1 64 SOUTH- AFEIC AN BUTTEEFLIES. 



Antemicc, in both sexes, marked beneath with a conspicuous broad 

 white bar, just at the base of the club. 



There is considerable variety in the depth of colouring of the under 

 side, especially in the $, the ferruginous in some being much paler and 

 duller, and the metallic spots much reduced and mostly indistinct. The 

 upper side of the ^ varies much in the extent of the basal fuscous suf- 

 fusion and the completeness of the discal row of spots in the hind- 

 wing. 



Hopffer {loc. cit.) points out that the Mozambique specimens are smaller 

 and of a duller red, but have more brilliant metallic spots (especially in the 

 hind-wings) than those from the Cape. His figures represent longer and 

 straighter tails on the hind-wings than I have seen in any South- African 

 examples. 1 Four (^ s and a 9 from Sierra Leone, in the Hope Museum at 

 Oxford (1S67) also differed from the South-African specimens in their longer 

 tails and more brilliant under-side s^iots^ and the $ had the hind-wings uni- 

 formly fulvous to the hind-margin. 



Though a near ally of the West-African Perion, Cram. {Pap. Exot., t. 

 ccclxxix, B, c), with which both Hopffer and myself associated it, this butter- 

 fly is really quite distinct, presenting a much less regvilar transverse series of 

 spots on both surfaces, and a very much shorter and narrower tail in the 

 hind-wings. 



Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban found i7rty2>a.c very abundant near King "William's 

 Town, taking it from October to December, and again in March ; he noted 

 that it frequented bushes with sweet scented flowers, one of its favourites 

 being the thorny Arduina fevox. Colonel Bowker noted the same habits in 

 Kaffraria Proper ; and the few individuals I met with in Natal were all taken 

 on or about various shrubs in February and March. Its flight and motions 

 (juite resemble those of the species of Aphnceus. I met with single specimens 

 at Uitenhage and at East London in the month of February. 



This butterfly has a very wide range over Africa, but, as far as it is 

 known, seems more j^revalent to the south of the Equator. 



Localities of Chrysorychia Harpax. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage. Grahamstown and Fish River 



{M.E. Barhcr). King William's Town {W. U Urban). East 



London. 

 D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. H. Bovlier). 



1 Two i s and a 9 since received from Delagoa Bay quite agree with Hojjffer's diagnosis, 

 and the tails uf the hind-wings (though not so straight as in his figures) are much longer and 

 more linear than in Natalian and other more southern examples. The red of the 6 is decidedly 

 paler and more orange on the upper side ; and in both sexes the under side is paler, and its 

 metallic spots more brilliant and more numerous, especially in the hind-wing,— the sub- 

 marginal spots in the fore-wing being also metallic, as well as a hind-marginal streak in the 

 hind-wing. 



Specimens from Matabeleland are remarkable in both sexes for their paler upper-side 

 colouring, and in the c? for the narrower apical border; while in the ? (which is larger than 

 usual) the discal spots, and, in the hind-wings, the sub-marginal spots are much reduced. 



Two i s from Zumbo on the Zambesi, taken by Mr. Selous, agree closely with those from 

 Querimba. 



