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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This well-known species appears in open ground generally during the ' 
autumn, from the middle of February to the end of May, being most numerous I 
in March. Among the great number of ^ s which, keep in active flight over 
the fields, very few $ s are to be seen — I think not more than one in fifty. 
Clytus is of wide distribution in the Cape Colony, but does not seem to occur 
further eastward, the nearly allied L. OxtjIus, niihi, replacing it in Kafi'raria ; 
Proper. 
Localities of Leptoneura Clytus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Caledon {J, X. Merriman). 
Genadendal (G. Hettarsch), Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Oudts- 
hoorn ( — Adams), 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown (M. E. Barler). Uitenhage 
{S. D. Baifstow). Seymour, Stockenstrom {W. C. Scully). 
20. (2.) Leptoneura Oxylus, Trimen. 
Plate YI. fig. 5, ^ . 
S Leptoneura Oxylus, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i88t, p. 437. 
Leptoneura Clytus (Linn.), Var. A., Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 194 
(1866). 
Exp. al.^ 2 in. 7\—9\ lin. 
J Brown, strongly glossed luitli a Ironzy lustre of mingled reddish 
and greenish ; fore-wing loith pcde-creamy macidar transverse sidjmarginal 
stripes. Fore-iving : a transverse, exteriorly convex, interiorly strongly- 
dentate, pale-creamy macular stripe, from costa just beyond middle to 
anal angle ; of this stripe the upper portion is rather narrow and un- 
interrupted, but the lower portion is broader and consists of three spots 
more or less completely separated from the upper portion and from each 
other ; close to apex, a short, much curved, unbroken, wider stripe of 
the same colour, from near costa to third median nervule, along which, 
by a very thin ray, it is united to the preceding stripe ; touching inner 
edge of this short stripe are three rather small, more or less confluent, 
black ocelli with widely blue-clouded white pupils, bounded interiorly 
by a thin creamy-yellow line ; along hind-margin a rather narrow, ill- 
defined whitish border, separated by a brown streak from apical pale- 
creamy stripe, and traversed longitudinally by another brown streak 
close to hind-marginal edge. Hiiid-wing : beyond middle, between 
second subcostal nervule and submedian nervure, a curved transverse 
row of five conspicuous black ocelli, with bluish white pupils, in pale 
fulvous rings ; of these ocelli the fifth is much smaller than the rest, 
and often bipupillate ; a narrow hind-marginal border of a paler brown 
than the ground-colour, traversed by a dark brown streak close to hind- 
marginal edge. Under side : rather paler , less glossy. Fore-wing : the 
creamy bands whiter, the inner one considerably narrowed, its upper 
portion more irregular, and sometimes even interrupted, its lower 
macular portion with the two lower spots very much reduced or obsolete ; 
the inner edge of this stripe is defined by a dentate stria darker than 
