204 SOUTH AFEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. | 
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aspect, especially in the case of E. ScJmneia, Trim., a form which I 
appears to be peculiar to South Africa. In flight and habits they | 
resemble Pyrameis, but are more partial to wooded spots. i 
61. (1.) Eurema Hippomene, (Hiibner). 
Hy^panartia Hippomene, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., ii. pi. 25, fF. 3, 4 
(1806). 
Pyrameis Ilipyjgomene^ $ {nec Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 122 (1862). 
Ex^. al.^ I in. 10^ lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 
$ Broiunish-blach {darker in apical area of fore-ioing) ; a hand of 
oclire-ycllow in hoth luings ; fore-iuing with small hut consjnctcoits white 
spots near apex. Fore-iving : yellow band obliquely transverse, running 
from costa before middle (where it is narrowed and tinged slightly 
with w^iitish) to inner margin near posterior angle (where it is abruptly 
narrowed and pointed ; inner edge of band slightly indented here and 
there, its lower portion a little hollowed ; outer edge convex through- 
out ; midway between band and apex an oblique costal row of three 
rather small spots, of which the first (touching the second) is linear 
and irregular and ochre-yellow, while the others are somewhat rounded 
and white ; parallel to upper half of hind-margin, between costa and 
second median nervule, a row of six white spots, of which all are 
minute but the fifth, which is of moderate size and rounded, and the 
first and second are only separated by a nervule ; cilia white, inter- 
rupted by broad nervular black spots. Hind-wing: yellow band hind- 
marginal ; rather narrower than that of fore-wing, extending from apex 
to second median nervule, where it abruptly narrows to a point ; two 
parallel lunulated submarginal black lines, all but obsolete where they 
traverse the yellow band, but thickened and strongly defined between 
third median nervule and anal angle, in which part the space between 
them is superiorly ochre-yellow and inferiorly closely irrorated with 
metallic greenish-blue ; a little before these lines, between third and 
first median nervules, two rather large black ocelli pupilled with 
shining blue, of which the upper is less distinct, and is bordered by 
extremity of yellow band, while the lower is marked with a dull- 
crimson lunule inwardly edging the blue pupil, and is surrounded by a 
thin outer ochre -yellow ring only distinct on the external side ; cilia 
white with very small black nervular interruptions. Under side.^ — 
Beautifidlij xariegcded with ochreous-hroiun^ dccrk-hroivn, ivhite, metallic- 
hluish, and hronzy-grccn ; yelloiv hand of hind-iving loanting, that of 
fore-iving much paler and rather wider. Fore-wing : costa from base 
to commencement of yellow band finely striated transversely with 
bluish-white ; in discoidal cell at base a white mark, succeeded by two 
linear white strige, and a broader less distinct chestnut-red stria, quite 
across cell ; on costa, just above extremity of cell, a small whitish 
