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colouring of the hind-wings and apices of fore-wings considerably paler 
than in Cape specimens. One of the females is remarkable for the 
well-defined rows of submarginal spots on the upper side (especially 
in the hind-wings), and for the vivid orange of the spots on the under 
side. 
A further and more decided variation occurs in a 2^ from the 
Potchefstroom District, Transvaal, in which the ujiper-side spots are 
in both wings much reduced in size, but the under side of the hind- 
wing is very much darker and browner than usual, with all its yellow 
spots remarkably distinct and sharply defined. 
About Cape Town and in the Cape Peninsula this is a rarer insect than 
Metis, and does not seem to occur during the winter months, first appearing 
about the middle of September. In habits it nearly resembles the species 
named, but is much less conspicuous, and flies more slowly, always keeping 
near the ground. 
Apart from its being a native of Madagascar, Malgacha appears to have 
much the same distribution as Metis, but I have not seen any specimens from 
Zululand. 
Localities of Cydo]jides Malgacha. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town ; and Hout Bay, Noord Hoek, 
and Simon's Town, Cape District. Eerste River and Stellen- 
bosch. Paarl. Robertson. Swellendam i^A. C. Harrison). 
Plettenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Between Somerset East and Murraysburg (/. 
H. Bo'wker). Stormbergen {Mrs. Barber). Burghersdorp {D. 
R. Kannemeyer). 
c. Basutoland {J. H. Bowker). 
C. Orange Eree State.— Yet River {C. Hart). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River and Heads of St. John's River 
(/. H Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
6. Upper Districts. — Karkloof (J". H. Bowker). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District (T. Ay res). ■ 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
hh. Eastern Islands. — " Madagascar : Tamatave." — Boisduval. 
317. (3.) Oyclopides Syrinx, Trimen, 
$ Cydojpides Syrinx, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 93, pi. v. 
f. 8 j and $ , ibid., 1870, p. 387. 
Exjp. al, {$) I in. 2-3 lin. ; (?) I in. 2^-4. lin. 
^ Dull-greyish hrown, with srjiall ill-defined dull pale-yelloivish spots; 
hasal areas sparsely irrorated luith pale-yelloioish. Fore-wing : a spot in 
discoidal cell near extremity, sometimes surmounted by two yellowish 
