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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
brown ; a lilac-blue submarginal streak, indistinct towards apex, near 
which it is preceded by three to four lunules of the same colour. 
Hind-iving : a pale-ochreous spot at base enclosing a blackish-centred 
dull-whitish ocellus in a ferruginous brown ring ; the following dark 
ferruginous-brown markings, viz., one roughly triangular on costa next 
to basal spot ; another elongated and elbowed on costa a little beyond 
the first ; and two in discoidal cell, one basal and circular, the other 
central and elongated, both ringed with a bluish-white line ; defining 
extremity of cell a similarly-coloured much longer marking, blunt 
superiorly and pointed inferiorly, crossed by paler nervules ; near inner 
margin on disc much lilac-blue irroration, and a little near costa 
towards base ; beyond middle a very irregular pale-brown streak, 
bordered on both sides by dark ferruginous-brown, and becoming very 
zigzag and broken near inner margin; apical hind-marginal region 
pale-ochrous shaded with brown and glossed with violaceous ; sub- 
marginal lunules linear, black, edged outwardly with yellow, inwardly 
with lilac ; the ocellate spots imperfect, but beyond and above them 
much greenish-blue irroration, and immediately before them a strongly- 
festooned black streak, which becomes ferruginous-brown, and finally 
obsolete in its extension towards apex. 
$ Duller and paler than $ ; apical region of fore-wing less produced 
and blunter, the tails of hind-wing broader and with blunt tips. 
Very closely allied to E. Hii^pomene (Hlibn.), and to the butterfly 
described and figured under the same name by Boisduval in his Faune 
Untomolor/ique de Madagascar, &c., p. 43, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4. In outline 
and marking, U. Scliceneia would appear, judging from Boisduval's work 
only (for I have no examples of the Mascarene species), to be more 
intimately related to Boisduval's insect than to its South- African con- 
gener, the true HipiJomene of Hiibner. From the latter, Sclmncia is 
best distinguished by (i) the mry much longer (and ferruginous instead 
of black) tails of the hind-wings ; (2) the narrower (especially in hind- 
wings) and more deeply-coloured yellow bands; (3) the ttvo suffused 
transverse black streaks on disc of hind-uings, which are wanting in 
Hippomene ; and, as regards the under side, by (4) the costa of fore- 
wing near base being faintly dusted with bluish scales instead of con- 
spicuously barred with whitish ; (5) the decidedly ferruginous and lilac- 
glossed general colouring ; and (6) the absence in hind-wings of both 
the costal white patches and the two or more ocelli in superior half of 
discal region. 
The palpi of Schceneia are ferruginous beneath, with a pure white 
edging on the upper-lateral and internal-inferior portions, while in 
HiiJimnene they are uniformly yellowish-white ; above they are fuscous 
in both species. 
Notwithstanding the great difference between this butterfly and the West- 
African E. Delius (Drury) in the pattern and colouring of the upper side (which 
in Delius is dark suffused Indian-red, with broad dusky-brown borders), the 
