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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
of discoidal cell, wliicli is itself marked by a black closing liinule ; a 
rather broad apical and hind-marginal border, more or less radiating 
on nervules ; subcostal nervure clouded with black from base to about 
middle. Hind-wing : all the nervures and nervules defined with black 
except radial ; hind-marginal border narrower than in fore-wing, but 
radiating strongly on nervules ; base more or less clouded with blackish, 
sometimes extending along costa to about middle. Under side. — 
As in $, 
In a few individuals I have found tlie disco-cellular yellow-ochreous ray 
all but obsolete. 
I met with this remarkable little butterfly in Natal in March and April 
1867, but only in two localities, viz., on the Intzutze in the Great Noodsberg, 
and at the Umgeni Falls near Maritzburg. On each occasion there were a few 
specimens only, flitting slowly about the grass and herbage on the side of a 
ravine, and constantly settling on the stems of grasses. As noted in my 
Rhopalocera AfriccE Australia, Mr. D'Urban noted quite similar habits of the 
insect in British Kafl"raria as long ago as i86r ; while on the Bashee, Colonel 
Bowker observed that the butterfly was fond of settling on the ground or on 
small stones. The last-named gentleman took many specimens in JSTapoleon 
Valley, Zululand, in 1880. 
Localities of Alcenci Amazoula. 
L South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Fort IMurray, near King William's Town 
{W. S. M. U Urban). Fort Warden, Kei River (/. H. Bowker). 
D. Kafl'raria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Boiuher). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Great Noodsberg. Howick, near Pietermaritz- 
burg. Estcourt ( /. M. Hutcliinsoii). Ladysmith (/. H. Bowker). 
F. Zululand. — Napoleon Yalley (/. H. Bowker), 
Genus DELONEURA. 
Deloneura, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p, 81. 
Imago. — Head wide, flattened anteriorly, scaly superiorly ; eyes 
smooth ; 'palpi of moderate length, without scales or hairs, ascendant, 
widely divergent, second joint much swollen, terminal joint slender, 
rather long, acuminate ; antennce of moderate length, stout, very 
gradually incrassate, extremity slightly curved outwardly, subacute 
at tip. 
Thorax short, moderately stout, clothed with some short down 
anteriorly, and with scales and thin hair laterally and posteriorly ; 
breast bare, except for some scattered groups of scales. Fore-ivings 
large, broad ; hind-margin entire, very convex ; costa strongly arched 
from base to middle, thence nearly straight ; apex pronounced j costal 
