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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
nating at upper part of extremity of discoidal cell, wMcIl is less than 
half length of wing. 
^ White, with hright-red, rosy-glossed, moderate-sized apical patch, 
hordered outwardly hy Hack, ivhich radiates troadly on nervules, and 
inwardly hy narroiuer Uach (sometimes evanescent or obsolete) ; ordi- 
nary longitudinal hlackish stripes on inner margin of fore-wings and 
costa of hind-wings usually present, moderately developed. $ with red of 
apical patch duller, much more ividely hlacJc-hordered outwardly, and 
traversed or inwardly bordered hy a hroad hlack ray ; longitudinal stripes 
(especially that on inner margin of fore-ivings) very much hroader, and 
hind-marginal border and discal ray often widened so as to meet. 
Under side white, whitish, or tinged with creamy-yellow or creamy- 
reddish, traversed in ? by a common blackish or brownish discal ray ; 
neuration sometimes black. 
6 Species. — Acliine, Cram.; Gavisa, Wallengr. ; Antevippe, Boisd.; 
Simplex, Bntl. ; Lais, Butl. ; Halyattes, Butl. 
Range. — Tropical Africa and Extra-Tropical South Africa. 
Section XVI. — Representative : Evip)pe, Linn. 
Like Group XV., hut forc-iuings with hind-margin in $ convex, in 
$ very convex or almost hluntly clhoiued ahout third and second median 
nervidcs. 
$ White, ivith hright-red {not rosy-glossed) curved apiccd patch, 
outwardly hordered hroctdly hy hlack, which does not deeply or hroadly 
radiate on nervidcs, and inwardly hy hlack varying from very hroad to 
very narroiu ; hlack longitudincd stripes sometimes wanting, sometimes 
moderately developed, or very heavily marked; discal ray (lower part) 
of hind- wings equally variable. $ White, yellowish, or yellow, with 
apical red much didler, narrower, more curved, — sometimes loanting, heing 
replaced hy hlack; longitudinal hlack stripes (as well as discal ray in 
hind-wings) ahoays present, sometimes exceedingly hroad. Under side 
white, yellowish, or faint pinkish-creamy ; discal ray usually well- 
marked, especially in 
5 Species. — Evippie, Linn. ; Omphale, Godt. ; Theogone, Boisd. ; 
Loandicus, Butl. ; Microcale, Butl. 
Range. — Tropical Africa and Extra-Tropical South Africa. 
Section XVIL — Representative : Celimene, Lucas. 
Fore-iuings in $ apically considerably produced ; apex itself mode- 
rately acute ; hind-margin superiorly convex and inferiorly concave ; 
hind-whigs with anal angular portion slightly produced. $ with these 
characters much less ^^ronounced. Neuration as in Section XIV., 
except that in hind-wings second subcostal nervule originates a little 
before extremity of discoidal cell. 
^ White, with very large pmylish-lake^ violet-glossed apical patch, 
hordered outwardly and inwardly with hlack, traversed hy a hlack ray, 
and crossed hy hlack nervidcs ; hind-margin of hind- wings spotted or 
