3o6 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



more hairy head and palpi, less robust thorax, origin much nearer to 

 discoidal cell of third subcostal nervure of fore-wings, larger fore-legs 

 in ^, and much longer middle and hind legs in both sexes. 



The limits o^ Eury2')hene, Atcrica, and Jfaj^ma — all purely Ethiopian 

 genera — are by no means well defined, and authors appear of late years 

 to have referred newly-discovered species to them somewhat at random. 

 Aterica, founded by Boisduval in 1833, is the oldest in date, and its 

 type was A. Babena, Boisd., of Madagascar. Uuriphene (sic) was pro- 

 posed, but not defined, by Boisduval in 1847 (Appendix to Dele- 

 gorgue's Voyage dans VAfrique Australe, p. 592) for a South-African 

 butterfly ( U. ccerulea, Boisd.) brought from Natal ; and it was West- 

 wood (02?. cit.) who first gave a diagnosis of Euryphene, adding to E. 

 ccerulea the Fabrician species, Sophus and Ahsolon, with Doriclea, Drury, 

 and seven others referred with doubt to the group. Among the nume- 

 rous species since added to the genus, such differing forms as E. Comus, 

 Nivaria, and Por])]iyrion, of Ward, and E. Soeinis, Phantasia, Aramis, 

 and Doralice, of Hewitson, seem ill associated with E. cmrulea and its 

 allies; and those of them which prove not to be better placed with 

 Aterica (or some possibly with Harma) will probably require new genera 

 for their reception. Harma — also characterised by Westwood in 1850 

 — is a more homogeneous group in general fades, but, as its founder 

 pointed out, variable in neuration ; and in nearly all respects its struc- 

 ture agrees with that of Atcrica. 



E. ccerulea would appear to be a very rare butterfly, as no example 

 has to my knowledge occurred in any collection made in Natal or the 

 neighbouring regions since the time of Delegorgue's visit. It is, 

 however, a species of small size and dark colouring, and if, like some 

 of its congeners in Western Africa, it frequents the shadiest parts of 

 the woods and is not very active, it would easily escape observation. 

 No other Euryplicne is recorded from Southern Africa, nor does the 

 genus appear to be represented in Eastern Africa, all the species except 

 E. ccerulea being natives of Tropical Western Africa to the north of the 

 Equator. 



100. (1.) Euryphene cserulea, Boisduval. 



Eurijphene ccerulea, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592, n. 77 (1847). 



Habit and size of Guineensis} — Deep-hlue, as in Veronica, Cram. ; 

 near hind-margin of hath wings a row of oval spots rather darker than 

 ground-colour, succeeded by a marginal streak of the same hue. Basal 

 portion of wings, as far as middle, of a darker hue than ground-colour ; 

 and on this darker portion, in fore-wing, are two or three annular spots 

 of paler blue, situated transversely between costa and median nervure. 



^ This seems to be only a manuscript name of Boisduval's, and is by Westwood {Gen. 

 Dhirn. Lep., ii. p. 286) doubtfully given as a synonym of E. Ahsolon (Fab.) 



