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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
I have not seen the $ of this Deudonx. The ^ , both in the elongated ' 
wings and in the pattern and colouring of the upper side, closely resembles 
D. Melampus (Cram.), except that the red is paler, inclining to orange; but 
the under side markings are very dissimilar, those of Melampus being very 
greatly narrowed, indistinct, and not at all red, but of a tint scarcely separable 
from that of the ground-colour ; the Indian species also wants the sub- basal 
ocelli in the hind- wing. 
Mr. Henley Grose Smith, who kindly sent me two specimens and draw- 
ings of this butterfly, writes that it closely resembles a Madagascar species 
named Licinia by M. Mabille, but that this gentleman and M. Grandidier, 
having examined a specimen forwarded to the latter by Mr. Smith, had pro- 
nounced it to be distinct from that species. 
On comparison subsequently, however, of several South-African specimens 
with the figures given in the work of Grandidier above quoted, I find the 
former to agree too closely with the latter to admit of their separation as 
species. The South-African examples have a rather narrower dark border 
to the fore- wing, especially at base and apically, and a paler, almost obsolete, 
brownish inner-marginal cloud in the hind- wing ; while the under side is 
somewhat darker in ground-colour and has the red markings rather brighter. 
Compared with the allied D. Livia (Klug), from Upper Egypt and 
Arabia, the South-African specimens of Licinia differ in the other direction, 
being larger, of a deeper (less orange) red, and with the border of the fore- 
wing broader (especially on costa and hind-margin) and better defined 
inwardly ; but on the under side the markings are very much redder — those ! 
of Livia having scarcely a tinge of that colour. 
In 1879, I received from Mrs, Barber a ^ taken in Matabeleland by Mr. j 
H. Barber, which quite agrees with the examples above described. [ 
Localities of Deudorix Licinia. 
I. South Africa. 
H. Delagoa Bay {Mrs. Monteiro). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. |j 
^hi. Eastern Interior. — Matabeleland {H. Barher). 
hb. Eastern Islands. — ''Madagascar." — Grandidier. 
Genus OAPYS. 
Capys, Hewits., Illustr. Diurn. Lep., p. 59 (1865). 
Zeritis, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 270 (1866). 
Imago. — Closely allied to Deudorix. Head rather broader ; palpi 
in $ shorter, the terminal joint being minute, — in $ longer, the termi- 
nal joint being very long and slender, and porrected far in front of 
the head ; antennae with a longer club. 
Thorax considerably longer and stouter in both sexes, but espe- ; 
cially in Fore-ioings in $ more produced in apical region, in $ 
more convex on hind-marginal border ; neuration as in Deudorix ; no 
tuft of hairs on inner margin. Hind-ivings more rounded, especially 
in not produced in anal- angular portion, but at anal angle itself a 
marked sublobate projection, more prominent in $ ; hind-margin regu- 
larly dentated ; neuration as in Deudorix. Legs as in Deudorix, but 
thicker, and the tibiae of middle and hind legs considerably shorter. 
