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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
strongly blacJdsh-clouded neuration. Fore-wing : ground a little paler 
than on upper side ; costal edge and upper side of costal nervure with 
a line of yellowish-white ; only first three spots of discal series repre- 
sented, and those smaller and more separate than on upper side ; apical 
hind-marginal yellowish-white border wide at apex, but narrowing to 
a point above submedian nervure, divided into seven or eight separate, 
elongate, inwardly acuminate spots by the blackish-clouded nervules. 
Hind-wing : neuration, a streak from base through discoidal cell to 
hind-margin, two very irregular median and two less irregular sub- 
marginal transverse blackish streaks from costal to submedian nervure, 
and inner-marginal fold except along inner edge, all strongly blackish. 
Head and palpi clothed with a mixture of yellow and blackish hairs. 
Thorax blackish above, with mixed yellow and blackish hairs frontally 
and laterally ; yellowish-white beneath. Legs yellowish- white, with a 
black middle streak longitudinally. Abdomen blackish above, yel- 
lowish-white beneath, and with a small terminal yellow tuft. 
The blackish neuration and irregular transverse stripes, conspi- 
cuous on the almost white ground of the under side of the hind-wings, 
present a very peculiar reticulated appearance, and give WilUmi some 
resemblance to the larger and beneath much more conspicuously orna- 
mented C. Steropes (W. Y.) of Europe ; but the butterfly has no very 
near congener known to me. 
Very few examples of this species have come under my notice, and I have 
not seen the female. As far as known, it would appear to inhabit chiefly the 
country skirting the Southern Tropic, Mr. Hewitson recording it from Damara- 
land, while a few have been taken in Bechuanaland and the Eastern Transvaal. 
In 1886 Mr. A. G. Butler recorded its having occurred in the remote region of 
Somaliland. 
Localities of Cydopides Willemi. 
I. South Africa. 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Ayres) and Barberton (0. F. 
Palmer). Crocodile River {F. H. Barber). Marico River [F. 
C. Selous). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland." — Hewitson. 
61. Eastern Interior. — Between Transvaal and Gubulewayo {A. W. 
Eriksson). 
B. North Tropical. 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Somaliland (Thrupp)." — Butler. 
32L (7.) Oyclopid.es Lepeletierii, (Latreille). 
Hesperia Lepeletier, Latr., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 777, n, 134 (1823). 
Cyclopides Lepeletierii, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 295, n. 184 
(1866). 
Exp. al.^ {$) I in. 11^ lin. ; (?) i in. 2 lin. 
J Bather glossy dark-hrown, unicolorous, luithont marking of any 
