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together forming a sliort transverse streak ; below and beyond these a 

 fourth very small yellow spot. Under side. — As in $, but all hind- 

 marginal spots larger, and the subcostal marks of fore- wing as on upper 

 side, but larger. 



This little C/jcIop ides is on the upper side in both sexes like a mini- 

 ature C. ^Uyipan, Trim., but is strikingly different on the under side, 

 the marginal yellow spots and the shining white stripes of the hind- 

 wings giving it a very varied and unique aspect. Except for the 

 under-side stripes, Ilotinx bears a near resemblance to a South- 

 American species, figured under the name of 3Icnes by Cramer {Pa]). 

 Exot, iv.j pi. cccxciii. {{. 11, i) and Stoll {SuppL, pi. vii. f. 6 g). 



Mr. AV. Morant, in December 1868, first made this butterfly known to me, 

 forwarding a $ which he had taken near Potchefstroom, Transvaal, and which 

 I described as the type of G. Meninx in 1872. Later in the latter year, I re- 

 ceived from him seven ^ s and a 9 from the same locality, as well as a (J 

 from Mr. T. Ayres, also taken at Potchefstroom. In the collection acquired 

 from jNIr. Ayres in 1879, the South-African Museum received four fine $s, all 

 noted as taken in the Potchefstroom District. Mr. Morant described the 

 insect as occurring early in December and flying feebly, and both he and Mr. 

 Ayres stated that it was confined to marshy ground and the banks of streams. 

 ■Wallengren {Ofv. K. Vei.-Almd. ForJi., 1875, p. 92) mentions that Mr. N. 

 Person found Meninx pretty commonly at Potchefstroom in damp spots during 

 the months December to February. 



Localities of Cijdopides Meninx. 



I. South Africa. 



E. "Natal."— Plotz. 



K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and District {W. Morant and T. Aijres). 



320. (G.) Cyclopides Willemi, (Wallengren). 



(J lleteropterus Willemi, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; 



Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 47, n. 2. 

 ^ Ci/dopides? Willemi, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 296, n. 186(1866). 

 Cyclopides Cheles, Hewits., Descr. 100 N. Sp. Hesp., ii. p. 42, n. 5 (1868) ; 



and Exot. Butt., v. ph 59, ff. 12, 13 (1874). 



Exp. al, {$) I in. 3-3^ lin. 



$ Darli-broivn, very slifjhtly glossy ; fore-wing with an oider-discal 

 and also a suhmarginal series of dull pale-yelloivish spots. Forc-icing : 

 spots of discal series elongate, the first three forming (with a minute 

 superior costal dot of the same colour) a short transverse subcostal 

 streak, the fourth and fifth nearer hind-margin, and almost touching 

 third and fourth spots of suhmarginal series, and the ninth and seventh 

 (of which the latter is small and sometimes obsolete) almost in a line 

 below first three ; eight spots in submarginal row, of which the four 

 upper are linear and indistinct, but the four lower much broader and 

 distinct. Hind-iring without markings. Under side. — Hind-iving 

 and apical hind-marginal border of fore-icing ycUoidsh-wliite, with 

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