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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
settling on the under side of leaves, and they do this so quickly, that 
to the inexperienced collector they seem to have unaccountably 
vanished. A good many species are both early and late on the v^ing, 
but several do not make their appearance till about sunset. They are 
rather eager and greedy honey-suckers, and the length of their trunk 
enables them to rifle the stores of many tubular flowers unvisited by 
shorter-tongued butterflies. 
Genus CYCLOPIDES.^ 
Steropes, Boisd., " Voy. AstroL, Lep., p. 167 (1832)." 
Cyclopides, (Hlibner, 1816), Westw. , Geii. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 520 (1852). 
Carteroceplialus, Lederer, " Yerh. Zool.-Bot. Ges., ii. p. 26 (1853)." 
Cyclopides, Trim., Rliop. Afr. Ausfc., ii. p. 292 (1866). 
Cydopides and Carteroceplialus, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxix. pp. 181-82 
(1878), and xl. p. 487 (1879). 
Carterocejihalus and Cydopides (part), Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1884, pp. 
386-389. 
Imago. — Head as wide as thorax, hairy ; eyes round, smooth ; a 
thin compact tuft or pencil of longish stiff hairs springing from 
between base of each antenna and border of eye ; palpi long, porrected 
horizontally with dense bristly hair, — terminal joint rather long, taper- 
ing, slightly depressed at tip, with very short appressed hairs, usually 
almost hidden by bristly dense hair of middle joint ; antennce short, 
with a pronounced, rather thick, somewhat compressed, slightly-curved 
club, blunt (very rarely acuminate) at tip. 
Thorax short and narrow, moderately or sparsely hairy. Wings 
rather long apically. Fore-wings somewhat truncate ; costa beyond 
basal curve almost straight, or slightly concave beyond middle ; costal 
nervure terminating at a little beyond middle ; subcostal nervure five- 
branched, — three nervules originating before, fourth and fifth at, ex- 
tremity of discoidal cell, — first nervule in three species (Willemi, 
uEgip)an, and Mcninx) very short, running into costal nervure ; upper 
radial nervule originating near or very near to origin of fifth subcostal 
nervule ; disco-cellular nervules slender, slightly oblique ; first median 
nervule given off at a point considerably before middle and far apart 
from the other median nervules. Hind-ioings very slightly prominent 
at anal angle ; costa beyond basal lobe almost straight or very slightly 
arched ; costal nervure terminating at a little before apex ; subcostal 
nervure branching at a considerable or a little distance before extremity 
of discoidal cell, — latter being variable in length ; disco-cellular ner- 
^ Mr. Kirby {Cat. D. Leji., 1871, p. 623) adopted Dumeril's name Heteropterus (1806) 
for this genus. It is true that Dumeril happened to give the species Aracinthus, Tab. 
{ = Morpheus, Pall.) as representing Heteropterus ; but as his extremely vague and brief 
definition of the genus applies, and was certainly meant to apply, to the whole group 
of Ilesperidie, and not to what modern zoologists mean by a genus, it appears to me that 
JItteropteriis cannot be retained as a generic name. 
