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SOUTH-AFRICA^^ BUTTERFLIES. 
and allied groups, more especially in the female, is empliafcically charaC" 
terised by its erect palpi, short antennge, very exceptional neuration of 
the fore-wings, and extraordinary shape of the fore-wings in the ^. 
The last-named feature gives a peculiarly clumsy, almost deformed look 
to the male, rendering it impossible to fail in recognising a Godartia of 
that sex ; but the female in pattern and outline of wings usually much 
resembles a Diadema or Eiiralia. All the six species recorded are 
Ethiopian only, one being from Madagascar ; and in all but one — G. 
Trajaniis, Ward, from Camaroon in Western Africa, which has white 
markings tinged with yellow, and a chestnut-red basal patch in the 
fore-wings — the male has a peculiar colouring of shining-greenish ray- 
marks and spots on a black ground. This gives him somewhat of the 
appearance of a Danais of the Limniace section ; but his shape is so 
very different, that the resemblance in life cannot be very close, 
especially as I learn from Mrs. Monteiro that his habits and flight are 
quite unlike those of the Danaine butterflies. Mr. Butler (Zep. Exot^ 
p. 5 3), in noticing the resemblance to a West- African Danais borne 
by G. Eurinome (Cram.), points out that the female of the latter is the 
more accurate mimicker ; and in the case of the only species — G. 
Wakejieldii, Ward — inhabiting Southern Africa, it is noticeable that 
the male is less like a Danais than his near congeners, while the female 
clearly imitates a large black-and-white species of Amauris. All the 
Godarticv have the head, palpi, prothorax, breast, and legs spotted with 
white, and their abdomen (except apparently in G. Trajanus) is 
ochreous-yellow. 
G. Wah'ficldii is a native of Eastern Africa, and its only known 
South- African station is Delagoa Bay. 
98. (1.) Godartia Wakefieldii, Ward. 
Godartia Wakefieldii, Ward, Ent. M. Mag., x. p. 152, pi. vi. f. 3 (1873). 
S „ 5, Oberth., Etudes d'Ent., liv. ill. p. 28, pi. ii. f. 5 
(1878). 
Exp. al, ($) 3 in. 6 lin. 
$ Black, luith macular hands and spots of palc-grmn changing to 
white in certain lights. Fore-wing : an oblique median macular band 
of nine distinct elongate spots, running from costa before middle to 
inner margin beyond middle ; of this band, one large spot is in dis- 
coidal cell, and of the eight spots external to it, the second and eighth 
are much the smallest (almost linear), and the fifth and sixth the 
largest ; a subapical slightly- oblique bar of three separate rather small 
subquadrate spots ; a submarginal row of six very small rounded 
spots (of which the upper four are wanting in one example). Hind- 
%uing : a sub-basal pale-green patch occupies discoidal cell and a space 
below and above it, but does not reach base or extend above first 
