300 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



and allied groups, more especially in the female, is emphatically charac- 

 terised by its erect palpi, short antennae, very exceptional neuration of 

 the fore-wings, and extraordinary shape of the fore-wings in the ^. 

 The last-named feature gives a peculiarly clumsy, almost deformed look 

 to the male, rendering it impossible to fail in recognising a Godartia of 

 that sex ; but the female in pattern and outline of wings usually much 

 resembles a Diadema or Eur alia. All the six species recorded are 

 Ethiopian only, one being from Madagascar ; and in all but one — G. 

 Trajanus, Ward, from Camaroon in Western Africa, which has white 

 markings tinged with yellow, and a chestnut-red basal patch in the 

 fore-wings — the male has a peculiar colouring of shining-greenish ray- 

 marks and spots on a black ground. This gives him somewhat of the 

 appearance of a Danais of the Limniace section ; but his shape is so 

 very different, that the resemblance in life cannot be very close, 

 especially as I learn from Mrs. Monteiro that his habits and flight are 

 quite unlike those of the Danaine butterflies. Mr. Butler [Lep. Exot., 

 p. 5 3), in noticing the resemblance to a West- African Danais borne 

 by G. Eurinome (Cram.), points out that the female of the latter is the 

 more accurate mimicker ; and in the case of the only species — G. 

 Wakefieldii, Ward — inhabiting Southern Africa, it is noticeable that 

 the male is less like a Eanais than his near congeners, while the female 

 clearly imitates a large black-and-white species of Amauris. All the 

 Godartice have the head, palpi, prothorax, breast, and legs spotted with 

 white, and their abdomen (except apparently in G. Trajanus) is 

 ochreous-yellow. 



G. Wah'ficldii is a native of Eastern Africa, and its only known 

 South- African station is Delagoa Bay. 



98. (1.) Godartia Wakefieldii, Ward. 



Godartia Wahefieldii, Ward, Ent. M. Mag., x. p. 152, pi. vi. f. 3 (1873). 

 $ „ „ Oberth., Etudes d'Ent., liv. iii. p. 28, pi. ii. f. 5 



(1878). 



Exp. a!., ($) 3 in. 6 lin. 



^ Black, loitlh macular hands and spots of pale-green changing to 

 white in certain liglits. Fore-wing : an oblique median macular band 

 of nine distinct elongate spots, running from costa before middle to 

 inner margin beyond middle ; of this band, one large spot is in dis- 

 coidal cell, and of the eight spots external to it, the second and eighth 

 are much the smallest (almost linear), and the fifth and sixth the 

 largest ; a subapical slightly-oblique bar of three separate rather small 

 subquadrate spots ; a submarginal row of six very small rounded 

 spots (of which the upper four are wanting in one example). Hind- 

 wing : a sub-basal pale-green patch occupies discoidal cell and a space 

 below and above it, but does not reach base or extend above first 



