HESPERID^. 
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Localities of Cyclopides Syrinx. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Gaika's Kop, Amatola Mountains, Queen- 
stown District (/. //. Boicker). 
c. Basutoland. — Maluti Mountains (/. H. Boicker). 
318. (4.) Cyclopides ^gipan, Trimen. 
6 ? Cijclopides ^gipaii, Trim., Trans. Ent, Soc, Lond., 1868, p. 94, 
pi. vi. f. 9[c?]. 
Uxp.al, ($) I in. il-2llin. ; (?) I in. 2I lin. 
^ Glossy dark-hroiuii (in five examples loitli a suhnetallic hronzy- 
greenish gloss) ; cilia paler hroiun, very glossy , 7iiixed with yelloio in 
hind-wing. Fore-iving : some inconspicuous ochre-yellow irroration 
about base, chiefly on costa ; beyond middle, a short costal mark of 
two or three very small indistinct yellowish spots (sometimes obsolete). 
Under side. — Hind-iving and costal border of fore-wing very glossy 
yellowish-grey. Fore-iving : ground-colour much paler than on upper 
side, not much darker than hind- wing in some examples ; costal mark 
j usually better developed, chrome-yellow ; a liind-marginal chrome- 
yellow border from apex (where it is of moderate width) narrowing to 
a point about second median nervule. Hind-wing : inner-marginal 
fold darker, about the same tint as ground-colour of fore-wing. 
Palpi with a dense admixture of yellow hairs, with fewer fuscous 
ones; abdomen with lateral stripe, under side of anal segment, and 
conspicuous terminal tuft chrome-yellow. 
^ Paler ^ the brown gronnd-colour ivith a yelloimr tinge ; fore-wing 
with three ehrome-yellow marks. Fore-iving : in discoidal cell a trans- 
versely elongate spot near extremity ; costal mark beyond middle 
much larger than in well defined, tripartite ; beneath the latter, 
between second and third median nervules, a small spot. Cilia of 
fore-wing mixed with yellowish-grey ; of hind-wing, wholly pale 
chrome-yellow. Under side. — Hind-wing yellower ; fore-wing with 
costal mark conspicuous, but other spots indistinct. 
This species is a near ally of Malgacha, Boisd., but readily distin- 
guishable by its larger size, total want of spots in the hind-wings, and 
yellow apical hind-marginal edging on the under side of the fore-wings. 
The spotless, or all but spotless, upper side resembles that of Lepele- 
tierii, Latr., but from that species and from Syrinx, Trim., this butterfly 
is easily known by the absence of white stripes on the under side of 
the hind- wings. 
Like C. Syrinx, Trim., this Hesperid frequents high elevations, Colonel 
Bowker having discovered it on the Hog's Back in the Amatola range on 20th 
January 1867, where he reported it to be not uncommon among long grass near 
