210 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRAtlS. 



I know nothing of the habits of this elegant little species, which does not 

 seem to occur further to the South than Natal. Boisduval states that it is 

 found in Bourbon and Mauritius, about the pathways in woods and ravines. 

 He further notes that specimens from Madagascar, where the butterfly is 

 very common, are paler and more yellowish than usual, and that the ? 

 examples generally present a row of three or four ocelli in hind-wing. 



Mauritius ? (E. L. Layard).— Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 Natal. Mauritius.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 ** Madagascar (St. Marie et Grand Terre). Bourbon. 

 Port Natal."— Boisd. 



Family 7-— EURYTELID^. 



EUKYTELID^, E. Douhl. 



BiBLis (gen.), Godt. 

 BiBLiDES, Boisd. 

 Bi ELITES, Blanch, 

 BiBLiT.^, Chenu. 



Imago. — Head of moderate size ; e^/es sometimes hairy ; 

 palpi markedly elongate, not compressed laterally, finely and 

 smoothly hairy beneath, separate throughout their length, 

 very slightly converging at tips, the last joint bent at a very 

 obtuse angle with the second and protuding horizontally 

 about level with top of head ; antennce of moderate length, 

 with a gradually-formed slender club. Thorax rather slender, 

 pilose, a little longer than in the Satyridce. Fore-wings not 

 so broad as in the Satyridce ; angulated in two genera ; costa 

 but little arched ; apex rather pronounced ; hind-margin 

 always more or less dentate ; inner-margin straight ; costal 

 nervure strongly swollen at base. Hind-wings truncate-ovate: 

 costa nearly straight after the strong basal curve ; apex more 

 prominent than usual in hind-wing ; hind-margin more den- 

 tate than that of fore- wing ; anal angle well-marked ; groove 

 formed by inner-margins incomplete, shallow, leaving more 

 or less of abdomen uncovered. Discoidal cell of both wings 

 apparently closed by a very slender nervule. Fore-legs much 

 atrophied, but less so than in the Satyridce, those of $ , even, 

 being very apparent, thin, with the femora finely hairy. 

 Other legs short, rather stout, the femora pilose. Abdomen 

 slender, prolonged in Hypanis. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, attenuated towards extremity, which 

 is terminated by two points ; head spiny. 



