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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
hairs ; under side of tibiae witli two or three minute spines, but no 
terminal spurs ; tarsi long, spinose beneath ; fore-legs of ^ more slender, 
with tarsus not articulated, spinose beneath, and ending in a fringe of 
small spines. 
Abdomen of moderate length, stout in 
Laeva. — Elongate, not onisciform, the segments well marked, clothed 
with down and with long hair. (Described from drawings by Mrs. 
Barber.) 
Pupa. — Broad, rather thick, convex above, flattened below ; back 
of thorax, and especially back and sides of abdomen, with fascicles of 
long hair. 
The rather long, divergent, almost horizontally projecting palpi, 
short, abruptly-clavate antennas, short discoidal cell, and very long first 
subcostal and first median nervules in the fore-wings, short submedian 
nervure of hind-wings, and stout hairless legs are characteristic features 
of this genus, which I founded for the reception of a species discovered 
in British Kafi'raria by Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban, F.L.S. Since the 
publication of Bhopalocera Africm Aiistralis^ two closely allied species 
{p. limhata and D. saga, Trim.) have been found in South Africa, and 
to them I consider must be added the little species Aslaicga, Trim., 
which in 1873 I referred to the genus Liptena of Hewitson. On 
investigating, also, some of the species referred by Hewitson to Liptena,^ 
I have come to the conclusion that Isca, Hewits., Acrcea, Westw., and 
probably also lima, Lihyssa, Lagyra, undularis, and Lirccca, Hewits,, 
should be included in jyjJr'hama. The species named Z. Eleaza by 
Hewitson is (to judge by the figures) rightly referred by Mr. Kirby 
to Butler's genus Pseuderesia {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 532), 
founded on a Gold Coast butterfly which I have not seen. 
The species mentioned are all purely African ; out of the eleven 
held to belong to D'Urhania, three {AmaJwsa, limhata, and saga) are 
peculiar to the Southern Sub-Kegion, one (Aslauga) is common to 
South Africa and Zanzibar, and the rest are only known from Western 
Tropical Africa. The more typical species (Amakosa and near allies) 
are dark-brown, with spots or patches of some shade of red, and have 
the under side much mottled with fuscous and grey ; but the longer- 
winged Acrcea, Westw., has an ochrey-yellow under surface barred 
marginally with black and white ; and the Lagyra group consists of 
white almost unspotted species with blackish margins. 
The only species that I have seen in life is D. Amakosa, and that 
only on one occasion ; the $ which I captured flew very slowly and 
looked like a small species of Acrcea. This species, however, as Mrs. 
Barber and Colonel Bowker inform me, habitually settles on stones; 
I ' ^ Mr. Hewitson was aware that he had brought together under this genus butterflies of 
considerably differing characters, for he wrote {Exot. Butt., v. p. 84), " I have preferred to 
place several heterogeneous species in the genus Liptena, rather than to make new genera 
to receive them." 
