156 SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
occurring in plenty at Barkly West ( = Klipdrift) at about the end of Decem- 
ber 1885; and four specimens have been presented by him to the South- 
African Museum. 
Localities of Ajphnceus Ella. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal Biver (J. H. Bowlier and H. 
L. FeWiam). 
E. "Natal."— Hewitson. 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom (TF. Movant and T. Ayres). Marico 
and Limpopo Bivers {F. C. Selo2is). 
II. Other African Begions. 
A. South Tropical. 
bi. Eastern Interior. — Makloutze and Tati Bivers (F. C. Selous). 
197. (5.) Aphnaeus Phanes, Trimen. 
$ A]j7i7iceus Phases, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. iii, 
pi. i. ff. 4, 5. 
Fxj). al.j ($) I in. lin. ; ($) i in. 3^-5 liii. 
$ Fuscous J shot ivith rich purple; fore-wing ivith yelloic-ochreous 
markings. Fore-iving : the purple gloss covers iuner-marginal region, 
but extends upward only as far as median nervure and its second nervule ; 
costa rather broadly marked with dull ochreous at and near base ; an 
almost square marking in discoidal cell near extremity ; beyond cell, 
near costa, an irregular roughly V-shaped marking ; a narrow, sub- 
marginal, irregular stripe commencing close to apex, more or less dis- 
tinctly interrupted on third median nervule, and ending on first median 
nervule. HincUwing : purple gloss does not extend above subcostal or 
below submedian nervure, but covers the space between those nervures 
from base to hind-marginal edge ; a hind-marginal whitish streak from 
radial to anal angle ; on either side of submedian nervure a hind-mar- 
ginal black spot dotted with silvery ; just before the space between 
these two spots, an indistinct yellow-ochreous mark ; tails black, 
ochreous at base and white at tip. Cilia white. Uinder side. — 
Metallic silvery -white^ with dull ochreous^ mesially silvery -streaked, 
narrowly Uack-edged, broad transverse bands. Fore-iving : base narrowly 
suffused with yellow-ochreous, inner margin widely with pale grey ; 
three transverse bands commence on costal edge ; the first, before 
middle, short, straight, ending a little below median nervure; the 
second, long, oblique, commencing about middle, extending in direction 
of anal angle, but becoming obsolete above submedian nervure ; the 
third, near apex, rather short, ending abruptly between third and second 
median nervules, where it touches the second band; between second 
and third bands a costal spot of the same colouring ; a fourth band 
(not marked with silvery) occupies hind-margin, and is traversed by an 
interrupted black line, which is inwardly bordered by white sub-lunulate 
