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Woods and copses, , . •, „ 



October (b)— December (e). May (m). "February and April. — 

 D'Urban. " Marcii (e)."— H. I. Atherstone. 



This elegant butterfly was common at Knysna, but quite contined uO 

 ■wooded spots, where it haunted particular bushes and young trees very 

 constantly. Several specimens would keep about one tree, on the trunk of 

 which they delighted to settle and sun themselves, expanding their wings 

 and shuffling about in a peculiar fashion. Their flight was not rapid, but 

 rather high, and often long-sustaised, the insects floating backwards and 

 forwards in a pendulum -like manner, which was not ungraceful. 

 Knysna. — Coll. Tri. 



Kleinemond River, Bathurst.— Coll. II. I. Atherstone. 

 Bashee River, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker).— Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 " Graham's Town. East London. King William's 

 Town."— D'Urban, in litt. 



KafFraria. Sierra Leone. Ashanti.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Port Natal."— Boisd. 



123. Eurytela Dryope. 



Papilio Dryope, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 78, f. E, F. 



Herhst, Ins.—SchmetU, VII, pi. 1G8, f. 



[5, 6. 

 „ „ Fah., Ent. Syst., in, I, p. 256, n. 793. 



Biblis Dryope, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, Suppl., p. 824, 



[n. 5 — 6b. 

 Eurytela Dryope, Boisd. App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 59L 

 Exp. 2 in. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Closely allied to E. Hiarbas. Dark-brown, with a common 

 transverse shining orange - yelloio band, having the same 

 direction as in Hiarbas, but broader and commencing at the 

 hind-marginal projection below apex o^ fore-ioing, extending 

 to anal angle of hind-wing, keeping considerably closer to 

 hind-margin in $ than in ? ; a common orange-yellow 

 lunular streak along hind-margin, assuming a glistening -bluish 

 tint towards anal angle of hind- wing. In ? , which is paler, 

 numerous indistinct transverse dusky striae in basal half of 

 wing (as in Cramer's figure). Under-side.— Very like that 

 of Hiarbas : ground-colour slightly darker ; white rings near 

 bases filled with ferruginous ; transverse ferruginous striae 

 and stripe more macular and irregular ; orange-yellow band 

 represented by an ill-defined pale-ochreous one ; between 

 this band and the ferruginous stripe, a transverse, tvell- 

 marked, sinuate white streak ; hind- marginal streak white. 

 In ? the hind-marginal region is much clouded with brown, 

 obscuring the pale-ochreous band. 



Poit Natal. Sierra Leone. Ashanti.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 "Madagascar (St. Marie. Tintingue. Tamatave)."— Boisd. 



