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262 SOUTH- AFRICA!^ BUTTERFLIES. 
others indistinct and sub-ocellate (being outwardly marked with a 
fuscous dot) ; inner of two hind-marginal white linear streaks bright 
silvery. 
^ D idler J paler throiijhoiU ; oclireous-yellow band in hind- wing 
usually proportionately narrower ; transverse fuscous streaks before 
middle much more apparent, broader. Fore-wing : first spot of short 
subapical row enlarged, whitish, rather conspicuous. Under side. — 
Paler ^ more inclining to ochreous ; all the markings more conspicuous ; 
the paler discal space well marked ; its traversing whitish ray rather 
suffused, but continued across hind-wing. 
In a small female, taken near D'Urban by Colonel Bowker, the fore-wing 
presents in a narrower form the median transverse chocolate-red band of the 
male, and the ochreous-yellow band in the hind-wing is very broad, having 
only a little brown irroration externally and inferiorly. 
Southern examples of this butterfly are usually considerably larger than the 
type-form from the A¥est Coast of Africa, and the under side of their wings is 
rather darker, especially in the discal area, — in which latter, however, the 
traversing whitish streak is much more distinct, being sometimes obsolete in 
Gold Coast specimens. The angulation of the wings is also much more pro- | 
nounced in South-African examples. ^ j 
Colonel Bowker has sent me the paired sexes, taken at D'Urban, Natal, in 
May 1880. In this case the female was the small one above mentioned. As 
noted under E. Hiarbas, a female not separable from Dryope (but with a i 
narrower than usual ochreous-yellow band in hind-wing) was captured in \ 
copula with an ordinary male of the former species. A very perfect male 
Dryope, received from Delagoa Bay (where it was taken by Mrs. Monteiro), 
almost exactly agrees with the female just mentioned in the comparative 
narrowness of the hind-wing band ; but even in this individual the band is 
twice as wide as in the male Eurytela, which I have described as Variety A. of 
E. Hiarhas. 
Apart from its colour, the width of this band in both wings, the browner 
ground-colour, the fuscous streaks before middle, and the male character of 
a chocolate- red median band are the chief features distinguishing Dryope 
from Hiarhas on the upper side ; while on the under side, the more ochraceous 
general tint, the less broken and less angulated striae, the want of any dis- 
tinct discal stripe in the hind-wing, and the presence, instead, of two con- 
spicuous costal lunules heading a row of very indistinct imperfect ocellate 
marks are all distinctive of Dryope. 
I did not meet with this species in j^atal, but Colonel Bowker has been 
more fortunate, taking several examples near D'Urban in August, December, 
and February, and two at the mouth of the Tugela River in July. He 
describes it as having the same habits as Hiarhas, but as much rarer. I have 
not heard of its occurrence to the south of ISTatal. 
^ I think that E. Narinda, Ward, from Madagascar, though closely allied to E. Dryope, 
is entitled to recognition as a distinct species. It is small (about the size of the West- African j 
Dryope), but the wings are even more angulated than those of the Southern examples described | 
in the text. On the upper side the ochreous-yellow band in the male begins nearer apex of 
fore-wing, and is very much broader in both wings ; and in the fore-wing its inner side is 
deeply pierced by the dark-clouded nervules, while in the hind-wing it occupies greater part 
of surface from before the middle. In the female, the only marked difference in the band 
is its width in the fore-wing. In both sexes the hind-marginal striae are straighter, not so 
lunulated. The under side is very different ; all the strise being straighter, narrower, and 
of a yellower ferruginous ; the hind-marginal clouds very pronounced ; and the white discal 
streak very well marked. 
