264 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



settling on the under side of leaves, and they do this so quickly, that 

 to the inexperienced collector they seem to have unaccountably 

 vanished. A good many species are both early and late on the wing, 

 but several do not make their appearance till about sunset. They are 

 rather eager and greedy honey-suckers, and the length of their trunk 

 enables them to rifle the stores of many tubular flowers unvisited by 

 shorter-tomjued butterflies. 



Genus CYCLOPIDES.^ • 



Sierojjes, BoisJ., " Voy. Astrol., Lep., p. 167 (1832)." 



Cijdopides, (Hiibner, 181 6), Westw. , Geii. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 520 (1852). 



Carter ocephalus, Lederer, "Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., ii. p. 26 (1853)." 



Cydopides, Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 292 (1866). 



Cydopidcs and Carterocej)JiaIus, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxix. pp. 181-S2 



(1878), and xl. p 487 (1879). 

 Carterocephalus and Gydrqndes (part), Pliitz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1884, pp. 



386-389. 



Imago. — Head as wide as thorax, hairy ; eyes round, smooth ; a 

 thin compact tuft or pencil of longish stiff hairs springing from 

 between base of each antenna and border of eye ; ^a//>t long, porrected 

 horizontally with dense bristly hair, — terminal joint rather long, taper- 

 ing, slightly depressed at tip, with very short appressed hairs, usually 

 almost hidden by bristly dense hair of middle joint; anfennce short, 

 with a pronounced, rather thick, somewhat compressed, slightly-curved 

 club, blunt (very rarely acuminate) at tip. 



Thorax short and narrow, moderately or sparsely hairy. Wings 

 rather long apically. Fore-'idngs somewhat truncate ; costa beyond 

 basal curve almost straight, or slightly concave beyond middle ; costal 

 nervure terminating at a little beyond middle ; subcostal nervure five- 

 branched, — three nervules originating before, fourth and fifth at, ex- 

 tremity of discoidal cell, — first nervule in three species ( WilUmi, 

 ^gipein, and 3Icninx) very short, running into costal nervure ; upper 

 radial nervule originating near or very near to origin of fifth subcostal 

 nervule ; disco-cellular nervules slender, slightly oblique ; first median 

 nervule given off at a point considerably before middle and far apart 

 from the other median nervules. Hind-ivings very slightly prominent 

 at anal angle ; costa beyond basal lobe almost straight or very slightly 

 arched ; costal nervure terminating at a little before apex ; subcostal 

 nervure branching at a considerable or a little distance before extremity 

 of discoidal cell, — latter being variable in length ; disco-cellular ner- 



' Mr. Kirby (Cat. D. Lep., 1871, p. 623) adopted Dumeril's name Hetcroptcrus (1S06) 

 for tliis genus. It is true that Uumeril happened to give the species Aracintkus, Fab. 

 ( = Morpheus, Pall.) as representing Ileteropterus ; but as his extremely vague and brief 

 definition of the genus applies, and was certainly meant to apply, to the whole group 

 of Ilcsperidte, and not to what modern zoologists mean by a genus, it appears to me that 

 JIdcroptcrus cannot be retained as a generic name. 



