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SOUTH-AFRICA^q" BUTTERFLIES. 
For so small a group there is considerable diversity of form and 
great differences of colouring among the species. E. Etliosea (Drmy), 
from West Africa, is so peculiar in outline and pattern as to have been 
placed in the genus Acrtxa by Godart ; E. 0]?hione (Cram.) closely 
resembles Ncptis Mcliccrta (Drury) ; E. fidgurata (Boisd.), of Mada- 
gascar, has a somewhat similar black and white (though much more 
irregular) pattern, but is very strongly angulated and dentated on the 
hind-margins ; while the Malaccan and Bornean E. Castdnctui^ Feld., 
is, on the upper side, of an uniform bright blue. The two species 
occurring in South Africa, E. Hiarhas (Dru.) and E. Dryope (Fab.), 
present a white or ochre-yellow transverse band (chiefly developed in 
the hind-wings) on a blackish-brown ground, while the under side is 
varied with pale-brown and ferruginous. They have a very wide range 
through Africa, Hiarhas penetrating considerably farther south than 
Dryop)e, whose limit seems to be the coast of Natal. Both species 
are strictly sylvan, and in habits and mode of flight much resemble 
84. (1.) Eurytela Hiarbas, (Drury). 
Plate V. fig. 5 (Yar. A. ^ )• 
Papilio Hiarhas, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. 14, ff. i, 2 (1872). 
Bihlis Hiarha, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. Suppl. p. 824, n. 5-6^ (18 19). 
Eurytela Hiarhas^ Doubl, Gen. Diurn. Lep., pi. 31, f. 4 (1846-50). 
,, „ Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 212, n. 122 (1862). 
Exp. al., 2 in. — 2 in. 6 lin. 
Glossy hlackish-hrovm ($ duller and pjakr), ivith a common trans- 
rcrse U'liite stripe^ commencing near hind-margin (to which it is 
parallel) of fore-winy about third median nervule, widening as it 
descends, and extending straight across hind-wing from costa (close to 
apex) to anal angle. Fore-winy : a white dot close to costa near apex, 
beneath which are two indistinct ferruginous spots, indicates proper 
origin of transverse stripe ; costa and hind-margin more or less tinged 
wdth ferruginous, especially the latter, which is marked by a row of 
thin silvery-white lunules towards anal angle. Hind-wing: hind- 
margin coloured as in fore-wing, more conspicuously so near anal 
angle, and with two rows of silvery lunules, the inner continuous of 
that of fore-wing, and its lunules touching so as to form a festooned 
streak, — lunules of the outer row separate, indistinct towards costa. 
Cilia white between nervules. Under side. — Pale-hrownish with fer- 
ruginous strealcs and clouds; transverse stripe narrower, not so white as 
above, commenced by a very thin, often indistinct, streak (originating 
a little below white costal dot of fore-wing), and interrupted on costa 
of hind- wing, where it is clouded with ferruginous and marked with a 
row of three blackish dots : common to hoth wings, — a dentate out- 
