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The insects of this small Genus are dark-brown, with 

 conspicuous yellow spots. Two of the South African species 

 are, however, unspotted, viz., C. Lepeletierii and C. inornatus, 

 of which the former may readily be recognized by the two 

 white strise on under-side of hind-wing. 



182. Cyclopides Metis. 



Papilio Metis, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 792; and Mus 



[Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 325. 

 „ „ Dru., III. Nat. Hist., II, pi. 16, f. 3, 4. 



„ ,, Wtdfen, Capens. Ins , p. ^'S, n. 32. 



„ „ Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 162, f. G. 



Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 528, n 360. 

 Cyclopides Metis, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 112, 



[n. 1205. 

 Steropes Metis, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 594. 

 Heteropterus Metis, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 46. 



Exp. 1 in. — 1 in. 2 lin. 



$ . Dark purplish-brown, ivith orange-yellow spots. Fore- 

 wing : basal region irrorated with yellow scales in three 

 rows, viz., on costa, below median nervure, and on inner- 

 margin ; two spots on costa about middle, the upper just 

 above and partly beyond the lower (which is in cell) ; beyond 

 middle, a transverse row of five spots, of which the second is 

 beyond the line of the others, the third and fourth only 

 separated by second median nervule, and the fifth (just above 

 submedian) smallest and sometimes obsolete. Hind-wing: 

 basal irroration confined to neighbourhood of median and 

 submedian nervures ; a large subquadrate spot at end of cell, 

 with a smaller spot just below it; a submarginal row of 

 seven or eight spots, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are 

 the largest, and the last three ill-defined. Cilia of the 

 ground-colour, but yellow near and at anal angle. Under- 

 side. — Paler, more glossy. Fore-wing : spots larger, paler ; 

 basal irroration forming a distinct streak on costa, and another 

 in cell (the latter confluent with cellular spot). Hind-wing .- 

 unicolorous, excepting only a small yellow spot on costa near 

 base. Cilia as above. 



? . Brown without purplish tinge : spots paler, larger. 

 Fore-wing : spots in and above cell forming one marking ; 

 more irroration in cell. Hind-wing : the small spots of 

 submarginal row very small, some or all of them occasionally 

 wanting (in one example, the first spot is very small, and the 

 only two others, the fourth and fifth, scarcely visible as dots). 



