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with the markings much more distinct ; only the faintest tinge of 
yellow over hasi-innermarginal space in forewing. Forewing : an 
additional annulet (indistinct in one example) below 1st median 
nervule. Hindioing : hindmarginal lunules of upperside rather 
faintly represented in ferruginous-red. Paljji much shorter — 
especially the terminal joint — than in the ? C. alphceus. 
The ^ is readily distinguislied from that of C. alphwus 
by the mucli extended orange-red of the upperside, and 
consequent reduction of the hindmarginal fuscous border, 
especially in the hindwings. The $ is so extraordinarily 
unlike that of alphdsits on the upperside that it mighty 
at the first glance^ be mistaken for a large ? Deudorix 
antalus (Hopfif.). On the underside, however^ there is 
no mistaking the characteristic pattern and coloration, 
which, in both sexes, although so very much duller and 
fainter, are entirely like those shown by the type of the 
genus Gapys. 
A faded example of the 6 , taken at Barberton, Trans- 
vaal, by Mr. C. F. Palmer, was lent to me in 1892 by 
Mr. A. D. Millar, and I then regarded it as a probable 
aberration of C. alphseus ; not associating it with a 
damaged ? received during 1891 from Mr. F. C. Selous 
who had captured it in Mashunaland. When Mr. Millar, 
however, sent me a ? taken by him at Botha^s Hill, 
Natal, on 6th January, 1894, and also again gave me the 
opportunity of examining Mr. Palmer's Barberton $ , I 
came to the conclusion that these could only be regarded 
as sexes of the same species. This view received most wel- 
come confirmation in June, 1894, when a pair reached me 
from Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, of Salisbury, Mashunaland, 
with the notification that he had taken corresponding 
specimens in copula. 
Mr. Millar informs me that his ? of this species was 
taken on Botha's Hill, Inchanga, at an elevation of about 
2,430 feet. This was the only specimen seen ; it flew 
rapidly past him and settled with closed wings on a low 
flowering plant. Mr. Marshall writes that the ? * is 
considerably scarcer than the $ — I have been struck with 
this in the case of C. alpliseus — and that the $ has the 
habit of resting on the dead calicos (burnt by grass-fires) 
* On the 9th December, 1894, Mr. Marshall writes, however, 
that he had just lately noticed several specimens of the $ but none 
of the $ . A dwarf $ captured by him in the Mazoe District, on 
16th October, 1894, expands only 1 in. ^ lin. 
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