Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
Genus CYLLO, Boisduval.
55. (1) CYLLO LEDA, Linnæus et auct.
An extremely variable species. The specimen from the Nata River
(beginning of December 1874) has an obscure fulvous subapical patch
bearing two black spots in the fore wings; beneath, pale brown, with
dark brown fasciæ, and scarcely any trace of ocelli on the hind wings.
Specimens from Ashanti are pale brown beneath, strongly freckled all
over with brown, and with large ocelli on the hind wings.
Genus EREBIA, Dalman.
56. (1) EREBIA NARYCIA, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 32; Trimen,
p. 198.
Ramaqueban River, middle of March.
Genus YPTHIMA, Hübner.
57. (1) YPTHIMA NAREDA, Kollar in Hügel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv. pl.
2, p. 451; Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1865, pl. 17, f. 6, 7.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
Genus MYCALESIS, Hübner.
58. (1) MYCALESIS VICTORINA, Westw.
Sordide fusca, alis anticis pone medium nonnihil pallidioribus; ocellis
duobus nigris ochreo anguste cinctis, singulo punctum album includente
subapicali multo minori; posticis concoloribus lineis duabus tenuibus
submarginalibus pallidioribus serieque ocellorum ut in anticis: alis
subtus pallidioribus magis lutescentibus, fascia angusta recta communi
pone medium, anticis 2-posticis 7-ocellatis, ocellis valde inæqualibus,
in posticis lineis pallidis valde sinuatis inclusis. Expans. alar.
antic. unc. 1¾.
Affinis _M. Eusiro_, Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. pl. 25, f. 3–6.
Near the Victoria Falls.
Family LYCÆNIDÆ.
Genus AMBLYPODIA, Horsfield.
59. (1) AMBLYPODIA NATALENSIS, D. W. and H., Gen. D. Lep. pl.
75, f. 4; Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. p. 399; Trimen, p.
227.
_Spindasis Masilikazi_, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 45.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
60. (2) AMBLYPODIA? LEROMA, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 42;
Trimen, p. 231.
Near Tati.
Genus ZERITIS, Boisduval.
61. (1) ZERITIS PERION, Cramer, pl. 379, f. B, C.; Trimen, p.
267; Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. pl. 26, f. 1–3.
Gubuleweyo, beginning of December.
62. (2) ZERITIS AMANGA, Westw.
Fœm. Alis supra læte rufo-aurantiacis; anticis macula magna basali
nigra, costa pone medium margineque apicali nigris; alis posticis,
rufo-aurantiacis basi nigricantibus: alis subtus purpureo-rufis,
anticarum costa ad basim guttisque duabus parvis prope basim tertia
parum majori submedia, alteraque subapicali, argenteis; posticis guttis
perpaucis argenteis vix notatis. Expans. alar. antic. unc. 1⅓.
Near the Gwailo River. The red basal half of the costa of the fore
wings, the outwardly angulated apical margin, the shorter hind wings,
with both the anal and outer margin emarginate near the tails, and the
splendid silvery base of the costa of the fore wings beneath, separate
this insect from _Z. Perion_.
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