Annals oe the Transvaal Museum. 
175 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA 
RHOPALOCERA IN THE TRANSVAAL MUSEUM. 
By C. J. Swierstra, First Assistant. 
In the collection of J. T. Janse, Esq., of Pretoria, I found a Leptoneura, 
unfortunately a single specimen, which is undoubtedly an undescribed 
species of that genus. Mr. Janse informed me that he caught it on the 
flat top, which forms a sort of elevated plateau, of the Warmberg, 
situated some thirty miles to the east-south-east of Pietersburg, in the 
Zoutpansberg District. 
It is rather an interesting fact that where the Transvaal is pretty 
fairly worked in the line of Rhopalocera, a new species of Leptoneura has 
been discovered. Even more so as this new species is a near ally of, and 
belongs to, the more southern representatives of this genus. 
LEPTONEURA JANSEI, Swierstra. 
Head : Antennae palpi, thorax and abdomen as in L. oxylus. 
Wings, Upperside : Dull brown with a slight cupreus gloss, posterior parts 
of wings slightly paler than basal parts, more so towards apex in 
forewing ; a marginal row of five bluish white unipupilated black 
ocelli in both wings, except the fifth in hind wing, which is unipupilated. 
Fore wing : An indistinct stripe at the end of upper half of cell, an 
exteriorly curved, irregular dentated, pale creamy macular post-median 
transverse stripe, interiorly edged with dark brown, commencing on 
costal margin at vein 2, extending downward to vein 1, where the 
spots become very indistinct. The first spot of this stripe, between 
vein 8 and 11 elongate with the veins crossing it, scaled with brown. 
The other spots very irregular triangularly shaped. A curved row 
of five bluish white unipupilated black ocelli in yellowish ochreous 
rings of which the first is the smallest, somewhat elongated, placed 
between veins 6 and 7 ; the second much elongated, larger than first, 
between veins 5 and 6 ; third round, about same size as first, between 
4 and 5, the fourth round, largest, between 3 and 4, the fifth smaller 
than fourth, between 2 and 3. Pupils of first and third ocelli largest, 
A sub-marginal whitish stripe commencing on vein 8, where it unites 
with the preceding stripe, extending to tornus. A marginal very 
pale fulvous stripe from apex to tornus separated from sub-marginal 
one by a dark brown streak and from cillia by a brown edging. 
Hindwing : A post-median curved row of five bluish white pupilated black 
ocelli in pale fulvous rings of which the fifth is minutely bipupilated. 
The first ocellus between veins 5 and 6, the second between 4 and 5 ; 
the third between 3 and 4 ; the fourth between 2 and 3, and the fifth 
between lc and 2. An additional minute ocellus between veins 6 
and 7, much in front of the others. A suffused greyish brown sub- 
marginal stripe from vein 8 to lc separated from the darker marginal 
stripe by a dark brown streak. 
Underside : Paler with a very slight gloss ; markings more stronglv 
devined. 
