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I ^ Like hut rather paler, and with all the vitreous spots of fore- 
i wing larger. Fore-iving : disco-cellular enlarged vitreous spots touch- 
i ing or almost touching, and not rarely confluent. In both sexes the 
size of the disco-cellular and discal vitreous spots of the fore-wing 
' varies considerably, and in some $ s they are even minute. 
Boisduval (op. cit.) described as Ophioji Madagascar specimens 
which, except for their smaller size, he could not distinguish from 
Drury's West-African type-form ; but M. Mabille (loc. cit.) has sepa- 
rated the Malagasy insect as T. insidaris. Trom the latter author's 
full description of the two examples he possessed, I am disposed to 
conclude that Boisduval was right in regarding the insular and conti- 
nental specimens as belonging to the same species, especially as the 
butterfly offers considerable variation in Africa itself ; but not having 
seen any examples from Madagascar, I cannot determine the point 
with certainty. 
Flesus has several near allies in the Indo-Malayan Sub-Region, of 
which the nearest are the Indian and Malaccan P. Ga?ia (Moore), and 
the Javan Jap)etus (Cram.) ; in both these species, however, there is a 
conspicuous broad white black-spotted lower hind-marginal border on 
the upper side of the hind-wings. 
I first made the acquaintance of this widely-distributed Ethiopian species 
in life at D'Urban, Natal, in June 1865, and again took it there in the follow- 
ing August; and in February and March 1867 captured a good many speci- 
mens there and at two other localities on the Natal coast. It is active and 
rapid in flight ; the white under side of the wings renders it then conspicuous, 
but it has the habit of settling constantly and very abruptly on the under side 
of leaves, so as suddenly to disappear from view altogether. When thus 
settled, the wings are held fully expanded. I only on one occasion took an 
example on a flower. 
Localities of Fterygospidea Flesus. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Itongati River. More- 
wood's Bay (/. H. Bowjcer). " Lower Umkomazi." — {J. H. 
Boivlier). 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vacliell). St. Lucia 
Bay (the late Colonel H. Tower). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourengo Marques {Mrs. Mo7iteiro). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Angola {Pogge).'' — Dewitz. Chinchoxo {Fal- 
kensteiii)." — Dewitz. 
1 S toll's figure {op. cit.) of a "Sierra Leone" specimen represents the discal series of 
black spots and the hind-marginal brown border on the under side of the hind-wings aa 
much more developed than in any South-African examples which I have seen. 
