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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
indistinct whitisli fulvous line, and externally by dull-greenisli ; two 
tails ferruginous-fulvous, — that on first median nervule in botli sexes 
long, rather wide, somewhat spatulate at the tip, and curving upward 
towards apex, — while that on third median nervule is in the $ short, 
straight, and acuminate, but in the $ of the same form as the other 
tail, only straight instead of curved ; cilia whitish. Under side. — 
Hind-iving and apical hind-marginal area of fore-wing pale soft 
yelloiuish-hrown (sometimes inclinhig to ferruginous)^ towards hind- 
margin with a sit7 face-gloss of violaceous-tvhitish ; neuration throughout 
hright-grcen. Fore-iving : space between costa and costal nervure 
green, transversely striated with fine white lines; basal area pale- 
yellowish ; in discoid al cell, a basal blackish spot and three widely- 
separated thin blackish streaks (of which the outermost is prolonged 
below the cell) ; at extremity of cell, a short, irregular, brownish- 
ferruginous fascia, externally bounded by a blackish line, ending 
between second and first median nervules ; a curved discal transverse 
ferruginous-brown fascia from costa to inner margin, becoming blackish- 
violaceous in its lower portion, which is also edged with black exter- 
nally ; an indistinct pale submarginal lunulate band, inwardly bounded 
by dusky spots, of which only the two lowest are well-defined and 
subocellate with bluish. Hind-iuing : before middle, an irregular ferru- 
ginous-brown fascia, thinly black-edged and more or less completely 
white-bordered on both sides ; a narrow, discal, strongly lunulated ferru- 
ginous-brown (inwardly yellow-edged) stripe from costa to anal angle ; 
a more or less indistinct series of submarginal whitish spots, and another 
of hind-marginal whitish lunules ; between these series one of small 
black violaceous-scaled spots (surrounded by greenish irroration), only 
distinct between radial nervule and anal angle ; at base, between costa 
and subcostal nervure, a smooth greenish space almost bare of scales. 
There is much variation in the distinctness of the under-side 
markings, which are sometimes obscured by a pale-ferruginous suffusion 
and sometimes by the extension of the violaceous -whitish gloss. 
The sexes do not differ except in the form and size of the superior 
tail of the hind- wing, and in the rather paler colouring of the 
This species bears considerable resemblance to G. Varanes, (Cram.), but is 
readily recognised by the absence of white at the base of the hind-wing, the 
conspicuous green of the nervures, and the presence of two tails, instead of 
one only, on the hind-wing ; the under-side pattern is also widely different. ^ 
I did not meet with Candiope during my stay in Natal, but Mr. W. Morant 
and Colonel Eovvker have both found it not rarely at Pinetown and D'Urban 
respectively. The first South-African specimen I received was from the late 
Colonel H. Tower, who took it at St. Lucia Bay in 1867. Colonel Bowker's 
examples were captured in August 1878 ; but Mr. Morant informed me that 
^ There is a very near ally of Candiope in Madagascar, in which the neuration is much 
less green ; the basal yellow duller, as well as the spots of the fore-wing ; and the dark 
outer area of the fore-wing extending quite up to the extremity of the cell ; while, on the 
under side, the striae in basal area are very well marked and edged with white. 
