SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
of the tliorax above referred to, has the colouring more diversified, 
with a good deal of red on the upper side, and the body most con- 
spicuously spotted with large white or whitish spots. Two of these, 
Euspina (Hewits.), and (in a less degree) the allied E. Eleus (Drury), 
are indeed distinctly imitative of the slow-flying conspicuous Lithosiid 
Moth, Aletis Helcita (Linn.), in which the wings are brick-red with broad 
black white-spotted borders. 
The genus is essentially Tropical African, and does not seem to 
have any representatives in Madagascar. About thirty-three species 
are recorded, many of which are so closely allied as to be very difficult 
to distinguish satisfactorily. I have not seen any recent mention of the 
habits of these butterflies ; but a century ago Smeathman (as recorded 
by Drury, op. cit.) noted that they frequented the gloomiest shades of the 
West- African woods, often congregating about a puddle or moist spot. 
Only one species, the East-African E. Neophron (Hopffer), enters South 
Africa proper, occurring at Delagoa Bay ; it is easily recognised by its 
general bluish-green upper side, and by the width and brightness of the 
oblique yellow bar crossing the apical black of the fore-wings. 
99. (1.) Euphasdra Neophron, (Hopffer). 
Bomaleosoma Neophron, Hopff., Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1855, 
p. 640, n. 9 ; and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 386, t. xxii. 
If. I, 2 [?], (1862). 
$ liomalceosoma Zamhesia, Fekl., Reise d. Novara, Lep., iii. p. 430, n. 687 
(1867). 
Exp. al, 2 in. 6-1 i lin. 
J Eidl hluisJi-grcm ; apical half of fore-iving hlack, crossed hy a 
broad har of ochre-yelloiu. Fore-iuing : two small round black spots 
about middle of discoidal cell, of which the lower spot is a little 
beyond the upper one ; subapical oblique ochre-yellow bar extending 
from costa to hind-margin, its outer edge sinuated, its inner edge 
irregularly dentated ; at apex a good-sized ochre-yellow spot. Hind- 
wing : all dull bluish-green, except near margins, which are rather 
narrowly bordered with brownish-grey, ill-deflned on the inner edge. 
Under side. — Pale dtdl grey ish-green, with a slight violaceous gloss, and a 
tinge of ochre-yelloio over areas heyond middle. Fore-iving : two spots in 
cell not so distinct ; subapical bar and apical spot represented only 
by ill-defined dingy ochrey-whitish ; traces of a submarginal row of 
imperfect whitish rings. Hind-wing : a small round black spot in 
discoidal cell, close to bifiurcation of subcostal nervure ; an indistinct 
central paler fascia; traces of a submarginal row of imperfect whitish 
rings, as in fore-wing. 
$ Similar to Under side. — Darker, violaceous gloss more 
apparent ; all the markings much more distinct , whitish, viz., in fore- 
