SATYKINiE. 
imago, exhibit clear Satyrine affinities. In neuration Meneris agrees 
very closely with Lethe — especially with the South- African L. dendro- 
pjiilus and L. Indosa — and alike in general colouring and pattern bears 
great resemblance to the latter. 
The only species, Meneris Tulbagliia^ was named by Linnaeus in 
honour of a Dutch governor of the Cape (1731 — 51), who is said to 
have been the first to send to Europe a collection of the insects of the 
Colony. It is a very active, handsome butterfly, frequenting open ele- 
vated ground, especially steep mountain-sides and rocky hills. It is 
remarkably constant in colouring and pattern, only varying in being 
rather smaller and darker in some of the drier interior districts. The 
largest examples are found on the eastern side of the Cape Colony and 
in Natal. 
33. (1.) Meneris Tulbaghia, (Linnaeus). 
$ Papilio Tulbaghia, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 284, n. 102 (1764); 
and Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 775, n. 158 (1767). 
^ „ „ Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. iii. ff. e, f (1775). 
(J (as $ ) Oreas marmorea Tulhagliia, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Sclimett., 
i. t. 93 (1806). 
$ Nymphalis Tulbaghia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 400, n. 171 (181 9). 
Meneris Tulbaghia, Doubl., List. Lep. Brit. Mus., i. p. 106 (1844). 
$ Meneris Tulbaghia, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., ii. pi. 46, 1 3 (1850). 
^ $ Meneris Tulbaghia, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 162, n. 96 (1862); 
and ii. p. 339 (1866); and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1870, p. 358. 
Exp. al., 3 in. 3 lin. — 4 in. 2 lin. 
Bich dark-hrown, with deep yelloiu-ochreoics transverse stripes and 
spots ; hind-wing with blue ocellated spots. 
^ Fore-iving : suffused with chocolate-brown from base ; beyond 
middle, a short, transverse, deep yellow-ochreoas band, from costa to 
between second discoidal and third median nervules, divided unequally 
into four by three crossing nervules; a little before this band, com- 
mencing immediately beneath extremity of discoidal cell, a similar, 
longer, transverse band of the same colour, also crossed by three 
nervules, and extending to inner-margin beyond middle ; beyond bands, 
near and parallel to hind-margin, a row of eight yellow-ochreous spots, 
the first three of which are contiguous and somewhat quadrate, the 
fourth sub-obvate and inclining out from the line towards hind-margin, 
the remaining four rounded, the last of them (between first median 
nervule and submedian nervure) being the smallest ; along hind-margin, 
a moderately- wide border, slightly paler than ground-colour, and con- 
taining a thin, dark, median streak from apex nearly to anal angle. 
Hind-iuing : ochreous band of fore-wing (that extends to inner margin) 
continued across this wing by a slightly-paler band from costa, narrow- 
ing to a little before anal angle, but not quite reaching inner margin ; 
space before band almost wholly chocolate-brown, with a coating of 
hairs of that colour, which are longest on submedian nervure ; beyond 
