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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
median nervule at some distance from latter's origin. Hind-wings: 
large, prolonged inferiorly (especially in ^) ; costa very prominent at 
base, thence moderately arched ; hind-margin slightly sinuated ; anal 
angle rather pronounced in rounded in $ ; inner margins forming a 
complete but not deep groove ; costal nervure extending to apex ; 
upper disco-cellular nervule rather long, united to second subcostal 
nervule not very far from latter's origin, bent slightly outward, — lower 
one slender but quite distinct, gently curved, joining third median 
nervule just beyond latter's origin ; internal nervure short, not reaching 
beyond middle of inner margin ; discoidal cell very short. Fore-legs 
of $ very slender, scaly, — femur with a fringe of hair beneath, tibia 
considerably shorter than femur, — tarsus less than half as long as tibia, 
tufted thinly with fine hairs ; of the $ much larger and thicker, with 
tarsus distinctly articulated, not at all hairy, fully two-thirds the length 
of tibia, and spinose near extremity beneath. Middle and hind legs 
rather long and thick ; femora smooth, slightly curved ; tibiae spinu- 
lose above, armed beneath (especially middle pair) with unusually long 
spines, and with long terminal spurs ; tarsi thick, finely spinulose 
above, very spinose beneath, with terminal pair of spines on each arti- 
culation longer than the rest. 
Abdomen short (less than half as long as inner margins of hind- 
wings) ; very slender in J. 
I have followed Mr. Kirby {Synon. Cat. Diurn. Lep.^ iS/ij P- 
249) in adopting for Dcedalus, Fab. (= Meleagris, Cram, and Drury), 
distinct generic rank from Aterica under Hlibner's name, Hamanumida, 
because, on comparison with A. Bahena, Boisd., the type of Aterica^ I 
found that the characters of the former (which are those given above) 
differed very considerably from those of the latter. Besides the closed 
cell of the hind-wings noted by Westwood {loc. cit.), Dcvdalus presents 
the following differences from Aterica, viz., antennae much shorter, 
with very much shorter, thicker, more cylindrical, and bluntly-tipped 
club ; palpi much more hairy both above and inwardly ; thorax longer 
and more robust ; fore- wings less acuminate apically, especially in 
with the third subcostal nervule originating much nearer to apex, and 
the lower disco-cellular nervule shorter ; hind-wings not so prolonged 
inferiorly, with costa not at all hollowed beyond middle, and more 
roundly convex at base, and with the upper disco-cellular nervule 
much longer, and not forming merely a curved base for the radial 
nervule ; fore-legs of the $ with tarsal joints more distinct ; middle- 
and hind legs with the tibise much more strongly spined ; and abdo- 
men shorter. 
I have not had the opportunity of examining the West-Afri- 
can Veronica, Cram., which (as noted above under Euryphene ccerulea) 
looks much like Dcedalus, and cannot, therefore, judge whether Hilbner 
rightly associated that species with Dmdalus in his genus Hama- 
numida. 
