CAPYS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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anal angle, besides the anterior black spot shows through from above; a postmedian band of brownish spots 
reaches neither to the costal margin nor to the anal margin, it is almost straight,but midway distinctly inter¬ 
rupted; at about the middle of the proximal margin there is an oblique transverse spot, opposite to it at the 
costal margin there is a transverse spot in a vertical direction to the costal margin, and behind this a double, 
transverse, discal spot; the basal area is distally bordered by a bent row of 4 or 5 small dark transverse spots 
all of which are distinctly separated from each other, the anterior one the most distinctly so. Expanse of wings: 
29 mm.“ Abyssinia. 
L. lara L. (70 b) by the formation of the anal angle of the hindwing so considerably deviates from lara. 
the other exactly known species that it may be considered as the type of a separate subordinate genus (see 
above). In the scheme of markings, however, it is rather much like the other species, except the markings 
on the hindwing beneath being quite indistinct and hazy. Wings above coffee-brown with a slight lustre and 
at the base with a mother-of-pearl lustre, both at the margin with two jet-black eyespots curled white in 
the areas 1 b (resp. 1 c) and 2 and sometimes also with such a spot in area 3 (= ab. gorgias Stoll ); hindwing some- gorgias. 
times within the eyespots with traces of a whitish transverse line; fringes white, at the ends of the veins 
spotted dark. Wings beneath whitish-grey, forewing sometimes brownish; forewing with the same markings 
as the other species and 2 or 3 black eyespots in 1 b, 2 (and 3); hindwing darker, grey, speckled with brown 
and black, cloudy without distinct markings and without black marginal spots. South and East Africa from 
the Cape Colony to Kavirondo and Abyssinia. 
19. Genus: Capys Hew. 
Antennae moderately thick with a long, distinct, circular club. Palpi with appressed scales and a thin, 
pointed terminal joint. Eyes densely haired. Forewing with 11 veins (vein 9 being absent) and an almost 
straight (d) or bent (2) margin. Hindwing at the end of vein 1 b with a short and obtuse tail, and without a 
tail at vein 2; the margin of it undulate or dentate. 
By the hairy eyes and the arrangement of the veins this genus agrees with Deudorix, but it differs from 
it not only by the absence of the small tail at vein 2 on the hindwing but also by the hindwing being tailed at 
vein 1 b and not lobate. I do not consider Capys to be closely allied with Deudorix in spite of the external 
resemblance of the upper surface with some species of that genus. 
The on the hindwing above generally exhibit a small, lustrous, light grey mealy spot across the 
base of the veins 6 and 7, but no hair-pencil at the posterior margin of the forewing. 
The wings are beneath of a grey ground-colour; no basal spots; the marking consists of a transverse 
spot at the end of the discal cell, of a transverse row of discal spots being almost straight on the forewing, 
irregular on the hindwing, and of indistinct submarginal or marginal spots; the spots are bordered or curled 
with black or reddish. 
Review of the Species. 
I. Wings above not uni-coloured blackish-brown. <$. Hindwing above at the rise of veins 6 and 7 with a 
distinct mealy spot. 
A. Both sexes above with a black ground-colour and in the centre of the wings with a large orange-red 
area. Fringes white at the ends of the veins and at the base blackish. C. alphaeus. 
B. Fringes white with a red basal line. Wings above blackish-brown, in the centre very broadly, some¬ 
times almost entirely orange-red. $. Wings above dark grey with a violet-bluish hue, in the centre 
somewhat lighter but without red; hindwing above at the margin with red moon-spots. C. disjunctus. 
II. Wings above uni-coloured blackish-brown. $. Hindwing without a mealy spot. C. brunneus. 
C. alphaeus Cr. (70 d). The red discal area above on the forewing broad, more or less rounded off, alphaeus. 
often touching the anal margin and covering the centre of area 1 b, the base of the areas 2 to 5, and the 
apex of the discal cell, whilst on the hindwing it is longer and narrower. Forewing in both sexes beneath 
with a large orange anal-marginal spot covering the base of the areas 1 a to 3 and the posterior longitudinal 
half of the discal cell and almost entirely crowding out the discal spots in the areas la to 3; the discal spots 
6 and 7 of the hindwing very broad and coherent with the transverse spot at the cell-end; both wings beneath 
at the margin more or less broadly darkened. Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal. 
C. disjunctus Trirti. (70 d). The q differs from that of alphaeus by the red areas above being more disjunctus. 
extensive, almost reaching to the base on the forewing and covering nearly the whole discal cell, on the hindwing 
leaving free only a narrow, anteriorly somewhat broader dark marginal band and the black proximal margin; 
the discal spots beneath are more indistinct. The $, as we have seen in the description in the review of the 
