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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This beautiful insect bears a strong superficial resemblance to tlie 
South- American Arsalte, Linn. ( = JViveus, Cram.), which, with Petrus, 
Hiibn., and other New- World allies, has been by authors misplaced in 
the genus ZcucocJiitonea, differing as they all do very markedly in 
their much more slender antenna3 with a thin very gently- curved 
club, more hirsute palpi, smaller thorax, shorter abdomen, and much ■ 
blunter fore-wings. Zcvichu is unlike every other South-African 
member of the Hesperidce, and must be highly conspicuous in its pure- 
white black-edged livery when on the wing. It seems to present 
scarcely any variation, but the $ s lately (i 888) received from Northern 
Ovampoland — where they were taken by Mr. Eriksson — have the black 
markings thicker in the fore-wings. Only two $ s have come under 
my notice, — one taken on the Upper Limpopo by Mr. F. H. Barber in 
1875, and the other by Mr. H. Barber in Matabeleland in 1878 
or 1879. 
Though having a pretty wide range through Tropical South Africa, Levubu 
does not appear to have been met with abundantly in any locality. Its most 
southern station known to me is Griqualand West, where (at Klipdrift, on the 
Vaal River) Mrs. Barber and Colonel Bowker both took a few specimens. The 
latter, in November 187 1, found the butterfly only about a particular hill-top, 
keeping to a space of limited extent ; it was exceedingly swift on the wing, 
and looked in flight like a bit of burnished silver. Mr. Eriksson's Ovampo- 
land examples are noted as taken in November 1887 and January 1888. 
Mr. T. Ayres has forwarded six specimens from the district of Potcliefstroom, 
Traansvaal. 
Localities of Ahantis Zevuhu. 
I. South Africa, 
B. Cape Colony. 
c. Griqualand West. — Yaal River ; Barkly (3Irs. Barber and /. H. 
Bowker). 
K. Transvaal. — Upper Limpopo (H. Barher, F. H. Barber, and F. C. 
Selous). Potcliefstroom District {T. Ayres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (/. A. Bell). 
ai. Western Interior. — North-East Damaraland : Omaramba — Oama- 
tako (A. W. Eriksson). North Ovampoland : Omrora {A. W. 
Eriksson). 
bi. Eastern Interior. — Matabeleland (H. Barber). Tati River (/. L. 
Fry). " Sakasusi or Dry River (Oates)." — Westwood. 
Genus CAPRONA. 
Caprona, Wallengren, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; Lep. Rhop. CafFr., 
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Cajprona, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 308 (1866). 
Imago. — Head densely clothed above with long scales and short 
hairs ; tuft of hairs near base of each antenna slender ; ;palpi as in 
Abantis, but very short terminal joint rather broader and more dis- 
