Colotis ione

Although common in the Ashburton area, this sp. is surpringly uncommon both at Bisley (I have 3 records) and Cumberland (my single record).
At top a fresh male; having had his underside photographed, he flew off and showed off his almost metalic sheen of the purple while warming up in the early morning sun, but he left before I could photograph this.
Next the upper side of an older male from the Mkondeni/ Mpuhsini area. The silvery scaling at the fore-wing tips is typical of the sp. He is an older specimen, and has lost most of his sheen
The bottom two photographs are of a female from Cumberland.
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Papilio nireus

The Green Banded Swallowtail (perhaps cyan banded)l was quite common in our garden with its citrus trees. These are males, the cyan band more saturated, and a yellow band on the underside hind-wing, which has a lovely chocolate sheen. I have had no success in finding the larva, and always found it difficult to photograph the upperside, this one on a cool winter day blown in the breeze.

Cupidopsis jobates

The Tailed Meadow Blue: The genus was established by Karsch in 1895 and consists of only two spp. - this and C. cissus. I'm sure this butterfly inspired Karsch to call the genus Cupidopsis -  literally "looking like Cupid" - from its glorious golden bow of the underside hind-wing lunules and the two arrow like tails.
See also C. cissus.
 

Tagiades flesus

 The Clouded flat: Characteristically it will cautiously peer at you from behind a leaf, not afraid to display the white underside of its hind wings. As Ivor Migdoll so aptly describes: if disturbed it will fly off rapidly and disappear under a leaf. It then needs some skill to find it there.

The upper side can vary from brown in winter to almost a gun-metal grey in summer.

    

Junonia orithya

The Eyed Pansy, the least common of our Pansies, and usually very shy. These two are my only records.
At top a male I found at the Injasuti camp in the Drakensberg, behaving very territorially in a rain water gutter. He didn't seem to mind me getting up close. Injasuti is the Zulu name for this area of the Drakensberg, literally meaning the well satisfied dog: a reference to such an abundance of game, particularly Eland, that even the dogs were well fed.
Below, a female in the KZN-NBG. She has more rounded wings than the male, relatively larger ocelli and a different pattern to the dark basal markings.
See also Junonia the genus.

Papilio demodocus - underside

And for good measure, yet another another Citrus Swallowtail showing its underside on a hot summer afternoon in the KZN-NBG.

Papilio demodocus - female

This was one of the same group settling for the night mentioned in the previous posting. The orange suffusion of the upper side costal lunules identifies her as a female (cf with the all yellow of the male.)