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subcostal nervule or below sabmedian nervure ; this patch, is divided 

 very unequally into six by the crossing black nervures, the cellular 

 portion being very much the largest, and the portion at furcation of 

 third and second median nervules very much the smallest ; a discal row 

 of eight conspicuous rounded spots, of which the first is largest, and the 

 seventh and eighth (close together) are the smallest ; close to hind- 

 margin, a row of eight minute inter-nervular spots ; just preceding them, 

 in lower part of wing, a closer series of similar spots arranged in pairs 

 between nervules. Under side. — Hind-ioing, and costal, ajncal, and 

 hind-marginal border of forc-icinj warm ochreous-hrown ; markings of 

 upper side reproduced, but those of fore-wing greenish-white and those 

 of hind-wing pure-white. Forc-vnnrj : a very small white spot on costa 

 at base ; another, close to the first, at origin of median nervure ; a 

 rather larger one on costa near base ; and a similar one in discoidal 

 cell a little beyond the third. Hind-ioing : three small white spots at 

 and near base, — one at base marking common origin of nervures, 

 another just above costal nervure, and another on precostal nervure ; 

 a fourth larger white spot on costa a little farther from base ; sub-basal 

 patch produced inferiorly to inner margin ; a ninth small spot in discal 

 row near inner margin ; eight minute spots along hind- margin edged 

 with fuscous ; inner series of minute spots completed as far as costa. 



Head, palpi, collar, breast, and legs black spotted with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous-yellow, fuscous superiorly at end near its base. 



I have not seen the 5 ^ of this species, but, through the kindness of Mr. A. 

 G. Butler, of the Brilish JMuseum, possess a lithographic figure of it in the proof 

 of a plate intended for a third part of Ward's African Butterflies. From this 

 carefully drawn figure of the vipper side, it is evident that the J differs much 

 from the $ , wearing more the aspect of the genus Euralia. The fore-wino-s 

 are lengthened and produced apically {exp. al., 3 in. 8 lin.), and the median 

 band is enlarged by the increased size and complete union of the cellular and 

 the four larger divisions, while the subapical bar is similarly much enlarged ; 

 there are further a small spot superiorly just preceding subapical bar, and one 

 in discoidal cell near base. The hind-wings have the patch very much enlarged 

 outwardly, and extending very broadly quite to inner-marginal edge ; the sub- 

 marginal row of very small white spots in pairs complete, as on the under side 

 of the $ , 



G. Wakefieldii, as far as the $ is concerned, seems more closely allied to 

 the West- African type of the genus, G. Eurinome, Cramer, than to any other 

 known Godartia. The $ is distinguished from that sex of Eurinome by its 

 deeper-green markings, and by their greater development in the fore-wing, the 

 component spots of both the median and subapical bands constituting a toler- 

 ably even and continuous bar, instead of being widely separated and irregularly 

 placed. The $ Wakefieldii differs greatly from the $ Eurinome in the fore- 

 wing, which is produced apically, instead of being of the ordinary form ; and 



^ The South-African Museum has since acquired a ? example taken at Delagoa Bay by 

 Mrs. Monteiro. On the upper side it nearly resembles the figure described in the text, but 

 in the fore-wing has the median band (which is pure white) wider in the lower portion, and 

 wants a small white spot in the discoidal cell near the base. On the under side tlie white 

 markings are like those of the upper side, the basal white spots are similar to those in the <J , 

 and the brown of the margins is of a much duller, less ochreous, brown. 



