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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Anteimce, in both sexes, marked beneath with a conspicuous broad 
white bar, just at the base of the club. 
There is considerable variety in the depth of colouring of the under 
side, especially in the ^, the ferruginous in some being much paler and 
duller, and the metallic spots much reduced and mostly indistinct. The 
upper side of the $ varies much in the extent of the basal fuscous suf- 
fusion and the completeness of the discal row of spots in the hind- 
wing. 
Hopffer (loc. cit.) points out that the Mozambique specimens are smaller 
and of a duller red, but have more brilliant metallic spots (especially in the 
hind-wings) than those from the Cape. His figures represent longer and 
straighter tails on the hind-wings than I have seen in any South- African 
examples.^ Four and a $ from Sierra Leone, in the Hope Museum at 
Oxford (1867) also differed from the South-African specimens in their longer 
tails and more brilliant under-side spots, and the $ had the hind-wings uni- 
formly fulvous to the hind-margin. 
Though a near ally of the West-African Perion, Cram. {Pap. Uxot, t. 
ccclxxix, B, c), with which both Hopffer and myself associated it, this butter- 
fly is really quite distinct, presenting a much less regular transverse series of 
spots on both surfaces, and a very much shorter and narrower tail in the 
hind-wings. 
Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban found JTaj^ma; very abundant near King William's 
Town, taking it from October to December, and again in March ; he noted 
that it frequented bushes with sweet-scented flowers, one of its favourites 
being the thorny Ardiii7ia ferox. Colonel Bowker noted the same habits in 
Kaffraria Proper ; and the few individuals I met with in Natal were all taken 
on or about various shrubs in February and March. Its flight and motions 
quite resemble those of the species of Aplinceus. I met with single specimens 
at Uitenhage and at East London in the month of February. 
This butterfly has a very wide range over Africa, but, as far as it is 
known, seems more prevalent to the south of the Equator. 
Localities of Chrysorychia Har^ax. J 
I. South Africa. ^ 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage. Grahamstown and Fish Biver 
(M. E. Barbery King William's Town (IF. U Urban). East 
London. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Eivers (/. H. BowJcer). 
1 Two S s and a 9 since received from Delagoa Bay quite agree with Hopffer's diagnosis, 
and the tails of the hind-wings (though not so straight as in his figures) are much longer and 
more linear than in Natalian and other more southern examples. The red of the S is decidedly 
paler and more orange on the upper side ; and in both sexes the under side is paler, and its 
metallic spots more brilliant and more numerous, especially in the hind-wing, — the sub- 
marginal spots in the fore-wing being also metallic, as well as a hind-marginal streak in the 
hind-wing. 
Specimens from Matabeleland are remarkable in both sexes for their paler upper-side 
colouring, and in the S for the narrower apical border ; while in the ? (which is larger than 
usual) the discal spots, and, in the hind-wings, the sub-marginal spots are much reduced. 
Two S s from Zumbo on the Zambesi, taken by Mr. Selous, agree closely with those from 
Querimba. 
