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LocaliLifS of Ci/clojndcs Sijrinx. 



I. South Africa. 

 13. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Gaika's Kop, Amatola jNIountains, Queen- 



stown District (/. //. Bowlcer). 

 c. Basutoland. — Maluti JNIountains (/. //. Boicker). 



318. (4.) Oyclopides JEgipan, Trimen. 



i 9 Cydojndcs J^Jcjipan, Trim., Trans. Ent. See. Lond., 1868, p. 94, 

 pl. vi. f. 9[(^]. 



Exp.al, {t) I in. ij-^i lin. ; (?) i in. 2\ lin. 

 $ Glossy dark-hroicn (in Jive examjjles with a suhmctallic hronzy- 

 greenish gloss) ; cilia |?aZcr hrotvn, very glossy, mixed with yellow in 

 Mnd-iving. Fove-wing : some inconspicuous ochre-yellow irroration 

 about base, chiefly on costa ; beyond middle, a short costal mark of 

 two or three very small indistinct yellowish spots (sometimes obsolete). 

 Undeii side. — Hind-wing and costal horder of fore-wing very glossy 

 yclloivish-grcy. Fore-wing : ground-colour much paler than on upper 

 side, not much darker than hind- wing in some examples ; costal mark 

 usually better developed, chrome-yellow ; a hind-marginal chrome- 

 yellow border from apex (where it is of moderate width) narrowing to 

 a point about second median nervule. Ilind-wing : inner-marginal 

 fold darker, al)Out the same tint as ground-colour of fore-wing. 



Paljn with a dense admixture of yellow hairs, with fewer fuscous 

 ones ; abdomen with lateral stripe, under side of anal segment, and 

 conspicuous terminal tuft chrome-yellow. 



? Falcr, the brown ground-colour with a yellower tinge ; fore-iving 

 with three chrome-yellow marks. Fore-wing : in discoidal cell a trans- 

 versely elongate spot near extremity ; costal mark beyond middle 

 much larger than in $, well defined, tripartite ; beneath the latter, 

 between second and third median nervules, a small spot. Cilia of 

 fore-wing mixed with yellowish-grey ; of hind-wing, wholly pale 

 chrome-yellow. U>'DER side. — Hind-wing yellower ; fore-wing with 

 costal mark conspicuous, but other spots indistinct. 



This species is a near ally of Malgacha, Boisd., but readily distin- 

 guishable by its larger size, total want of spots in the hind-wings, and 

 yellow apical hind-marginal edging on the under side of the fore-wings. 

 The spotless, or all but spotless, upper side resembles that of Lepele- 

 tierii, Latr., but from that species and from Syrinx, Trim., this butterfly 

 is easily known by the absence of white stripes on the under side of 

 the hind-wings. 



Like C. S//rin.r, Trim., this Hesperid frequents high elevations. Colonel 

 Bowker having discovered it on the Hog's Back in the Amatola range on 2otli 

 January 1867, where he reported it to be not uncommon among long grass near 



