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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
nyinjplia^ and in the case of L. Clyhts (the most numerous of the i 
known species), inclining to take a circular direction. With the excep- i 
tion of Clytus, the members of this genus appear to be very local, and 
none of them seems to present the abundance in individuals of the 
species named, — Cassus, Linn., being, however, tolerably plentiful near 
Cape Town. 
The undoubted occurrence of the latter species in Madagascar is 
very remarkable, as it certainly seems to be scarcer in the eastern 
districts of the Colony, and is not recorded from Natal or from the 
African coast nearer to Madagascar. But for this singular extension 
of the range of one of its species, Leptoneiira would stand as one of the 
few endemic South- African genera. 
19. (1.) Leptoneura Clytus, (Linn.) 
Papilio Clytus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 268, n. 87 (1764); and Syst. 
Nat., i. 2, p. 768, n. 124 (1767). 
Papilio Tisiphone^ Rott., in Naturforschen, vi. p. 16, t. i, fF. i, 2 (1775); 
ajmd Kirby, Syn. Cat. D. Lep., p. 56. 
Papilio Clytus, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. pi. Ixxxvi. fF. c, n (1779). 
„ „ Wulfen, Descr. Capens. Ins., p. 31, n. 30 (1786). 
Satyrus Clytus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 525, n. 132 (18 19). 
Erehia Clytus, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., ii. p. 380, n. 43 (1851). 
Leptoneura Clytus, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, Lep. Rhop. 
Caffr., p. 31. 
„ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 192, n. 109 (1866). 
Exp. aL, 2 in. I-4 lin. 
Brown, with a glistening greenish and reddish surface-light ; fore- 
wing with creamy-yellow, macular, transverse stripes. Fore-wing: on 
costa beyond middle commences an outwardly-convex, interiorly much- 
dentated creamy-yellow band, very variable in depth of hue, width, and 
continuity, properly reaching to submedian nervure, but often shorter 
and much interrupted by ground-colour ; this band is usually joined 
about first median nervule by a much narrower stripe of the same 
colour from fourth subcostal nervule near apex, outwardly bordering a 
large ocellus, which is narrowly edged with darker yellow inwardly ; 
ocellus compound, elongate, black, with two (rarely three) large blue 
pupils. Hind-wing : near and parallel to hind-margin a row of five 
black, fulvous-ringed ocelli, unipupillate with blue, of which the fifth 
is much the smallest and occasionally nearly obsolete ; rarely a sixth 
small ocellus near costa. Under side. — Paler ; hind-ioing much paler, 
with darh zigzag strice. Fore-wing : apex greyish-white ; yellow stripes 
much narrowed, the larger seldom reaching below third median nervule, 
its inner edge thence being indicated by a dentate dark-brown streak, 
— the outer forming with the inner edging only a ring about ocellus ; 
in discoidal cell, about its centre, two dark transverse streaks, the 
inner of which is macular and nearly always continued to submedian 
nervure. Hind-iving : transverse strige three, — the macular one near 
