METAMORPHOSIS

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VOLUME 24 ● DECEMBER 2013

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LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages EDITORIAL Edge, David A. i PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS Woodhall, Steve E. ii OBITUARY Johan (Scottie) Buys Edge, David A. and Garvie, Owen G. v SPONSOR AND HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS vii

ARTICLES Description of two new species of African in the collection of the African Research Institute Libert, Michel and Collins, Steve C. 3–6 Published online on 06.06.2013 A study of the genitalia of actia (Distant), 1880 and Precis pelarga (Fabricius), 1775 (: ) Richardson, Ian D. 7–11 Published online on 14.06.2013 A new species in the Afrotropical skipper genus Artitropa from São Tomé and Principe (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae (incertae sedis)) Collins, Steve C. and Larsen, Torben B. 20–24 A review of d’Abrera’s of the Afrotropical Region – Part III (second edition), 2009 – Part 1 Collins, Steve C., Congdon, T. Colin E., Henning, Graham. A., Larsen, Torben B. and Williams, Mark. C. 25–34 Published online on 27.11.2013 A new species of Cassionympha Van Son (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the southern coast of the Western Cape, with a note on its possible evolutionary origins Pringle, Ernest L. 38–43 Published online on 16.12.2013 A review of d’Abrera’s Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region – Part III (second edition), 2009 – Part 2 Collins, Steve C., Congdon, T. Colin E., Henning, Graham A., Larsen, Torben B. and Williams, Mark. C. 44–56 Published online on 18.12.2013 Publications on Afrotropical Lepidoptera during 2013 Williams, Mark C. 57–68 Published online on 31.12.2013 New larval host plant records for butterflies of the Kruger National Park and its surrounds, Limpopo & Mpumalanga, Otto, Herbert H.H., Gardiner, Alan J., and Sharp, Ian C. 69–74 Published online on 31.12.2013

NOTES Observations on the life history of the Blotched Leopard, Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879 (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) Woodhall, Stephen E. 1–2 Published online on 17.05.2013 Observations on the larval host plant and life history of the Dwarf Blue, Oraidium barberae Trimen, 1868 (Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) Cockburn, Kevin N. A. 12–14 Published online on 21.06.2013 Observations on the life history of the Southern Pied Woolly Legs, Lachnocnema laches Fabricius, 1793 (Lycaenidae: Miletinae) in the Mpumalanga lowveld Sharp, Ian C. and Sharp, Tertia 18–19 Published on line 08.09.2013 The behaviour and life history of Anthene crawshayi juanitae Henning & Henning, 1993 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Coetzer, André J. and Gardiner, Alan J. 35–37 Published online on 12.12.2013

BOOK REVIEWS Conservation assessment of butterflies of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland: Red List and Atlas - Mecenero et al. (eds) Willis, Christopher K. 15–17 Published online on 01.08.2013 Lepidoptera and conservation – Tim R. New Edge, David. A. 75 Published on line on 31.12.2013

COVER IMAGES First row: Lachnoptera ayresii adult female upperside; final instar larva S.E. Woodhall Second row: Lachnocnema laches larva feeding on tettigometrid nymph; adult male freshly emerged I.C. Sharp Third row: Anthene crawshayi juanitae adult female; final instar larva A.J. Coetzer Fourth row: Artitropa species T.B. Larsen; Lepidochrysops glauca glauca ovipositing on Orthosiphon thymiflorus H.H.H. Otto

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