( 377 ) 



(J. Nymphalis ihiirius Godart, Eiic. Melh. IX. p. 354. n. 15 (1823) (Caffraria ; synon. " thieste 



StoU " ! !). 

 ?. Nymphalis xiphares Godart, /.r. p. 357. n. 26 (1823) (Cap. b. sp.) ; Doubl., Westw. & Hew., 



Gen. Ditirn. Lep. II. p. 309. n. 19 (1850) (Cap. b. sp.), 

 $. Chamxes xiphares, Doubleday, List. Lep. Ins. Bril. Mus. I. p. Ill (1844) (Cap. b. sp.) ; Butl., 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 631. n. 35 (1865) (Cap. b. sp. ; ? of thieste ?). 

 (J ? . Charaxes xipJuirex, Boisduval, in Delegorgue, Vmj. Afr. Atistr. II. p. 593. n. 81 (1847) 



(Pt. Natal ; ? =xq>}ian.i, ^ =thi)estes) ; But]., Cat. Diurn. Lep. desei: Fabricius p. 51. n. 7 



(1869) (S. Afr.) ; Trimen & Bowk., S. Afr. Butl. I. p. 346. n. 117 (1887) (Cape Colony ; 



Caffraria); iid., I.e. III. p. 408 (1889) (Barberton) ; Butl., Journ. Lhtn. Soe. Loml. XXV. p. 



376. n. 75 (1896) (Cap. b. sp.) ; Dist., An,,. .Uag. N. H. (7) I. p. 51 (1898) ; Auriv., Kmirjl Sv. 



Akad. Ilamll. XXXI. 5. p. 239. n. 42 (1899) (Cape Colony, CafEraria ; not Brit. E. Afr.). 

 (J. Kymphalis thieste (!), Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., /.c. p. 309. n. 18 (1850) (Caffraria; "an 



iV. xijdiares mas ? "). 

 cJ $. Xi/,nph(dis xiphares, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aiistr. I. p. 167. n. 97 (1862) (pt.) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Diurn. Lep. p. 270. n. 33 (1871) (Afr. m.). 

 (J. Chanu-es thieste (!), Butler, Proc. Znol Soc. Land. p. 631. n. 34 (1865) (Caffraria ; " thurias 



Godart," " thiestcssa Hiibn." err. calam.). 



(? ? . Bof/y above, olive black, head and collar more rnsset brown, four dots on 

 head and a line behind eye white ; beneath sepia brown, palpi clay colour, with the 

 vestige of a white line close to eye, abdomen dark clay colour in $ ; femora speckled 

 with white scaling. 



$. Wings above: bluish black, with pale bine markings, which assume a 



purplish tint in side-light. Forewing : four discal spots between R' and M", the 



upper two 1 or 2 mm. from cell, small, the other two a little larger and more distal ; 

 a complete series of postdiscal dots, parallel to outer margin, curving basad at both 

 ends, the middle one the smallest, 8 mm. from outer margin, all blue except the 

 upper two, which are white ; margin with ill-defined ochraceous dots ; fringe white, 



excejit at ends of veins. Hindwing : a blue band across middle from C to 



abdominal fold, iuterrnpted at SC', indented upon the other veins, proximally 

 sinuate between R' and R^, width 6 mm. between SC^ and R', 9 mm. before M^ its 

 outer edge, taken as a whole, somewhat convex, posteriorly nearer the margin of 

 wing than in front, distance at M' 9 mm. ; a complete series of blue submarginal 

 dots, all separated ; a series of ill-defined, ochraceous, admarginal spots, which 

 mostly extend to edge of wing upon internervular folds ; abdominal fold olive, paler 

 towards abdominal margin. 



Underside : sepia brown, outer area slightly shaded with ochraceous, discal 

 interspaces of both wings drab at outer side of median bars ; resembling the under- 

 side of bohemani, but bars of hindwing heavier. Forewing : bar edged with bluish 



white ; cell-bars almost straight, faintly concave proximally, cell, except apical 

 interspace, drab brown ; submedian bars M' — SM'^ continuous with one another and 

 with coil-bar 4 ; bar D thin ; median bars R-^ — SM^ in a very oblique row, the last 

 touching discal bar, all three slightly concave distally, with rather heavy bluish 

 white borders, median bar R^— R'only 1 to 2 mm. from cross-vein; discal series of 

 bars obsolete towards costal margin, contiguous with gallstone yellow halfmoons at 

 outer side up to R', between SC" and R' the halfmoons are replaced by two wliite, 

 rounded, dots ; contignons with these spots are the postdiscal patches of which 

 patches M' — SM- are large and black, while the others are small and olive and ill- 

 defined, patches M' — SM^ heavily bordered with blue distally, the blue scaling 

 between M- and SM'^ resembling the number 3 ; admarginal interspaces somewhat 



ochraceous gallstone yellow, this colour more obvious between M' and SJI-. 



Hindwing : basal costal bar further away from PC than in C/i. bohemani : no costal 



