2 70 SOUTH-AFRICAN LUTTERFLIES. 



costal dashes ; a discal series of six or seven spots, viz., three or four 

 forming an oblique subcostal outward-inclining streak between end of 

 cell and apex, and three others in an inward-inclining line between 

 third median nervule and submedian nervure ; inner margin edged 

 rather faintly with the same dull pale-yellowish from near base to 

 beyond middle ; in some specimens a submarginal series of six very 

 indistinct elongate yellowish marks. Hind-wing : a clothing of yel- 

 lowish-grey hairs from base over cell and along inner margin ; the trace 

 of a spot in cell ; two or three discal spots (the uppermost one rather 

 large) between second subcostal nervule and submedian nervure ; a sub- 

 marginal series of marks as in fore-wing, but longer, usually obsolete 

 near apex. Cilia of the ground-colour slightly mixed with yellowish. 

 Under side. — Hind-iving and costal and apical border of fore-wing 

 hrownish ycllow-ochreous ; the hind-wing ivifh two longitudinal whitish 

 stripes. Fore-wing : lower discal spots usually, cellular spot rarely, 

 obsolete ; a rather brighter tinge of yellow along costa ; no trace of 

 submarginal marks. Hind-wing : upper longitudinal stripe, from base 

 through discoidal cell to hind-margin, broad, pretty even in width, 

 creamy or yellowish-white ; lower stripe narrow, sublinear near base, 

 but somewhat widening to hind-margin, running between median and 

 submedian nervures, white without yellowish tinge ; no other markings. 



$ SjJots more decidedly yellow. Fore-wing: only two spots in 

 costal part of discal series, the first and fourth being obsolete. In both 

 wings submarginal marks almost obsolete. Under side. — Hind-wing 

 {except inner-marginal fold) and costal and apical border of fore-wing 

 much pcdcr, inclining to greyish ; both longitudinal stripes of hind-wing 

 broader than in $, the superior one yellower, and the inferior one 

 whiter. 



In this Cyclojndcs the ordinary spots are pallid and poorly defined, 

 and in some specimens obscured and sub-obsolete. One $ is entirely 

 devoid of spots on both surfaces except for a trace of the superior discal 

 spot on the upper side of the hind-wings. 



C. Syrinx to a great extent combines the characters of C. Malgacha, 

 (Boisd.), and C. Lcpeletierii, (Latr.), differing from the former in having 

 conspicuous pale stripes on the under side of the hind-wings, and from 

 the latter in being spotted with yellowish. 



This appears to be not only a strictly mountain butterfly, but one confined 

 to the highest elevations and to particular spots. Colonel Bowker is the only 

 collector that to my knowledge has taken this insect; he discovered it on the 

 19th January 1867 on the summit of Gaika's Kop, the highest point of the 

 Amatola Mountains (Queenstown District of Cape Colony), being estimated 

 as about 6500 feet above the sea. lie noted it as being very numerous among a 

 plant named " Mountain Bamboo," flitting about in hundreds, but not occurring 

 anywhere bej^ond the immediate vicinity of that plant. The only other recorded 

 locality for the species is the Maluti Mountains in Basutoland, where, in Jan- 

 uary 1869, Colonel Bowker again met with it, frequenting the same sort of 

 Mountain Bamboo as on the Amatolas. Among eleven specimens received, two 

 only are females. 



