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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
ocelli on disc, in a series from near apex to close to anal angle, of wliicli ' 
the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth are of moderate size and the others ' 
much smaller ; before and beyond these ocelli there is some more or ' 
less developed brown clouding of the same character as that in fore-wing, j 
$ Considerahly larger, paler. Fore-wing : lower ocellus always j 
present, better defined ; in some examples, a minute third ocellus j 
immediately above the larger one. Under side. — Basal halves not ) 
nearly so dark, and with the falcr outer halves tinged with ochreous- 
yellow. Fore-wing : from one to three of the minute additional ocelli , 
always present ; streak across cell usually better marked. Hind-tuing : 
fifth ocellus rather markedly larger than the rest; before middle, a , 
rather indistinct dark transverse stria, pale-edged interiorly. 
Var. a. Q and J/. Fvenus, Hopff".) 
Upper side as above described. Voider side in loth sexes with the 
loiuer ocellus of fore-wing smaller, and all the other ocelli very much j 
smaller, — in some specimens extremely minute ; with the common pale I ' 
streak less defined in the hind-wing, and with the brown clouding 
beyond the streak almost obsolete except near large ocellus of fore- 
wing ; the paler outer areas (and sometimes also the basal half of 
hind-wing) more or less suff*used with violaceous-grey. 
The larger size, darker colour, more distinct and defined space of 
yellowish near subapical ocellus of fore-wing, and total want of the 
lower ocellus in the same wing, in Hewitson's figure of the upper side 
of his Safitza, led me to dissociate from it the Eusirus of Hopffer ; but 
the figure of the under side of Safitza in Hewitson's Exotic Butter- 
flies shows that the two forms cannot be kept apart, although the 
latter gives a more defined apical pale space in fore-wing and con- 
siderably larger ocelli (especially in hind- wing) than I have ever met r 
with in Hopffer's form. Dewitz {Nov. Act. Leo}^ -Carol. -Deutsch Akad. 
Natmf.j xli. p. 176, 1879) states that in the collection of the Berlin 1, 
Museum Eusirus is by Hopfier himself marked as synonymous with : 
Safitza. My identification of M. injicsta, Wallengr., with the Eusirus h 
of Hopfier is confirmed by the examination of a typical specimen of y 
the former lent to me by the Royal Stockholm Museum, through the ' 
kindness of Mr. P. 0. C. Aurivillius. 
The Variety (M. Evenus, Hopff!) is linked to Eusirus proper by , 
several specimens of both sexes from the Cape Colony and Natal, in 
which all the ocelli of the hind-wing, though very small (or even 
minute), are perfect and distinct. M. Saga., Butl. {Cat. Sat. Brit j 
Mus.j p. 130, pL iii. f. I, 1868), from Sierra Leone, is apparently very \ 
close to the Evenus form, but the suppression of the ocelli extends even i 
to the lower ocellus of the fore-wing, which is quite minute. 
At Knysna, which I believe is the southern and western limit 01 1 
Mycalesis in the Cape Colony, I found the Evenus form predominant, ] 
specimens with well-developed under-side ocelli rarely occurring ; but 
from Grahamstown eastward, and in Natal, the contrary appears to be 
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