302 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



in which the enlarged markings are massed into a median and a subapical 

 band, instead of being scattered and separated. 



This very striking species, tirst known from East Africa between 3° and 4° 

 S. of the Equator, was found at Delagoa Bay by the late Mr. J. J. Monteiro, 

 but does not seem to extend farther soutliward. Mrs. Monteiro informs me 

 that she has noticed several specimens of JFakefieldii sporting together and 

 " tumbling over each otlier," at a height of about six feet from the ground. She 

 found the insect wary, letting one approach pretty near, and then going 

 straight towards the nearest cover with an irregular but not swift flight. It 

 was attracted like the Nochice to "sugar." An example of the $ from Delagoa 

 Bay was presented to the South- African Museum in 1882 by Mrs. Thompson, 

 through the good offices of Colonel Bowker. It is almost exactly like Ober- 

 thiir's figure, above cited, of a Zanzibar example, and has the central band of 

 the fore-wings considerably narrower and more macular than in a figure of the 

 typical $ which accompanies that of the $ in the plate for Ward's African 

 Bidterjlies, above mentioned as communicated to me by Mr. Butler. 



While the $ of this Godartia, like G. Eurinome and its near allies, but in 

 a less degree, is imitative of the variety of Dancds Limniace (Cram.), from 

 W^estern Africa, named Petiverana by Doubleday (1847), and Leonora by 

 Butler (1866), the $ most decidedly mimicks an Amauris of the Niavius form, 

 being most like the Malagasy A. Nossima,- Ward, but also very similar to A. 

 dominicanus, Trim. The outline of wings in the ^ (as in others of the genus) 

 is not at all Danaine, but in the $ the apical production of the fore-wings 

 makes it decidedly so, and quite approximates it in aspect to the species of 

 Euralia which mimic the same group of Amauris. 



Localities of Godartia WaJcefieldii. 



I. South Africa. 



H. Delagoa Bay.— Lourenc^o INIarques (/. J. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast.— " Zanzibar (7?r///-«?/)."— Oberthiir. " Ribe."— 

 Ward. 



Genus EUPH^DRA. 



Euphcedra, HUbn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 39 (1816). 

 Eomaleosoma, Blanch., "Hist. Nat. Ins., iii. p. 448 (1840)." 

 RomalcBOSoma, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 283 (1850). 



Imago. — Head broad, shortly downy ; eyes smooth, very prominent ; 

 palpi short, compressed, ascendant, convergent, not rising above summit 

 of head, densely clothed with scales and appressed short hairs, — basal 

 joint tufted with longer hairs beneath, — second joint superiorly with 

 a tuft of hair near extremity, — terminal joint very short and small, 

 almost hidden by terminal hairs of second joint ; antenna very long, 

 slender, with a gradually-formed, very elongate, only slightly flattened 

 club, rather blunt at tip. 



Thorax very (in some species extremely) thick and rather long, 

 especially in ^ ; clothed with short fine down, moderately hairy above 

 posteriorly. Fore-tvings rather elongate, being slightly or moderately 



