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SOUTH-AFRTCAK BUTTERFLIES. 
both wings, two parallel submarginal fuscous lines, the outer continuous 
and lunulated, the inner broken into small cuneiform marks. 
$ Fuscous ; all the ocelli much larger, but especially those of hind- 
wings ; Uuc of hind-wings much sinaller in extent, and loth duller and 
fcder. Fore-wing : a minute ocellus usually confluent with the lower 
edge of upper ocellus, and an imperfect one touching its upper edge. 
Hind-iuing : the much-enlarged ocelli have great violaceous centres 
(often with a white dot in the middle), inwardly bordered with pink 
and outwardly with black ; the upper ocellus commonly includes a 
minute inferior pupil ; above and below the lower ocellus occasionally 
some black irroration ; blue space not violaceous, not infringing on dis- 
coidal cell, and much narrower in its superior portion ; black pretty 
evenly occupying almost the basal half of the wing. Under side. — 
As in J, but with the markings (especially ocelli of hind-wing) more 
distinct. 
Cilia whitish, varied in fore- wing with fuscous at the extremities 
of the nervures. 
A very close ally of the South- Asiatic J. Orithyia (Linn.), but 
appearing to differ from it constantly in the particulars now to be 
mentioned. As regards the J. Bocrpis has (i) the narrower siih- 
apiccd har of the fore wings and the adjacent pale markings much yelloioer 
in tint ; and ( 2 ) the black streak intersecting the lower part of the 
bar between the two ocelli is never wanting, and usually very strongly 
marked; while (3) the fulvous striae and rings of the ocelli are well 
pronounced ; (4) the hlue of the hind-wings, besides being decidedly 
violaceous in tint, occupies a considercdjly smcdler space, being replaced by 
Hack in the hasi-cosfal region to a little beyond the branching of the 
subcostal nervure ; and (5) the under side colouring is duller and 
more inclining to argillaceous. The $ Bodp)is presents similar differ- 
ences from the $ Orithyia, except that the blue of the hind-wings, 
though deeper in tint, is not violaceous, and, though occupying a 
smaller space (the basal black being considerably broader), the difference 
in area is not so marked as in the $ s. 
Compared with Orithyia from Ceylon and Southern India (Banga- 
lore), the $ of which expands only i in. 83-11 lin., and the $ I in. 
9 J lin. — 2 in. I lin., Bodpis is considerably the larger ; but farther 
eastward, especially in China, the Asiatic species is fully as largo as, 
and even larger than, the African. The wings of the $ Bodpis are 
proportionally longer ; but I have not seen any specimen in which the 
fore-wings are subfalcate, as is the case with some of the Chinese 
examples of Orithyia. Hopffer's J. Orithya from Querimba (Peters' 
" Reise nach Mossambique," Ins. and Myriop., p. 380) is probably 
referable to J. Bodpis. 
Though recorded by Wallengren in 1857 as among Wahlberg's " KafFrarian " 
captures, and though known to me in 1862 as a native of Damaraland and the 
Lower Zambesi Valley, it was not until 1867 that I knew of the occurrence of 
