I20 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



suffused oclireous ones of Dendropliilus) in the fore-wings. They settle 

 on tree trunks, usually near the ground, and almost always head down- 

 ward, their flight, though pretty frequent, being short and weak. 



31. (1.) Lethe dendrophilus, (Trimen). 



$ Satyrus dendrophilus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. p. 



399 (1862). 

 (J 9 Debis dendrophilus, Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 191, n. 108, pi. 



3, f. 8 (1866). 

 [ Neope dendrophilus, Butl., Cat. Satyr. Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 113, n. 3 (1868). 



Uxp. al, (^) 2 in. 6-IO lin. ; (^) 2 in. 9 lin. — 3 in. 



^ Dull-brown in fore-wing, suffused with fulvous-ochreous, and with 

 a disced roio of yelloio and fulvous-ochreous spots ; fulvous-ochreous in 

 hirid-wing hordered vnth dull-hroivn. Fore-iving : a fulvous-ochreous 

 tinge over basal half and to near anal angle ; beyond middle, an irregu- 

 larly sinuate transverse row of seven spots, ill-defined externally, from 

 costa to submedian nervure ; the spot on costal edge whitish, the 

 others ochreous-yellow, deepening outwardly into fulvous, elongated 

 longitudinally, the largest between second and third median nervules ; 

 beyond these, a submarginal row of five small whitish spots, indis- 

 tinctly ringed with blackish, from fourth subcostal to second median 

 nervule ; occasionally a minute sixth spot nearer costa ; a pale-brown 

 narrow hind-marginal border, divided by a dark-brown line. Hinel- 

 wing : fulvous-ochreous ; hind-marginal border as in fore-wing, but 

 wider, with another dark line separating it from the ground-colour ; a 

 submarginal row of seven white-pupilled, rounded, black spots, of which 

 the second and the fourth are smaller than the rest (or sometimes 

 wanting altogether), and the last, above submedian nervure close to 

 anal-angle, is sometimes bipupillate ; inner-marginal region pale- 

 brownish. Under side. — Pcder,with a slight violaceous lustre ; fulvous- 

 ochreous suffusion entirely absent. Fore-wing : markings, similar, fainter ; 

 a dark, waved streak crossing discoidal cell, which has likewise a faint 

 ochreous and two faint whitish transverse markings ; a row of whitish 

 spots as above, but the second distinctly ringed with black and yellow ; 

 apex and base suffused with faint brownish. Hind-wing : same colour 

 as apex of fore-wing ; with a strong violaceous gloss ; four irregular, 

 interrupted, brown strise crossing basal half; row of ocelli as above, 

 but in pale-yellow rings ; two dentate stria bordering hind-margin, 

 which is paler than rest of wing ; a space inwardly bordering the ocelli, 

 from discoidal nervule to submedian nervure near anal angle, irrorated 

 with fuscous scales. Cilia dark-brown, interrupted with white between 

 nervules. 



$ Similar, but 2jaler and duller. Fore-wing : the spots of discal 

 row of a much paler yellow interiorly, — the first three of them (includ- 

 ing the yellowish-white one on costa) forming a narrow oblique bar. 



