SATYRIN^. 
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the ground-colour ; in discoidal cell, a little beyond its middle, a 
slightly-angulated dark-brown transverse stria, preceded by a shorter 
striate marking, sometimes broken into two small spots. Hind-wing : 
a very short dark stria (or two small spots) in discoidal cell near base ; 
two irregular dark transverse strias from costal to submedian nervure — 
one before, the other about, middle — of which the first is exteriorly 
edged with some indistinct whitish scales ; outer stria much more irre- 
gular than the inner ; ocelli as above, but their pupils smaller, their 
rings yellow, narrower, and enclosed in thin outer rings of dark-brown, 
and the black containing traces of a very thin bluish crescent ; two 
additional, rather duller, but similar ocelli near costa, before the others ; 
both interiorly and exteriorly the ocelli are bounded by some whitish 
or whitish-violaceous clouding. 
This fine form of Loptoneura seems to be sufiiciently distinct from 
L. Clytus (Linn.), to be ranked as a separate species. The female still 
remains unknown to me, but, considering how rarely that sex of Clytus 
proper is taken in comparison with the very numerous males, this is 
perhaps not to be wondered at in the case of a form that appears to be 
very local. The male L. Oxylus differs from L. Clytus in the following 
respects, viz. : — ( i ) Its much larger size, Clytus not expanding above 
22 inches, and being generally not more than 2 in. 4 lin. across the 
wings; (2) its paler colouring throughout; (3) the proportionally 
smaller and invariably triple ocellus of fore-wing, which in Clytus is 
rarely more than double, and, in the instances where it is triple, the 
lowest (or third) factor of the compound ocellus is small or minute ; 
(4) the greater width of the creamy stripe beyond this ocellus ; (5) the 
whitish hind-marginal border of fore- wing ; (6) the more irregular and 
broken character of the macular creamy stripe across disc of fore-wing ; 
(7) the more distinct ocelli of hind- wing, and their conspicuous pale 
fulvous (instead of dull fulvous) rings ; (8) on the under side of the 
hind-wing the ocelli are much blacker and their yellow rings much' 
brighter ; while (9) the two dark stride are very much less irregular, 
the outer one projecting farthest from base on the radial nervule, so 
that the space between the stride is widest at that point, instead of on 
the third median nervule ; and (10) the whitish edging of the strias is 
either wanting or very faintly present, and the basal broken stria of 
Clytus is all but obsolete. A structural difference is noticeable in the 
antennas, which are proportionally shorter in Oxylus ; they are also of 
a paler and more yellowish rufous. 
Colonel Bowker sent this butterfly from Butterwortli, Kafifraria Proper, as 
long ago as 1861, and afterwards from the Bashee River in the same territory. 
Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban informed me that he had noticed this large " Variety 
A." of L. Clytus in the then colony of British Kaffraria ; but it was not until 
March 1875 that Colonel Bowker succeeded in taking specimens on the west 
bank of the Kei River, in the division of East London. I have not heard of 
the butterfly occurring in Natal, or elsewhere in South Africa than within the 
limited range indicated. 
