2 76 SOUTH- AFRICAN" BUTTERFLIES. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage (J. 11. Botcher and S. D. Bair- 



stuw). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — Congo : " Kinsembo (FI. Ansell)." — Butler. 

 " Angola (Pogge) and Chinchoxo {Falkenstein)." — DeM'itz. 



322. (8.) Cyclopides Tsita, Trimen. 



Cyclopides Tsita, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1870, p. 386, pi. vi. 

 f. 13. 



Ux^. al, ($) I in. 1-4 lin. ; ($) i in. 3-3^ lin. 



Allied to C. Lepeletierii, Latr., and C. inornatus, Trimen. 



$ Glossy greyish -})7'own, ujiicoloi^ous, without markings of any 

 hind ; cilia paler, with a silky lustre. Under side. — Hind-ioing {except 

 fuscous-broivn inner -marginal fold) and costal and apical-hind-marginal 

 horder of fore-wing paler hrown with a reddish tinge, and with the neu- 

 ration usually finely whitish in parts ; hiiid-margin of both wings ^vith 

 a fine whitish edging line. Hind-wing : two longitudinal white streaks 

 (as in Lepeletierii) but more attenuated, — in some specimens quite faint 

 or reduced to mere whitish lines ; neuration generally whitish, but 

 seldom so above disco-cellular fold ; between the two white streaks 

 (even when the streaks are scarcely represented) some more or less 

 developed diffuse white irroration. 



$ Like $, but rather paler on both surfaces, and with longer and 

 more pointed fore-wings. Under side. — Fine white neuration general 

 and better defined, but white stripes reduced to mere lines like the 

 white nervures. 



It is in specimens from King William's Town and Kaffraria Proper 

 that the white stripes and irroration of the under side of the hind-wings 

 are best expressed. A constant feature distinguishing Tsita from 

 Lepeletierii is the fine white neuration more or less prevalent on the 

 under side, to which should be added the fine white hind-marginal 

 edging line. Tlie Natal examples that I have met with are smaller 

 than usual, and, like the Basutoland ones on which I founded the spe- 

 cies, have the white stripes on the under side of the hind-wings no 

 wider and no more conspicuous than the adjacent white nervures. 



Mr. W. S. M. D' Urban noted this obscurely tinted species as abundant in 

 the King William's Town District ; and Colonel Bowker found it commonly 

 about grassy spots in Kaffraria Proper, and in similar places by river-banks in 

 Basutoland. The examples that I cai)tured on the Natal coast haunted similar 

 localities, flitting about long grass in February and March. A specimen taken 

 in Zululand by Captain Goodrich is ticketed "November 1886," and three 

 from Weenen County, Natal, were captured by IMr. J. M. Hutchinson in Janu- 

 ary 1888. 



