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.)
 

Papilio Demodocus - detail

A group of three or four of these Citrus Swallowtails would settle together for the night in the KZN_NBG, and always seemed too sleepy to bother about my close approach. This is of a male: in the top photograph, the lunule on the upper side hind-wing next to the costa is entirely yellow (c.f. female).

Bicyclus safitza

The Common Bush Brown, and one of the most common butterflies in our garden.

For a short period it was revised to Bicyclus denina denina (Godart, 1824) [Lamas, 2010]but now back to its time honoured name.

It could be found in our garden for most of the year. In the wsf., the underside ocelli are large and bold, in the winter form they are insignificant. Sean Carroll gives an excellent description of the epigenetics of the spots of B. anynana (a close cousin of this butterfly) in the chapter How the Butterfly got its Spots in his book Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Well worth the read.

The female is a lighter beige as compared with the male's darker colour.

To me the most remarkable picture is at bottom. Despite being so common this is the only time that I have seen this butterfly with its wings spread (c.f. Henotesia perspicua which does this often). This male settled on the hearth in our house one evening and dispayed all his sexuality: The scent glands on the fore-wings, and the hair pencil emerging from the base of the hind wing: spraying pheremones far and wide. For more on this see The use of chemical and visual cues in female choice in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana by Katie Costanzo and Antónia Monteiro.