2 72 SOUTH- AFRTC AX BUTTERFLIES. 



water. "With the exception of a single example from the Transvaal from Mr. T. 

 Aj'res in 1879, the insect had not again been received by me imtil February 

 1888, when four fine ^ s arrived from Mr. J. M. Hutchinson of Estcourt, Katal. 

 These specimens were taken on Table Mountain, Ulundi, in Weenen County, 

 at a height of 6000 feet ; and Mr. Hutchinson wrote that he took thirty 

 examples, and could have easily taken many more without moving from one 

 place, as they flew low and were easily captured. Only a single $ has reached 

 me, accompanying five ^ s from the Amatola station. 



Localities of Ci/clopides uEgipan. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony, 



h. Eastern Districts. — Hog's Back, Amatola Mountains (/. H. 

 Boiclier). 

 E. Natal. 



a. Upper Districts. — Ulundi, Weenen County {J. M, Hutclmison). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (7". Aijres). 



319. (5.) Cyclopides Meninx, Trimen. 



^ Cycloindes Meninx, Trim., Trans. Eiit. Soc. Lond., 1873, P- ^^i, pi. i. 



f. 12. 

 $ $ Tliymelicus Meninx, "Wallengr., Ofv. K. Yet.-Akad. Fcirh., 1S75, 



}). 92. 

 (J Cyclopides argeideostriatus, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1886, p. no, n. 19b. 



Ex]}. al., ($) lo^ — 1 1 J lin. ; ($) i i^ lin. 



^ Dark-hroum, rather glossy, without marhings ; cilia paler, more 

 glossy. Under side. — Paler ; a hind-inarginal scries of chrome-yellow 

 spots ; liind-tving with three Imigitudinal silky-white stripes. Pore-wing : 

 four or five hind-marginal spots, small, triangular, inter-nerviilar, be- 

 tween apex and third or second median nervule, diminishing in size 

 downward ; on costa, beyond middle, three or four inter-nervular yellow 

 dashes, and immediately beneath the outermost but one of these, 

 usually two small similar marks, one above the other. Hind-tving : 

 upper silky-white longitudinal stripe broad, commencing abruptly in 

 discoidal cell near extremity, and reaching to hind-margin ; lower one 

 much narrower, running from base between median and submedian 

 nervures, and fining ojQF into a thin line before reaching hind-margin, 

 and the lowest one forming a narrow inner-marginal edging from base 

 to beyond middle ; six hind-marginal yellow spots, larger than in 

 fore-wing, — the first sublinear, elongate, — the third at extremity of 

 upper white stripe ; some indistinct thin inter-nervular yellowish striee 

 on disc, and a short disco-cellular one at base. 



Head and body all very dark brown ; among hairs of palpi a few 

 dull-yellowish ones ; antennae very dark brown above, but white beneath. 



$ Paler, and with a slight tinge of ochreous-ycllow. Fore-wing : 

 yellow subcostal marks beyond middle larger, better defined, three 



