minute anal-angular one very distinct, and in evident 
rings paler than the restricted pale-brown clouding surrounding them ; 
fulvous scaling marks the clouding of all the three transverse dark- 
brown streaks, of which the outer (submarginal) one is much less den- 
tate than in Var. A. 
Hah. — Natal. In the collection of K. Trimen. 
"With this last-described variety I am disposed to associate three $ speci- 
mens taken by Colonel Bowker at the heads of the Kraai River, in the Aliwal 
Is^orth District of the Cape Colony. In the rather better development of the 
cellular fulvous of the fore-wing, and in the fewer, less distinct oceUi of the 
hind- wing on the upper side, they approach Variety A. ; but the under side, 
though duller, in its colouring and the hind-wing ocelli nearly resembles that 
of the ^ Variety B. 
This is an exceedingly abundant species in open country all through the 
coast districts of the Colony. The typical form swarms on the sandy flats near 
Cape Town in October and November, and occurs as late as the middle of 
May. I found it equally plentiful at Knysna during the summer months. It 
extends to Uitenhage and to Grahamstown, occurring near the latter place 
during my visit in January 1870. I do not know the exact eastern limit of 
the typical form, or whether it occurs in some districts in company with 
Variety A. ; but the latter prevails in the Trans-Kei District of Kaffraria 
Proper, and seems altogether to replace the typical Sabacus in the interior of 
Natal, where I found it in great numbers in the summer of 1867. Variety B. 
was only met with near Greytown and in the Great Noodsberg, but I captured 
Variety A. also in those localities. Everywhere, both as regards the typical 
form and the Variety A., females are very rarely taken among the very nume- 
rous males. 
Localities of Pseudonymjpha Sabacus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Blaauwberg, Cape District. 
Eerste River, Stellenbosch District. Paarl. Bain's Kloof, Wor- 
cester District. Mossel Bay. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. Uitenhage (>S. D. Bairstoio). 
Coega River (J". H. Boiuker). Windvogelberg {Dr. Batho). 
Stormbergen {Mrs. Barber. — Var. A.) North of Albert District 
(/. H. Bowker. — Var. A.) East London {P. BorcJierds. — 
Var. A.) 
d. Basutoland. — Maluti Mountains {J. H. Bou-ker. — Var. A.) 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River {J. H. Bowker. — 
Var. A.) 
