no SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 



from the same gentleman a 5 from the same locality. These examples wei-e 

 taken respectively in June and July 1868. In 1870 the late Mr. M. J. 

 M'Ken forwarded a (^ , taken in D' Urban Botanic Gardens, on Pcmisettia 

 pulchen'ima, and also a 5 fi'om the same locality. The late Mr. E. C. Buxton 

 met with the species in Swaziland, and in 1873 sent me a photograph of the 

 (J . Colonel Bowker has contributed about a dozen examples, taken in March, 

 April, June, and August, at D'Urban, Avoca, and Pinetown, Natal. He and 

 Mr. Morant both describe the habits of Diodes as resembling those of Antalus. 



Localities of Dcndorix Diodes. 

 I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. D'Urban (TF. Morant, M. J. M'Ken, and /. //. 

 Bolder). Avoca and Pinetown (/. H. Boidier). 

 G. "Swaziland."— The late E. C. Bux-ton. 



175. (3.) Deudorix Dariaves, Hewitson. 



$ $ Deudorix Dariaves, Hewits., " Ent. Month. Mag., xiii. p. 205 (1877) ;" 

 Hh D. Lep., Suppl., p. 30, pi. Va. £f. 60-62 (1878). 



JExp. al., Q) I in. 2 — 3 lin. ; (?) i iu. 6 J liu. 



^ Fuscous-hroum ; fore-wing without marking ; hind-iving very 

 hroadly orange-red exteriorly. Forc-ioing : inner-margin rather convex 

 near base ; sexual tuft of hair long, grey, mixed with fuscous-brown. 

 Hind-wing : orange-red occupying most of the field as in D. Diodes^ 

 Hewits., but extending subcostally (below sexual violaceous badge) 

 nearer to base ; fuscous-brown of basal area reaching to extremity of 

 discoidal cell, and emitting a broad streak all along fold between first 

 median nei'vule and submedian nervure ; hind-marginal black linear 

 edging, tail, anal-angular lobe, and inner-marginal greyish border, as 

 iu Diodes. Under side. — Fore-icing : dull pale-grey ; white-edged 

 markings as in Diodes, but discal macular band more curved near costa, 

 Hind-unng : a sub-basal series of four large, conspicuous, white-ringed 

 spots, of which three are ferruginous-red and the fourth (close to inner- 

 margin) dull broAvn ; terminal disco-cellular mark and discal band 

 arranged as in Diodes, but whitish mesially, and with their white edges 

 (as well as inner edge of submarginal lunular streak) enlarged ; costal 

 spot of discal band interiorly tinged with ferruginous ; hind-marginal 

 black spots strongly marked, especially that on anal-angular lobe, the 

 lunule interiorly edging upper spot pale-yellow ; fuscous space between 

 spots spangled with bluish-silvery scales. 



$ Dull-greyish hrown, with a jw/cr discal sjMce in both icings ; 

 hind-icing with a suhnargincd macular ichitish hand. Fore-wing: paler 

 space sufifusedly covering basal half of median nervules. Hind-wing : 

 paler space less apparent, but extending towards base ; whitish band 

 lying between second subcostal and first median nervules ; hind-mar- 

 ginal spots, black and Avhite edging, and tail quite as in Diodes. 



(This description of the 9 is made from Hewitson's figure ; the under side 

 is not figured, but is stated by Hewitson to be like that of the $ , but paler.) 



