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Show 0 0 0 LR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 16, which I recorded as Y. asterope will prove to be the dry-season form of the Abyssinian Y. simplicla-a, species ranging down the Eastern side of Africa as far as Nyasa, where it meets with Y. granulosa. The latter seems to be the Eastern representative of Y. doleta, from which it differs in its usually smaller size and the less angulated character of the bands crossing tbe under surface of the secondaries. The Southern examples of Y. doleta differ from those of the North-west in their somewhat greyer colour below, in the narrower iris to the subapical ocellus of the primaries, and sometimes in the more prominent angle to the outer stripe across the under surface of the secondaries : they might therefore be separated as a race, provided that intermediate forms do not exist in Angola or farther southward. From Y. asterope they may readily be distinguished bv the better defined banding of the under surface, but especially by the subanal ocellus on the secondaries, which is rounded and with a geminate or crescentic pupil in Y. asterope, whereas in Y. doleta it is represented by two tiny counate ocelli placed at a more or less oblique angle. 5. PHYSCENURA PANDA, Boisd. Tugela Biver, near Weenen, 2500 feet, 9th and 14th to 16th November, 1896. Hitherto represented in the Hewitson collection, but not in our general series. 6. PSEUDONYMPHA VIGILANS, Trimen. (Plate L. fig. 1.) Chuga's Hill near Weenen, 4000 feet, 29th October; Estcourt, 22nd November, 1896. 7. PSEUDONYMPHA POJTULA. (Plate L. fig. 2.) Pseudonympha pcetula, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 169. Niginya, 6500 feet, Neundi, 10th, 15th, and 18th September, 1896. v Although this species is undoubtedly nearly allied to P. trimeni, the distinctive characters appear to be quite constant and fully justify its separation as a species. Mr. Marshall observes that "This is a verv local species, Niginya, 20 miles from here (Estcourt), being the only locality for it that I know of in Natal. It does not seera to descend below 6000 feet, frequenting the extreme edges of the rockv kraantzes or precipices; hitherto Mr. Hutchinson has only found it during the end of August and beginning of September." 8. PSEUDONYMPHA CASSIUS, Godt. Ulundi, 5300 feet, 11th September; Niginva, 5800 feet, 12th September, 1896; Karkloof, 15th February, i897. " A common species, frequenting the edges of woods." This was also new to the Museum collection. |
