Hypolimnas misippus (male)

I found this male Common Diadem in the NBG. Close by were the females ovipositing on purselane. So different are the males from the females that one could be forgiven for mistaking them for another species.The give away for this species is the blue sheen that can be seen in certain lighting in both sexes.
See also Hyoplimnas misippus : females.

Antanartia schaenia

The Long-tailed Admiral

An elusive butterfly that I found occasionally on nettles (its food plant) between our garden and the NBG. I think that there was also a Laportia sp (another of its food plants) in the NBG.

Papilio ophidicephalus

While walking in the NBG, we disturbed this Emperor Swallowtail that was settling for the night. I followed him up and down the forest gully until he settled again. He allowed me a single insurance shot, before leaving. A prize for me; this butterfly has always seemed to have eluded me.

Stugeta (Iolaus) bowkeri

Bowkers Marbles Saphire: A single sighting at Cumberland. It let me get up quite close. Taxonomically it went back  and forth from Iolaus to Stugeta. Originally Iolaus bowkeri Trimen 1864, it was revised by Druce 1891 using this butterfly as the type species to establish the genus Stugeta.
 

Colotis euippe

The Smoky Orange Tip is quite common at Cumberland. The zebra-striping varies between the extremes of the wet and the dry summer forms. I have always had a soft spot for tattered and torn survivors which I have included here (bottom picture), found in the middle of winter. In this butterfly the black bar on the hind wing is barely visible.

Cigaritis Mozambica

the Mozambique Bar at Cumberland, my only sighting. It was warming itself up in the morning and allowed me to get up close. Having got my pictures, I just stood back and gazed in wonder.
    

Iolaus silas (I)

A female Southern Sapphire at Cumberland. It was such a special butterfly I have included several views.

I have also included a photograph of the food plant on which she was perched (I think Erianthemum (Lorianthus) dregei (the Hairy Mistletoe): a semi parasitic plant.) 

I have subsequently added an additional post on this butterfly.