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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
edge, rather before middle, from costa to inner margin, — a submarginal 
row of large sub-lunulate spots (eight in fore- wing, seven in hind- j 
wing), and a hind-marginal row of seven lunules (larger in hind-wing) 
marking excavations between nervules. Fore-wing : in cell, near ex- 
tremity, an oblique elongate marking, formed of two confluent spots, — I 
and also four thin longitudinal streaks of pale sulphur-yellow scales I 
from base (the lower three branching from a common origin) nearly to | 
extremity ; on disc, especially about median nervules and submedian 
nervure, a clothing of short, cotton-like hair. Hind-wing : two superiorly 
blue-edged and blue-scaled ocellate spots, placed quite as in DemoUus 
but more elongate, — that on costa not reddish itself, but the first lunule 
of submarginal row bounding it externally, like that on inner margin, 
dull-red ; between the two spots more or less indistinct indications of 
similar spots, of which, however, only one (that next to inner-mar- 
ginal spot) is distinctly blue-scaled ; some reddish-yellow scaling along 
median nervules ; tail long, spatulate, marked on each side near its 
extremity with an elongrite, pale-yellow inwardly-convex spot. Under 
SIDE. — Similar, 'palcr, all the markings luith more or less diffused edges; 
all nervures more or less completely edged with pale-yellowish on both 
sides, esijccially lower edge of costal nervure of liind-iving. Fore-wing : 
a longitudinal streak between median and submedian nervures ; streaks 
in cell better defined. Hind-iving : three streaks in cell" like those of 
fore-wing ; traces of ocelliform spots between the two ocelli much 
better marked, all more or less blue-scaled. 
Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen coloured and marked quite as 
in Dcmoleus, Linn., but the superior pale sulphur-yellow stripes on 
head and pterygodes less conspicuous. The antenuee (as Felder has 
pointed out) are much more slender, especially as regards the club, 
which is scarcely recurved ; but the agreement in other structural 
points (as well as in pattern and colouring) is close in the two species. 
$ Like $, hut decidedly didler^ the ground more fuscous than Uacky 
and the ycllovj markings considercdoly dee])eT in tint. Fore-wing : band 
broader, especially at costal commencement, the lower component spots 
larger, almost touching (in one example confluent into a continuous 
band) ; space between band and submarginal row of spots irrorated 
with pale-yellow ; lowest spot of submarginal row tinged with dull-red. 
Hind-ioing : sixth as well as seventh lunule of submarginal row dull- 
red, except at its extremities. Under side as in 
This is the Southern representative of Papilio Menesthcus^ Drury, 
but is a much larger form, no example of either sex of the West- 
African butterfly that I have measured expanding more than Sis- 
inches across the wings.-^ Apart from size, Ophidiccphcdus is best 
1 The form found in Madagascar [P. Lormieri, Distant) is nearer to the West-African 
type, having the spots of the fore-wing band all small and separate, the markings generally 
of small size, and the disc of hind-wings beyond middle scarcely irrorated. The band of the 
fore-wings is, however, straighter, as in Opkidiccpludas, not incurved costally, as in Menestheus, 
