258 SOUTH-AFEICAK BUTTERFLIES. 



For so small a group there is considerable diversity of form and 

 great differences of colouring among the species. E. Ethosea (Drury), 

 from West Africa, is so peculiar in outline and pattern as to have been 

 placed in the genus Acrcca by Godart ; E. Ojyhwie (Cram.) closely 

 resembles Neptis Meliccrta (Drury) ; E. fidgurata (Boisd.), of Mada- 

 gascar, has a somewhat similar black and white (though much more 

 irregular) pattern, but is very strongly angulated and dentated on the 

 hind-margins ; while the Malaccan and Bornean E. Castclnaui, Feld., 

 is, on the upper side, of an uniform bright blue. The two species 

 occurring in South Africa, E. Hiarhas (Dru.) and E. Eryoj^e (Fab.), 

 present a white or ochre-yellow transverse baud (chiefly developed in 

 the hind-wings) on a blackish-brown ground, while the under side is 

 varied with pale-brown and ferruginous. They have a very wide range 

 through Africa, Hiarhas penetrating considerably farther south than 

 Eryojjc, whose limit seems to be the coast of Natal. Both species 

 are strictly sylvan, and in habits and mode of flight much resemble 

 Creiiis. 



84, (1.) Eurytela Hiarbas, (Drury). 



Plate V. fig. 5 (Var. A. 3 ). 



Pa}nlio Hiarhas, Dru., 111. ]S"at. Hist., iii. pi. 14, flf. i, 2 (1872). 

 Bihlis Hiarha, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. Suppl. p. 824, n. 5-6a (18 19). 

 Eurytela Hiarhas, Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 31, f.. 4 (1846-50). 

 „ „ Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 212, n. 122 (1862). 



Exp. al, 2 in. — 2 in. 6 lin. 



Glossy hlackish-hroum ($ duller and 2^cder), icith a common trans- 

 verse ivhite stripe, commencing near hind-margin (to which it is 

 parallel) of fore-wing about third median nervule, wideniug as it 

 descends, and extending straight across hind-wing from costa (close to 

 apex) to anal angle. Fore-wing : a white dot close to costa near apex, 

 beneath which are two indistinct ferruginous spots, indicates proper 

 origin of transverse stripe ; costa and hind-margin more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous, especially the latter, which is marked by a row of 

 thin silvery-white lunules towards anal angle. Hind-wing: hind- 

 margin coloured as in fore-wing, more conspicuously so near anal 

 angle, and with two rows of silvery lunules, the inner continuous of 

 that of fore-wing, and its lunules touching so as to form a festooned 

 streak, — lunules of the outer row separate, indistinct towards costa. 

 Cilia white between nervules. Ukdek side. — Eale-hroumish with fer- 

 rvginous streaks and elouds ; transverse stripe narrower, not so white as 

 above, commenced by a very thin, often indistinct, streak (originating 

 a little below white costal dot of fore-wing), and interrupted on costa 

 of hind-wing, where it is clouded with ferruginous and marked with a 

 row of three blackish dots: common to loth ivings,- — a dentate out- 



