92 SOUTH- AFEIC AN BUTTERFLIES. 



nympha, and in the case of L. Clyhts (the most numerous of the 

 known species), inclining to take a circular direction. With the excep- 

 tion of Clytus, the members of this genus appear to be very local, and 

 none of them seems to present the abundance in individuals of the 

 species named, — Cassus, Linn., being, however, tolerably plentiful near 

 Cape Town. 



The undoubted occurrence of the latter species in Madagascar is 

 very remarkable, as it certainly seems to be scarcer in the eastern 

 districts of the Colony, and is not recorded from Natal or from the 

 African coast nearer to Madagascar. But for this singular extension 

 of the range of one of its species, Lcptoncura would stand as one of the 

 few endemic South- African e-enera. 



19. (1.) Leptoneura Clytus, (Linn.) 



Papilio Clytus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 268, n. 87 (i 764) ; and Syst. 



JSTat., i. 2, p. 768, n. 124 (1767). 

 Papilio Tisiphone, Rott., in Naturforschen, vi. p. 16, t. i, fF. i, 2 (1775); 



apud Kirby, Syn. Cat. D. Lep., p. 56. 

 Papilio Clytus, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. pi. Ixxxvi. fF. c, D (1779). 



„ „ Wulfen, l3escr. Capens. Ins., p. 31, n. 30 (1786). 



Satyyus Clytus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 525, n. 132 (1819). 

 Erehia Clytus, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., ii. p. 380, n. 43 (185 i). 

 Leptoneura Clytus, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, Lep. Rhop. 

 Caffr., p. 31. 

 „ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 192, n. 109 (1866). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 1-4 lin. 



Brown, with a glistening greenish and reddish surface-light ; fore- 

 wing with creamy-yelloio, macular, transverse stripes. Fore-wing : on 

 costa beyond middle commences an outwardly-convex, interiorly much- 

 dentated creamy-yellow band, very variable in depth of hue, width, and 

 continuity, properly reaching to submedian nervure, but often shorter 

 and much interrupted by ground-colour ; this band is usually joined 

 about first median nervule by a much narrower stripe of the same 

 colour from fourth subcostal nervule near apex, outwardly bordering a 

 large ocellus, which is narrowly edged with darker yellow inwardly ; 

 ocellus compound, elongate, black, with two (rarely three) large blue 

 pupils. Hind-iuing : near and parallel to hind-margin a row of five 

 black, fulvous-ringed ocelli, unipupillate with blue, of which the fifth 

 is much the smallest and occasionally nearly obsolete ; rarely a sixth 

 small ocellus near costa. Under side. — Paler ; hind-ioing much paler, 

 loith dark zigzag stria). Fore-wing : apex greyish-white ; yellow stripes 

 much narrowed, the larger seldom reaching below third median nervule, 

 its inner edge thence being indicated by a dentate dark-brown streak, 

 — the outer forming with the inner edging only a ring about ocellus ; 

 in discoidal cell, about its centre, two dark transverse streaks, the 

 inner of which is macular and nearly always continued to submedian 

 nervure. Kind-wing : transverse stria3 three, — the macular one near 



