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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 21 centred with pale metallic golden ; besides two parallel submarginal black streaks, an inner less regular catenulated one outwardly bounding the series of ocelli. Fore wing: basal swelling of costal nervure ochre-yellow; a few striolations usually completely across basal third, but otherwise the creamy middle area is clear from base to ocelli; the latter form a nearly straight series of five, of which the last (between 2nd and 3rd median nervules) is usually a little apart from and smaller than the rest, with the exception of the first. Hind wing: striolation well developed in inner-marginal area, but very rarely extending at any point into discoidal cell; ocelli seven, of which the first is separate from and considerably before the rest (being between subcostal nervules), while the others are contiguous (the 6th and 7th confluent). The male is smaller than the female (exp. cd. 1 in. 4|-7 lin.), and has the fuscous borders much darker on the upperside, where also the ochre-yellow ocelli (always more or less well-marked in the female) are represented only by two or three indistinct black spots. O n the underside the male differs constantly in the restriction of the black striolation to the costal and inner-marginal borders, whereas in the female this covers all the area in both wings except a small discal space immediately before the ocelli. P. pione resembles P. leda in its whitish fuscous-bordered upper-side, but in its striolation and position of the ocelli on the underside, as well as in its stouter structure throughout, is more nearly related to P. panda. The fuscous bar along the inner margin of the fore wings on the upperside is a very striking feature in pione, and gives the species a curious superficial likeness to some of the smaller female Teracoli and Terias in the distant group of Pierince. This very interesting Physcceneura was found during the greater part of March, flying very slowly in open forest and settling on grass. In Natal I found its close ally, P. panda, quite away from forests, frequenting steep exposed hill-sides and often settling on the bare ground. Genus PSEUDONYMPHA, Wallengr. 8. P S E U D O N Y M P H A VIGILANS, Trim. Pseudonympha vigilans, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 84. n. 15 (1887). The single good example (a female) of this Butterfly was captured in the Christmas Pass on the 11th February, a locality about 400 miles northward of the most northern of the previously recorded stations of this generally distributed South-African species, viz. the Lydenburg district of Transvaal. Mr. Selous's specimen comes nearest to the Natalian and Transvaalian examples, but is characterized on the upperside by the unusual restriction of the fulvous patch in the fore wing (which, though it extends rather nearer to the hind margin beneath the ocellus, does not impinge on the discoidal cell), and by the well-developed small ocellus near the anal angle of the hind wing; while on the underside the hoary-grey and brown mottlings are more sharply contrasted, and both |