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SOUTH-AFRICAN EUTTEEFLIES. 
costal dashes ; a discal series of six or seven spots, viz., three or four 
forming an oblique subcostal outward-inclining streak between end of 
cell and apex, and three others in an inward-inclining line between 
third median nervule and submedian nervure ; inner margin edged 
rather faintly with the same dull pale-yellowish from near base to 
beyond middle ; in some specimens a submarginal series of six very 
indistinct elongate yellowish marks. Hind-wing : a clothing of yel- 
lowish-grey hairs from base over cell and along inner margin ; the trace 
of a spot in cell ; two or three discal spots (the uppermost one rather 
large) between second subcostal nervule and submedian nervure ; a sub- 
marginal series of marks as in fore-wing, but longer, usually obsolete 
near apex. Cilia of the ground-colour slightly mixed with yellowish. 
Under side. — Hind-wing and costal and apical horder of fore-wing 
hrownish yellow-oclireous ; the hind-^ving with two longitudinal whitish 
stripes. Fore-iving : lower discal spots usually, cellular spot rarely, 
obsolete ; a rather brighter tinge of yellow along costa ; no trace of 
submarginal marks. Hind-wing : upper longitudinal stripe, from base 
through discoidal cell to hind- margin, broad, pretty even in width, 
creamy or yellowish-white ; lower stripe narrow, sublinear near base, 
but somewhat widening to hind-margin, running between median and 
submedian nervures, white without yellowish tinge ; no other markings. 
$ Spots more decidedly yelloio. Fore- wing : only two spots in 
costal part of discal series, the first and fourth being obsolete. In both 
wings submarginal marks almost obsolete. Under side. — Hind-wing 
{except inner-marginal fold) and costal a.nd apical horder of fore-wing 
much paler, inclining to greyish ; both longitudinal stripes of hind-wing 
broader than in the superior one yellower, and the inferior one 
whiter. 
In this Cyclopides the ordinary spots are pallid and poorly defined, 
and in some specimens obscured and sub-obsolete. One ^ is entirely 
devoid of spots on both surfaces except for a trace of the superior discal 
spot on the upper side of the hind-wings. 
C. Syrinx to a great extent combines the characters of C. Malgacha, 
(Boisd.), and G. Lepeletierii, (Latr.), differing from the former in having 
conspicuous pale stripes on the under side of the hind-wings, and from 
the latter in being spotted with yellowish. 
This appears to be not only a strictly mountain butterfly, but one confined 
to the highest elevations and to particular spots. Colonel Bowker is the only 
collector that to my knowledge has taken this insect ; he discovered it on the 
19th January 1867 on the summit of Gaika's Kop, the highest point of the 
Amatola Mountains (Queenstown District of Cape Colony), being estimated 
as about 6500 feet above the sea. He noted it as being very numerous among a 
plant named " Mountain Bamboo," flitting about in hundreds, but not occurring 
anywhere beyond the immediate vicinity of that plant. The only other recorded 
locality for the species is the Maluti Mountains in Basutoland, where, in Jan- 
uary 1869, Colonel Bowker again met with it, frequenting the same sort of 
Mountain Bamboo as on the Amatolas. Among eleven specimens received, two 
only are females. 
