274 SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



strongly hlachish-doudcd nenration. Forc-iving : ground a, little paler 

 than on upper side ; costal edge and upper side of costal nervure with 

 a line of yellowish-white ; only first three spots of discal series repre- 

 sented, and those smaller and more separate than on upper side ; apical 

 hind-marginal yellowish-white border wide at apex, but narrowing to 

 a point above submedian nervure, divided into seven or eight separate, 

 elongate, inwardly acuminate spots by the blackish-clouded nervules. 

 Hind-u'ing : neuration, a streak from base through discoidal cell to 

 hind-margin, two very irregular median and two less irregular sub- 

 marginal transverse blackish streaks from costal to submedian nervure, 

 and inner-marginal fold except along inner edge, all strongly blackish. 



Head and palpi clothed with a mixture of yellow and blackish hairs. 

 Thorax blackish above, with mixed yellow and blackish hairs frontally 

 and laterally ; yellowish- white beneath. Legs yellowish-white, with a 

 black middle streak longitudinally. Abdomen blackish above, yel- 

 lowish-white beneath, and with a small terminal yellow tuft. 



The blackish neuration and irregular transverse stripes, conspi- 

 cuous on the almost white ground of the under side of the hind-wings, 

 present a very peculiar reticulated appearance, and give Willcmi some 

 resemblance to the larger and beneath much more conspicuously orna- 

 mented C. Sferojjcs (W. V.) of Europe ; but the butterfly has no very 

 near congener known to me. 



Very few examples of this species have come under my notice, and I have 

 not seen the female. As far as known, it would appear to inhabit chiefly the 

 country skirting the Southern Tropic, Mr. Hewitson recording it from Damara- 

 land, while a few have been taken in Bechuanaland and the Eastern Transvaal. 

 In 1886 'Mt. a. G. Butler recorded its having occurred in the remote region of 

 Somaliland. 



Localities of Cgcloj)ides Willcmi. 



I. South Africa. 



Iv. Transvaal. — -Lydenburg District {T. Ayres) and Barberton (C. F. 

 Palmer). Crocodile River (F. H. Barber), Marico River (F. 

 C. Selous). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — '• Damaraland." — Hewitson. 

 ^i. Eastern Interior. — Between Transvaal and Gubulewayo {A. W. 

 Erilisson). 



B. North Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — " Somaliland (Thrupj^)." — Butler. 



32L (7.) Oyclopides Lepeletierii, (Latreille). 



Hesperia Lepeletier, Latr., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 777, n. 134 (1823). 

 Cydopides LepeleUerii, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 295, n. 184 

 (1 866). 



Ex2J. al, ($) I in. i i^- lin. ; ($) i in. 2 lin. 



^ Rather glossy dark-hrown, nnicolorous, unthout marking of any 



