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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
suffused ochreous ones of Dendrophilus) in the fore-wings. They settle 
on tree trunks, usually near the ground, and almost always head down- 
ward, their flight, though pretty frequent, being short and weak. 
31. (1.) Lethe dendrophilus, (Trimen). 
$ Satyrus dendrophilus^ Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. p. 
399 (1862). 
$ $ Debis dendrophilus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 191, n. 108, pi. 
3, f. 8 (1866). 
[ Neope dendrophilus, Butl., Cat. Satyr. Coll. Brit. Mus., p. ii35n. 3 {1868). 
Exp. al, ($) 2 in. 6-10 lin. ; (?) 2 in. 9 lin. — 3 in. 
J Dull-hroivn in fore-iuing, suffused with fidvous-ochreous^ and with 
a discal roio of yelloiu and f ulvous-ochreous spots ; fidvous-ochreous in 
hind-iving bordered luith didl-broiun. Fore-iving : a fulvous-ochreous 
tinge over basal half and to near anal angle ; beyond middle, an irregu- 
larly sinuate transverse row of seven spots, ill-defined externally, from 
costa to submedian nervure ; the spot on costal edge whitish, the 
others ochreous-yellow, deepening outwardly into fulvous, elongated 
longitudinally, the largest between second and third median nervules ; 
beyond these, a submarginal row of five small whitish spots, indis- 
tinctly ringed with blackish, from fourth subcostal to second median 
nervule ; occasionally a minute sixth spot nearer costa ; a pale-brown 
narrow hind-marginal border, divided by a dark-brown line. Hind- 
wing : fulvous-ochreous ; hind-marginal border as in fore-wing, but 
wider, with another dark line separating it from the ground-colour ; a 
submarginal row of seven white-pupilled, rounded, black spots, of which 
the second and the fourth are smaller than the rest (or sometimes 
wanting altogether), and the last, above submedian nervure close to 
anal- angle, is sometimes bipupillate ; inner-marginal region pale- 
brownish. Under side. — Paler, with a slight violaceous lustre ; fidvous- 
ochreous suffusion entirely absent. Fore-wing : markings, similar, fainter ; 
a dark, waved streak crossing discoidal cell, which has likewise a faint 
ochreous and two faint whitish transverse markings ; a row of whitish 
spots as above, but the second distinctly ringed with black and yellow ; 
apex and base suffused with faint brownish. Hind-wing : same colour 
as apex of fore-wing ; with a strong violaceous gloss ; four irregular, 
interrupted, brown striae crossing basal half; row of ocelli as above, 
but in pale-yellow rings ; two dentate stria bordering hind-margin, 
which is paler than rest of wing ; a space inwardly bordering the ocelli, 
from discoidal nervule to submedian nervure near anal angle, irrorated 
with fuscous scales. Cilia dark-brown, interrupted with white between 
nervules. 
% Similar, but paler and duller. Fore-wing : the spots of discal 
row of a much paler yellow interiorly, — the first three of them (includ- 
ing the yellowish-white one on costa) forming a narrow oblique bar. 
