94 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



Tliis well-known species appears in open ground generally during the 

 autumn, from the middle of February to the end of May, being most numerous 

 in March. Among the great number oi ^ s Avhich keep in active flight over 

 the fields, very few 9 s are to be seen — I think not more than one in fifty. 

 Ghjtus is of wide distribution in the Cape Colony, but does not seem to occur 

 further eastward, the nearly allied L. Oxylus, niihi, replacing it in Kaffraria 

 Proper. 



Localities of Leptoncura Clytus. 

 I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Caledon {J. X. Merriman). 



Genadendal {G. Hdtarsch). Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Oudts- 

 hoorn ( — Adams). 



b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown (M. E. Barher). Uitenhage 



{S. D. Bairstoio). Seymour, Stockenstrom (\V. C. Scull//). 



20. (3.) Leptoneura Oxylus, Trimen. 



Plate VL fig. 5, S • 



^ Leptoneura Oxylus, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1881, p. 437. 

 Leptoneura Clytus (Linn.), Var. A., Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 194 

 (1866). 



Uxp. al., 2 in. 7^-9^ lin. 



^ Brown, strongly glossed with a hronzy lustre of mingled reddish 

 and greenish ; fore-wing ivith pale-creamy macular transverse suhmarginal 

 stripes. Fore-wing : a transverse, exteriorly convex, interiorly strongly- 

 dentate, pale-creamy macular stripe, from costa just beyond middle to 

 anal angle ; of this stripe the upper portion is rather narrow and un- 

 interrupted, but the lower portion is broader and consists of three spots 

 more or less completely separated from the upper portion and from each 

 other ; close to apex, a short, much curved, unbroken, wider stripe of 

 the same colour, from near costa to third median nervule, along which, 

 by a very thin ray, it is united to the preceding stripe ; touching inner 

 edge of this short stripe are three rather small, more or less confluent, 

 black ocelli with widely blue-clouded white pupils, bounded interiorly 

 by a thin creamy-yellow line ; along hind-margin a rather narrow, ill- 

 defined whitish border, separated by a brown streak from apical pale- 

 creamy stripe, and traversed longitudinally by another brown streak 

 close to hind-marginal edge. Eind-wi7ig : beyond middle, between 

 second subcostal nervule and submedian nervure, a curved transverse 

 row of five conspicuous black ocelli, with bluish white pupils, in pale 

 fulvous rings ; of these ocelli the fifth is much smaller than the rest, 

 and often bipupillate ; a narrow hind-marginal border of a paler brown 

 than the ground-colour, traversed by a dark brown streak close to hind- 

 marginal edge. Under side : rather paler, less glossy. Fore-wing : the 

 creamy bands whiter, the inner one considerably narrowed, its upper 

 portion more irregular, and sometimes even interrupted, its lower 

 macular portion with the two lower spots very much reduced or obsolete ; 

 the inner edge of this stripe is defined by a dentate stria darker than 



