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ness and length of the body, the bristly hairiness of the palpi, and the 
usually more or less bluntly-ending club of the antennae. 
A good many species seem to have been incorrectly recorded under 
this genus, especially various Tropical South-American forms described 
and figured by the Eelders in the third vplume of the Lepidoptera of 
the Edse der Novara (1867), pp. 521— 523, pi. Ixxiv. Besides the 
five Palsearctic species, there are two from J^orth America and two 
from Chili, and as many as eleven from the Ethiopian Region (two 
peculiar to Madagascar). Of the African species, nine are found in 
South Africa, and of these five — viz.. Syrinx, ^gipan, MeninXj Tsita, 
and Iiiornatus — appear to be peculiar to the Sub-Region. One, MaU 
gacha, is also a native of Madagascar ; Lepeletierii ranges far along the 
western coast of the Southern Tropical belt; WilUmi occupies great 
part of that belt, and is also recorded from Somaliland, in North-East 
Africa; while Metis, the most richly-coloured of the genus, is not 
known to occur beyond the Sab-Region except in Angola. 
In South Africa Metis is the most numerous and widely distributed 
species, and Malgaclia is only second to it. Lepeletierii is apparently 
confined to a few localities in Cape Colony, particularly towards the 
western side. Tsita and Inornatus are, on the contrary, widely spread 
on the eastern side of the country, and come but little westward of 
the Kei River. Willemi and Meninx are Transvaal natives ; and the 
exceedingly local Syrinx and JEgipan have been found only in a few 
very elevated stations in the eastern districts of Cape Colony, Basuto- 
land, and Natal. v.^ 
315. (1.) Cyclopides Metis, (Cramer). 
^ Papilio Metis, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 325, n. 143 (1764); and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 792, n. 245 (1767). 
^ „ ,5 Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., ii. pi. xvi. ff. 3, 4 (1773). 
,, 5, Cram., Pap. Exot,, ii. pi. clxii. f. g (1779). 
^ ,, AVnlf., Capens. Ins., p. xxxiii. n. 32 (1786). 
^ ^ Hesperia Metis, Latr., Enc, Meth., ix. p. 776, n. 129 (1823). 
$ ? Cyclopides Metis, Trini., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 293, n. 182 (1866). 
^ Heteropterus Metis, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 100 (1888). 
Exp. al, {$) I in. i\-2\ lin. ; ($) I in. 1-2^ lin. 
$ Dark purplish-hroivn, ivith orange-yelloiu spots. Fore-wing: basal 
area irrorated with yellow scales in three longitudinal streaks, viz., on 
costa, below median nervure, and on inner margin ; two spots on costa 
about middle, the upper just above and partly beyond the lower (which 
is in cell) ; beyond middle, a transverse row of five spots, of which 
the second is beyond the line of the others, the third and fourth only 
separated by second median nervule, and the fifth (just above sub- 
median) smallest and sometimes obsolete. Hind-ioing : basal irrora- 
tion confined to neighbourhood of median and submedian nervures; 
