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COENYRA; PHYSCAENEURA; PSEUDONYMPHA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
hebe. 
aurantiaca. 
rufiplaga. 
panda. 
pione. 
lucida. 
leda. 
11. Genus: Coenyra Hew. 
The species of this genus are small, with delicate wings, and are easily recognizable by having the 
two eye-spots of the forewing placed in cellules 8 and 5. The wings have the margins entire and are 
broadly rounded. 
C. hebe Trim. Wings brown-grey; the forewing above and beneath with three broad rust-coloured 
or orange-yellow (ab. aurantiaca ah. nor.) transverse stripes, two in the cell and the third behind it, and two 
eye-spots with silvery pupils and grey-yellow bordering; hindwing above with 4 or 5 silvery-pupilled eye-spots, 
those in cellules 2 and 3 larger than the others. Hindwing beneath yellowish grey with 3 or 4 orange-yellow 
transverse stripes in the basal part and 6 eye-spots, one each in cellules 1 c—6; Ihe eye-spots have silvery 
pupils and a yellowish and a dark brown ring. Roth wings beneath before the distal margin with two 
uniform, dark, thick lines. From the eastern parts of Cape Colony to Delagoa Ray. The cd is distinguished 
by a dark mealy spot, placed before the middle of the hindmargin on the upperside of the forewing. 
C. rufiplaga Trim, is above much darker, black-brown, and has on both surfaces of the forewing a 
very large, oval orange-red spot, extending from vein 1 to vein 6 and enclosing the eye-spots; the reddish 
transverse stripes are absent above, but distinct on both wings beneath, although narrower than in hebe, with 
which species rufiplaga otherwise nearly agrees. Transvaal. 
12. Genus: Physcaeneura Wallgr. 
•d. 
Very slenderly built butterflies with delicate wings, distinguished by having the forewing, at least 
beneath ornamented near the distal margin with a transverse row of 4 or 5 metallic-pupilled eye-spots of 
equal size, which touch one another. Only vein 12 of the forewing is inflated at the base. The antenna 
is very short and has a gradually thickened, irregularly rounded club. Roth wings beneath striated with black 
at least at the margins. 
Ph. panda Bdv. (28 f). Antenna very short, reaching but little beyond the extremity of the basal 
inflation of vein 12. Roth wings above dark brown, with a nearly straight row of red-yellow, black-pupilled 
eye-spots of equal size, placed on the forewing in cellules 2—6 and on the hindwing lc—4 or 5. Under 
surface of both wings yellowish white with numerous sharply defined black transverse streaks and two brown 
lines before the distal margin; the red-yellow eye-spots with matallic pupils stand out sharply against this 
ground; in the c? the hindmargin of the forewing is unicolorous black to vein 2. fn the ? the wings are 
lighter above and hence the black striae of the under surface show through faintly. Damaraland to the 
Transvaal, Natal and Delagoa Bay. 
Ph. pione Godm. (28 f). The antenna of medium length, reaching far beyond the yellowish basal 
inflation of vein 12; the club very long, not at all thickened. The wings white or whitish; above the costal 
margin of the forewing is narrowly, the distal margin of both wings and the hindmargin of the forewing 
broadly black-brown; in the dark marginal band are placed on the fore wing 3—5 and on the hindwing 8—6 
red-yellow, black-pupilled eye-spots; in the cd, however, these eye-spots are often very indistinct or entirely 
absent. On the under surface the eye-spots are bright yellow with metallic pupils and in the ? the entire 
surface of the wings before the eye-spots is striated with black; in the cd only the costal and hindmargin 
(inner margin) are thus striated, the middle being unicolorous white. Manicaland to German East Africa. — 
ab. lucida Btlr. has a shorter black hindmarginal stripe on the upperside of the forewing, so that the white 
ground-colour reaches the hindmargin before the posterior angle. Nyassaland. 
Ph. leda Gerst. (28 f) differs from the preceding species in having the hindmargin of the forewing and 
the costal margin of the hindwing above and beneath unicolorous white. The eye-spots are absent above 
and are black beneath, with elongate silvery pupils and a yellow and a brown ring, usually open towards 
the base. German and British East Africa. 
13. Genus: Pseud ouyinpha Wallgr. 
The forewing in all the species with a large, rounded black eye-spot, before the apex, which is sur¬ 
rounded by a light ring and has two white or blue pupils placed in cellules 4 and 5. Wings above dark 
brown; the forewing in the middle always more or less extended red-yellow or red-brown; the hindwing also 
sometimes above with a red-yellow spot and with or without eye-spots. — The species are similar, but can 
in general be distinguished by sharp differential characters. In order to facilitate their determination I divide 
them into three groups. 
